Italy and Russia make an agreement for a super telescope Italy and Russia will jointly assemble the Millimetron super telescope. The announcement was made during the Italo-Russo summit at Villa Madama. In the presence of the heads of government of both countries, Enrico Saggese, the president of...
Alcatel Alenia Space today announced that it will provide the Defence User Ground Segment for the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed earth observation program to the French Ministry of Defence. The Euro 32 million contract has been awarded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) which acts as a procurement agency fo...
White House panel sees little point to new NASA rocket With the first test flight of a new NASA rocket just days away, a White House panel questioned its utility while singing the praises of commercial alternatives. The panel, which reviewed NASA's human space flight plans at the White House's reque...
Researchers are to present details of exciting new discoveries of Earth-Like Worlds - including a exoplanet, unlike any other, that is guaranteed to advance exoplanetary research. The news is embargoed until the research findings are published on the 14th December, 2009.
Orbital elements: 2009 XQ2 Earth MOID = 0.0155 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 333.63178 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75961709 Peri. 281.99155 -0.96461997 +0.23700640 a 1.1896144 Node 271.80041 -0.17358008 -0.90061791 e 0.5801661 Incl. 6.63476 -0.19843959 -0.36430119 P 1.30 H 25.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Tropical Storm Laurence (06S) is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 100% currently Kuri Bay (15.6 S, 124.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 24 hours
A possible magnitude 15.4 supernova was discovered on the 12th December, 2009, in the spiral galaxy ESO 555-8 in the constellation Lepus. The supernova is located 25' East and 13' North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 05 52 35.55, Dec -17 47 15.3 z = 0.011366
China has successfully launched a Long March 4C rocket with the Yaogan VIII remote sensing satellite, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre at 02:31 GMT, (10:31 am Beijing time). China sent into space a remote-sensing satellite "Yaogan VIII" from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Cent...
NASA Partners with Saudi Arabia on Moon and Asteroid Research NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement that allows for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqne...
A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young binary star system. Using the Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics (CIAO) mounted on the Subaru T...
Astronomy experts are appealing for witnesses to an extremely rare fireball believed to have blazed across the morning sky. Read more The spectacular sight, which star-ga...
Orbital elements: 2009 XZ6 Earth MOID = 0.0147 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 35.36418 (2000.0) P Q n 0.72612213 Peri. 325.99528 +0.62367097 -0.77340536 a 1.2259223 Node 85.15374 +0.74013531 +0.53755948 e 0.2054403 Incl. 6.53969 +0.25146421 +0.33596718 P 1.36 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
Earthquakes happen to be surface (shallow-focus), intermediate and deep ones. Seismologists mark out the boundary between the first two types at the depth of about 70 kilometres, its nature being still unclear. Russian researchers, specialists of the Institute of Maritime Geology and Geophys...
Research may lead to better UV/radiation blocking in eye glasses Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make eye glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colourless, according to Penn S...
New GLONASS-M Satellites Head to Pad for September 25 Launch The Russian Reshetnev Company has sent the first of three GLONASS-Ms satellites scheduled for a blast next month to the Baikonur spacedrome and launch pad in Uzbekhistan. Two more satellites will follow in late August and early Septembe...