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Google Bans SpaceWar.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEGerroa, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2006 Google Inc. has banned our associated website SpaceWar.com, a news site covering military space. Reasons for the ban by Google are unclear. The company did not communicate with Space.TV Corp., the owner of SpaceWar.com, prior to its action, and Google representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Space.TV Corp is consulting with legal advisers in the United States and Australia, where production of the company's Web sites is conducted. We consider the ban a violation of the recently enacted US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Arianespace Clears Ariane 5 For Launch Kourou, French Guyana (SPX) Feb 23, 2006 
Arianespace has authorized the launch of its heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA rocket for Friday evening, Feb. 24. The rocket will carry a dual payload of SPAINSAT, a military telecom satellite for Spain's Ministry of Defense, and HOT BIRD 7A, a television broadcasting satellite. Mission controllers approved the launch following the replacement of a problem component.ESO's VLT Launches Laser Guide Star 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array have created an artificial laser guide star that makes it possible to apply the instrument's adaptive-optics system that counteracts the blurring effect of the atmosphere. ESO ignited a laser beam of several watts on Jan. 28 at Yepun, the fourth 8.2-meter telescope in the array. First Long-Duration Mission For ESA Astronaut On The ISS 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 23, 2006ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany will soon become the first European to undertake a long-duration mission onboard the ISS following his dispatch on the next Shuttle mission (STS-121), currently scheduled for May. That mission will mark many important milestones for European astronauts, European science and European control centres. |
Fresh Features On Enceladus
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2006This new image of Saturn's moon Enceladus in false color reveals subtle details not visible in natural color views. The now-familiar bluish appearance (in false color views) of the southern features called tiger stripes, and other relatively youthful fractures, almost certainly is attributable to larger grain sizes of relatively pure ice, compared to most surface materials. Goodrich Technology Enables ALOS Imaging 
Charlotte NC (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Goodrich Corporation's imaging technology is enabling Japan's newly launched Advanced Land Observation Satellite to carry out its remote-sensing mission. Goodrich's Electro-Optical Systems team developed the advanced high precision optical systems in ALOS's three Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument of Stereo Mapping, or PRISM, telescopes. Land Launch Receives Contract Award From Israel Aircraft Industries 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Space International Services and Sea Launch Company are pleased to announce the award of a firm launch contract with Israel Aircraft Industries utilizing the Land Launch system. The delivery-in-orbit agreement requires a Zenit-3SLB vehicle to launch the AMOS-3 communications satellite to geostationary orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in the 4th Quarter of 2007. |
Martian Gardens
Raleigh NC (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Plants and animals are fragile life forms. Dry them out, freeze them, expose them to high doses of radiation - they don't do so well. But not all organisms are so picky. Many archaeans, for example, are distinguished by their ability to adapt to a variety of extreme environments. It's in their genes. NASA Under Pressure To Ensure Researcher Independence 
St Louis MO (AFP) Feb 22, 2006The US space agency NASA is under increasing pressure from Congress and the scientific community to make sure its researchers remain independent after the agency's top expert on climate publicly denounced attempts to censor his work. The charges, first reported by The NY Times in January, have since been confirmed by NASA public relations officials. Rhea's Wisps In Color 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Bright, wispy markings stretch across a region of darker terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea. In this extreme false-color view, the roughly north-south fractures occur within strips of material (which appear greenish here) that are a different color from the surrounding cratered landscape. |
Scientists Discover Mars' Atmosphere Altered By Solar Flares
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 23, 2006Astronomers said Thursday they have uncovered the first clear evidence that solar flares can affect the upper atmosphere of Mars. A team at Boston University said their studies of X-ray bursts from the Sun in April 2001 that reached Mars show the phenomena caused dramatic enhancements to the planet's ionosphere - the region where the Sun's ultraviolet and X-rays are absorbed by atoms and molecules in the atmosphere. Swift Might Have Detected A Supernova Just Beginning 
Greenbelt, Md. (SPX) Feb 23, 2006NASA's Swift satellite has detected a strange cataclysmic event in another galaxy that scientists think could be a supernova just getting started. Venerable Ultraviolet Satellite Returns To Operations 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2006NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer astronomy satellite is back in full operation, its aging onboard software control system rejuvenated and its mission extended by enterprising scientists and engineers after a near-death experience in December 2004. |
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