To put up first Brazilian geostationary satellite

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and state telecommunications Telebras signed the shareholders agreement that gives life to the company that developed and built the first geostationary satellite for military and civilian communications the country. The new company, dubbed Space Visiona SA, will be controlled by Embraer (51 percent), which is the third largest worldwide manufacturer of aircraft and military and space technologies developed, and will have as a minority partner (49 percent) Telebras, a state telephone company whose main assets were privatized over a decade.

A new calculate of potentially dangerous asteroids

Comments approved out by the Wide Field Infrared Explorer to Survey (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, for its acronym), NASA, have yielded the best on record count Today the population of potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system. Also known as "PHAs" (acronym for Potentially Hazardous English Asteroids), these asteroids have orbits within about eight million kilometers (five million miles) from Earth's orbit and are large enough to survive passing through the Earth's atmosphere and cause damage on a regional,

A cosmic collision might fade away the water

A cosmic impact might have been the cause of a temporary warming of Mars and, therefore, the disappearance of water on its surface, according to a study published in international 'Astrobiology Magazine. Experts have said that this discovery could help explain how a planet so cold and dry ever could contain liquid water and potentially favorable conditions for life.