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Astronauts blast off on Christmas space voyageBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 Three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States blasted off Monday for a Christmas voyage to the International Space Station, an AFP correspondent reported. The Soyuz rocket blasted off on schedule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren Kazakh steppe at 2152 GMT carrying Soichi Noguri of Japan, US astronaut Timothy Creamer and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov. The ISS, which orbits 350 kilometres (220 miles) above Earth, is a sophisticated platform for scientific experiments, helping test the effects of long-term space travel on humans, a must for any trip to distant Mars ... read more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2009Astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States blast off to the International Space Station on Monday, bringing with them promises of 'space sushi' and 'tweets' from the cosmos. The astronauts will lift off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket at 4:00 am (2200 GMT Sunday) from Russia's historic Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe, the same location from which Yuri Gagarin first rocketed ... more  
Dulles VA (SPX) Dec 21, 2009Orbital Sciences been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the final design for "System F6" (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft). The Phase 2 award to Orbital came as a result of a down-select by DARPA from among several companies that participated in the program's Phase 1 study contracts in 2008 and 2009. ... more  
Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2009China will put into space a civil high-definition survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, in 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said here Friday. The satellite, ZY 3, would be launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on a Long March 4B carrier rocket, according to Xu Deming, director of the SBSM and Vice Minister of ... more |
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Los Angeles (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 It gets colder on the Earth's moon than any other place in the solar system a man-made spacecraft has measured, U.S. scientists say. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has measured temperatures in the always-shadowed craters of the moon and found it gets as low as minus 416 degrees Fahrenheit, the BBC reported Wednesday. "The moon has one of the most extreme thermal environments ... more  
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 18, 2009The X-51A Waverider was carried aloft for the first time Dec. 9 by an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The test was a key milestone in preparation for the X-51 to light its supersonic combustion ramjet engine and propel the WaverRider at hypersonic speed for about five minutes, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean. "This was ... more  
Paris, France (ESO) Dec 18, 2009Astronomers have discovered the second super-Earth exoplanet for which they have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It is also the first super-Earth where an atmosphere has been found. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years away from us, opens up dramatic new perspectives in the quest for habitable worlds. The planet, GJ1214b, has ... more |
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