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Cluster: Beamed radio emission from Earth A recent study reveals how the most powerful emission of terrestrial origin, the Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), is beamed into space. This result was obtained using data collected by the four satellites of the Cluster mission. These new data were found to be inconsistent with two leading AKR beaming theories developed 30 years ago, but support a more recent one. The result has important implications for radio studies of planetary magnetospheres, including radio searches for exo-planets. Read more... Cassini-Huygens: Start of the Cassini Equinox Mission June 30 marks the end of the four-year primary mission for the Cassini spacecraft and the start of the extended mission. Read more... Herschel: Herschel Acoustic and Vibration Tests The Herschel spacecraft is currently undergoing a series of mechanical tests at the ESTEC test facilities. These will verify the Herschel spacecraft compliance with specification requirements, ensuring that the flight model is ready for launch. The system level tests are being continued by the vibration tests, performed at the end of last week and the full length of this week. Read more... Planck: Start of Planck TBTV Test Campaign Last week saw the start of the thermal balance / thermal vacuum (TBTV) test campaign for the Planck spacecraft. The test campaign is performed at the Centre Spatial de Liège test facilities in Belgium. Read more... Conferences: ESLAB 42: Cosmic Cataclysms and Life Read more... Cosmic Vision: Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Mis... Read more... Director's Desk: Call for White Papers for Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team ESA has convened an expert body, the Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team, with a mandate to recommend to the agency a roadmap leading to the long term goal of detecting biomarkers in Earth-like exo-planets in the habitable zone, and imaging such planets. The EPR-AT will consult with the broad scientific community in order to solicit input for their report to ESA. The Call for White Papers, issued today, is the first step in this consultation process. The deadline for receipt of the White Papers is 12:00 hours (noon) CEST on 30 July 2008. Read more... Hubble: Far Away: Light in the Young Universe at Redshift beyond Three [Sun, ... The meeting will discuss the most recent observations in the redshift range z>3, and state-of-the-art models and numerical simulations. The following topics are covered: The 21cm line during reionization Scenarios for reionization First stars and high-z quasars Star formation history in the early Universe Absorption signatures by the IGM GRBs as tracers of the remote Universe The role of feedback and environment The goal of the conference is to bring together scientists working in this domain, to refine the predictions of models, and confront them with the growing body of observations concerning this early epoch. Read more... Conferences: Titan After Cassini-Huygens [Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 UT] The primary purpose of the meeting is to exchange ideas that will culminate in the publication of a Springer-Verlag book on the Titan system. A similar conference on the book "Saturn after Cassini" is held 28 July to 1 August 2008 in London. Read more... Conferences: 37th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and ... Read more...

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MIG 25 Foxbat C - Edge of Space Flight - inside

MIG 25 Foxbat C - Edge of Space Flight - inside

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After you notice, that you will fly now faster than the sound, you pilot shows you, what there is for a power inside the machine. He will perform some acrobatic maneuvers - roles and parabolas. Then, the afterburner is ignited and the machine breaks after a short time through Mach 2 border and you rise upward. The earth appears among to you at a value of 15 kilometers, if you reach the stratosphere already very unreal. So highly no passenger jet can fly. Your pilot, a very experienced fli...
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Sunita Williams receives Padma Bhushan - Hindu

5 Jul 2008 at 3:33am

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Sunita Williams receives Padma Bhushan
Hindu, India - 16 hours ago
Houston (PTI): Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the feat of completing the longest space flight for a woman, received the Padma Bhushan ...
This is Sunita, calling Earth Hindustan Times
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Arthur C. Clarke, A Visionary Astrobiologist - Astrobiology Magazine

5 Jul 2008 at 2:03am Arthur C. Clarke. One of his most memorable sayings was that ?Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? Arthur C. Clarke, the British science ...
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Scientists prepare gear to service Hubble telescope - Newsday

4 Jul 2008 at 11:54pm GREENBELT, Md. - In about two weeks, 24,000 pounds of what may be the most thoroughly tested and closely inspected hardware on Earth will be packed into custom crates, mounted on ...
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NASA intern aims high, works hard - Danville News

4 Jul 2008 at 10:02pm

NASA intern aims high, works hard
Danville News, PA - 21 hours ago
After all, for the last four summers Pazamickas has been interning at NASA's Greenbelt, Md.-based Goddard Space Flight Center in their elite student ...

NASA intern aims high, works hard - Daily Item

4 Jul 2008 at 9:53pm SUNBURY -- Katherine Pazamickas, 21, a Lycoming College student from Sunbury, dreams that someday her work will aid in the exploration of space. Her dream is not out of this world ...
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Airlines struggle under the weight of their mounting woes - Montreal Gazette

4 Jul 2008 at 7:22pm OTTAWA - As fuel prices soar, the economy retracts and consumers recoil, the Canadian airline industry is cutting back on routes and personnel as profits crumble under the weight ...
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Cassini-Huygens: Start of the Cassini Equinox Mission June 30 marks the end of the four-year primary mission for the Cassini spacecraft and the start of the extended mission. Read more...

Planck: Start of Planck TBTV Test Campaign Last week saw the start of the thermal balance / thermal vacuum (TBTV) test campaign for the Planck spacecraft. The test campaign is performed at the Centre Spatial de Liège test facilities in Belgium. Read more...

Conferences: ESLAB 42: Cosmic Cataclysms and Life Read more...

Cosmic Vision: Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Mis... Read more...

Conferences: 37th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and ... Read more...

European Space Agency News News

MIG 25 Foxbat C - Edge of Space Flight - inside

Sunita Williams receives Padma Bhushan - Hindu

Arthur C. Clarke, A Visionary Astrobiologist - Astrobiology Magazine

Scientists prepare gear to service Hubble telescope - Newsday

NASA intern aims high, works hard - Danville News

NASA intern aims high, works hard - Daily Item

Airlines struggle under the weight of their mounting woes - Montreal Gazette

Cassini-Huygens: Start of the Cassini Equinox Mission
June 30 marks the end of the four-year primary mission for the Cassini spacecraft and the start of the extended mission.
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Planck: Start of Planck TBTV Test Campaign
Last week saw the start of the thermal balance / thermal vacuum (TBTV) test campaign for the Planck spacecraft. The test campaign is performed at the Centre Spatial de Liège test facilities in Belgium.
Read more...

Conferences: ESLAB 42: Cosmic Cataclysms and Life

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Cosmic Vision: Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Mis...

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Conferences: 37th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and ...

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