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<title><![CDATA[Ice Exists on Surface of Comet, but Most Lies Deeper]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/7117.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comets are made of dust and ice, but where is most of the ice found? The Deep Impact science team publishes the first finding of water ice on the surface of a comet. However, their findings also confirm that most ice is below the surface.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Around Normal Star]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/6686.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using an armada of telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the smallest planet ever detected around a normal star outside our solar system. The extrasolar planet is five times as massive as Earth and orbits a red dwarf, a relatively cool star, every 10 years. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/5265.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Horizons is the first mission to the last planet - the initial reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt - sent out to explore the mysterious worlds at the edge of our solar system. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/5221.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings represent the first time that these gases, called acetylene and hydrogen cyanide, have been found in a terrestrial planet zone outside of our own. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:48:44 CST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ISRO planing second lunar mission - Chandrayan 2]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/4643.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indian plans for a follow up mission to the moon hint at a developing vision for long term space exploration. Russian space companies may assist India's lunar program.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Venus Express enroute to probe the planet's hidden mysteries]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/default.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its journey from the Earth towards its destination of the planet Venus, which it will reach next April. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:17:45 CST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Qualification of ISRO cryogenic engine complete]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/Articles/3583.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair's claim that the Indian cryogenic engine is as good as the Russian one is true, though not the whole truth. ]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[vkthakur@kaorg.com]]></author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:31:21 CDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia approves GLONASS funding in its 2006-2015 Space Program]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/3556.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[India is already an active partner in the Russian GLONASS satellite based navigation system. Russia is additionally wooing China raising hackles in the west of a Russia - India - China axis. ]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[vkthakur@kaorg.com]]></author><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:40:02 CDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA Unveils Plans for New Spaceship to Return Humans to Moon by 2018]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/2904.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. space agency has released its plans for returning humans to the moon. It has set 2018 as the earliest launch date and developed a general design for a rocket that blends present technology with a look from the past.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[India joins EU Galileo club]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/2880.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[India signed up to the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation program on Wednesday, making India the fourth non-EU country to join the project, which mirrors the US Global Positioning System (GPS)]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:41:02 CDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cassini Radar Images Show Dramatic Shoreline on Titan]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://kuku.sawf.org/News/2815.aspx]]></link><description><![CDATA[Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere. Hints that this area was once wet, or currently has liquid present, are evident.]]></description>
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