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Venus Flyby Helps Drive The Message Home
Laurel MD (SPX) May 30, 2007The MESSENGER trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-16) completed on May 25 lasted 36 seconds and adjusted the spacecraft's velocity by 0.212 meters per second (0.696 feet per second). The movement targeted the spacecraft close to the intended aim point 337 kilometers (209 miles) above the surface of Venus for the probe's June 5 flyby of that planet. The maneuver started at 12:00 p.m. EDT. ... more A Climate Monitoring Station On The Moon 
Ann Arbor, MI (SPX) May 30, 2007Poets may see "a face of plaintive sweetness" or "a cheek like beryl stone" when they look at the moon, but Shaopeng Huang sees something else altogether: the ideal location for a network of observatories dedicated to studying climate change on Earth. Using data from an Apollo 15 experiment whose original intent was thwarted by unanticipated lunar surface conditions, the University of Michigan ... more Mars Science Laboratory Less Than A Year From Assembly And Testing Phase 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2007The 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, the mammoth grandchild of the 1997 Sojourner rover, is less than one year from the assembly, test and launch operations phase (ATLO). With its immense increase in size comes advanced abilities in power, technology and science data collection. In early 2008, the team will start the flight vehicle assembly and testing, simulating on earth every challenge the brave ... more The View From Titan On Round T28 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2007Cassini acquired this view of Titan on April 13, 2007, following a flyby of the Mercury-sized moon. Titan's equatorial dark regions are visible in this view, along with faint, dark lineaments (linear features) in the otherwise bland-looking terrain of the north. Near the terminator are the dark, lake-like features identified in Cassini flybys early in 2007 (see Exploring the Wetlands of Titan). ... more Eumetsat Joins European Space Policy 
Paris, France (SPX) May 30, 2007EUMETSAT, represented by its Director General, Dr. Lars Prahm, has joined the Space Council as an official permanent observer for the first time. The new role enables the organisation to express its views in an important European Forum where space issues are coordinated at European level by EU and ESA Ministers in charge of space matters. Today's Space Council, a joint meeting of EU ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007On May 26, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, or SALT, the first bilateral agreement of its kind. It included an interim agreement on certain measures with respect to the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The two leaders also signed the ABM Treaty. The former treaty sealed the alignment of forces in ground ... more Unseemly ABM Situation 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007The U.S. president had an opportunity to imagine at the end of the past week what awaited him in the Czech Republic, which he is going to visit on June 4 as part of his tour of seven Central and West European countries. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Prague in protest against the U.S. plan to deploy military radar to the south-west of the Czech capital. ... more Raytheon Demonstrates Joint C3I Warfighter Interoperability 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 30, 2007Raytheon further demonstrated its leading edge Joint Battlefield Integration capability earlier this month with a real-time hardware in-the-loop demonstration of Joint Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (Joint C3I). The Joint C3I demonstration pushed required battlefield situational awareness to a new level by using existing and future communications infrastructures to enable ... more Russia Tests Missile Able To Penetrate Defences As Putin Warns Of European Powder Keg 
Moscow (AFP) May 29, 2007Russia on Tuesday said it had successfully tested a new multiple warhead ballistic missile designed to overcome air-defence systems such as the US shield planned for deployment in central Europe. Fired from the north-eastern Arkhangelsk region, the RS-24 rocket hit its target on the Kamchatka Peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean 6,000 kilometres away, the country's strategic missile forces ... more Days Of Snow Melting On The Rise In Greenland 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2007In 2006, Greenland experienced more days of melting snow and at higher altitudes than average over the past 18 years, according to a new NASA-funded project using satellite observations. Daily satellite observations have shown snow melting on Greenland's ice sheet over an increased number of days. The resulting data help scientists understand better the speed of glacier flow, how much water will ... more |
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Darwin, Australia (AFP) May 29, 2007Hopes for an Asia Pacific-wide carbon emissions trading scheme were dashed Tuesday as APEC energy ministers met to discuss climate change and the region's booming power needs. The United States and Australia ruled out a regional carbon trading scheme before the meeting officially opened in the northern city of Darwin, saying it was too early to impose uniform targets on APEC nations. ... more Magnetic Handedness Could Lead To Better Magnetic Storage Devices 
Argonne IL (SPX) May 30, 2007Better magnetic storage devices for computers and other electronics could result from new work by researchers in the United States and Germany. Their findings demonstrate that chirality - a spiral-like "handedness" - in nanoscale magnets may play a crucial role in data transmission and manipulation in spintronic devices, where the spin rather than the charge of an electron is used to store data. ... more DRI Energy Launches New Roof Integrated Solar Product Line At PCBC 2007 
Irvine CA (SPX) May 30, 2007The popular S tile roofing product, long a favorite with homebuilders and home buyers in the western US, will soon be available in a product that produces highly efficient solar electricity. With the launch of its new Lumeta line of Roof Integrated Photovoltaic (RIPV) products, DRI Energy, a leading provider of roof integrated solar energy installation services for residential and commercial ... more SolarCraft Completes Largest Agricultural Solar Energy System In California 
Novato CA (SPX) May 30, 2007SolarCraft announced that is has completed installation and commissioned a 1.1 Megawatt solar energy system at Paramount Farms, the world's largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, at their Lost Hills, CA orchards and processing facility. The system utilizes ground-mounted, Uni-Solar Amorphous Thin Film Photovoltaic (PV) panels. Spanning 8 acres, it is one of the ... more China Rejects Binding Targets On Greenhouse Emissions 
Hamburg (AFP) May 29, 2007China on Tuesday promised to "do its best" on fighting climate change but rejected calls that Asia should sign up to binding targets on cutting carbon emissions. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said China and other Asian nations cannot bear the same responsibility for restricting greenhouse gas emissions as the developed world. "The developed world should do more but China will do its best," ... more
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