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  Laser Ranging Successfully Tracks Satellite

  October 3, 2006 — Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterization of the satellite's ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  Mind The Gap: Space Scientists Uncover Causes Of Gap In Van Allen Belts

  September 26, 2006 — A team of British and U.S. scientists have discovered that the gap in the Van Allen radiation belts is formed by natural wave turbulence in space, not by lightning. The discovery settles years of ... > full story
• Weather
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  Hurricane Fallout: Finding Out How Much Rain Really Falls During Storms

  September 20, 2006 — How can one know how much rain really falls over the path of a tropical storm or hurricane? This is a question that greatly interests meteorologists and hydrologists. On their behalf, and on behalf ... > full story
• Uranus
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  Hubble Captures A Rare Eclipse On Uranus

  September 1, 2006 — A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. The white dot near the center of Uranus' ... > full story
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  Crash Of Russian Rocket Destroys Montana's First Satellite

  July 27, 2006 — Built by science and engineering students at Montana State University, the state's first satellite was lost when the Russian rocket it was riding on crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, July ... > full story
• Geography
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  Cornell Sleuths Crack Secret Codes Of Europe's Galileo Satellite

  July 7, 2006 — Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the ... > full story
• Satellites
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  NASA's Micro-Satellites Complete Technology Validation Mission

  July 5, 2006 — NASA's three orbiting micro-satellites known as Space Technology 5 have completed their planned 90-day mission. The mission primarily focused on flight testing miniaturized satellites in the harsh ... > full story
• Atmosphere
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  New Satellite Set To Collect Most-Detailed Data Yet About Atmospheric Particles

  June 12, 2006 — A new satellite gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the ... > full story
• Floods
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  New Space Observations Poised To Save Lives From Floods, Landslides

  May 24, 2006 — Using NASA's advanced Earth-observing satellites, scientists have discovered a new opportunity to build early detection systems that might protect thousands from floods and landslides. This potential ... > full story
• Neptune
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  New Capture Scenario Explains Origin Of Neptune's Oddball Moon Triton

  May 11, 2006 — Triton, unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation, may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual ... > full story

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