Alcatel Alenia Space today announced that it will demonstrate the first emergency service based on EGNOS, a precursor of Galileo, in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 3rd.
The integrated end-to-end Location-Based Solution (LBS), designed under the coordination of Alcatel Alenia Space, enables th...
Mercury, is now visible in the evening sky.
The planet is moving slowly away from the sun and rising higher in the sunset sky.
The planet is 1.1793 AU away in the constellation Aquarius.
The sun sets at 17:09 GM...
79-year-old James E. Collins of Rochester, father of space shuttle commander Eileen Collins, who was struck by a car in front of Kings Bar on West Washington Avenue, Elmira, US, on Monday night has died.
Jim Collins was in Elmira on Monday to hear his daughter speak at Edison and Notre Dame high scho...
At discovery on March 12, by R. H. McNaught), the comet was faint as 16.4 magnitude . It has steadily been brightening.
Now it is below 11th magnitude in the constellation Capricorn.
It is predicted to reach to 10 magnitude from January to March. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is observable only u...
John the Ripper 1.7 has been released.
It is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavours of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt p...
A small 10 - 23 metre asteroid 2006 DQ14 (K06D14Q) passed 1.2 million miles (about 5.2 Lunar distances) from the Earth during 21-22 February 22nd 2006.
2006 DQ14 follows an orbit around the sun that is very similar to Earth's. This has lead to the speculation that it is a discarded Ap...
A Long March 3B Rocket Body launched on the 12th April 2005 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre for the Apstar 6 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th February 2006@ 02:59 UTC ± 15 hours[img]http://static.flickr.com/38/103809327_e4e9aa225d_o.g...
An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude rattled Ottawa and western Quebec on Friday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.
The earthquake struck about 8:39 p.m.
A Floating Potential Probe that was launched on 1st December 2000, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station LC-39 on the Floating Potential Probe Experiment mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 25th February 2006 @ @ 04:44 UTC ± 10 hours
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The Libreville tracking station in Gabon, west coast of Africa, is used as a downrange tracking Station for the European Space Agency Launches from Kourou, French Guiana.
Latitude (deg): 0.35234N Longitude (...
The Malindi 10m antenna S-band station in Kenya is part of the ESA’s network operated in support of the Ariane launches, as well as s/c tracking.
The Station was upgraded in November 2004 (baseband), and is operated in cooperation with the University of Rome (Italy).
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A mysterious boom shook buildings in in Anson, Madison, Skowhegan and Norridgewock in the county of Maine, US, on Thursday morning, according to reports of at least a dozen residents.
Shortly before 10 a.m., the Somerset County Communications Centre was inundated with calls from people who s...
According to a new analysis of the Everett (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum theory, our universe may one day be assimilated by a larger universe.
Alternative universes that some theorists think may exist in parallel to our universe could interact, and could ultimately destroy it.
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A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at 22:19:08 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 22, 2006, in Mozambique, at a depth of 10 km
Location 21.221°S, 33.324°E
