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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released a new review video of the first-ever launch of the Vega delivery system. The small rocket has joined the organization's rocket pool, and now sits alongside the Russian-built, medium-lift Soyuz and Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5.
The first Vega launch mar... |
7 March 2012
11:07 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA), the Meteosat Second Generation-3 (MSG-3) satellite is ready for launch this summer. The spacecraft will enable the agency to continue monitoring Earth's weather patterns with extreme degrees of accuracy.
The vehicle will join two assets already in Eart... |
7 March 2012
10:53 GMT |
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With the first two Galileo In-Orbit Verification (IOV) satellites already in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) is currently pondering whether or not the spacecraft could also be used to manage distress calls and other types of emergency.
Galileo is being developed primarily as a satellite navigation and global ... |
7 March 2012
07:49 GMT |
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Talk about David and Goliath! In this image from the NASA Cassini orbiter, we see the enormous moon Titan to the right of the gas giant Saturn. Though it's 50 percent larger than our Moon, and 80 percent heavier, the object appears as nothing more than a tiny spec when compared to its host planet.
Titan is abou... |
6 March 2012
03:58 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) Edoardo Amaldi will blast off to Earth's orbit on March 23. Originally, the event was scheduled to take place on March 9, but a series of technical problems forced experts to delay.
Under the new plan, the robotic ... |
6 March 2012
03:38 GMT |
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At a special facility operated by aerospace company Astrium in Lampoldshausen, Germany, engineers recently tested a series of advanced thrusters, which were developed in order to power up the next European spacecraft bound for the Moon.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Lunar Lander will be an unmanned spacecra... |
6 March 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Scientists from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SAO) and Technical University Berlin (TUB) recently released a series of updated working models covering the properties of the gravitational field surrounding Mars' largest and closest moon, Phobos.
Like the second Martian moon, called Deimos, Phobos is ex... |
5 March 2012
04:20 GMT |
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The official websites of the Canadian Space Agency (asc-csa.gc.ca) and the European Space Agency (esa.int) were found to be flawed by the German grey hat hacker known as D35m0nd142. The hacker provided us with screenshots that prove the existence of vulnerabilities in ESA’s main domain and two other subdomains... |
2 March 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the third Automated Transfer Vehicle, called Edoardo Amaldi, will not lift off on March 9, as originally planned. A new launch date has yet to be established, but the organization is bound to make an announcement. While ESA did not announce the exact problem ... |
2 March 2012
07:22 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite turned 10 years old in Earth's orbit yesterday, March 1. This is a joyous moment for the organization, and an important milestone for the tremendously successful, Earth-monitoring mission.
It took to the skies on March 2, 2002, at 01:07 UTC, aboard an Ari... |
2 March 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3), called Edoardo Amaldi, is now ready for launch. The unmanned resupply capsule is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) later this month.
Current plans call for ATV-3 to launch aboard an Ariane 5... |
1 March 2012
03:33 GMT |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) and aerospace company Thales Alenia Space signed an important contract on February 24. The agreement sets the parameters for the development of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite family.
ESA is keen on augmenting its presence in space, especially when it come... |
27 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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The legal battle fought between the state of California and the video game industry in front of the United States Supreme Court has ended up costing the state administration no less than 1.8 million dollars (about 1.35 million Euro).
The state itself has spent 500,000 dollars (376,500 Euro) on its own legal efforts ... |
23 February 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) are currently working on developing a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors for deep space exploration. This device could come in handy for long duration missions, but it could also make it easier to conduct complex scientific experiments.
Basically, a LIDAR is the... |
23 February 2012
04:22 GMT |
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A constellation made up of three satellites has just passed its final tests, and is now ready for a planned July launch. The mission, called Swarm, consists of a trio of spacecraft designed specifically to study Earth's magnetic fields.
Developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), the probes will be launched ... |
18 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov, two members of the Expedition 30 crew to the International Space Station (ISS), will conduct an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) today, February 16. Their goal is to prepare the space facility for the addition of a new laboratory, sometime next year.
