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NASA Provides Assistance To Trapped Chilean MinersWashington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2010 On Aug. 5, the San Jose copper and gold mine near the northern town of Copiapo, Chile, collapsed, trapping 33 miners about a half mile underground. The Chilean government spoke with the United States Department of State to request NASA's technical advice related to the agency's life sciences research activities. On Aug. 31, a NASA team of experts arrived in Santiago as part of NASA's commitment to provide U.S. assistance. NASA's assistance is only a small contribution to the Chilean governme ... read more |
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Tucson (UPI) Aug 27, 2010 A NASA spacecraft with a high-resolution camera has photographed a young Mars crater and found frozen water in it, scientists say. A recent image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera shows water ice at the bottom of a 20-foot-wide crater on the planet's surface, SPACE.com reported Friday. Researchers suspect the crater in the northern hemisphere formed recently, ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 30, 2010Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station's ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver. The Station's Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS is, in a way, the m ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 30, 2010As space tourism matures, it holds tremendous opportunity for insurance companies to offer risk coverage to those on-board, similar to what they do for passengers of airlines, industry officials said. At an international conference on space business, organised as part of Bengaluru Space Expo 2010, speakers noted that since Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961, citizens of 38 countries have flown ... more |
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Student Competition 'In The Can'Paris, France (ESA) Aug 27, 2010 High school students from different ESA Member States were able to watch their own 'satellites' soar into the sky aboard suborbital rockets during the first European CanSat competition, held at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway. The CanSat competition, organised by ESA's Education Office and the Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education (NAROM), was open to teams of at least four students, assisted by a teacher or tutor. The selected teams had to build their own small CanSat 'satellite' i ... read more |
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