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Station Crew To Move Soyuz Friday
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2005ISS Commander Bill McArthur and Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev will move their Soyuz TMA spacecraft from the station's Pirs docking compartment to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module on Friday. Ariane-5 ECA Launches DirecTV And Telkom 2 Satellites
Paris (AFP) Nov 17, 2005An Ariane-5 ECA launcher with two telecommunications satellites, whose blast-off was repeatedly postponed, lifted off from the Kourou base in French Guiana Wednesday, Arianespace said. A Cassini Radar Retrospective Of Titan
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2005This set of images shows the areas mapped so far on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mode. |
Mars Express' MARSIS Team Focus On Upper Atmosphere
Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2005For the four month operational period up to now, Mars Express has been making its closest approaches to Mars predominantly in the daytime portion of its orbit. SETI Sets Its Sights On M Dwarfs
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2005Scientists have been searching actively for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. Hubble And Sloan Quadruple Number Of Known Optical Einstein Rings
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2005Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally lensed" galaxies. |
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UVic Unveils World's Most Advanced Seafloor Observatory
Victoria BC (SPX) Nov 18, 2005A project led by the University of Victoria is about to make oceanographic history. VENUS, the world's most advanced, cabled seafloor observatory, will be installed next month in the waters of Saanich Inlet north of Victoria, British Columbia. Early Earth Likely Had Livable Continents
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 18, 2005A surprising new study by an international team of researchers has concluded Earth's continents most likely were in place soon after the planet was formed, overturning a long-held theory that the early planet was either moon-like or dominated by oceans. Envisat Radar Protecting Patagonian Toothfish From Pirate Fishermen
Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2005A satellite surveillance zone within the southern Indian Ocean is helping protect the endangered Patagonian toothfish from pirate fishing vessels. Indonesia's Tsunami Early Warning System In Place: Officials
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 17, 2005Indonesia has activated the initial phase of a tsunami early warning system off the coast of Sumatra aimed at avoiding a repeat of the disaster caused by last December's quake-triggered tsunami on the island officials said Thursday. |
Sea-Based Missile Defense Test Succeeds
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2005An interceptor missile fired from a US Navy cruiser shot down a mock warhead over the Pacific Thursday after it had separated from a medium-range missile the US military said. Second Milstar Satellite Achieves 10 Years In Service
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2005The second U.S. Air Force Milstar communications satellite, built by a team led by Lockheed Martin, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service and will continue to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe well into the future. Bush, Roh Call For NKorea Peace And Reunification Gyeongju, South Korea (AFP) Nov 17, 2005
US President George W. Bush and his South Korean counterpart Roh Moo-Hyun said Thursday they were committed to eventual peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula.China, Japan Vie For African Oil
Washington (UPI) Nov 17, 2005China and Japan are vying for energy supplies around the globe, but African resources are of particular interest to the two rivals. |
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