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Venetia Phair, who has died aged 90, had the distinction of being the only woman in the world to have named a planet; in 1930, as a girl of 11, she suggested the name Pluto for the enigmatic celestial body that had just been discovered, and which became (albeit only temporarily) the ninth planet in our so...

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Antrix and EADS Astrium enter communications satellite partnership Antrix and EADS Astrium have agreed to jointly address the commercial market for communications satellites with payload power below 4 Kw and a launch mass in the range of 2 to 3 tons. Satellites in this weig...

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Spaceport America Installs Lunar Lander Launch Pads Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, has installed three launch pads for NASA's 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lande Centennial Challenge, which is administered by the X PRIZE Foundation to spur innovatio...

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Searching for Alien Life, on Earth In her work at Mono Lake, Wolfe-Simon is particularly interested in micro-organisms that utilise arsenic in novel ways. To you and me, arsenic is a poison. Here's why: our bodies, like all other known life forms on Earth, depend on phosphorus; it's an essential com...

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The BBC is bringing back the Tomorrow's World brand to help audiences understand new technologies. Presenter Maggie Philbin will be offering in-depth analysis on technology stories on TV, radio and the web under the Tomorrow's World banner. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai...

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The return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland — one of the final acts of the Major government — was the brainchild of the 10-year-old daughter of the then Scottish secretary, Michael Forsyth, it has been revealed. The decision — wide...

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Cosmic Call 1 was sent to HD 186408 on May 24, 1999. Cosmic Call was the name of two interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria in 1999 and 2003 to various nearby stars. The messages were designed with noise resistant format and characters. The project was funded by Team Encou...

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MDA announces transformational US acquisition MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Space Systems/Loral, Inc. (SS/L) for US$875 million in a transaction that is immediatel...

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A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements Sir Fred Hoyle, the late astrophysicist acclaimed for developing the theory of how stars forge hydrogen and helium into the heavier elements found throughout the universe, did no...

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NEOShield to assess Earth defence NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet. The effort is being led from the German space ag...

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A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 04:54:50 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, west of Macquarie Island, about 855 km west of Macquarie Island, Australia, at a depth of 10 km. Location 54.888°S, 145.733°E

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STSCI ASTROPHYSICIST SHARES 2006 GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE Astrophysicist Michael G. Hauser (Space Telescope Science Institute deputy director and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.) is a member of the Cosmic Backg...

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Title: An unusual stone circle, Chilcotin Range, British Columbia, Canada Authors: Michael Czajkowski, Andrew V. Okulitch A unique circular feature of uncertain origin lies above the tree line on the eastern flanks of the Coast Range of British Columbia, Canada. It is composed of white, fractur...

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ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert. The recent test of t...

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The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, celebrates its 26th anniversary on 19 June. EUMETSAT Ground System

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	Venetia Katherine Douglas Phair (Preview) Venetia Phair, who has died aged 90, had the distinction of being the only woman in the world to have named a planet; in 1930, as a girl of 11, she suggested the name Pluto for the enigmatic celestial body that had just been discovered, and which became (albeit only temporarily) the ninth planet in our so...	Blobrana	4	Jul 11 05:30 2012 by Blobrana
	Antrix & EADS Astrium (Preview) Antrix and EADS Astrium enter communications satellite partnership Antrix and EADS Astrium have agreed to jointly address the commercial market for communications satellites with payload power below 4 Kw and a launch mass in the range of 2 to 3 tons. Satellites in this weig...	Blobrana	5	Jul 10 06:05 2012 by Blobrana
	Spaceport America Spaceport (Preview) Spaceport America Installs Lunar Lander Launch Pads Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, has installed three launch pads for NASA's 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lande Centennial Challenge, which is administered by the X PRIZE Foundation to spur innovatio...	Blobrana	7	Jul 10 02:59 2012 by Blobrana
	Mono Lake Lake (Preview) Searching for Alien Life, on Earth In her work at Mono Lake, Wolfe-Simon is particularly interested in micro-organisms that utilise arsenic in novel ways. To you and me, arsenic is a poison. Here's why: our bodies, like all other known life forms on Earth, depend on phosphorus; it's an essential com...	Blobrana	6	Jul 10 00:16 2012 by Blobrana
	Tomorrow's World (Preview) The BBC is bringing back the Tomorrow's World brand to help audiences understand new technologies. Presenter Maggie Philbin will be offering in-depth analysis on technology stories on TV, radio and the web under the Tomorrow's World banner. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai...	Blobrana	2	Jul 7 05:41 2012 by Blobrana
	The Stone of Destiny (Preview) The return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland — one of the final acts of the Major government — was the brainchild of the 10-year-old daughter of the then Scottish secretary, Michael Forsyth, it has been revealed. The decision — wide...	Blobrana	7	Jul 3 05:59 2012 by Blobrana
	Cosmic Call 1 (Preview) Cosmic Call 1 was sent to HD 186408 on May 24, 1999. Cosmic Call was the name of two interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria in 1999 and 2003 to various nearby stars. The messages were designed with noise resistant format and characters. The project was funded by Team Encou...	Blobrana	2	Jun 30 23:24 2012 by Blobrana
	Space Systems/Loral (Preview) MDA announces transformational US acquisition MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Space Systems/Loral, Inc. (SS/L) for US$875 million in a transaction that is immediatel...	Blobrana	0	Jun 27 19:57 2012 by Blobrana
	Sir Fred Hoyle (Preview) A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements Sir Fred Hoyle, the late astrophysicist acclaimed for developing the theory of how stars forge hydrogen and helium into the heavier elements found throughout the universe, did no...	Blobrana	5	Jun 24 06:22 2012 by Blobrana
	NEOShield NEO (Preview) NEOShield to assess Earth defence NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet. The effort is being led from the German space ag...	Blobrana	3	Jun 22 11:30 2012 by Blobrana
	Macquarie Island Quake ( 1 2 ) Earthquake (Preview) A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 04:54:50 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, west of Macquarie Island, about 855 km west of Macquarie Island, Australia, at a depth of 10 km. Location 54.888°S, 145.733°E	Blobrana	10	Jun 22 12:29 2012 by Blobrana
	GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE (Preview) STSCI ASTROPHYSICIST SHARES 2006 GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE Astrophysicist Michael G. Hauser (Space Telescope Science Institute deputy director and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.) is a member of the Cosmic Backg...	Blobrana	5	Jun 21 02:29 2012 by Blobrana
	British Columbia stone circle (Preview) Title: An unusual stone circle, Chilcotin Range, British Columbia, Canada Authors: Michael Czajkowski, Andrew V. Okulitch A unique circular feature of uncertain origin lies above the tree line on the eastern flanks of the Coast Range of British Columbia, Canada. It is composed of white, fractur...	Blobrana	1	Jun 20 07:55 2012 by Blobrana
	Seeker planetary rover (Preview) ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert. The recent test of t...	Blobrana	0	Jun 19 02:49 2012 by Blobrana
	EUMETSAT (Preview) The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, celebrates its 26th anniversary on 19 June. EUMETSAT Ground System	Blobrana	0	Jun 19 06:14 2012 by Blobrana
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