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New Patent Protects Essential MSV Satellite Technology
Reston VA (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,181,161 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This is the nineteenth patent issued to MSV protecting the company's hybrid satellite-terrestrial system including Ancillary Terrestrial Component ("ATC") technology. China To Prioritize Three Areas In Space Program 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 05, 2007China will prioritize three areas of space technology including satellite navigation systems in the next two decades, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The other two areas are remote sensing and space communications, according to the report on high technology development released by the Academy. New Coating Is Virtual Black Hole For Reflections 
Troy NY (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Researchers have created an anti-reflective coating that allows light to travel through it, but lets almost none bounce off its surface. At least 10 times more effective than the coating on sunglasses or computer monitors, the material, which is made of silica nanorods, may be used to channel light into solar cells or allow more photons to surge through the surface of a light-emitting diode (LED). |
GIOVE-A Navigation Signal Available To Users
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 05, 2007The GIOVE-A Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document, the document that gives the technical details of the signals transmitted by the GIOVE-A satellite, has been released. This will allow receiver manufacturers and research institutions to use a real signal for their research and development. Rosetta Delivers Phobos Transit Animation And Sees Mars In Stereo 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 05, 2007During Rosetta's recent Mars swingby, the OSIRIS cameras captured a series of images of Mars and of Phobos transiting Mars' disk. The OSIRIS team have produced a cool animated sequence and a 3D view of the Red Planet. Amber Penetrates To The Heart Of The Stars 
Paris, France (ESO) Mar 05, 2007Numerous astronomical results have been obtained thanks to AMBER, the instrument which equips the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). AMBER (Astronomical Multi-BEam Recombiner) makes it possible to combine the beams of three of the four 8-metre VLT telescopes. |
NASA Awards SOFIA Development And Engineering Contract To L-3 Communications
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2007NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P., of Waco, Texas, for continued developmental and engineering work on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The cost-plus-award-fee contract could be worth up to $26 million over a five-year period if all options are exercised. Astrophysicist Hawking To Try Out Weightlessness 
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2007Paralyzed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, author of the blockbuster "A Brief History of Time," will get a brief plane trip to weightlessness next month, a US company announced Thursday. Hawking will experience the zero-gravity sensation of outer space in a flight he hopes will lead to a 2009 rocket voyage into the cosmos, Zero Gravity Corporation said. Dawn Gets An Environmental Test 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2007The Dawn spacecraft has just completed the final and most challenging of the environmental tests needed to prepare for its launch and travels through space. During the past month, it has endured the extreme heat and cold of spaceflight in a large vacuum chamber at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. |
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Back
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Space Shuttle Atlantis began its roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building this morning at 8:47 a.m. from Launch Pad 39A. The vehicle is being roll backed due to hail damage that occurred on the tank during a severe thunderstorm that happened on Feb. 26. The trip back takes approximately 7 hours and should be hard down inside the Vehicle Assembly Building around 4 p.m. Hubble Watches Comet Galaxy Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2007The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment. The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years. The new observations also show one mechanism to form the millions of "homeless" stars seen scattered throughout galaxy clusters. Superbots In Action 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress USC's lego-like autonomous robotic units show off ability to reconfigure into different systems for different tasks in online .wmv files. Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and even roll. |
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