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NASA chief Mike Griffin stresses the necessity of lunar missions prior to allocating expenses and efforts in order to send people to Mars.During the recent International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, Griffin spoke of the future mission priorities for NASA, stating that simply because we had already vis... |
2 October 2008
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Scientists recorded fervently as the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) re-entered orbit and burned in the atmosphere. Following a completely successful mission that started on March 9, the first European space craft of this class was plunged into a controlled dive over the South Pacific, where most of the debris... |
30 September 2008
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Can success doom an event? I bet this is the question that the organizers of the Leipzig Games Convention are trying to answer right about now. Their show has been said to have been batter than this year's E3, mainly because it managed to serve both fans and industry insiders. The organizers, the very Germa... |
1 September 2008
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European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automate Transfer Vehicle has successfully completed its mission last month when it delivered supplies to the International Space Station. After giving ESA a little taste of autonomy, the new supply ship could be used to design a manned spacecraft that would further reduce Eur... |
16 May 2008
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E3 was the behemoth of games shows. It was big, it was loud and ultimately some thought it served no real purpose other than to attract media attention to games, videogames companies and gamers themselves. After the last loud hurrah of the 2006 edition E3, which is organized by the Entertainment Software Association,... |
5 May 2008
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The Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne has completed successfully the both demonstration maneuvers scheduled to provide with a preview of the spacecraft's capabilities, and is expected to dock with the International Space Station today at 10:41 ET, without any intervention form the crew on board the space st... |
3 April 2008
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Vettore Europeo Di Generazione Avanzata, or Vega for short, is an expendable launch system developed by the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. It is designed to carry satellites with masses between 300 and 2,000 kilograms into space and insert them into polar and low Earth orbits. It consists of thre... |
31 March 2008
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After the space shuttle Endeavor departed with the International Space Station on 26 March, the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne was given the go-ahead to move from its parking position 2,000 kilometers in front of the ISS, and approach it for the scheduled docking on 3 April. Before docking, the ATV must exec... |
31 March 2008
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The European Space Agency reported in a press release yesterday that the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne reached the designated parking position to meet up with the International Space Station. Jules Verne will maintain this position until the end of the mission STS-123, when the space shuttle Endeavor will re... |
20 March 2008
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The European Space Agency issued yesterday a press release stating that the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne has been approved by the Launch Readiness Review, and will lift off on 9 March at 05:03 CET from the Kourou Spaceport in the French Guiana. The ATV is a joint between the ESA, NASA and contractors CNES, ... |
6 March 2008
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As it turns out, not only NASA has problems with the launch of its spacecraft. It seems that the European Space Agency is currently experiencing some technical difficulties with its Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Jules Verne, and will need to delay the launch sequence by one day in order to fix them. According to th... |
3 March 2008
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Nvidia has just announced that its Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) extensions have been officially ratified and adopted by the USB Implementers Forum, which would ultimately lead to its global adoption as an industry standard. The ESA specifications set has been introduced in late 2007 as a method to support a w... |
29 February 2008
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The European Space Agency's Venus Monitoring Camera, or VMC for short, surprised in the summer of last year what seems to be a bright haze that appeared and disappeared in Venus' atmosphere in a time interval of only a few days. The region where the feature was observed by the VMC is located near the southe... |
28 February 2008
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Nintendo has filed a "Special 301" report to the U.S Trade Representative (USTR), following the same action done by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), highlighting the issues of software piracy. Nintendo has asked the USTR to encourage specific world governments to fight more aggressively against the game ... |
18 February 2008
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On Earth we are protected from radiation by the planet's magnetic field and its thick atmosphere, however astronauts in Earth's orbit are not so lucky, and may receive doses of radiation while in space higher than if they were supposed to remain on the surface of the planet. Though not lethal on short perio... |
13 February 2008
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Following the successful launch of the Atlantis space shuttle, carrying the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has started preparation for the next task on its space program, the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transport Vehicle, the next generation of car... |
12 February 2008
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Most of the images taken by ESA's Mars Express, although extremely spectacular, usually miss critical features such as the topography of the photographed surface area, or vertical elevation of the structures and the surrounding regions. On the other hand, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on-board the Mars Expre... |
6 February 2008
