Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope Image

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ISS - International Space Station a View

International Space Station
A View from ISS floating about 390kms above earth,ISS on its completion stage.

ISRO to Launch PSLV-C17 on July 15

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launch by ISRO
ISRO-Indian Space Research Organisation is using now to its rocket PSLV most powerful configuration to launch a communication satellite from Sriharikota on July 15. It’s only for the second time ever that a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is being used for a communication satellite, the first one Kalpana-1 in 2002.
Communication satellites are launched on board GSLV or ISRO goes in procured launches overseas. Similar PSLV, with extended strap-ons, was used for India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission.

The GSAT-12 "fast-track" satellite with a mass of 1410 kg, has 12 Extended C-band transponders. It is slated to be injected into space by PSLV-C17 after the launch from Sriharikota spaceport slated between 16.48 hours and 17.08 hours on July 15. Launch vehicle of PSLV of XL-class will cost about Rs 100-110 crore, and GSAT-12 will be about Rs 80 crore. The life of the satellite will be about 7-8 years.
To meet growing demand, Bangalore-headquartered ISRO is building GSAT-10 with 36 transponders and it would be launched by Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana during March-April next year.ISRO is also building another satellite GSAT-7 that will have a few more transponders.

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Nasa Prepares for Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch STS - 135

Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Launch Pad - STS-135

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Space shuttle Atlantis stands on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it is set to liftoff on STS-135, the final shuttle mission from NASA .

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Largest Ever Spider fossil found with Six Inch leg span

The largest ever fossil of a prehistoric spider

Its fossilised features have been so perfectly preserved that experts have identified it down to the exact species and were even able to tell it was an adult female.It was found to be 165 million years old with a six inch leg span, has been discovered it spent its life on China.




The legs would have spanned up to 15cm, front to back

The Golden Orb Weaver has been named Nephila jurassica. It lived in the forests of northern China when the climate was much warmer and more tropical than today.

Prof Paul Selden, a paleontologist from Kansas University, said the females are the largest web-weaving spiders alive today with a body length of up to two inches and a leg span of six inches. Males are relatively diminutive in comparison.

They are "common and spectacular" inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions with females weaving distinctive five foot wide webs of yellow silk that glisten like gold in sunlight.The find also suggests the climate was "warm and humid at this time".
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Via:Telegraph