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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Next two satellites are prepared for launch


The next two satellites in the Galileo European navigation have been subjected to an aggressive vacuum conditions and extreme temperatures in preparation for launch, scheduled for September 28. The fourth satellite Galileo completed earlier this month 20 days of thermal vacuum tests on the location of Thales Alenia Space on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The third had passed the same test a month earlier.

The primary survey of stars and the finding of other 'Earths', amazing closer


The primary survey of stars close to the Sun with Earth-like planets are faster to creature a actuality thanks to the spectrometer calibration technique, a technology used to calculate the speed of a star and make measurements with precision and accuracy "unprecedented." This has been noted scientists of the Max Planck, the European Southern Observatory, who have tried this technique to trace the orbit of an exoplanet discovered and which revolve around the star HD75289 and the results published in Nature.

The ESA is evidence that an ocean covered element of Mars


The European Space Agency (ESA) declared today that its Mars Express has provided verification that an ocean enclosed element of the outside of Mars, something that was supposed but remains controversial. The study was based on data provided for over two years by the MARSIS radar, which was deployed on Mars in 2005, and has allowed the experts find that the plains of the northern hemisphere are covered low density material.