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Foam Issues Still Dog Shuttle Launch
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 28, 2006Potential problems with the insulating foam covering the main fuel tank continue to occupy a great deal of time for and attention by NASA�s space shuttle mission managers enough so that the orbiter�s prospects for launch during its window in May remain uncertain. |
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 Resets Launch For March 9
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 28, 2006Arianespace said Tuesday it has reset the date for its next Ariane 5 rocket liftoff for March 9, with a launch window extending only about one hour, from 7:06 p.m. to 8:13 p.m., local time. A scheduled launch on Feb. 24 had been postponed because Eutelsat had requested a complete verification of the telemetry signal system. Boeing To Process Radar Data From Endeavour 
St Louis MO (SPX) Mar 01, 2006Boeing has received a $3.5 million follow-on task order from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to enhance the digital topographic data collected by the space shuttle Endeavour. Cassini Captures Saturn's F Ring 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2006The Cassini spacecraft has captured an image revealing structure in Saturn's narrow and complex F ring, including one of the faint strands that seems to curl around the planet in a tight, rotating spiral. Scientists think the spiral structure might be due to disturbance of micron-sized F-ring particles by a tiny moon - or moons. |
Envisat Marks Fours Year In ESA Mission To Planet Earth
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 01, 2006Since its launch in 2002, Envisat, the world's largest and most sophisticated satellite ever built, has been providing scientists and operational users with invaluable data for global monitoring and forecasting � and the future looks even brighter. Arianespace Confirms WildBlue-1 For GEO Launch Denver CO (SPX) Mar 01, 2006 
WildBlue Communications announced today that Arianespace has scheduled the launch of its Ka-band spot beam satellite, WildBlue-1, on an Ariane 5 vehicle in the fourth quarter of 2006 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The WildBlue-1 satellite will enable WildBlue to serve more customers throughout the United States.Glass Chip Cancels Starlight To Reveal Exoplanets 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 28, 2006A thin and tiny glass chip called an optical vortex mask might hold the key to direct imaging of planets orbiting around neighboring stars. The glass chip can block out starlight so completely it could allow telescopes to image a star's solar system. |
Hubble Captures Its Biggest Galaxy Image Yet
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2006The Hubble Space Telescope's new image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy yet compiled by the orbiting observatory - and one of the largest composite galaxy images ever. M101 - also known as the Pinwheel - is a gigantic galaxy and one of the best-known examples of grand-design spirals. Lockheed Martin And ATK Achieve Final Qualification Of Orbus 1A Motor 
Denver CO (SPX) Mar 01, 2006Lockheed Martin has announced that the ORBUS 1A second- and third-stage solid rocket motor has completed qualification testing for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Boost Vehicle-Plus program. Alliant Techsystems supplies the ORBUS 1A motor. Milky Way And Andromeda Galaxy Share Common History 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2006Researchers said Tuesday they have found evidence that the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies probably are quite similar in the way they evolved - at least over their first several billion years. |
Modeling The Giant Cores Of Extrasolar Planets
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 01, 2006University of Minnesota researchers Renata Wentzcovitch and Koichiro Umemoto and Philip B. Allen of Stony Brook University have modeled the properties of rocks at the temperatures and pressures likely to exist at the cores of Jupiter, Saturn and two exoplanets far from the solar system. Pulsar Causes Mysterious Collision With Stellar Winds 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 28, 2006Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft have witnessed a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighboring star. The rare passage, in which the pulsar plunged into and through its companion's ring, illuminated the sky in gamma-rays and X-rays. Russian And Indonesia To Ink Air Launch Deal 
Moscow, Russia (RIA) Mar 01, 2006The Russian and Indonesian presidents are expected to sign an agreement this summer on implementing a $122 million aerospace project, a Russian space official said Tuesday. Talks on the Ruslan (An-124-100) aircraft's take off from the Indonesian island of Biak have been ongoing since 2003. |
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