In 2013, the famous, Russian-b... |
16 February 2012
09:18 GMT |
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Following the successful completion of Vega's maiden flight, the path is now clear towards launching two spacecraft belonging to the Sentinel Earth-observing constellation aboard the small rocket. A successful launch was all that stood in the way of validating a contract signed in December, 2011.
At that time, ... |
14 February 2012
08:10 GMT |
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A composite image of the oldest known supernova, called RCW 86, has just been released by NASA. The photograph contains X-ray data from the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory, as well as infrared data from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-Field Infr... |
14 February 2012
02:17 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that a new rocket test took place this morning, February 13, in northern Sweden. A Maser rocket carried five scientific experiments to the edge of space, providing scientists with 5 to 6 minutes of weightlessness.
The Maser-12 climbed to an altitude of about 250 ... |
13 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The latest dataset produced by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck Telescope reveals the existence of a mysterious haze made up of microwaves throughout the Milky Way. The observatory also found several previously unknown islands of very cold hydrogen gas in the galaxy.
According to astronomers studying t... |
13 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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At 07:00 local time, the first Vega light-lift delivery system launched successfully from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. The rocket was commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA), which now finally has all payload mass segments covered.
Small satellites will from now on be launched aboa... |
13 February 2012
08:59 GMT |
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ESA officials announce that the first Vega rocket is now fully assembled at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. Its maiden flight will take place on Monday, February 13, and the booster will carry nine small satellite to Earth's orbit. I've tracked the progress this rocket has made over... |
11 February 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Venus may be currently decreasing its rotation speed, for unknown reasons. Recent investigations conducted using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter revealed that the location of surface features was slightly changed from where it should have been.
Observing the surface of our neighboring pl... |
11 February 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Officials managing the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer constellation say that an innovative microwave radiometer aboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite is helping the spacecraft contribute to hurricane forecasts.
The spacecraft was developed for measuring ocean salinity and s... |
11 February 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Today, February 9, officials from the European Space Agency and the Bremen, Germany-based Eurockot signed an agreement reserving a Russian-built Rockot delivery system for the upcoming launch of two ESA satellites.
Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A – part of the GMES Sentinel constellation program – are now s... |
9 February 2012
11:33 GMT |
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As an avid (for some reason) fan of Saturn, I constantly keep track of the images the NASA/ESA Cassini orbiter sends back to Earth. Therefore, I couldn't resist the temptation of sharing the latest image the spacecraft snapped of Enceladus, while the ice-covered moon was at its crescent.
Backdropped by the rin... |
8 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now loaded and ready to launch. The spacecraft is the third unmanned space capsule that the organization constructs for resupplying the International Space Station (ISS).
Dubbed Edoardo Amaldi, ATV-3 follo... |
8 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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European ministers proposed the ExoMars mission to the Red Planet back in 2005, and the European Space Agency (ESA) wanted to include NASA in it as well. Though the American space agency accepted at first, it now looks like it will retire from this ambitious scientific endeavor.
An official announcement has not yet ... |
8 February 2012
03:49 GMT |
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An independent panel formed by the National Research Council (NRC) has determined that NASA should contribute up to $20 million to the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission, but only if the American organization also decides to build the Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
The latter would be ... |
7 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Ucha Gobejishvili, the Vulnerability Lab researcher also known as Longrifle0x, identified a number of space agency websites that contain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and publicly disclosed the information. He discovered multiple flaws on subdomains owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administra... |
7 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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The French space agency (CNES) announces that it will begin using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat satellite to provide the international maritime community with nearly real-time data of the world's oceans and their current state.
Though this is not its primary mission, the spacecraft i... |
6 February 2012
07:49 GMT |
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Scientists with the European Space Agency (ESA) announce the development of an augmented reality (AU) device for astronauts. This piece of equipment will help people in space diagnose any potential problems with their crew members, as well as enable them to perform basic surgeries.
AU devices were already created fo... |
6 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Recent investigations of the Sytris Major region on Mars have revealed an impressive area of formerly-intense volcanic activity. The calderas have been inactive for billions of years, but they do remind investigators of a time when our neighboring planet was very geologically active.
