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• Monster galactic cluster seen in deep Universe: European agency

  - 2008-08-25

  PARIS AFP — An orbiting observatory has spotted a massive cluster of galaxies in deep space that can only be explained by the exotic phenomenon known as dark energy, the European Space Agency ESA said on Monday. Spotted in a scan by ESA's orbiting X-ray telescope XMM-Newton, the cluster's...

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• In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S

  - 2008-08-16

  On July 21, at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, members of the European astronomy community participated in a discussion about why their space program has failed to engage public interest in a manner comparable to programs in the United States. Organized by Dirk Lorenzen, a physicist turned journalist...

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• Russia, Europe ink deal on new manned spacecraft

  - 2008-05-14

  MOSCOW AFP — The Russian and European space agencies have signed a deal to build a six-seat manned spacecraft to travel to the Moon, a Russian space official said Wednesday. Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency "on Tuesday signed an accord on the creation of a...

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• Space oddity: European probe finds missing matter

  - 2008-05-07

  PARIS AFP — An orbital X-ray telescope has found a chunk of matter in the universe whose existence had long been theorised but evidence for which had been lacking, the European Space Agency ESA said on Wednesday. The discovery made by ESA's XMM-Newton telescope is part of so-called baryonic...

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• iLinc Enables Web Collaboration Among International Space Station Research Teams

  - 2008-02-14

  European Space Agency's Erasmus Virtual Campus Connects Geographically-Dispersed Institutes for Online Meetings, e-Learning PHOENIX -- When the European Space Agency ESA wanted to offer some of its research partners on the International Space Station ISS a series of real-time interactive lectures on astrobiology, the consortium turned to iLinc Communications,...

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• More countries joining international space race

  - 2008-02-07

  The United States is the only nation to fly its flag on the moon -- a symbol of the country's dominance of space exploration. Even four decades after it won the race to the moon, the United States shares the ability to blast humans into orbit...

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• CCSDS Standards Enable Successful Satellite Communication Between Europe and China

  - 2007-12-18

  To: SCIENCE EDITORSContact: Craig Day for CCSDS, +1-703-264-3849, craigd@aiaa.org RESTON, Va.,Dec.18/PRNewswire-USNewswire/--Space communications protocols developed by the international Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems CCSDS were recently employed to achieve a first- ever cooperation between the Chinese National Space Administration CNSA and the European Space Agency ESA. Beginning November 1, ESA...

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• Europe's Rosetta probe completes key fly-by of Earth

  - 2007-11-14

  PARIS AFP — Europe's comet-chasing probe Rosetta has completed a crucial fly-by of Earth to pick up speed on a 10-year mission to rendezvous with a distant comet, the European Space Agency ESA said on Wednesday. "An important milestone has just been accomplished," the Paris-based agency said after the...

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• NovAtel Inc. Achieves Galileo Full Contract Award Program Milestone.

  - 2007-10-02

  CALGARY, ALBERTA, Oct 2, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- NovAtel Inc. (NASDAQ:NGPS), a precise positioning technology company, has achieved a Galileo program milestone through the award of a contract worth EUR 6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the Ground...

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• Space pioneers wanted for 520-day Mars experiment

  - 2007-06-19

  LE BOURGET, France AFP — The European Space Agency ESA on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth. Their spaceship will comprise...

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