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Phobos Grunt Including Phobos LIFE Delayed Until 2011 Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2009 ![]() Oceansat-2 Set For Launch Tomorrow From Sriharikota ![]() Oceansat-2 satellite that would help identify potential fishing zones and provide inputs for weather forecasting is poised to be launched into orbit on board the Polar Launch Satellite Vehicle from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the east coast, 90 kms from here, Wednesday. Riding piggyback on the 970 kg Oceansat-2, six other nano satellites - four from Germany and one each from Switzerlan ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director ![]()
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Saudi aims for the moon with new hi-tech research oasis![]() Saudi Arabia launched a new hi-tech, co-ed university on the Red Sea coast on Wednesday, aiming to catapult into vanguard global technological research and break through religious barriers to women's opportunities. King Abdullah inaugurated the multi-billion dollar King Abdullah Uinversity for Science of and Technology (KAUST), saying it was a dream he had had for 25 years. The ceremony ... more Team Selenokhod Enters Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition ![]() Team Selenokhod, a Russian group of engineers and managers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition's official ru ... more Phobos Grunt Including Phobos LIFE Delayed Until 2011 ![]() The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of ... more |
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UH Manoa Team Unravels The Chemistry Of Titan's Hazy Atmosphere![]() A team of University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers led by Ralf Kaiser, physical chemist at UH Manoa, unraveled the chemical evolution of the orange-brownish colored atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, the only solar system body besides Venus and Earth with a solid surface and thick atmosphere. The UH Manoa team, including Xibin Gu and Seol Kim, conducted simulation experiments mimicking ... more Armadillo Aerospace Makes Successful Flights To Qualify For NASA Prize ![]() Armadillo Aerospace this past week successfully flew its Scorpius vehicle twice in two hours between a pair of landing pads to qualify for the $1 million top prize in NASA's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The milestone event paves the way for higher-altitude flights by the Armadillo Aerospace team, and demonstrated the value of prizes to stimulate innovation. Other entrants ... more Global View Of Valleys On Titan Shows North-South Contrast ![]() A team of international scientists led by Mirjam Langhans, from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), will present first results of a global analysis of spatial patterns, occurrence and origin of river channels on Titan at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany, on Wednesday 16 September. To date scientists have focused their investigations on single channels due to the ... more |
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