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Swift Catches Exploding Star
Monday, May 26th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA's scientists recently used the Swift Satellite in order to see a star explode and become a supernova. Although over the...

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A Space War Would Be a Nasty Business

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 - 14:15:50 - Ehud Rattner

What if there was a Pearl Harbour-like, pre-emptive strike against orbiting satellites? What if our quarrels on the ground spill into space? This is...

MIT and Google to Find Earth-like planets

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 - 22:00:20 - Iddo Genuth

MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to...

Jules Verne Reaches 'Parking' Orbit

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 - 08:44:52 - Ehud Rattner

Jules Verne ATV has today reached a parking position 2000 km ahead of the International Space Station. Europe's ISS re-supply spacecraft will wait at...

Discovery in Jupiter Overturns Past Theory

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 - 14:30:00 - Ehud Rattner

Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to a research made at the British...

Japan Launch High-Speed Internet Satellite

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 - 19:32:13 - Iddo Genuth

Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial...

U.S. Successfully Destroys Satellite
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili & Iddo Genuth
"At 10:26 p.m. EST today, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3...