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Terra Satellite Sees Intense Fires And Smoke Over Western RussiaWashington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2010 Though a plume of smoke still stretched across hundreds of kilometers, conditions in central Russia appeared to be much better on August 12, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite detected two clusters of intense fires when it acquired a photo-like image. The NASA image is a composite of three separate satellite images. The MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. created the composite image, and diag ... read more |
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Sevastopol, Ukraine (RIA Novosti) Jul 29, 2010Three patrol boats of a new project and three submarines of 636 project will be laid up at Russian shipyards for the Black Sea Fleet before the end of 2010, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said. "They [the ships] will be included in the Black Sea Fleet," Vysotsky said. "The three submarines of the 636 project have already been laid, and they will be included in submarine f ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2010Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began their spacewalk when they opened the hatches of the Pirs docking compartment at 12:11 a.m. This was the 147th spacewalk overall in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance. The cosmonauts wore their Russian Orlan spacesuits ... more  
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2010The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), an independent coalition designed to promote outreach and foster research relating to the construction of an Elevator to Space, has announced that Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and American engineer Jerome Pearson, pioneers of the modern Space Elevator concept, will appear at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference. The Conference, which wi ... more |
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TanDEM-X Delivers First 3D ImagesBonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 On 22 July 2010, researchers at the German Aerospace Center facility in Oberpfaffenhofen published the first 3D images from the TanDEM-X satellite mission. Just one month after the launch of TanDEM-X, which took place on 21 June 2010, DLR researchers have created the first digital elevation model - almost a week ahead of schedule. A group of Russian islands in the Arctic Ocean was selected for the first test. b>Precise to a few centimetres br> /b> This first elevation model shows amazing v ... read more |
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