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ESA Prepares ATV For ISS Docking Paris, France (ESA) Mar 22, 2008 
Jules Verne ATV is lining up for Europe's first-ever automated docking in space. Following two demonstrations, the final 'putt' must be more accurate and gentle than on any rolling golf green. Now that the vessel is 'on the green' - in a parking orbit 2000 m ahead of the ISS - ATV mission controllers must pace the spacecraft through two pending and crucial demonstration dockings, moving ... read more |
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Spacewalkers test new shuttle repair techniques
Washington (AFP) March 21, 2008Two astronauts returned from the void Friday after a spacewalk to test new repair techniques for the space shuttle's heat shield, crucial for a new mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Mike Foreman, who arrived at the International Space Station aboard the shuttle Endeavour last week, spent six hours and 24 minutes outside the ISS working on a ... more UM-Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids 
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2008Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects. Evidence indicates that these ancient asteroids are relatively unchanged since they formed some 4.55 billion years ago and are older than the ol ... more Mars Salt Deposits Point To New Place In Hunt For Ancient Traces Of Life 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 20, 2008Scientists using a Mars-orbiting camera designed and operated at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility have discovered the first evidence for deposits of chloride minerals - salts - in numerous places on Mars. These deposits, say the scientists, show where water was once abundant and may also provide evidence for the existence of former Martian life. ... more Boomerang works in space: Japanese astronaut 
Tokyo (AFP) March 21, 2008In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth. Astronaut Takao Doi "threw a boomerang and saw it come back" during his free time on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said on Friday. Doi threw the boomerang after a request from compatriot ... more Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan Crust 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation will appear in the March 21 issue of the journal Science. "With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in ... more |
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Star City, Russia (AFP) March 19, 2008South Korea's first astronaut voiced hope Wednesday that her mission would bring peace with the north of the divided peninsula and said she had a spicy Korean feast ready for the crew. "I will try and make peace between North and South Korea," Yi So-Yeon, 29, said at a press conference in Star City, a Soviet astronaut training centre in a snow-covered pine forest near Moscow, ahead of her ... more Sci-fi guru Clarke dies in Sri Lanka 
Colombo (AFP) March 19, 2008British-born science fiction guru Arthur C. Clarke died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday after a brief illness, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP. He was 90. President Mahinda Rajapakse mourned the death of Clarke and paid tribute to him as a "great visionary." His death was a loss to Sri Lanka, the author's adopted home since 1956, Rajapakse said. "The president was deeply saddened ... more Methane Spotted On Extrasolar Planet 
Paris (ESA) March 19, 2008Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had detected methane in the atmosphere of a planet 63 light years away, boosting prospects for identifying any life that exists beyond our Solar System. The team also confirmed previous suspicions that the planet, known by the tag of HD 189733b, has water in its atmosphere. Reporting their work in the weekly British journal Nature, astronomers from ... more NASA Awards Contracts For Design Study Of Lunar Landing Craft 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2008NASA's Constellation Program has selected five space-related companies to receive contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA's in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will deliver four astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2020. The awards total approximately $1.5 million, with a maximum individual award of $350,000. The study recommendations will be used ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope. Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing. Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. Four hundred years ago, the same phenomenon puzzled Galileo. ... more First Korean astronaut 'honoured' about space mission 
Star City, Russia (AFP) March 18, 2008The 29-year-old woman set to become South Korea's first astronaut said on Tuesday she was "honoured" to have been chosen, as she took final tests at Russia's astronaut training centre. "I am honoured. I will try to do my best. Not just for (myself) but as the first Korean astronaut," said Yi So-Yeon, a biosystems engineering student, before climbing into a model Soyuz capsule for tests. ... more Cape Canaveral Airmen Launch Delta II Rocket 
Cape Canaveral FL (AFNS) Mar 19, 2008Air Force officials here successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta II booster carrying the sixth modernized NAVSTAR Global Positioning System satellite into space at 2:10 a.m. EDT March 15 from Space Launch Complex 17A here. The satellite will join the constellation of on-orbit satellites providing global coverage and increased performance of the GPS services to users worldwide. ... more Russian-Launched US Satellite Unlikely To Reach Target Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 18, 2008A U.S. AMC-14 satellite launched from a space center in Kazakhstan on early Saturday is unlikely to reach the designated orbit from its current position, a Russian space expert said on Monday. A few minutes after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Space Center, which is leased to Russia and carries out dozens of launches every year, the Breeze M orbit insertion boost ... more
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