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:: 05 April, 2008
ATV Jules Verne, the European Space Agency’s first resupply and reboost vehicle, has successfully performed a fully automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS). This docking marks the beginning of Jules Verne’s main servicing...
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:: 03 April, 2008
Growing demand for computing power spurred the decision to obtain a second Sun Microsystems Blackbox at SLAC. To meet significant amounts of streaming data from ATLAS and GLAST simulation and mock data challenges, as well as BaBar's final data, a...
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:: 01 April, 2008
Something is pulling the universe apart. What is it, and where will it take us from here? Scientists at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, seek answers to those questions with the newly-commissioned South Pole...
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:: 01 April, 2008
A group of Taiwanese physicists who participated in an international collaborative project have helped discover some clues in particle physics experiments, which might be able to explain why antimatter disappears, academic sources said yesterday....
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:: 01 April, 2008
Jules Verne ATV today approached the International Space Station to within 11 m of the docking port on the Russian Zvezda module. The approach was part of a second ATV demonstration day which clears the way for the first rendezvous and docking...
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:: 01 April, 2008
Experts have claimed that the fears expressed by campaigners in the US about the world's most powerful particle smasher posing a threat to the planet, do not hold any ground.
According to a report, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is nearing...
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:: 01 April, 2008
On 27 March 2008, the second stage motor for Vega - Europe's new small launcher - successfully completed a static firing test at the Salto Di Quirra Inter-force Test Range in Sardinia, Italy.
Ignition of the qualification model of the Zefiro...
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:: 30 March, 2008
Jules Verne ATV today demonstrated its ability to navigate safely from a point 39 km behind the ISS to a stand-off point just 3.5 km away using relative GPS navigation. The vessel then executed an Escape manoeuvre commanded from the ATV Control...
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:: 30 March, 2008
A new physics discovery explores why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.
The latest research findings, which involved significant contributions from physicists at the University of Melbourne, have been recently published in...
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:: 29 March, 2008
Satellite telecommunication technology developed with support from ESA is being used to enhance the connections between the International Atomic Energy Agency's remote monitoring centre and nuclear facilities around the world, including the...
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:: 29 March, 2008
Campaigners in the US are attempting to delay the start-up of the world's most powerful particle smasher with a lawsuit claiming it could spawn dangerous particles or mini black holes that will destroy the entire Earth.
The Large Hadron...
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:: 29 March, 2008
By any stretch of imagination the Large Hadron Collider, which is nearing completion deep underground close to Geneva, is the mother of all machines.
Built at a cost of about four billion euros, it's expected to become operational later this...
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:: 29 March, 2008
After several days spent in a parking orbit 2000 km ahead of the ISS, Jules Verne ATV is now ready to join up with the International Space Station. This first docking attempt can be followed live on 3 April 2008 from 15:30 CEST onwards from one of...
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:: 27 March, 2008
Returning from its 16-day STS-123 mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Shuttle Endeavour has safely returned to earth, with a crew of seven onboard, including ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts of France, who spent nearly 49 days in space...
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:: 27 March, 2008
Deciphering the genetic code of the universe is no easy task. Yet that's just what the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope (LAT) seeks to accomplish. Integrated at SLAC in 2005 and 2006 from hardware fabricated at...
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:: 26 March, 2008
Shell Canada has incorporated Earth Observation data into its Sustainable Development Report, demonstrating the potential of satellites to provide a global and cost-effective way to measure objectively the sustainability of business activities.
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:: 26 March, 2008
The world's biggest atom-smasher, now close to completion at the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) laboratory near Geneva, is a study in big numbers:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will whiz protons to 99.9999 per cent of the...
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:: 25 March, 2008
Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation.
"With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and...
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:: 24 March, 2008
Despite decades of attempts, gravitational waves continue to elude direct detection. However, one new technology could soon change that. SLAC theorists are watching closely as their experimentalist colleagues at Stanford make ready a device that...
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:: 22 March, 2008
The Belle collaboration, an international research group working at the KEKB accelerator of High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan, observed a difference between direct charge-parity (CP) asymmetries for charged and neutral B...
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