2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Featured articles Tsunami. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Todays featured article Tsunami. ... 2005 : January _ February _ March _ April _ May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Todays featured article Tsunami. ... Todays featured article Tsunami Deaths in April • 22 – Philip Morrison Other recent deaths Ongoing events None entered Upcoming events IATC Exhibition, March 28_30 @ Chicago Hannover Messe Fair, April 11_15 Technology_Innovation_Automation NAB2005 Convention in Las Vegas Worlds Largest Electronic Media Show Robonexus 2005 in Silicon Valley Related pages • 2005... Todays featured article • Tsunami Deaths in May • None entered Other recent deaths Ongoing events • None entered Upcoming events • None entered Related pages • 2005 in science • 2004 in science • 2003 in science • 2002 in science • 2001 in science Other Years in Sci Tech May 20, 2005 South Korean scientists led... Todays featured article • Technetium Deaths in July • None entered Other recent deaths Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic hurricane season • 2005 Pacific hurricane season Upcoming events • None entered Related pages • 2005 in science • 2004 in science • 2003 in science • 2002 in science • 2001 in science Other Years in Sci Tech July...

The following entries cover events of a science or technology related nature which occurred in the listed year. ...

June 30, 2005

• The launch of the next space shuttle mission is scheduled for July 13, 2005. (BBC)

June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

June 29, 2005

• NASA ala zibbi publishes pictures taken by the Cassini spacecraft showing a feature that could be a lake of liquid methane or ethane, close to the southern pole of Titan. (BBC)

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (established 1958) is the government agency responsible for the United States of Americas space program and long-term general aerospace research. ... This is an artists concept of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. ... The simplest hydrocarbon, methane, is a gas with a chemical formula of CH4. ... Ethane is a chemical compound with chemical formula C2H6. ... Titan (tye-tun, Greek Τιτάνας) is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system[1], after Jupiters moon Ganymede. ...

June 28, 2005

• The Stafford-Covey panel reports that 12 of 15 recommendations by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) were met or exceeded. It also states that the shuttle "is a safe vehicle to fly," even though three recommendations were not met. (BBC)
• Countries backing the ITER fusion reactor meet in Moscow and decide that the experimental fusion reactor will be built in Cadarache, Southern France. The competing site in Japan will receive compensation. (PhysOrg) (European Commission) (BBC) (IHT)

(Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Memorial emblem for the three U.S. human space flight accidents. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... Cutaway of the ITER Tokamak. ... Fusion may refer to: the merging of two or more entities into a single one For the combining of two atomic nuclei into a single nucleus (with possible emission of radioactivity), see nuclear fusion cold fusion refers to a controversial form of nuclear fusion which has recently (April/May 2005... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Cadarache in Provence-Alpes-Côte-dAzur, France is the site of the future international tokamak ITER. This was decided in a final meeting in Moscow on June 28, 2005. ...

June 22, 2005

• ESA announces that the MARSIS radar experiment on board the Mars Express Orbiter is operational. (YahooNews/AFP)

June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The European Space Agency (ESA; established 1975) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 16 memberstates. ... This long range radar antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. ... Oblique view of the Reull Vallis near the Hellas basin, rendered from data obtained by the Mars Express orbiters High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) The Mars Express Orbiter is part of the Mars Express program, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars. ...

June 21, 2005

• The first specifically designed solar sail craft, Cosmos 1, a joint private project between Planetary Society, Cosmos Studios and the Russian Academy of Science, is launched from a Russian submarine. The rocket, however, fails 83 seconds after the launch and the chance of mission failure is "significant". (BBC) (SBS)

June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Concept image of a solar sail spacecraft in the process of unfurling sails. ... An artists rendering of Cosmos 1 orbitting Earth. ... The Planetary Society is a large organization that has many research projects related to astronomy. ... Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ...

June 20, 2005

• The BLAST telescope lands safely in the Canadian arctic after four days of taking data, while held aloft by a balloon. (CBSNews)

June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... AMEC-designed Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, or BLAST. ... 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ... See main articles: History of Canada, Timeline of Canadian history Aboriginal tradition holds that the First Peoples have inhabited parts of what is now called Canada since the dawn of time. ... Balloons are often used or given on special occasions, like cards or flowers. ...

June 18, 2005

• The supply craft Progress docks at the International Space Station, after cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev takes over control of the spacecraft. (spaceflightnow)

June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft (NASA) The Progress is an expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft; it is Soyuz derived and is launched also by the Soyuz launch vehicle. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of June 17, 2005 Perigee: 347. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, former Russian cosmonaut, was born August 27, 1958, in Leningrad, Russia, which has been renamed St. ...

June 16, 2005

• ESA announces that the deployment of the second MARSIS boom on the Mars Express Orbiter was a full success. (ESA)
• IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology announce that they are working on a computer model of the brain, creating a 3-D simulation of the neocortex. (CNN Money)

June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The European Space Agency (ESA; established 1975) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 16 memberstates. ... Oblique view of the Reull Vallis near the Hellas basin, rendered from data obtained by the Mars Express orbiters High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) The Mars Express Orbiter is part of the Mars Express program, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... The Monster Clothespin from Outer Space, and entrance of the EPFL The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland. ... 3-D or 3D abbreviates three-dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program which attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. ... In the anatomy of animals, the neopallium or neocortex is a part of the telencephalon in the brain. ...

