Although a California businessman had to drop some serious change to get space-bound, Hollywood producer David Krieff of Destiny Productions has just put the chance to leave Earth within the […]
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ILS Adds Telesat’s Nimiq 2 Launch to Atlas V Roster
International Launch Services (ILS) is scheduled to launch Telesat Canada’s Nimiq 2 satellite in late 2002 on an Atlas V rocket, under a contract announced today with the satellite’s builder, […]
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Telesat Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Powerful A2100 Satellite and Launch on Atlas V
Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) today announced the award of a contract from Telesat Canada to build an A2100 geosynchronous satellite, with launch on an Atlas V rocket provided […]
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A Disturbance In the “Force” Caused the K-T Impact?
But this disturbance is more mysterious than Darth Vader. UCLA scientists don’t know exactly what it was, but they believe it occurred within the Solar System 65 million years ago. […]
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Mass Extinction At The Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: Where’s The Smoking Gun?
Who did it? Who pulled the trigger, or rather, what pulled the trigger at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary that wiped out 20% of all marine families in Earth’s oceans, and, on […]
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Planetary Hit-and-Run Among Creative Ideas Nudged by NASA
If there is an area of science where extreme creativity is needed, it is in planetary exploration, where the logistics are difficult, the unknowns are great and the costs are […]
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Snowball Fight In Edinburgh
The Snowball Earth theory has been gaining momentum since 1992 when Joseph L. Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology coined the term. Kirschvink’s initial model of an ice-covered Earth […]
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Giant “eyeball” brings mega-telescope closer
A satellite receiver that works like a giant eyeball has arrived in Sydney for testing by CSIRO. Its arrival brings a step closer one idea for the world’s next ‘mega-telescope’ […]
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X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Prototype Resumes Flight Tests
Free-flight testing of the X-38 Vehicle 131R prototype Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station is scheduled to resume at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., on Friday […]
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Sounds of a Star – Acoustic Oscillations in Solar-Twin “Alpha Cen A” Observed from La Silla by Swiss Team
Summary Sound waves running through a star can help astronomers reveal its inner properties. This particular branch of modern astrophysics is known as “asteroseismology”. In the case of our Sun, […]
