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ESA signs Gaia launch contractParis (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 The European Space Agency says it's signed a contract for its next-generation star-mapper spacecraft, Gaia, to be launched by an Arianespace rocket. The launch is to take place on an as yet unspecified date in 2011 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. David Southwood, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration, signed the contract for the launch Tuesday with Jean-Yves ... read more |
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Istanbul (AFP) Dec 15, 2009Natural gas that lies under Turkey's Marmara Sea close to Istanbul could provide advance warning of an earthquake experts believe will hit the country's largest city, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers from France and Turkey scanned the Marmara's seabed over six weeks using a robotic sonar device, similar to the kind of equipment used to detect shoals of fish. Their mission was to ... more  
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2009An international team of planet hunters has discovered as many as six low-mass planets around two nearby Sun-like stars, including two "super-Earths" with masses 5 and 7.5 times the mass of Earth. The researchers, led by Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said the two "super-Earths" are the first ones found around ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 15, 2009If we hope to return astronauts to the Moon in the future, we need to carry out a lot of preparations. Sure, NASA and other agencies are working on hardware that could take us there. But we also need to investigate the potential impact of the Moon on the astronauts themselves. Biological studies of the lunar environment have barely been carried out. It's obvious that astronauts can survive ... more |
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  Opportunity Continues Investigation Of Marquette Island   Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Birkenhead, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The Liverpool Telescope has used a unique scientific camera (named RINGO) to measure the polarization of the light from a Gamma Ray Burst and show that strong magnetic fields are responsible for beaming the light towards the Earth. The result is reported in a paper in Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the instrument. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed "to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces," the air force said in a brief statement. ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Opportunity Status for sol 2076-2079: Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island." On Sol 2076 (Nov. 25, 2009), the robotic arm (IDD) placed the Moessbauer (MB) spectrometer on a rock target called "Islington Bay" for a long, multi-sol integration. With the temporary loss of relay operations for a few sols because of the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode, Opportunity ... more |
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