Sep

3

Wen Wei Po said: China to launch third manned space flight in Sept

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In a report, China has brought forward the launch date of its third manned space flight to late September.

Wen Wei Po said, the launch of Shenzhou VII is now expected to take place between September 17 — the end of the Beijing Paralympics –and China’s National Day on October 1.

The period offered the best launch window for Shenzhou VII, the source told the Chinese-language newspaper, without giving any more details.

He said that the mission will blast off from China’s Jiuquan launch centre in northwest Gansu province and land in northern Inner Mongolia province.

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Sep

2

Astronomers detected a Giant ring of debris in deep space

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According to Astronomers, they detected a giant ring of debris around a nearby star that appears to be a much bigger version of our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which may be swarming with comets.

The Kuiper belt is the region of ice-rich objects beyond Neptune that is thought to be a source of comets.

According to a report, Christine Chen of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, used the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and the Gemini South telescope in Chile to study infrared light from the disc around HD 181327, which lies about 150 light years from Earth.

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Sep

1

NASA extends its Phoenix Mars mission

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NASA extends its Phoenix Mars Lander, which has completed its 90-day primary mission on the Red Planet, has extended its activities till September 30.

According to him, Phoenix has sufficient power and experiment capacity. Once the Lander finishes collecting science data, the mission teams will continue the analysis of the measurements and observations.

Peter Smith, Phoenix principal investigator said, “We have been successful beyond my wildest dreams, and we”re not done yet learning from Mars about its secrets,”

He added, “We are still working to understand the properties and the history of the ice at our landing site on the northern plains of Mars,”

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Aug

28

Colliding galaxies shed light on Dark Matter

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Astronomers have clicked pictures of a strong collision of galaxy group and said that it might shed light on the behavior of gloomy matter. They operated NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope to study the galaxy bunch which is called as MACSJ0025.4-1222.

The researchers said that they can watch a precise split between gloomy and ordinary matter, replying a critical question about whether gloomy matter acts together with itself other than the gravitational forces. Marusa Bradac of the University of California Santa Barbara, who head the study, said that the gloomy or dark matter creates five times more matter in the universe than ordinary matter.

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Aug

27

NASA said: GLAST begins its mission

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American space agency NASA’s newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays.

According to Scientists of NASA, GLAST is designed to explore the most energetic phenomena of universe, to discover many new pulsars, reveal powerful processes near super-massive black holes at the cores of thousands of active galaxies and enable a search for signs of new physical laws.

NASA said, the spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colours.

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Aug

22

Astronomers solve 100 million-year-old galactic mystery

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Astronomers utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope have cracked a 100 million-year-old puzzle of how giant structures in deep space are stopped from decomposing. According to the study, published in scientific journal Nature, the stunning images show huge, thread-like “filaments” of gas, which come out from the centre of a galaxy called NGC 1275, positioned some 235 million light years away from Earth.

They should have exploded, detached and vanished over a very short period of time or fell down under their own gravity to construct stars. Even more bamboozling is the fact that they have not been split apart by the powerful tidal pull of gravity in the clusters core

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Aug

21

NASA to use shock absorbers in Moonship

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A space-age version of the rotten springs under old pickup trucks will support NASA fix the most pressing technical trouble with its advanced new rocket to resend astronauts to the moon. Agency officials said that NASA is going to operate 17 big-sized shock absorbers in its unfinished rocket to maintain the top from quaking too much for astronauts.

For close to a year, NASA engineers operating on the new Ares 1 rocket and Orion crew capsule have been struggling with the trouble of big sensations from the heavy rocket engines about two minutes after introduce. If the sensations are not wet, it could possibly hurt the crew or create it too complex for them to work for a few seconds.

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Aug

19

Astronomers discovered 11 new streams of stars

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Astronomers assert to have discovered proof of at least 11 new streams of stars in the Milky Way, an invention which they claim could soon offer fresh forensic proof of  hostility in the spiral galaxy.

Only two streams were earlier known to exist in the area. But, a new study of the velocities of stars in Milky Way’s inner halo, a bubble-like region that encircles the galactic centre has led to the discovery of 11 streams.

According to the astronomers, the stars in the streams turn at around the same speed which advice they all invent from the same place and most likely little galaxies that were drag to generate the Milky Way. Various dramatic structures like bight stellar stream called as Sagittarius, sit far from the galactic centre where they can simply remarked as the star look relatively in cluster.

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Aug

18

Chinese Scientists re-establish contact with first lunar probe

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Though China’s ground control centre for the short period missed contact with the country’s first lunar probe satellite during a partial eclipse for more than three hours. The spacecraft is now working usually after scientists changed its orbit and switched off some facilities.

Based on the signals sent by the satellite after yesterdays eclipse, the ‘Change 1′ was functioning as predicted as said by Liu Junze of the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre (BACC).

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Aug

18

Iran’s: Launch his first home-produced satellite

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The government spokesman said that Iran said it has successfully launched its first home-produced communications satellite into space.

Iran said it had sent a probe into space on the back of a rocket on a mission to prepare for the satellite launch.

Iran has pursued a space programme for several years, and in October 2005 a Russian-made Iranian satellite named Sina-1 was put into orbit by a Russian rocket.



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