UK withdraws from Gemini telescope programme
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Astronomers 'aghast' at Northern Hemisphere blackout The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has decided to plug a gap in its finances by withdrawing from the Gemini telescope programme, the BBC reports.â¦
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The Hubble space telescope&#39;s chances of survival were dealt a blow yesterday after the US National Academy of Sciences said plans for a robotic repair mission were both exorbitant and risky.
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The first test of the United States anti-missile shield in nearly two years, has failed. Our correspondent, John Shovelan, reports the Missile Defence Agency says the ground-based interceptor has shut down, due to an unknown anomaly.
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Britain suspended on Tuesday the  manufacturing license of Chiron Corp., a major supplier of flu  vaccine to the United Kingdom and the United States, for three  months.
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PPARC -- UK radio astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, working with colleagues from Europe and the USA, have demonstrated a new technique that will revolutionise the way they observe.     To create the very best quality images of the sky, they routinely combine data from multiple telescopes from around the world Ã¢ÂÂ a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)...
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The BBC cancels plans for Planet Relief, an awareness-raising TV special, following internal debates on impartiality.
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With just hours left in the countdown, NASA called off the launch Wednesday of a spacecraft that will hunt for emerging black holes.
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British Sky Broadcasting withdrew several of its channels from the main cable provider in Britain over a cost disagreement.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has lost the ability to take the deep cosmic postcards that have inspired the public.
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S. SRINIVASAN    BANGALORE, India  -- India's space agency said Thursday its removal from a U.S...
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The Russian military has postponed the launch of the Soyuz-M2 space booster rocket scheduled for this week. The Soyuz-M2 booster was scheduled to lift off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northwest Russia on
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UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration
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The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year, the operators of the orbiting observatory announced Friday.
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&quot;The Software Patent Directive has been withdrawn from the Agenda of the Agricultural Council. Poland&#39;s Minister of Information Society and Technology, Wlodzimierz Marcinski, made a powerful statement at the
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The British Grand Prix has been dropped from the provisional calendar of Formula One races for next year, media reports said yesterday.
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Senior UK scientists say a government decision to withdraw funding breaches an important point of principle.
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The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain