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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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NASA will hold a series of news briefings on Monday, Nov. 3, to preview the upcoming space shuttle Endeavour mission that will outfit the International Space Station for six-person crews. |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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This month we have a trick -- and a treat! |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
 Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA?s Integral gamma-ray observatory has observed several low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts, confirming the existence of an entire population of weaker bursts hardly noticed so far. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Today, the last day of World Space Week, marked the official opening of the exhibition 'Space ? the last frontier' by the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Jose Mariano Gago. One of the most impressive exhibits is a 1:10 scale model of the International Space Station, lent for the occasion by ESA. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Four teams of students sponsored by ESA are jubilant after their experiments returned safely to Earth at the end of the latest Balloon Experiments for University Students (BEXUS) campaign inside the Arctic Circle. After many months of hard work and preparation, the successful conclusion was well worth waiting for. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Scientists using ESA?s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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NASA EDGE does a few laps on the ISS, the moon and Mars with NASA Glenn Research Center?s Exercise Countermeasures Team. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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Dust devils have been photographed raging across the arctic plains of Mars. They were captured by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, which saw at least six of the whirlwinds. The dust devils often occur when the Sun warms Mars’ surface.
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 In 2012, Vega will carry ESA?s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. A new video with computer generated animations of the vehicle and its mission is now available. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolours in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 The Earth Observation Handbook ? just released and available online ? explains the vital role played by Earth observation satellites in providing the information needed by governments and policymakers to make well-informed decisions for a sustainable future. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 The latest campaign for Balloon Experiments for University Students, or BEXUS, was kicked off on 3 October as students from several Member States and Co-operating States arrived at the Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna, Sweden. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 The 2008 ozone hole ? a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica ? is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually a planet or a failed star. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 Europe's ATV - the Jules Verne - ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific. Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 After reaching the second-lowest extent ever recorded last month, sea ice in the Arctic has begun to refreeze in the face of autumn temperatures, closing both the Northern Sea Route and the direct route through the Northwest Passage. |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Astronomers have found almost 300 planets outside our solar system, but they haven’t been able to take pictures of any of them — the planets are too small, dim and distant. But the Gemini Observatory recently took a picture of a star and a nearby object — could it be the first picture of an extrasolar planet?
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
 ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite. |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
 On 15 September, students from Spain, Sweden and Belgium watched in eager anticipation as their experiments took to the air on the first ESA STRAtospheric PLatform EXperiment (STRAPLEX) campaign. |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
 At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A. This component is essential for the storage and transmission of data from the telescope's science instruments back to Earth. Ground control attempts to reset the device and obtain a download of the payload computer's memory were unsuccessful. |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
 The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness. |
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
 Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns. (Credits: ESA/NASA) |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 Taken at approximately 15:36 CEST (13:36 UT) from the DC-8 aircraft. Click on 'Full story' for more images received overnight. |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 ESA PR 41-2008. Europe?s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission today with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific. |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 Shortly after 15:30 CEST (13:30 UT) on Monday 29 September, ESA's ATV will begin a controlled destructive re-entry high above an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean.
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 The space industry is one of today?s most powerful technology innovation drivers. New programmes such as space missions to Mars and the moon push the boundaries of technology development. Aimed at industry, the second European Technology Transfer Conference will present technology spin-off opportunities during the Materialica tradefair in Munich, 13-14 October. |
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