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ESA Awards Contracts For Don Quijote Asteroid Impact Mission Designs
Paris France (SPX) Apr 3, 2006ESA has awarded contracts to three industrial teams to carry out initial design studies for the agency's proposed mission to attempt to deflect the path of an asteroid. The mission, called Don Quijote, will comprise a primary spacecraft called Hildago, and an impactor called Sancho. X-Rays Reveal 250,000 Tonnes Of Water Released By Deep Impact 
Leicester, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2006Observations by the Swift spacecraft of the collision last July 4 between Comet Tempel 1 and a probe released by NASA's Deep Impact mission showed the comet grew brighter and brighter in X-ray light, in an outburst that lasted 12 days and released about 250,000 tons of water. Mars Challenge Focuses Young Minds On Protecting Humans In Space 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2006Just like winning the Nobel Prize, one way to be eligible to into space for NASA is by becoming a successful physiologist or medical doctor, former payload specialist James A. Pawelczyk told an audience of high school students and science teachers. |
Top Microsoft Programmer Signs Up For Space Mission
Moscow (AFP) Apr 04, 2006A leading US programmer who helped develop Microsoft programmes has signed up for a mission to space in 2007, the Russian space agency said Monday. "A preliminary contract with (Charles) Simonyi was signed for spring 2007," Alexei Krasnov, an official from Roskosmos, was quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying. Rhea And The Rings 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 1, 2006Saturn's crater-scarred moon Rhea floats in the distance, peeking out from behind the giant planet's partly shadowed rings. This view looks upward from just beneath the ring plane. The far side of the rings is masked by Saturn's shadow. The north pole of Rhea is obscured by part of the A ring and the sharply defined F ring. Cassini Reveals New Saturn Ring Features 
Leicester England (SPX) Apr 3, 2006The latest Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn's F ring have revealed structures never seen before in a planetary ring system. Using images obtained by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem cameras, astronomers at Queen Mary College modeled the dynamics of the structures to test their dynamics and predict their behavior. |
Solar Wind Whips Up Auroral Storms On Jupiter And Saturn
Leicester, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2006Two new studies of auroras on Jupiter and Saturn have challenged current thinking about the processes that control the biggest light-shows in the solar system � it turns out the forces at work are the same that produce polar auroras on Earth. Jodrell Bank Astronomers Spy Giant Alcohol Cloud 
Leicester England (SPX) Apr 3, 2006Astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a giant cloud of methyl alcohol wrapped around a stellar nursery. The gas cloud could improve the understanding of how the most massive stars are formed. Is Europa A Bottle Blonde In Disguise 
Richland WA (SPX) Apr 04, 2006Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it's not intelligence. It is hydrogen peroxide. |
Friendly Robots Want To Do Your Chores
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Apr 04, 2006Slobs and housework-haters rejoice: If one company has its way, in the near future there will be robots to set the dinner table, clear it after dinner, shovel snow and mop the floor. Swales Aerospace Delivers THEMIS Micro-Satellite To NASA 
Beltsville MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2006Swales Aerospace announced the delivery of the second of five THEMIS micro-satellite spacecraft busses. NASA's THEMIS mission consists of five identical, small satellites. New Horizons Payload Gets High Marks on Early Tests 
Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2006In-flight checks of the New Horizons science payload are going well, as six of the seven instruments on board have completed tests proving they survived launch and demonstrated functionality. |
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