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A green-tinged comet is now buzzing by Earth, and the best chance to see this space oddball might be Monday night. http://www.physorg.com/news154623859.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:05:13 EST news154623859 (PhysOrg.com) -- Space scientists from the University of Leicester are keeping a close eye on a ‘green comet` fast approaching the Earth - reaching its nearest point to us on February 24. http://www.physorg.com/news154342687.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:08 EST news154342687 Last week's collision between U.S. and Russian space satellites has prompted questions over who is at fault while highlighting the need for stronger international regulation of space debris, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and internationally renowned space law expert said. http://www.physorg.com/news154112733.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:09:27 EST news154112733 While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 - and perhaps where he has been in the years since. http://www.physorg.com/news154112231.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:58:11 EST news154112231 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new system is using satellite navigation data to help car drivers develop smart, smooth and safe driving techniques that can help save an average of 15-25% in fuel, as well as contribute to environmental protection. http://www.physorg.com/news154017042.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:31:09 EST news154017042 (PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe`s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Two auxiliary payloads were also launched during this mission. http://www.physorg.com/news153756887.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:15:43 EST news153756887 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have made an unexpected find using a polarimeter (an instrument used to measure the wave properties of light) funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), that has the potential to affect future climate models. http://www.physorg.com/news153507391.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:56:59 EST news153507391 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a series of X-ray and gamma-ray flares. http://www.physorg.com/news153492807.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:53:49 EST news153492807 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year. http://www.physorg.com/news153152542.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:23:50 EST news153152542 (PhysOrg.com) -- This artist's rendering shows a "family portrait" of Jason-1, Topex/Poseidon, and OSTM/Jason-2, all NASA satellites that collect data about sea surface heights around the world. Sea surface heights are one component helpful to hurricane forecasters, as higher seas indicate warmer waters (that power storms) while lower seas indicate cooler waters (such as those in La Nina events in the eastern Pacific). http://www.physorg.com/news153146272.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:38:25 EST news153146272 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space this morning after a picture-perfect launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA-N Prime spacecraft lifted off at 2:22 a.m. PST aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2. Approximately 65 minutes later, the spacecraft separated from the Delta II SLV. http://www.physorg.com/news153144168.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:04:00 EST news153144168 The Planck satellite is set to eavesdrop with hitherto unsurpassed precision on the echo of the Big Bang, thereby providing a sharp image of the infancy of the Universe. The satellite is due to be launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket on April 16th. The aim of this international mission, managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is to map the cosmic microwave background. The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching is the German partner in this project. Researchers have spent a decade developing important software components that have now been delivered to the collaboration. http://www.physorg.com/news153064579.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:56:53 EST news153064579 Buying electronics can be an awfully tough decision, especially in this economy where every dollar counts. With people cutting back on going out for entertainment, what's available around the house - such as the television, computer and video games - takes on added importance. http://www.physorg.com/news152987285.html Electronics Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:28:53 EST news152987285 (PhysOrg.com) -- ESA is now gearing up to return to Russia to oversee preparations for the launch of its GOCE satellite - now envisaged for launch on 16 March 2009. This follows implementation of the corrective measures after the anomaly with the Rockot launcher that delayed the launch of GOCE by Eurockot Launch Services last October. http://www.physorg.com/news152966011.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:34:10 EST news152966011 Aiming to drastically beef up the performance of the nation's intelligence satellites, the government of Japan will embark on a research and development program in fiscal year 2009 to develop an optical information-gathering satellite that will have one of the world's highest resolutions. http://www.physorg.com/news152774119.html Technology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:15:43 EST news152774119 (PhysOrg.com) -- Picture a tree in the forest. The tree "inhales" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, transforming that greenhouse gas into the building materials and energy it needs to grow its branches and leaves. http://www.physorg.com/news152208800.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:13:58 EST news152208800 Standing nearly 69 feet tall, the giant structure on the hill overlooking Morehead State University's campus might look to some as simply an oversize satellite TV dish. http://www.physorg.com/news152115660.html Space & Earth Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:21:41 EST news152115660 NASA is preparing to launch NOAA'S latest polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite, called NOAA-N Prime, providing an essential resource for NOAA's weather forecasts and improving the U.S. search and rescue operations. http://www.physorg.com/news151858514.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:55:52 EST news151858514 (PhysOrg.com) -- Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA`s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify surface and underground water resources in the drought-prone country. http://www.physorg.com/news151593363.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:16:45 EST news151593363 An H-2A rocket carrying six small satellites developed by universities and private-sector companies will be launched Wednesday from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. http://www.physorg.com/news151586535.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:22:15 EST news151586535 As skiers across the world pay close attention to the state of the snow on the slopes, there are a different group of scientific snow-watchers looking closely at a South Pole snowfield this January. http://www.physorg.com/news151074864.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:14:24 EST news151074864 Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world's oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news148741017.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:56:57 EST news148741017 The first demonstration that a single adult stem cell can self-renew in a mammal was reported at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2008 in San Francisco. http://www.physorg.com/news148484867.html Biology Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:47:47 EST news148484867 The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a February 4, 2009 launch. NOAA-N Prime, built by Lockheed Martin, is similar to NOAA-N launched on May 20, 2005. http://www.physorg.com/news145036872.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:01:12 EST news145036872 (PhysOrg.com) -- Technology developed by European researchers promises to dramatically lower the costs of satellite bandwidth, potentially bridging the digital divide and enabling satellites to deliver TV, internet and telephony services via satellite. The technical problems are solved, now the research team is working hard on the business case. http://www.physorg.com/news145025320.html Technology Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:48:40 EST news145025320 (PhysOrg.com) -- Satellites are achieving unparalleled efficiency with a new protocol, DVB-S2. The performance of DVB-S2 satellite systems is very close to the theoretical maximum, defined by the Shannon Limit. That efficiency could be pushed even further by network optimisation tools and equipment recently developed by European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news144420242.html Technology Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:44:02 EST news144420242 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by a Yale University astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. http://www.physorg.com/news140959932.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:12 EST news140959932 A single cell can repopulate damaged skeletal muscle in mice, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who devised a way to track the cell's fate in living animals. The research is the first to confirm that so-called satellite cells encircling muscle fibers harbor an elusive muscle stem cell. http://www.physorg.com/news140873676.html Biology Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:34:36 EST news140873676 (PhysOrg.com) -- The preparatory activities for the launch of ESA's GOCE satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia had to be stopped yesterday afternoon (Sunday 7 September) by Eurockot due to an anomaly identified in one of the units of the guidance and navigation subsystem of the launcher's upper stage (Breeze KM). http://www.physorg.com/news140086409.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:53:29 EST news140086409 CSIRO scientists with the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship are working closely with industry and government to develop vastly improved navigation technology for remote areas. http://www.physorg.com/news138632924.html Technology Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:08:44 EST news138632924