When it first formed, Mars also... |
4 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Major space company Arianespace will conduct a series of modifications on its renowned Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system, in order to accommodate the launch of four Galileo satellites simultaneously. The decision is part of a new agreement it signed with the European Space Agency.
At the same meeting – which... |
3 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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After completing a whole bunch of tests, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that their newest delivery system, the Vega light-lift rocket, is finally ready for its maiden flight. Its first takeoff will occur on February 13, from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America.
This rocket fills a... |
3 February 2012
06:00 GMT |
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The wreckage of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft haven't yet even settled at the bottom of the ocean, but officials at the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) are already revealing new plans to send a spacecraft to the diminutive Martian moon.
It's hard to say what drives the Russians in this quest, since ... |
1 February 2012
05:52 GMT |
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For years, astronomers and geologists have been debating whether a surface ocean made of liquid water actually existed on the surface of Mars. The latest research on the issue demonstrates that was the case.
The argument has swung back and forth countless time, with each new investigation offering arguments for or a... |
31 January 2012
07:13 GMT |
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In a series of previous studies, researchers proposed the existence of an atmosphere layer containing cold, electrically-charged particles, way above the planetary surface. The latest investigation into this issue reveals that to be true, as scientists discover cold plasma layer at the top of the atmosphere.
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27 January 2012
09:14 GMT |
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As European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli was living on the International Space Station, he conducted a series of experiments involving miniature greenhouses. The goal was to compare the results to those obtained by another group, the Mars 500 experiment crew.
While the plants aboard the orbital outpos... |
25 January 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Sea surface in a particular area of the Arctic Ocean has increased by as much as 15 centimeters (6 inches) over the past 15 years, leading to the formation of a large bulge of freshwater. It is estimated that this region of the ocean contains as much as 8,000 cubic kilometers (1,919 cubic miles) of water.
According ... |
23 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Representatives from NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are currently discussing the prospect of establishing manned research stations around the Moon. These facilities would operate continuously, requiring permanent crews. What this means is that we may be witnessi... |
20 January 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the first Vega delivery system is now ready for launch. The rocket finished its final checkout at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, on Friday, January 13.
Its maiden flight – dubbed VV01 – is currently scheduled to occur on ... |
19 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Space analysts say that the European Space Agency (ESA) will not be able to launch astronauts to low-Earth orbit from its Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, aboard Russian-built Soyuz space capsules. This impossibility stems from the facility's geographical location. Over the past few years, ESA... |
18 January 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Records have revealed that the Entertainment Software Association has spent up to 190,000 dollars (149,000 Euro) during 2011 in order to lobby in favor of the Protect IP Act, with at least four transactions linked to lobby groups that have discussed a range of matters with members of the United States Congress.It see... |
17 January 2012
22:11 GMT |
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On Saturday, January 14, the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck spacecraft ran out of its absolutely-essential coolant. While this marks the end of HFI's operating life, it also marks the completion of the first survey of residual light from the Big Bang.
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17 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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After seeing literally thousands of pictures taken in deep space, I thought that there were no more surprises for me in terms of beautiful space structures. But the European Space Agency (ESA) again proved me wrong when it released this amazing new view of the Eagle Nebula.
The image was collected using the He... |
17 January 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the first all-sky survey scheduled to be carried out by the High Frequency Instrument (HFI), aboard the ESA Planck spacecraft, has just been completed. The study finally reveals a map of the residual one left behind by the Big Bang.
The representatives also said ... |
16 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Nvidia has released a statement regarding its position on the Stop Online Piracy Act, saying that, while it opposes piracy, the law proposal isn’t the right way to fight such a phenomenon.
The whole gaming industry has been rocked by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill currently in discussion at the U.S.... |
13 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) have just released this amazing new image of a huge phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The photograph was compiled from data sent to Earth by the organization's flagship satellite, Envisat.
To me, it looks very much like a very beautiful drawing, esp... |
13 January 2012
10:52 GMT |
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The latest observations from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory reveal dust concentrations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC), two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at close range. Knowing how cosmic dust and gas are distributed throughout a galaxy is essential towards d... |
11 January 2012
05:53 GMT |
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