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Trimble's Tiny Surface Mount GPS Receiver Adds WAAS And EGNOS Capability
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2007Trimble has introduced a new firmware for its Copernicus GPS receiver -- Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) capability. The new firmware allows users to take advantage of satellite-based augmentation systems for improved positioning accuracy. The announcement was made today at CeBIT, the world's largest trade fair showcasing d ... more United Solar Ovonic Awarded To Develop New Solarcells For Space And Airship Applications 
Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Mar 19, 2007United Solar Ovonic has announced that the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, has exercised an 18-month contractual option for $9.1 million with United Solar Ovonic to develop new solar cell technology to be used in space and airship vehicles addressing defense and homeland security applications. The announcement builds upon the success of earlier contracts ... more Hughes Introduces High-Speed BGAN Mobile Satellite Terminal 
Germantown MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2007Hughes Network Systems has announced that its latest generation Hughes 9250 mobile satellite terminal has been approved to operate over Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). The Hughes 9250 is designed to deliver high-speed transmit and receive rates of over 460Kbps while on the move within Inmarsat's global BGAN satellite coverage area. ... more MORE HEADLINES
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Boeing-led Airborne Laser Team Fires Tracking Laser At Airborne Target
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 19, 2007Boeing, along with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, yesterday successfully fired the Airborne Laser (ABL) weapon system's tracking laser in-flight at an airborne target for the first time. During Thursday's test, the modified Boeing 747-400F took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and used its infrared sensors, part of ABL's Boeing-developed battle management system, ... more Iran Develops New Air Defence System 
Tehran (AFP) March 16, 2007The Iranian military has developed a new air defence system with a boosted ability to hit targets by firing two missiles simultaneously, state radio said on Friday. "This new air defence system which can shoot one or two missiles simultaneously... has been designed by army ground forces and tested successfully," the radio said. "It has high mobility and flexibility, and can pursue aerial targets ... more US Upbeat On Korea As North Says Nuke Plant Shutdown Soon 
Beijing (AFP) March 18, 2007Negotiators met Sunday on getting the North Korean nuclear disarmament accord under way amid expectations a key hurdle -- a row over North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank -- would be cleared. The secretive North had said Saturday that the February 13 deal signed by six countries would not go ahead until about 25 million dollars of its money frozen by US sanctions was released. With the newes ... more |
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Belief That Species Evolve Faster In Tropics Debunked
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Mar 16, 2007University of British Columbia researchers have discovered that contrary to common belief, species do not evolve faster in warmer climates. UBC Zoology PhD candidate Jason Weir and his mentor Prof. Dolph Schluter, director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, charted the genetic family tree of 618 mammal and bird species in the Americas over the last several million years. By analyzing ... more Statistical Analysis Debunks Climate Change Naysayers 
Kamloops, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2007Despite the fact that the hundreds of scientists and reviewers on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced February 2nd in Paris that global warming is "very likely" caused by human activity, governments and other policy-makers may still justify inaction because of naysayers like Danish weather scientist Henrik Svensmark, who maintains that global climate change can be attributed ... more Global Sunscreen Has Likely Thinned 
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Mar 16, 2007A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases - sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles - appears to have lost ground. The thinning of Earth's "sunscreen" of aerosols since the early 1990s could have given an extra push to the rise in global surface temperatures. The finding, published today in the journal Sc ... more MORE HEADLINES
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