Month: March 2012

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) – an unmanned Ariane rocket departed early Friday from French Guiana in the first mission of supply from Europe to the space station international since the end of the US shuttle program last year, officials said. The modified Ariane rocket took off at the 0434 GMT from downtown launch of the European Space Agency in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, taking more than six tons of load. U.S. space shuttles were major suppliers of cargo to the international space station, but a final mission of 12 days of the Atlantis spacecraft in July of 2011 ended the program who already met 30 years. Fleet of automated transfer (VTA) of Europe is now key to bring supplies to the international space station. More than one hour after the launch, Edoardo Amaldi automated transfer vehicle – named to a physicist and pioneer of flights space 20th century Italian – separated from the Ariane rocket. It is scheduled to dock at the space station on March 28. Built by an industrial consortium led by EADS ASTRIUM, a division of the EADS European industrial giant, the drone is designed for fuel delivery, food, clothing and oxygen to the crew of the international space station, as well as spare parts also. Is the third VTA Europe has provided to the program of the international space...

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) – an unmanned Ariane rocket took off last year, according to the authorities in the early hours of Friday from French Guiana in the first European supply mission to the international space station since the end of the US shuttle program. The modified Ariane rocket took off at 04: 34 GMT from the Centre’s launch of the European Space Agency in Kourou, French Guiana, in the northeast of South America, taking more than six tonnes of cargo. U.S. space shuttles were major suppliers of cargo to the international space station, but a final mission of 12 days of the Atlantis spacecraft in July of 2011 ended the program who already met 30 years. The European fleet of vehicles of transfer automated (VTA) is now key to bring supplies to the international space station. More than one hour after the launch, Edoardo Amaldi automated transfer vehicle – named to a physicist and pioneer of flights space 20th century Italian – separated from the Ariane rocket. It is scheduled to dock at the space station on March 28. Built by an industrial consortium led by EADS ASTRIUM, a division of the EADS European industrial giant, the drone is designed for delivery of fuel, food, clothing and oxygen to the crew of the international space station, as well as spare parts. Is the third VTA Europe has provided...

Geneva (Reuters) – global temperatures in the 2011 reached its greatest eleventh level since that have records despite the influence of the phenomenon of La Niña, which tends to cool the thermometers, said Friday in a report the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO). In average global temperatures in the 2011 were lower than the level record reached the previous year, but still were 0.40 degrees Celsius higher than the average between 1961 and 1990, according to the report. “the world is warming due to human activities and this is generating an impact of far-reaching and potentially irreversible above our land, atmosphere, and oceans”, said the Secretary general of WMO, Michel Jarraud. La Niña, a natural climate phenomenon linked to heavy rains and floods in the Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, was extremely active in the tropical Pacific until May of 2011. (Report of Emma Farge; additional report of Nina Chestney in London.) (Edited in Spanish by Patricio...