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Who said Martians are evil? Maybe they are trying to tell us something... I mean, just look at the evidence: happy face on Mars in 1999, happy face on Mars in 2006, Big Foot only a few days ago and, last but no least, happy face on Mars 2008. This particular image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context ... |
5 February 2008
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With an increase of 28 percent, the computer and video game software sales reached $9.5 billion in 2007, setting a new record according to final data compiled by the NPD Group and announced by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). "The video game industry set the pace over all others in 2007, with record-brea... |
29 January 2008
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No more delays, says NASA! The space shuttle Atlantis will liftoff on Thursday 7 February from the Kennedy Space Center at 20:24 CET, and will dock to the International Space Station two days later, on 9 February at 18:23 CET. Atlantis is scheduled to return back to Earth of February the 18th, somewhere around 15:57 ... |
28 January 2008
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This will be ESA's first mission to the closest planet to the Sun and will probably involve the most comprehensive study ever conducted on Mercury. BepiColombo will study the formation and evolution of the planet, its inner regions and its problematic magnetic field, the surface and, last but no the least, some ... |
18 January 2008
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The already busy schedule of building the International Space Station is about to get busier soon, due to British scientists and engineers proposal to launch two separate habitable modules by the year 2011. However, the ISS partnership between NASA, ESA and a few other countries has not approved the project so far, n... |
18 January 2008
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Scheduled to launch on April 9th this year, Chandrayaan-1 will be the first Indian scientific mission to the Moon. The ESA will be providing three scientific instruments, which will be placed onboard the lunar orbiter. Chandra represents the name of a lunar deity in Hindi, while the name Chandrayaan means 'journ... |
14 January 2008
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We've looked and searched our extraterrestrial cousins throughout the whole solar system, and found no evidence that life may exist in our solar system, beyond the borders of our atmosphere. Only one body seems to present a final hope. One of Jupiter's many moons, Europa. The European Space Agency and NASA ... |
8 January 2008
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Uncertainty hovers over Spirit, as it 'fights' for its 'life' on the surface of Mars, in order to reach the designated spot that would ensure its necessary power to remain operational over the coming Martian winter. To improve the chances that in the following winters the twin rovers, Spirit and O... |
17 December 2007
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Galaxy clusters are the biggest structures observed in the visible universe and while most of the times they are easy to spot and classify, apparently, some can evade detection by hiding behind other such huge clusters. This was the case of the galaxy cluster Abell 3128 that, when observed in the X-ray light spectrum... |
17 December 2007
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After the aborted liftoff on the 6th of December, NASA had to cancel the second launch attempt that was scheduled to take place yesterday. The glitch in the fuel sensors was apparently fixed until the filling of the external liquid fuel tank began and one of the gauges started giving false readings again.Due to the f... |
10 December 2007
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The Entertainment Software Association has responded vehemently to the research made by Hill & Knowlton regarding game regulation. Revealing it was part of a proposal to the ESA and said that the "unprofessional and unethical" release quoted only a portion of the full findings.Below you can read the ESA response:"Hi... |
7 December 2007
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Yesterday, the European Space Agency tested the prototype of a new type of rocket motor, named P80, which was designed to propel the future small Vega launcher. The test took place at the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 15:35 GMT. After ignition, the measurements revealed that, in a duration of 111 seconds, the P8... |
5 December 2007
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Similar to the spacecraft Mars Express, the Venus Express is a project of the European Space Agency to study Venus. The Venus Express was the first mission to Venus, since the 1994 NASA's Magellan mission, but unlike NASA's spacecraft it is not designed to take direct pictures of the planets' surface, ... |
26 November 2007
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Mars Advanced Radar for Substance and Ionospheric Sounding or MARSIS sent back lately some of the most exciting data ever. MARSIS is an experiment aboard the ESA's Mars Express. Originally composed of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2 lander were designed to perform exobiology and geochemistry... |
16 November 2007
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Remember the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and almost wiped all life from the face of the Earth? NASA says there is no immediate risk of that happening in the near future, although there might be a lot of such objects in the near vicinity of our planet that could intersect Earth's orbit and cause havoc, wh... |
9 November 2007
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The European Space Agency agreed to provide crucial launch control services for the two remaining satellites MSG-3 and MSG-4. Under the agreement ESA will provide their services to the European Organisation of Meteorological Satellites to provide control services during the launch and the early orbit phase.The Meteos... |
6 November 2007
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It's official. The winner of the wackiest competition organized by the ESA is a 14-year-old girl. The competition was proposed by the agency two months ago to see what kind of music the astronauts on board the ISS should be listening to.People were asked to send a playlist containing 10 of their favorite tunes... |
3 July 2007
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Investing in space technology now may be similar to buying Microsoft shares two decades ago: highly profitable. It seems the next industry area to experience an economic boom will be the exploration of space and space tourism.Last month, the first ESA Investment Forum took place at the European Space Research and Te... |
22 May 2007
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