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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 242.04
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August 29, 2004
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** The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has successfully performed its
scheduled Periapsis Raising Manoeuvre. A 51 minute burn of the primary
engine corrected the spacecraft trajectory to place it on a course to
encounter Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in October. The manoeuvre also
raised the periapsis by over 400,000 km.--SpaceDaily
** An ESA-designed house that uses technology designed for space could
become the basis of the new German Antarctic station, Neumayer-III. The
new station has to meet stringent laws set up to protect the Antarctic
environment, which is where the use of space technology comes in.
--SpaceDaily
** Australian scientists predict that a revolutionary new way to harness
the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy
supplies from water will be a reality within seven years. Using special
titanium oxide ceramics that harvest sunlight and split water to produce
hydrogen fuel, the researchers say it will then be a simple engineering
exercise to make an energy-harvesting device with no moving parts and
emitting no greenhouse gases or pollutants. --SpaceDaily
** A newfound planet detected by a small, 4-inch-diameter telescope
demonstrates that we are at the cusp of a new age of planet discovery.
Soon, new worlds may be located at an accelerating pace, bringing the
detection of the first Earth-sized world one step closer. "This
discovery demonstrates that even humble telescopes can make huge
contributions to planet searches," says Guillermo Torres of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), a co-author on the
study. It was made using the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES), a
network of small, relatively inexpensive telescopes designed to look
specifically for planets orbiting bright stars. --SpaceDaily
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