SES And Luxembourg Government Plan To Launch Satellite In Late 2017
Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 14, 2015 -
SES has announced that it plans to launch a dedicated satellite for governmental use in partnership with the Luxembourg Government in late 2017. A Luxembourg-based company jointly held by SES and the Luxembourg Government is planned to own and operate the new spacecraft.
The Luxembourg Government and SES would each invest EUR 50 million into the new company, which, at the same time, would ...
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NASA Mountaintop Sensor Finds High Methane over LA
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2015 -
A NASA study using two years of observations from a novel mountaintop instrument finds that Los Angeles' annual emissions of methane, an important greenhouse gas, are 18 to 61 percent higher than widely used estimates. The study is the first to demonstrate the feasibility of long-term mapping of greenhouse gases across an urban area from an elevated - but still earthbound - site.
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Airbus Defence and Space, TerraNIS and ARTAL Technologies join forces
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 14, 2015 -
Airbus Defence and Space has signed a partnership agreement with TerraNIS, a geo-information services company working in the fields of agriculture, environment and land management, and ARTAL Technologies, a company specialising in software development. This agreement aims to boost the use of services based on satellite imagery by private and public players, both in France and internationally. ...
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Dinosaurs wiped out rapidly in Europe 66 million years ago
Bucharest, Romania (SPX) Jan 15, 2015 -
Dinosaurs flourished in Europe right up until the asteroid impact that wiped them out 66 million years ago, a new study shows. The theory that an asteroid rapidly killed off the dinosaurs is widely recognized, but until recently dinosaur fossils from the latest Cretaceous--the final stanza of dinosaur evolution--were known almost exclusively from North America.
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Prolonged weightlessness moves blood from bottom to top of body
Houston (UPI) Jan 14, 2015 -
Struggling with high blood pressure? A lengthy stay in space may be just what the doctor ordered.
Unfortunately, the side effects of prolonged weightlessness also include a pronounced blood shift - from the bottom half of the body to the top.
According to new study by researchers working with NASA, three to six months in space sees the body's blood concentration shift more drama ...
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Scientists say a meteorite could be responsible for Antarctic crater
Princess Elizabeth, Belgium (UPI) Jan 13, 2015 -
Researchers in Antarctica have discovered what they believe is the remnants of a meteorite impact site.
It was spotted last month by a team of German scientists during their stay at Belgium's Princess Elizabeth station in East Antarctica.
"I looked out of the window, and I saw an unusual structure on the surface of the ice," scientist Christian Muller said in a video recalling ho ...
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Astronauts take shelter after alarm at space station
Miami (AFP) Jan 14, 2015 -
Astronauts at the International Space Station rushed to take shelter Wednesday after an alert sounded that could indicate a dangerous ammonia leak, but may have been a false alarm, the US space agency said.
The six-member crew donned emergency masks and hurried to the Russian side of the orbiting lab after the alert at around 4 am (0900 GMT), closing the hatch to the US side behind them.
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