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Antenna glitch on historic space shuttle flightCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) April 5, 2010 The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off Monday toward the International Space Station for a historic mission that put more women in orbit than ever. NASA initially hailed a near-perfect launch but later said an antenna used to transmit television pictures back to Earth that is also an integral part of the radar docking system had failed to work when the shuttle reached orbit. "Discovery can safely rendezvous and dock with the station and successfully complete all of its planned mission object ... read more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Mar 29, 2010Having a large-scale boreal forest biomass inventory would allow scientists to understand better the carbon cycle and to predict more accurately Earth's future climate. However, obtaining these maps has been wrought with difficulty - until now. A new processing algorithm has been developed using stacks of images from the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) on ESA's Envisat satellite t ... more  
Ottawa (UPI) Mar 25, 2009 Wind energy projects run by Wind Works Power Corp. received a boost with a $10 million credit facility that will go toward developing capacity in Canada, the United States and Europe. Wind Works Power Corp. said it was pledged the line of credit after an investment agreement signed with Kodiak Capital Group LLC of New York. The agreement covers a a $10 million equity line of cre ... more  
Tehran (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 Iran has successfully launched a new anti-ship from its first homemade destroyer, Iranian media report. The state news agency IRNA said the surface-to-surface missile, dubbed Noor, destroyed its target at a distance of about 60 miles. It was fired from the Jamaran the first indigenously designed and developed guided missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf. The Mowdge-class v ... more |
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Measures Cyclone Ului's Australian Rainfall From SpaceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite can estimate rainfall from space. TRMM is used to monitor tropical rainfall around the world, and can also calculate flood potential. TRMM data was used to create an animation of Tropical Cyclone Ului's track as it approached and made landfall in Queensland, Australia this weekend. The TRMM animation of rainfall indicated that between 130 mm and 179 mm (5.1 and 7.0 inches) of rainfall fell in areas west of C ... read more |
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