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First Member Of Galileo Satellite Family To Be Launched 26 December
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, will start becoming concrete reality the day after Christmas with the launch of Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element GIOVE-A on top of a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. China And Europe Push Forward High-Tech Cooperation 
Beijing (XNA) Dec 14, 2005China's booming economy has brought increasing market opportunities to Europe and European leaders have come to realize technological cooperation with China is reciprocal. An Interview With President Of RSC Energia 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Ambitious space projects such as a mission to Mars often provoke criticisms from skeptics � is it really worth spending billions of dollars? Nikolai Sevastianov, who took the helm of Russian space corporation Energia this spring is confident that it won't be long before missions to space become profitable. |
MT Aerospace Signs CNES Contract For Soyuz Ground Facilities In Kourou
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2005As a strategic partner in a European consortium, MT Aerospace, of Augsburg/Mainz, a subsidiary of OHB Technology, has received an order from the French Space Agency CNES for the engineering, production and assembly of parts of the ground facilities for the Soyuz launcher in Kourou, French Guyana. ESA Accelerates Towards A New Space Thruster 
Paris (ESA) Dec 14, 2005ESA has confirmed the principle of a new space thruster that may ultimately give much more thrust than today's electric propulsion techniques. The concept is an ingenious one, inspired by the northern and southern aurorae, the glows in the sky that signal increased solar activity. Riding The Ultra Wideband Communications Wave 
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Europe is helping to push forward the boundaries of current radio technology looking at the next generation of radio devices. A whole new Ultra WideBand (UWB) communications industry is emerging and once all phases of a major European research effort into UWB are complete, Europe will be in a stronger position to exploit this new technology. |
Pasadena CA (JPL) dDec 14, 2005Seemingly touched with a load of luck from the giddy-up, Opportunity has been galloping since she strutted off of her lander, some 670 sols ago. A mission planned for 90 days has turned into an adventure that's lasted nearly two Earth years! Spirit Studying Algonquin 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2005This week Spirit drove to an outcrop area informally named "Algonquin." On sol 685, Spirit successfully drove for 15 meters (49 feet) and prepared for a series of robotic-arm activities planned for sol 687 to 690 at Algonquin. Plans are to proceed downhill to "Comanche" after that. UCSB Researcher To Design Instrument To Test Soil On Mars 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2005The European Space Agency announced Monday support of a new program that will include development of an instrument for testing deep soil samples on Mars in a European mission called ExoMars. A researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara will direct the development of the instrument. The Mars Journal Publishes Its First Papers 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2005The Mars Journal, a new peer-reviewed online open-access scholarly journal, has published its first two papers. The first paper is a 4-page editorial entitled "The Mars Journal" by David A. Paige of the Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, and Chief Editor of The Mars Journal. |
Silicon-Germanium Microchips May Herald New Apps From Radar To Space Exploration
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Georgia Tech scientists and engineers are pursuing the dictum that "smaller is better" to develop a new breed of highly-integrated silicon-based microchips capable of operating in ultra-sophisticated radar systems � and in new generations of NASA spacecraft. Mysterious Deep-Space Object Raises Questions On Origin Of Solar System 
Paris (AFP) Dec 13, 2005Astronomers working in Canada, France and the United States said Tuesday they had found a small deep-space object, nicknamed Buffy, that challenges mainstream theories about the evolution of the Solar System. Spitzer Exposes Hundreds Of New Star Clusters In Dust-Drenched Plane Of Milky Way 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Astronomers have at last found inner light! But they didn't find it through the typical Earthly methods of meditation, exercise and therapy. Instead, the light was discovered inside our Milky Way galaxy after hours of deep self-reflection with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Sirius Companion Is One Mighty Dwarf Star 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2005Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to get the most precise measurement ever made of a tiny shift in the light from Earth's nearest white dwarf star and, using Einstein's theory of general relativity, accurately determined the incredibly dense star's mass. |
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