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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
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Saturn moon may harbour life-giving ocean: study - Yahoo! NewsHuge geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty sea below its surface, boosting the odds of extraterrestrial life in our own Solar System, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers in Europe detected salt particles in the volcanic vapour-and-ice jets that shoot hundreds ...
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Europe is about to take an astronomical lead over U.S.The world's astronomers are about to get a trio of powerful new eyes on the sky that can see better and farther than existing space telescopes. As a result, Europe will hold a scientific and technological lead over the United States in some key areas of cosmology, at least for a while. Next ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Space Debris Be Damned: Intelsat Flies a Satellite 77 000 Kilometers Without a CollisionScientists and engineers will gather in Europe this week to brainstorm about better ways of dealing with the increasingly dangerous amount of space debris orbiting our planet. But when you're the largest commercial satellite operation in the world, you don’t have time to wait for a better way. I...
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Space A Galaxy of Adventure - New Zealand ProfilesAlbert jones builds his own telescope (in NZ) and finds a supernova.
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The adventure of space enterprise in the 21st centuryFor over a half century, human activities in outer space have increased, but the high point was the Apollo Moon landings from 1969 – 1972. Now the United States has set forth a national space policy to return permanently to the lunar surface by 2020, and NASA is engaged in strategic planning to ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Breaking Quantum Cryptography's 150-Kilometer LimitResearchers in Europe in the field of quantum cryptography have demonstrated for the first time that it should be possible—with the help of satellites—to communicate across thousands of kilometers using unbreakable codes whose security is guaranteed by the laws of quantum physics. For many ...
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Ariane 5 - Fifth launch of 2008Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
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The International Space Station, A Test-bed For Future Space ExplorationThe Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States recently met at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.
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ESA - ATV - Premiere for Europe: Jules Verne refuels the ISSESA’s Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time yesterday to transfer in one step 811 kg of refuelling propellant to the International Space Station while the two vehicles orbited Earth at 28 000 km/h. With this premiere for Europe, Jules Verne becomes the first western spaceship to succeed in ...
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