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Express map delivery from space Meeting the environmental needs of an ever-expanding Europe requires consistent and regularly updated information on its land cover and use. As part of ESA's GlobCorine project, a pan-European land cover and use map for 2009 is now available online. The map, based...
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Qinetiq
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UK defence technology firm Qinetiq has won a contract to provide engineering services for US Space Agency Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The deal is for at least five years, with options for a further three, and is worth up to $2bn (£1.25bn). [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11...
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AUT University radio telescope
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Radio telescope launch a milestone in New Zealand's scientific and educational history Researchers will be able to probe the secrets of deep space when AUT University's radio telescope launches on Wednesday October 8. Situated in a radio-quiet valley near Warkworth, north of Auckland, the $1 mi...
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Microsat Systems Canada Inc.
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Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canadas designer and builder of the Multi Mission Microsatellite Bus technology, and innovator of MicroWheel (reaction wheel) attitude control systems, is proud to announce the launch of reactionwheel.com, a...
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China Great Wall Industry Corporation
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China Great Wall Industry Corp agrees to buy 20 rockets, 8 satellites China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes Tuesday. CGWIC, China's only satellite launcher for oversea...
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IceBite project
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NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground, and scouting for sites where th...
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West Virginia Wesleyan College Planetarium
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WV Wesleyan Reopens the Doors to Planetarium[url=http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=89499]Read
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Mid-Indian Ridge Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 18:13:08 (UTC) on Monday, March 6, 2006 , at the Mid-Indian Ridge.
Location 40.131°S, 78.473°E
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UK Space Program
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The UK's decision to shun human spaceflight was a mistake that needs to be changed, says Europe's International Space Station programme chief. But with Nasa on the verge of ending its shuttle programme and the Russian Soyuz capsules overbooked, it will not be easy to reverse course, warns Alan Thir...
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Jizera Dark Sky Park
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The Izera Dark Sky Park, which straddles the Polish-Czech border, is one of Europe's first "darkness reserves." The project, launched in 2009 in the Izerskie Mountains, aims to highlight the issue of light pollution, which is increasingly being acknowledged as an environmental prob...
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Indian Antarctic Expedition
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India launches scientific expedition to South Pole The head of India's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. The trip to the pole and back is expected to last around 40 d...
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Harold E Holt Naval communications station
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Australia will become a key partner in the international battle for space supremacy. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is poised to announce the base when he visits Australia next week with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Fairfax newspapers reported on Saturday. It is understood the base is l...
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Silbury Hill
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How? Who? Why? From Agatha Christie to Dan Brown, all the best thriller writers know the value of leaving these questions dangling until the last page. But at least we discover the answers in the end. If mankind endures ten million years we may never discover the who and why of the most tantalising enig...
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Alderney Island
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Alderney aims for dark sky status to promote astronomy Dark-Sky status was in the news in the Bailiwick in 2010 as Sark bid to become the world's first Dark-Sky Island. This was due to its lack of light pollution being an ideal spot for astronomers, with this in mind Alderney started looking into joini...
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TerreStar
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TerreStar Considers Chapter 11 Protection TerreStar Corp., a mobile-communications business trying to launch a far-reaching wireless network using satellite smart phones, is preparing a possible filing for bankruptcy protection, said people familiar with the matter. TerreStar, labourin...
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