* Astronomy

Work on a new space base commenced on Tuesday at the Shenzhuang Industrial Zone in Shanghai, China. The base will be completed in five years time. The base, involving an investment of 1.3 billion yuan (300 million pounds), will become an important space centre for the research, testing and prod...

Perseus is a planetarium software with an easy to use interface. The software is demoware and has some restrictions : * You have only stars brighter than magnitude 5, except in the zone between 5h and 6h R.A. and +15°/-15° declination (part of Orion), where you have all the s...

A soyuz-U Rocket Body launched from the Baikonour Cosmodrome on 02 SEP 2005 for the Kosmos 2415 mission will re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 08 SEP 2005 @ 18:03 UTC ± 15 hours TLE Data: SL-4 R/B...

Anti Trojan Elite is a trojan/keylogger remover. When the trojan horse will run, Anti Trojan Elite can find out the trojan and stop it in time. Anti Trojan Elite is also a system security tool, it can view the information of networks and processes. Anti Trojan Elite can monitor any change of...

A spacecraft carrying a Russian Defence Ministry satellite is scheduled to be launched on 2nd September at 09:50 GMT (1:50 p.m. Moscow time) from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. "The Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a Kosmos series satellite, made at the order of the defence ministry,...

Sun on 1st September 2005. Large sunspot on the farside of the sun

Some asteroids that have comet-like orbits may actually be comets that have lost gases and other easily vaporised substances, according to a NASA research team. The team will present its findings at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Camb...

Fraser Cain and Phil Plait (from Universe Today and Bad Astronomy respectively) have decided to merge their two discussion forums together into one super forum. With a combined 11,000ish members (Ed – that is a lot) this will create one of the largest space and astronomy-re...

You can now have Microsoft approved tabbed browsing in IE6, weeks before the feature will make its debut in Internet Explorer 7.0. The catch is that you have to install MSN Search Toolbar to enable the feature: The feature--long offered by IE competitors like Opera, Safari and Fire... < No weblink given>

Slight increase in Aurora activity

Japan intends to build a new rocket by 2008 that would allow it to conduct space flights to the International Space Station (ISS). A spokesman for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency said the new H2B rocket, designed to deliver cargo to the ISS, would have fuel tanks 40% larger than i...

China has successfully launched its 21st return science and technology experimental satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwe...

The Nanosputnik satellite, launched from the ISS on 28 February 2005, will re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 28 AUG 2005 @ 18:50 UTC ± 22 hours[url=http://photos26.flickr.com/37445858_eee1de7...

A Molniya 1 satellite will re-enter the Earths atmosphere 26 AUG 2005 @ 20:07:00 GMT ± 360 Hours The Molniya 1 was launched on the 23rd November 1990 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. TLE Data:[/...