Telesat launches satellite broadband Internet service.
Telesat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, announced today the successful launch of its new two-way satellite broadband service. The new service, operating in the Ka-band on the company’s Anik F2 satellit...
The POLYSAT CP6 satellite that was launched on the 19th May, 2009, from Wallops Island, Virginia, with the TacSat-3 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th October, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.CP6
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Canada's oldest planetarium closes its doors and awaits new digs The operation is closing next week with more than six million star-struck visitors having passed through its doors since April 1, 1966, when it was officially inaugurated as the Dow planetarium. [url=http://www.theglobeandmail...
UO-9 (aka UoSAT-OSCAR 9, or the University of Surrey's UoSAT-1) was an amateur satellite built at the University of Surrey and launched into low Earth orbit on 6 October 1981. It exceeded its anticipated two-year orbital lifespan by six years, being received on 13 October 1989 before re-entering t...
A global festival about author Charles Dickens will take place next year for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Dickens 2012 will span more than 50 countries and encompass literature festivals, film screenings, theatre shows and teaching initiatives. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/enter...
Mira variables pulsate with a period between 80 and 1000 days.
In visual light, the amplitude of the light change is in general between 2.5 and 10 magnitudes.
In infrared the amplitude is significantly smaller. Miras are of spectral type M, S or C, dependent on the ratio between the amount of carb...
Title: New Evidence Supporting Membership for TW Nor in Lynga 6 and the Centaurus Spiral Arm Authors: Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, Christian Moni Bidin, Francesco Mauro, Douglas Geisler, Wolfgang Gieren, Dante Minniti, André-Nicolas Chené, Philip Lucas, Jura Borissova, Radostn Kurtev...
Title: The non-thermal radio emitter HD 93250 resolved by long baseline interferometry Authors: H. Sana, J.-B. Le Bouquin, M. De Becker, J.-P. Berger, A. de Koter, A. Merand As the brightest O-type X-ray source in the Carina nebula, HD 93250 (O4 III(fc)) is X-ray overluminous for its spectral type...
The Battle of Arausio took place on October 6, 105 BC, at a site between the town of Arausio (modern day Orange, Vaucluse) and the Rhône River. Ranged against the migratory tribes of the Cimbri under Boiorix and the Teutoni were two Roman armies, commanded by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio an...
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 - 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John ****croft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the at...
Jesse Ramsden FRSE (6 October 1735 - 5 November 1800) was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker. Ramsden is responsible for the achromatic eyepiece named after him. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1786. The exit pupil of an eyepiece was once called the Ramsden disc in his hon...
Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 - 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. Read more
The 20 - 44 metre wide asteroid 2004 SW26 will make a close pass (47.0 lunar distances, 0.1209 AU), travelling at 12.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th October, 2011 @ 15:23 UT ±1 day 05:44. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
