Armagh Astronomer's Asteroid Discovered to be Double Nearly 50 years ago, Dr David Andrews, a former Astronomer at the Armagh Observatory, discovered a new minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on the night of 25th January 1965, and the object eventually received an official number (1727) a...
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON TEST FACILITY FOR NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY CONCEPT Construction has begun at Oregon State University on a $4.8 million facility to test a new nuclear energy technology that could be safer, more efficient and produce less waste than existing approaches. It's a viable and versatil...
Peru archaeologists find ancient temple in El Paraiso Archaeologists in Peru say they have discovered a temple at the ancient site of El Paraiso, near the capital, Lima. Entry to the rectangular structure, estimated to be up to 5,000 years old, was via a narrow passageway, they say. [url=http://w...
Reg Turnill: Veteran BBC aerospace correspondent dies Reg Turnill, the BBC's aerospace correspondent from the beginning of the space age and through the Apollo era, has died aged 97. After being sent to Moscow to cover the first manned space launch, he regularly reported from Cape Canaveral and Ho...
Arianespace has been chosen to launch the two communications satellites, Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 within the scope of a contract between Thales Alenia Space and Russian operator Gazprom. The launch contract was signed yesterday in Moscow, following the contract signed by Thales Alenia Space an...
On November 26, 2005, the back-up solar array drive on the Landsat 5 satellite began exhibiting unusual behaviour.
The solar array drive maintains the proper pointing angle between the solar array and the sun. The rotation of the solar array drive became sporadic and the solar array was n...
The Castaway Cluster, catalogued as NGC 6520, is located just above the spout in the Teapot of Sagittarius. This is a rich region of the Milky Way containing many gas clouds and star clusters, including the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae. NGC 6520, a tiny jewel of a cluster, is often forgotten amongst thes...
Fresh snowfall lashes Shimla Snowfall in Shimla has brought the long wait for white flakes to an end. Not only the tourists and those associated with tourism industry were waiting for it but the apple growers too were looking up the sky to see a better crop this summer. After a brief spell on Wednesday n...
Claim of stolen meteorite worth $12 million goes to Yukon Appeal Court A decade-long court fight over allegations of a stolen meteorite that was growing a life form is now in the hands of the Yukon Court of Appeal. Daniel Sabo is suing the federal government, staff members with the Geological Survey o...
Orbital-Built Azerspace/Africasat-1a Communications Satellite Successfully Launched Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the worlds leading space technology companies, today announced that the company-built Azerspace/Africasat-1a commercial communications satellite...
The 2010 Salang avalanches consisted of a series of at least 36 avalanches that struck the southern approach to the Salang tunnel, north of KabRod Norland (9 February 2010). Read more
Soyuz 17 (Union 17) was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1 in 1971. Read more
NASA Television to Air Upcoming Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station NASA Television will broadcast the launch and for the first time, the same-day rendezvous and docking of a Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Coverage begins at 19:15 UT Wednesday, Aug. 1. [url=ht...
Burkhard Heim (February 9, 1925 - January 14, 2001) was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of space travel, which contributed to his motivation to find su...
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