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European Space Agency

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European Space Agency
Type: Organization
Name: European Space Agency
Nationality: France
Web Address: http://www.esa.int/
Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for European Space Agency
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), a part of the Living Planet Program, has recently finished activating its MIRAS instrument, the primary science payload. The agency made the announcement recently, highlighting ... [Softpedia - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Space Science)
The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on November 19.The site, which was made available by France's Centre national d’études ... [Red Orbit - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Space Science)
Looking at a galaxy edge-on provides astronomers the opportunity to study different aspects of galaxies than a face-on view offers. This Hubble image of NGC 4710 is part of a survey conducted to provide more information about the puzzling bulges that ... [Universe Today - 22 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Space Science)
Dark energy isn't good for life in the universe. This mysterious substance, which cosmologists believe makes up around 70 percent of the universe, may eventually pull apart galaxies, then stars and planets, and finally atoms and molecules, in what some ... [Yahoo! News - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Space Science)
Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high precision optics for ground telescope and satellite-based space observation systems.Benefiting from a unique stabilised production environment Optical Surfaces Ltd has developed a reputation for ... [Photonics Online - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nov 19th, 2009 By Category: , , • , an assistant director in Career Services, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Association for Employment in Education at its annual conference in San Antonio ... [University of Nebraska-Lincoln Scarlet - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
The ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) is on standby today with temperatures in Canberra forecast to reach 38 degrees.A total fire ban has been declared in the ACT and the fire danger level is severe.A catastrophic fire danger warning is in place across ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
raconte ses 'Histoire(s) d'espace' 29 septembre 2009Jean-François Clervoy, astronaute de l'ESA partage son expérience exceptionnelle à travers son livre 'Histoire(s) d'espace' aujourd'hui disponible en librairie. Il raconte sa troisième mission dans l'espace ... [AeroMorning - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Education boards due to be scrapped in six weeks have warned of chaos due to the assembly's failure to pass the law creating the body to replace them.The Education and Skills Authority was due to take over the functions of the education and library boards ... [BBC - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing SPACEMART ESA's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Juhan Parts (right), sign the Cooperation Agreement on 10 November in ... [Space Daily - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
IMO their article contains a number of truths, but makes the wrong conclusions.Just because something is not an orbital flight does not mean no one is willing to pay for it: I know people who have flown backseat on paid jet fighter flights. If the experience ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
and - The age of children getting married is rising in some countries and the number of girls subjected to genital cutting is gradually falling.In Canada, we celebrate a range of improvements for children among them the fact that today most provinces ... [Earthtimes.org - 11/19/2009]

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...said Dr Yann Kerr, a lead investigator on the mission from the Centre for the StudyStudy of the Biosphere from Space (Cesbio), Toulouse, France. "Everything went as clockwork and exactly as expected or better up to now. We did not expect to have images so soon" he told BBC News. The European Space Agency's (Esa) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (Smos) satellite was launched on 2 November
...and our images provide an unprecedentedly detailed view toward it,' says Jouni Kainulainen, lead author of the paper reporting these results. "Further analysis of this structure will provide important clues on how the merging process occurred and what has been the role of formation during it."
...presence of René Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo program and navigation-related activities at ESA, and of Joël Barre, Director of CNES/CSG. "I have been working on this project since 1998 and am happy to be here today at the CSG for the inauguration of this site. The ground network is just as important to Galileo as the 30 satellites that will transmit the data to users. Now we are all awaiting the launch of the satellites scheduled for end-2010" , said Mr Oosterlinck
...techniques require a large space telescope that can stare at a big piece of the sky, but this fits the bill of another astronomical enterprise. "The microlensing planet search will also need a large detector and big sky footprint, so it is natural to think that these two seemingly different programs could work with the same space telescope" Garnavich says...

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Evolution Of Evolution: An NSF Webcast [Red Orbit - 1 hour ago]
After Space Shuttle, Who’ll Have a Ticket to Ride? [Discovery Channel - 2 hours ago]
Water mission returns first data [BBC - 2 hours ago]
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NASA provides venerable Hubble hardware to Smit... [Astronomy Magazine - 3 hours ago]
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The great reform act [Civil Service Network - 15 hours ago]
Rosetta comet chaser captures spectacular image... [NewKerala.com - 20 hours ago]
WAN Optimization Software supports Steelhead ap... [Industrial News Room - 21 hours ago]
"X" Marks Puzzling Galactic Bulge [Universe Today - 22 hours ago]
New Space Telescope Could Search for Both Exopl... [Popular Science - 11/20/2009]
Inauguration Galileo Station Site At Kourou [Red Orbit - 11/20/2009]
Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal (SPACE.com) [Yahoo! News - 11/20/2009]
Giant cannibal galaxy caught in mid-gobble [MSNBC - 11/20/2009]
SPECIAL REPORT:Spreading wildfires could bring ... [People and the Planet - 11/20/2009]
First SMOS data received [European Space Agency - 11/20/2009]
Watching a cannibal galaxy dine [Science Daily - 11/20/2009]
Intel Wants Exaflops and Supercomputers 1,000 T... [Softpedia - 11/20/2009]
Watching a cannibal galaxy dine [EurekAlert! - 11/20/2009]
CryoSat: green light for launch campaign [European Space Agency - 11/20/2009]
Big Irish wins at Hong Kong awards [Ireland Business World - 11/20/2009]
Education body 'to miss deadline' [BBC - 11/20/2009]
Inauguration of site of Galileo station at Kourou [European Space Agency - 11/20/2009]
Dark Energy Search Could Aid Planet Hunters ... [Yahoo! News - 11/20/2009]
For the Record Faculty, staff & students [University of Nebraska-Lincoln Scarlet - 11/20/2009]
Altobridge and Sentry Wireless sweep boards at ... [Silicon Republic - 11/20/2009]
Ultra Smooth Optics From Optical Surfaces Enhan... [Photonics Online - 11/20/2009]
SMOS Begins Its Science Operations [Softpedia - 11/20/2009]
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Commits To Jotne In... [CADCAM-Insider.com - 11/20/2009]
Ultra Smooth Optics From Optical Surfaces Enhan... [Photonics Online - 11/20/2009]
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Tiny Bubbles Used to Clean Oil-Contaminated Wat... [CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - 9 hours ago]
Even small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. This oil sheen is difficult to remove—until now. According to a recently published article ...
Shuttle Atlantis completes smooth station linkup [CNET News.com - 11/18/2009]
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston--Commander Charles "Scorch" Hobaugh piloted the shuttle Atlantis to a precision docking with the International Space Station Wednesday ...
Hubble Detects Galactic X-File [Wired: Wired Science - 11/18/2009]
This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a strange, faint “X” shape extending from the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4710. Spiral galaxies are named ...
X marks the galactic spot [Cosmic Log - 11/18/2009]
NASA / ESA An ethereal "X" or boxlike structure marks the chaotic center of the edge-on galaxy NGC 4710. Click on the picture for a larger version. One ...
U.S. and China agree to explore space cooperation [CNET News.com - 11/17/2009]
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston--The United States and China have agreed to discuss expanded cooperation in space science and to start a 'dialogue' on human space ...
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Herschel's secrets (EN) [Mefeedia Video Tag : astrono - 08/24/2009]
Herschel's secrets (EN) [Mefeedia Video Tag : astrono - 08/24/2009]
Planck Surveyor On Its Way to Orbit [Berkeley Lab - YouTube - 05/14/2009]
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