14 hours ago
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#ViaSat1 separates from its booster. Mission Success! via http://t.co/IYgvRPRi
Jonathan Amos Science correspondent
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19 hours ago
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Daniel Beltra on his oiled pelicans photo: "They are so afraid, and yet they still seem so elegant." http://t.co/9gG9Dpmn @NHM_Live #VEWPY
20 hours ago
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Oiled birds earn top photo prize http://t.co/9gG9Dpmn @NHM_Live #VEWPY Amazing picture - beautiful, yet shocking
20 hours ago
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Just getting my story ready for Wildlife Photographer of the Year. #VEWPY @NHM_Live
22 hours ago
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Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen talks about the vogue for high-throughput broadband satellites like Viasat-1 and Ka-sat. http://t.co/ImePyXqT
22 hours ago
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Tom Moore of Wildblue Communications explains what he will do with the Viasat-1 broadband 'super-satellite' http://t.co/1EAqGwRf
22 hours ago
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The Viasat-1 broadband 'super-satellite' launches. Total data throughput in excess of 140 Gbps. http://t.co/UThPr2qo
16:06 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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360 degree panorama of the new Soyuz pad at CSG http://t.co/f6HL1t7r #SoyouzenGuyane via @CNES_France
16:00 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Take tour of the Guiana Space Centre - Three launchers on the Equator http://t.co/a6N4R0Ue via @Arianespace
07:55 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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A rocket abroad - Soyuz in French Guiana http://t.co/9gpW4Tjy
00:45 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
A rocket abroad - Soyuz in French Guiana
It is one of the most important weeks in the history of European space activity.
On Thursday, two satellites will launch from French Guiana to begin the process of rolling out Galileo - Europe's multi-billion-euro version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS).
11:45 UK time, Monday, 17 October 2011
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Latest BBC @BLOODHOUND_SSC diary is out, penned by chief aerodynamicist Ron Ayres. All about the unique challenge. http://t.co/U7sM2NWP
12:00 UK time, Thursday, 13 October 2011
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Ouch. The scale of the pummelling Asteroid Vesta has taken through its history is starting to become clear. http://t.co/N51VI7cM
10:20 UK time, Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Esa joins the YouTube Space Lab student space competition. Want to fly an experiment on the ISS? http://t.co/LI9ANvyf
00:11 UK time, Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Megavirus going great guns tonight on the BBC News website. The biggest virus yet found, and pulled out of the ocean. http://t.co/TGMKldEX
23:58 UK time, Monday, 10 October 2011
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A billion pixels for a billion stars. The story of an extraordinary camera system. http://t.co/FaqtcxeR @ESAGaia
22:18 UK time, Monday, 10 October 2011
A billion pixels for a billion stars
I doubt those going to the Homebase DIY store in Chelmsford to buy a pot of paint give much thought to what goes on in the hi-tech factory building next door.
This is the HQ of e2v, a company that made its name producing valves for the post-war television industry but which now produces camera sensors for some of the biggest space missions flying today.
13:12 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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Will the Americans want to take a role in Euclid, or will they pass and hope to find the cash for WFirst? http://t.co/WC5ytrQl
11:50 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Dark discussion ahead for Europe and US
It couldn't have been planned better. Just as the Nobel committee was announcing its physics award would go to the research that identified the "accelerating expansion of the Universe", delegates to the European Space Agency were sitting down in Paris to approve a mission to investigate "dark energy" - the very thing thought to be pushing the cosmos apart at a faster and faster rate.
Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the US and Brian Schmidt of Australia will share the Nobel. The trio studied a particular type of stellar explosion, or supernova, and found that the most distant of these objects were receding quickest.
16:18 UK time, Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Europe will lead a daring Sun mission in 2017 - Solar Orbiter. It will also fly a dark energy mission, Euclid in 2019. http://t.co/CFgyrflQ
About Jonathan
Jonathan has been a science specialist with the BBC since 1994.
He was part of the team that set up the BBC News website in 1997.
His online science reporting has won major awards in Britain.
Jonathan is perhaps best known for his European space coverage.
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