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Evropska sonda krece ka Veneri
LONDON - The planet Venus was formed at about the same time as Earth, from the same basic materials. But our "sister" planet turned out to be a very different place from Earth, with lessons to teach about the greenhouse effect and planetary climate.
Next week, the European Space Agency is due to send a probe toward Venus, to learn yet more lessons that could be applied to our scientific understanding of our own planet and other worlds.
The $240 million Venus Express mission is aimed at exploring Venus' boiling-hot surface and acidic atmosphere, focusing on a central question: Why did Venus evolve the way it did?
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Dopuna: 21 Okt 2005 23:24
Misija Venera odlozena
The launch of Europe's first mission to Venus, due to have taken place next Wednesday, has been postponed.
The European Space Agency (Esa) has not yet announced a new date for the launch, only that it will be delayed by "several days".
The probe is to blast off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It will slip into orbit around Venus next year, using science instruments to study the planet from space.
Esa said the delay had been prompted by the discovery that insulation from the rocket launcher had contaminated the Venus Express spacecraft.
"The satellite is contaminated, so they will have to dismantle and re-mount it again," a spokesperson for the space agency told the BBC News website.
Venus Express will also need to be cleaned up to remove any trace of the insulation.
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Dopuna: 28 Okt 2005 11:06
Lansiran satelit s kosmodroma Pleseck
Sa ruskog kosmodroma 'Pleseck' uspešno je lansiran raketonosač 'Kosmos-3M' s ruskim naučnim satelitom 'Možaec-5' i sa osam manjih stranih kosmičkih aparata, saopštio je predstavnik komandnog punkta Roskosmosa.
Pomoću novog satelita, koji su razradili studenti Vojno-kosmičke akademije, biće proverene mogućnosti optičko-laserskih veza, prenela je agencija 'RIA Novosti'.
Na orbiti se već nalaze još dva takva kosmička aparata - 'možaec-3' i 'Možaec-4'. Pored toga, početkom ove godine grupu malih naučnih aparata dopunio je satelit 'Tatjana', koji je lansiran povodom 250. godišnjice Moskovskog državnog univerziteta.
Pored 'Možaeca', u orbitu su izvedeni kosmički aparat 'Kina-DMC', britanski 'TopSat', iranski 'SINA-1', norveški 'Ncube-2', nemački 'UWE-1', japanski 'XI-V', kao i satelit Evropske kosmičke agencije 'ŠET Expreš'.
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