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Okno Award
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A team of designers and specialists who created an optical-electronic space monitoring system called Okno (Window) has been awarded the State Prize in the field of science and technology for 2004.
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India Ukraine agreement
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India and Ukraine will soon sign an agreement for cooperation in research of the outer space for peaceful purposes.
This was decided when President A P J Abdul Kalam, also known as "India's missile man", visited Ukranian space agency Yuzhnoye, one of the largest rocket manufacturing u...
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Finland, Canadian, partnership
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Canadian space companies and their industry partners from Finland have been selected to develop four remote-sensing projects through a unique international partnership that will promote the commercial potential of satellite products and services for both Canada and Finland.
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Baiterek
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Russian and Kazakh Presidents Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev launched a new Russian-Kazakh space centre, Baiterek. They did not lay the first foundation stone of the space centre but were photographed against its symbolic first stone and approved the start of the construction...
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Solarpark Gut Erlasse
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SunPower has announced that SOLON has opened Phase One of the world's largest solar electric plant in Bavaria near Arnstein, Germany.
Solarpark Gut Erlasse is a 12 MW solar electric plant located in a working agricultural field and can serve the electricity needs of thou...
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Hurricane Adrian
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International Space Station Captures Video of Hurricane Adrian:
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Znamya Space Mirror
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"The Energia space-rocket corporation's Space Regatta consortium has teamed up with the consolidated nuclear-research institute in Dubna and the Skobeltsyn R&D institute of nuclear physics to develop a satellite that would light up the s...
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North Pole balloon
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A hot air balloon managed to reach The North Pole for the first time in the history of Arctic exploration on Monday.
The `Holy Russia` (Svyataya Rus) crew named their expedition "A Flight to the Summit of the Globe". It took the men 38 days to cover 980 km starting from Cape Arktichesk...
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Moon Quakes
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Coast dwellers are accustomed to the daily rhythm of the tides, which are primarily lulled in and out by the gentle gravitational tug of the moon. Some scientists wonder whether the moon's tugging may also influence earthquake activity.
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Face Research
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A new website has some interesting experiments and questionnaires about how you perceive faces and voices. You will get feedback on the results of the experiments if you participate; and there is information on the scientific theories behind the experiments.
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largest dinosaur shank
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The largest fossil of sauropod dinosaur's shank has been recovered and the dinosaur has been classified as "Otogosaurus".
The fossil was accidentally discovered by a girl during grazing in September 2003.
After identification by experts from different countries, the fossil of ...
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WISE
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Following 60 days of 'bed rest' simulating the effects of weightlessness on the body, the first volunteers in the WISE (Women International Space Simulation for Exploration) study have been getting back on their feet.
They all speak of having had a wonderfully enriching experi...
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Space weapons
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The U.S. Air Force says that it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, and is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to deploying offensive and defensive space weapons.
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Volcanic monitoring
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The world's oldest volcano observatory has added satellites to its repertoire of instruments to monitor volcanic features flanking Naples. The result has been the most detailed view ever of ground motion in this vicinity.
When it was founded back in 1841, the Vesuvius Observatory of Italy's Na...
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Mona Lisa Project
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The first person on Mars might be a grandmother. That's one unexpected possibility discovered by an all-female, six-member international crew that has just returned from Mars, or a reasonable facsimile of it, in the desert of southern Utah.
The all-female Mona Lisa Project is the secon...
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