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 London UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 
A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP project in collaboration with Geneva Observatory. The discovery, which casts new light on how planetary systems form and evolve, was announced in a paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal August 12. Si ... read more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. On Christmas Eve, the crew made a live television broadcast to millions of ... more
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New Delhi (PTI) Aug 13, 2009After the challenging mission to moon, ISRO has begun preparations for sending a spacecraft to Mars within the next six years. Government has sanctioned seed money of Rs 10 crore to carry out various studies on experiments to be conducted, route of the mission and other related details necessary to scale the new frontier, said ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair. "Already mission studies have be ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 13, 2009As a result of the latest International Space Station Multi-Lateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP) recently held in Houston, ESA has announced that the European crewmember of Expedition 30/31 to fly to the International Space Station in 2011 will be Andre Kuipers from the Netherlands. Therefore, as already stated by ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain on several occasions, an astrona ... more  
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 13, 2009International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the fourth commercial mission of the year for ILS and the sixth successful Proton launch of 2009. From cont ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2009As pilotless US drones do battle from the sky in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, a top US Army general is urging the military to step up the deployment of unmanned vehicles on the ground. "It's all about saving lives," said Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, the commander of the III Armored Corps and the holder of a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Te ... more  
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 12, 2009One of the hottest topics at this year's XXVIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involves the study of the astrophysical conditions favourable for the development and survival of primordial life. New research shows that compared to middle-aged stars like the Sun, newly formed stars spin faster generating strong magnetic fields that ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 12, 2009NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6. Engineers are working to determine the cause of the spontaneous swap from the orbiter's "A" side computer and subsystems to the redundant "B" side. They have successfully increased the communication ... more |
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