October 2005 in science

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October 31, 2005

• Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope announce two new possible moons circling the planet Pluto. (Reuters/YahooNews)
• The launch of the Venus Express spacecraft is rescheduled to take place on November 9, 2005. (AP/CNN)

October 29, 2005

• The world's largest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, makes its first appearance at a commercial airport, with a successful test landing in Germany on Frankfurt International's north runway, in front of 10,000 spectators. The A380 is scheduled to enter commercial operation at the end of 2006. (AFP/EUbusiness)

October 28, 2005

• NASA releases a new version of the virtual globe mapping tool called World Wind by now providing high resolution pictures of the Moon taken by the Clementine orbiter. (Spaceflight Now)
• NASA announces that the launch of New Horizons is still on schedule, despite slight damage to its Atlas V rocket by Hurricane Wilma. (Reuters/CNN)

October 27, 2005

• Satellite launches:
  • Iran's first satellite, the Sinah-1 reconnaissance satellite, built jointly with Russia, is launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia at 10:52 local time (06:52 UTC). (Iran-daily.com) (Spaceflight Now)
  • Also part of the payload on the same Cosmos-3M rocket are several microsatellites, among which are the European Space Agency's SSETI—a project with students from 21 universities—and China's Beijing-1, carrying the British-built China Mapping Telescope. (BBC)
• The first light pictures taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on October 12 are released to the public. (SpaceRef.com)

October 26, 2005

• First results based on the first phase of the HapMap data are announced, and will be published in Nature. (YahooNews)

October 24, 2005

• A way to produce hydrogen inside an ordinary car, by using metals such as magnesium and aluminium to break down water catalytically, is developed by an Israeli company. In a few years the system should cost the same as existing conventional cars to run, according to the inventors. (IsraCast)
• MySQL AB releases version 5.0 of their open-source database management software MySQL. (Macworld)
• Improved pictures taken of the suspected crash site of NASA's Mars Polar Lander show that the features seen previously are of natural origin. The fate of the lander remains unknown. (BBC)

October 22, 2005

• Taiwan announces its intention to produce Tamiflu for non-commercial use, without waiting for the final approval by the patent holder Hoffmann-La Roche. (BBC)

October 21, 2005

• The launch of ESA's Venus Express is delayed due to the discovery of contaminants inside the launcher's fairing. (ESA) (BBC)
• A preview version of Flock, a new web browser based on Mozilla Firefox is released. (Zdnet)

October 19, 2005

• Engineers working with the Russian satellite Monitor-E lose contact after its orientation became unstable on October 18. (AP/CNN)

October 17, 2005

• The reentry module of the Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou 6 lands safely in Inner Mongolia, China. (People's Daily).

October 12, 2005

• The People's Republic of China launches the manned Shenzhou 6 spacecraft. Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng will spend five days in orbit in their Shenzhou spacecraft. (People's Daily)
• Mission engineers of the lost ESA Demonstrator IRDT-2R spacecraft believe that it might have plunged into the Pacific ocean. (space.com/YahooNews)

October 11, 2005

• The launch of Shenzhou 6 is tentatively set for the morning of October 12. (XinhuaNet)

October 8, 2005

• Five autonomous robots have completed the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, the winner travelling the 132 mile/212 kilometer course in less than 7.5 hours. (SFGate)
• ESA satellite CryoSat fails to reach orbit. First indications seem to point to a rocket engine failure or a failed separation of the satellite. (BBC) (XinhuaNet) It was found later that a software error in the on-board flight control system of the upper stage led to the failure. (BBC)

October 5, 2005

• Scientists publish first results of studies on the re-created live Spanish flu virus, produced and stored at a lab of the CDC. (AP/YahooNews)
• Chinese officials confirm that the launch date for Shenzhou 6 is scheduled for October 13. (AFP/YahooNews)
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, and Richard R. Schrock the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis". (Nobelprize.org) (BBC)

October 4, 2005

• The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded with one half to Roy J. Glauber and with one half jointly to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch, "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique". (Nobelprize.org) (BBC)

October 3, 2005

• The third non-astronaut/cosmonaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), US businessman and scientist Dr. Gregory Olsen, arrives at the station after being sent up together with a two-man ISS crew in a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur on Saturday. (BBC)
• Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren have been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease". (BBC)

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