June 15, 2005

• The second MARSIS antenna boom of the Mars Express Orbiter is being deployed. Mission engineers are evaluating the success of this operation. (BBC)
• The space shuttle Discovery returns to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral for a planned launch on July 13. (YahooNews/AP)

June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Oblique view of the Reull Vallis near the Hellas basin, rendered from data obtained by the Mars Express orbiters High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) The Mars Express Orbiter is part of the Mars Express program, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle. ... A launch pad is designed and built to meet a launch vehicles special needs and requirements. ... Cape Canaveral is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ... July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ...

June 14, 2005

• An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes about 80 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast but with no immediate reports of damages or injuries. (AP)

June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...

June 13, 2005

• A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Andes mountains, Chile, killing at least eight persons and injuring several others. (Yahoo News) (BBC)
• Astronomers announce the discovery of the smallest exoplanet, yet, with about 7.5 times Earth's mass. It orbits the star Gliese 876, where two Jupiter-like planets were previously detected. (BBC)
• Red Hat releases Fedora Core 4. (ZDNet)

June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... See also architecture with non-sequential dynamic execution scheduling (ANDES). ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Infrared Image of a possible extrasolar planet (lower left) in the Constellation Taurus, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun. ... Gliese 876 is a red dwarf star (spectral type M4V) 15 light years from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ... Alternate meanings: See Red hat Red Hat, Inc. ... Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. ...

June 10, 2005

• Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta was awarded the World Food Prize for his development of low-cost fish farming techniques. World Food Prize

June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. ...

June 9, 2005

• Tinkerers and innovators have devised a way to link useful data graphically using Google Maps. Vital information such as crime statistics, gas prices, dark alleyways, housing prices, and potentially much more could be displayed as pinpoints on a Google Map. Efforts to improve the technology are currently underway. (CNN)
• The first Atlantic Tropical storm of the 2005 season develops south of Cuba. (CNN) (CBSnews)

June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Screenshot of Google Maps showing a route from Toronto to Ottawa Google Maps is a free, online map service provided by Google. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... This article is about weather phenomena. ... The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially began June 1, 2005, and will last through November 30, 2005. ...

June 8, 2005

• The Mars Express Orbiter detects an aurora on Mars. (spaceflightnow)

June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Oblique view of the Reull Vallis near the Hellas basin, rendered from data obtained by the Mars Express orbiters High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) The Mars Express Orbiter is part of the Mars Express program, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars. ... Aurora is the Latin word for dawn. It can refer to: The Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess of the dawn, Eos. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ...

June 6, 2005

• Debian GNU/Linux: Version 3.1, codenamed sarge, is released. (Press release)
• Apple Computer announces they will change the processors for their Macintosh computer lineup from IBM PowerPCs to Intel-made CPUs. (Ziff Davis) (BBC)

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Debian, created by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... The box for Mac OS X v10. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for workstations, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (founded 1968) is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...

June 4, 2005

• After 5 weeks of slow progress Mars Rover Opportunity is freed from the sand dune that it got stuck in in April. (CNN)

June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Opportunity (official designation: MER-B) is the second of the two rovers of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ...

June 3, 2005

• Scientists claim they have sequenced the DNA of an extinct cave bear. It was extracted from the remains of animals that died about 40,000 years ago in Austria. (BBC)

June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or deoxyribose nucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ... Binomial name Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller, 1794 The Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear which lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and became extinct at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ...

June 1, 2005

• A new type of sauropod has been discovered with a short, stubby neck. Unlike all other known sauropods, whose long necks could get up to four times the length of their backs, Brachytrachelopan's neck was shorter than its backbone. This species was also unable to lift its neck and head above horizontal. (National Geographic)
• Astronomers announce the results of the most detailed simulation of the evolution of the Universe, using supercomputers, called the Millennium Run. (BBC)

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Families Brachiosauridae Camarasauridae Cetiosauridae Diplodocidae Euhelopodidae Nemegtosauridae Titanosauridae Vulcanodontidae Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs. ... Horizontal is an orientation relating to, or in parallel with the horizon, and thus perpendicular to the vertical. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... A simulation is an imitation of some real device or state of affairs. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. ... A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems. ... The Millennium Run is the name of a simulation created to investigate how the Universe evolved over time, and is used by scientists working in cosmology to compare observations with theoretical predictions. ...

Past science and technology events by month

2005 in science: February March April May
See also: Other events of 2005 List of years in science . ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Todays featured article Tsunami. ... 2005 : January _ February _ March _ April _ May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Todays featured article Tsunami. ... Todays featured article Tsunami Deaths in April • 22 – Philip Morrison Other recent deaths Ongoing events None entered Upcoming events IATC Exhibition, March 28_30 @ Chicago Hannover Messe Fair, April 11_15 Technology_Innovation_Automation NAB2005 Convention in Las Vegas Worlds Largest Electronic Media Show Robonexus 2005 in Silicon Valley Related pages • 2005... Todays featured article • Tsunami Deaths in May • None entered Other recent deaths Ongoing events • None entered Upcoming events • None entered Related pages • 2005 in science • 2004 in science • 2003 in science • 2002 in science • 2001 in science Other Years in Sci Tech May 20, 2005 South Korean scientists led...

(For earlier science and technology events, see Jaunary 2005 and preceding months) Featured articles Tsunami. ...

News collections and sources

See: Wikipedia:Current science and technology events sources.

See also

• Science and technology at Wikinews