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Spirit Studies Dust Devils In Concert With The MRO
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 15, 2007Pasadena CA (SPX) May 15, 2007 Spirit is healthy and has finished investigating a patch of churned-up, white-toned, silica-rich material known as "Gertrude Weise." Meanwhile, the rover's first attempt to autonomously place and exchange scientific instruments at the same target was partially successful. Spirit backed up over Gertrude Weise to a spot 2 meters (6.6 feet) beyond it and placed the M ... more Cudady And Glendale Schools Join Unique Partnership With NASA 
Glendale CA (SPX) May 15, 2007NASA has announced that Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, Glendale, Calif.; and Ellen Ochoa Learning Center, Cudahy, Calif., have been selected to begin a special three-year partnership with the space agency as NASA Explorer Schools. The school teams are among 25 schools around the nation named as new NASA Explorer Schools. The goal of NASA's Explorer School program is to use NASA's unique ... more US Naval Academy-Built Satellite To Carry NASA Experiments 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2007A partnership between NASA and the U.S. Naval Academy is offering students real-world experience. During 2007 and 2008, students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., will build a satellite called "MidSTAR-2" through a U.S. Department of Defense program that will carry four experiments into space in 2011 to look at different parts of Earth's atmosphere, gamma rays and solar winds. S ... more Conference Highlights Space Safety As A Global Concern 
Paris, France (SPX) May 15, 2007This week, ESA is cosponsoring an international conference on environmental, human and technical space safety, including related legal and regulatory issues. ESA's space safety interests are growing as the Agency's own near-Earth missions increase and as space tourism and commercial flights worldwide take off. Today's worldwide level of space activity is reminiscent of that of the nascent ... more Preventing Sick Spaceships From Killing Spaceman 
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2007Picture this: You're one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you remove a little-used service panel to check some wiring. To your unbelieving eyes, floating in midair in the microgravity near the wiring is a shivering, shimmering globule of dirty water ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2007European Union countries made a new move Monday to pool defence resources by adopting a common strategy to manage the business aspects of EU defence and end the patchwork approach of today. The Defence Technological and Industrial Base (DTIB) strategy is aimed at establishing a common defence future in areas like research and development for the EU's 27 member nations. It would allow the E ... more US Military Makes YouTube And MySpace Off Limits 
San Francisco (AFP) May 14, 2007US military officials said on Monday that MySpace, YouTube and about ten other social-networking websites are off limits to soldiers using Department of Defense computer systems. The regulation is intended primarily to prevent military Internet connections from being clogged with uploads or downloads of data-rich files such as video clips, said Defense Department spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gord ... more Raytheon And Aerojet Test New Propulsion System For Air-Launched Missile Defense System 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 15, 2007Raytheon has demonstrated a key propulsion component of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) program. NCADE is a missile defense system that will affordably leverage operational tactical missile technologies and infrastructure. As part of the NCADE risk-reduction program, Raytheon and partner Aerojet tested an advanced hydroxylammonium nitrate thruster that provided more th ... more Experts Inspect Czech Radar Site As Poland Holds ABM Talks With US 
Prague (AFP) May 14, 2007US experts began Monday fresh inspections at a site in the Czech Republic earmarked to host a tracking radar which would form part of its expanded missile defence shield, the Czech defence ministry said. Inspections at the Czech military base at Brdy, southwest of Prague, should last until the end of the week. They follow on from the launch of initial negotiations last week between Prague ... more Northrop Grumman Demos Low-Cost Autonomous Control System For Recon Planes 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 15, 2007Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully shown how its low-cost, autonomous control system can manage a variety of U.S. Army reconnaissance aircraft to deliver timely information about enemy positions to troops on the ground. Northrop Grumman is developing the "HURT" system in a program managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) May 14, 2007British Prime Minister Tony Blair's envoy on climate change Monday called for the United States and China to alter their approaches to global warming ahead of a major international summit in June. Elliot Morley, speaking in Hong Kong on his way to Beijing, said all countries at the coming G8 meeting must work towards new targets for reducing carbon emissions after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol e ... more NASA's Close-Up Look At A Hurricane's Eye Reveals A New Fuel Source 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2007In the eye of a furious hurricane, the weather is often quite calm and sunny. But new NASA research is providing clues about how the seemingly subtle movement of air within and around this region provides energy to keep this central "powerhouse" functioning. Using computer simulations and observations of 1998's Hurricane Bonnie in southern North Carolina, scientists were able to get a detailed v ... more Japanese Scientists In Eye Of Storm ... With Goggles 
Yokohama (AFP) Japan, May 14, 2007Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind -- with the help of some goggles. In what is billed as unique technology, Japanese researchers have created three-dimensional images from stocks of data culled over the years and fed into computers. "Thanks to this system, we can discover so much more ... more Venezuela Nationalizes Foreign Oil Rigs 
Caracas (AFP) May 14, 2007The Venezuelan government of firebrand President Hugo Chavez said Monday it was taking control of oil rigs from multinational firms, in the latest of a wave of nationalizations. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, who also heads the state-owned energy company PDVSA, said the firm had in the past ceded control of 18 offshore drilling platforms to foreign giants. "These companies demand millions ... more Consumers Willing To Pay More For Environmentally Responsible Fuels Including Clean Coal 
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2007A majority of consumers said they would pay more for clean energy because it is good for the environment, according to a recent survey conducted by the Energy and Resources industry group of Deloitte. "The most dramatic finding was the growing willingness of electricity consumers to pay higher costs to use fuels that are less damaging to the environment, including coal, if delivered as clean coa ... more
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