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Intrusion of warmer Atlantic waters is causing ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic Ocean
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/ 11 June 2021

Intrusion of warmer Atlantic waters is causing ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic Ocean

Undeniable trend of declining ice in fragile polar region

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/ 16 April 2008

Boy corrects Nasa’s asteroid figures

A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected Nasa’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with the Earth, a German newspaper reported on Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt calculated that there is a one-in-450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth.

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/ 27 March 2008

Endeavour returns after record-setting mission

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are home after carrying Japan’s maiden space laboratory and a Canadian repair robot to the International Space Station (ISS) on a record-setting mission. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Centre after a 16-day mission that included a record 12-day docking at the ISS and five spacewalks.

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/ 22 March 2008

Situations vacant: applicants should be fit, fearless

Wanted for unique opportunity: brilliant, physically fit people. Must be cool under pressure, willing to work away from home and have a good head for heights. Free uniform included. The wording might be a little different, but when the advert appears in newspapers in the next few weeks, it will mark the beginning of one of the most exciting recruitment drives in more than 40 years.

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/ 11 March 2008

Space shuttle Endeavour launches with Japanese lab

The United States space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad on Tuesday to deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory to the International Space Station. Piercing the still of night with a thunderous boom and a flash of white-hot flame, the spaceship lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at 2.28am local time.

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/ 4 January 2008

The new-generation space station

Some time before 2050, satellites collecting solar power and beaming it back to Earth will become a primary energy source, streaming terawatts of electricity continuously from space. That’s if you believe a recent report from the Pentagon’s National Security Space Office.

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/ 4 January 2008

The new-generation space station

Some time before 2050, satellites collecting solar power and beaming it back to Earth will become a primary energy source, streaming terawatts of electricity continuously from space. That’s if you believe a recent report from the Pentagon’s National Security Space Office.

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/ 6 December 2007

Sensor glitch delays space shuttle launch

Nasa postponed the launch, scheduled for Thursday, of the United States space shuttle Atlantis after discovering a problem with a sensor in the spacecraft’s fuel tank, officials said. The US space agency planned to try again on Friday to launch Europe’s long-delayed Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.

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/ 23 October 2007

Space shuttle Discovery blasts off in US

The United States space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a pillar of fire on Tuesday, soaring above Florida marshlands toward a rendezvous in two days with the International Space Station. Discovery‘s 14-day mission kicks off a two-month refurbishment of the -billion outpost that prepares the way for Europe’s first permanent laboratory in orbit.

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