QJ.NET (Free subscription) | yesterday
We interrupt your regularly scheduled TGS updates for news on another gaming convention, E3. No, it's not dead yet . But this new development won't help it recover any. News has come in that Codemasters has left the Entertainment Software Association, the organization behind E3. Codemasters is the company behind Clive Barker's Jericho , the Colin McRae series , Overlord, and Lord of the Rings Online....
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
And then there were 22... When 2008 began, the Entertainment Software Association, the lobbying group which represents U.S. video game publishers, had 28 member companies. Several well-publicized departures , however, reduced its ranks to 23 companies by the time that E3 rolled around in July. A glance at current ESA membership reveals that prominent British game publisher Codemasters is no longer...
Cosmic Log (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
KentuckySpace: Carnival of Space 74 SpaceX Falcon 1 launch: The music video ESA: Venus probe searching for life ... on Earth Space.com: Mars Odyssey's spy mission extended Transterrestrial Musings: Did the Chinese fake their EVA? Bad Astronomy: No, the Chinese spacewalk wasn't faked NASA: Supercomputer shows how dust rings point to alien Earths ...( read more )
ESA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Four teams of students sponsored by ESA are jubilant after their experiments returned safely to Earth at the end of the latest Balloon Experiments for University Students (BEXUS) campaign inside the Arctic Circle. After many months of hard work and preparation, the successful conclusion was well worth waiting for.
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using ESA`s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image 2: This image composite shows the signatures of methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), ozone (O3) and nitrous oxide (N2O), minor species of the Earth’s atmosphere but powerful greenhouse gases, detected by the Visual and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on board ESA’s Venus Express at infrared wavelengths, while the spacecraft was pointing Earth along its orbit around Venus. Our planet...
Aviation Now (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
ESA's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle returned to earth in a controlled destructive re-entry Sept. 29.
Space Spin (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists using ESA's Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy. Venus Express took its first image of Earth with its Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) soon after...
The Bikesource Motorcycle WeBlog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The new K 1300 S fastest and most powerful BMW to date New K-series features at a glance: Uprated more powerful engine New ESA II Electronic Suspension Adjustment Updated aggressive and dynamic styling New High Performance (HP) options (K 1300 S/R only) including 2D Systems’ MotoGP-style dash and Gearshift Assistant (quickshifter) New, innovative generation of switches with optimised ergonomics BMW...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
As the camera pans over the exterior of the International Space Station, Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria bids farewell to crewmate Thomas Reiter, European Space Agency astronaut.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Mission Control CAPCOM Shannon Lucid welcomes European Space Agency astronut Thomas Reiter to the Space Shuttle Discovery crew. Next, a camera aboard the shuttle provides a view of the shuttle's robotic arm and boom extension sensor system. credit: NASA
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
"The Los Angeles Philharmonic has created a special new-music fund in honor of Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who steps down after 17 years at the end of the season. The fund will support the commissioning of new work, something Salonen increasingly has brought to the orchestra's repertoire through the years."...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region. The multi-wavelength picture combines X-ray, infrared and visible light captured by ESA’s XMM-Newton space-borne X-ray observatory, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope.
Inside GNSS (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Neuchâtel, Switzerland–based SpectraTime, a member of the Orolia group, has received a €2.5-million research contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop critical technologies for future space-qualified active maser, a critical component of the ACES (Atomic Clocks Ensemble in Space) scientific program.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008 is larger in both size and ozone loss than last year, but not as large as in 2006, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.
