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The Mysterious Radio Waves Of Titan
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 04, 2007Huygens scored a first in 2005 by measuring the electrical conductivity of Titan's atmosphere. The results hint at a new way to investigate the subsurface layers of Titan and could provide insight into whether or not Titan has a subsurface ocean. The Permittivity, Waves and Altimetry (PWA) sensor on the Huygens Atmosphere Structure Instrument (HASI) detected an extremely low frequency (ELF) radi ... more With A Big Assist From NASA, UW-Madison Launches Astrobiology Push 
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 04, 2007With the help of a $6.5 million grant from NASA, Wisconsin researchers will join the hunt for extraterrestrial life and early life on Earth by developing techniques and instruments to read the chemical signatures living organisms leave in rocks and minerals. With the new award, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists and their collaborators from the University of Georgia and the Jet Pro ... more INSAT-4CR To Be Launched In September 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 04, 2007The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its unsuccessful launch last year. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here this week that the replacement satellite would be launched in September 2007. ... more Taiwan's Top Satellite Official Arrested On Graft Charges 
Taipei (AFP) May 31, 2007The top government official in charge of satellite research and development in Taiwan was arrested Thursday on corruption charges, a prosecutor said. Lance Wu, the head of the National Space Program Office, was taken into custody after being questioned overnight, Lin Lih-yng, a prosecutor at the Hsinch District Court, told AFP. "Wu is suspected of inflating the price for the ARGO satellite ... more China Launches Satellite To Take TV Signal Nationwide 
Beijing (AFP) June 01, 2007China launched a telecommunications satellite Friday that aims to bring television signals to every home in the nation, on the 100th flight of the homegrown Long March rocket series, state press said. The satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan province just after midnight Friday morning, China News Service reported. The Sino-Sat III satellite ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 01, 2007US President George W. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race. "The Cold War is over. We're now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists ... and the threats of proliferation," Bush said in an ... more Is The World In For A New Cold Age 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2007Today's strategic balance is an expression of the quantitative and qualitative alignment of forces with due account of the factors determining the strategic situation. Its parameters form a sophisticated dynamic system; nuclear, primarily strategic weapons are one of its elements. But the general condition of this system largely depends on its other elements. Thus, there is an inseparable ... more GAO Tips The Scales On ABM 
Washington (UPI) June 01, 2007A recent upbeat GAO assessment of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's record in Fiscal Year 2006 may have influenced Democratic lawmakers in Congress to back the program. "Over the next five years the Missile Defense Agency expects to invest $49 billion in the Ballistic Missile Defense system's development and fielding. MDA's strategy is to field new capabilities in two-year blocks," said the Marc ... more Russia May Redeploy Missiles In Europe Warns Putin 
Rome (AFP) June 03, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin has again blasted a planned US missile shield in Europe and warned that Moscow could redeploy missiles aimed at targets on the continent. "If the US nuclear potential extends across the European territory, we will have to get new targets in Europe," Putin said in an interview to newspapers from the Group of Eight most industrialised nations. The interview w ... more Boeing Wins Next Phase Of US Air Force Missile Technology Program 
St. Louis (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Boeing has been awarded a $4.2 million U.S. Air Force contract for the next phase of the Dual Role Air Dominance Missile -- Technology (DRADM-T) program, one of several efforts to develop technologies for the Joint Dual Role Air Dominance Missile (JDRADM). JDRADM is the first next-generation advanced missile intended to conduct both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions in a single weapon. ... more |
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Oslo (AFP) June 01, 2007A Russian nuclear waste storage facility on the Kola Peninsula runs the risk of exploding soon due to severe corrosion on three tanks, the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona warned on Friday. "The risk of an uncontrolled chain reaction in the storage facility is imminent," Bellona, which works with nuclear contamination on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, said in a statement. ... more Centex Homes Offers Sharp Solar Electricity Systems In New Home Development 
Naples FL (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Centex Homes will offer solar electricity systems from Sharp, the world's leading provider of solar cells, on 89 homes in The Quarry, a new community north of Naples, Florida. Sharp solar systems will be offered on several single-family and estate homes in two "solar neighborhoods" within The Quarry community, designed to augment the power supplied to each home from the grid. "Centex is co ... more Climate Change Burning Issue At G8 Summit As US Claims Leadership Role 
Paris (AFP) June 03, 2007George W. Bush's 11th-hour initiative on climate change has severely roiled international waters, threatening to plunge the G8 summit of industrialised economies starting Wednesday into a stormy debate over how best to keep the planet from overheating. The US president's call for a "new framework" in which the world's biggest carbon polluters will set long-term goals for curbing greenhouse ... more Quasicrystals: Somewhere Between Order And Disorder 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Professionally speaking, things in David Damanik's world don't line up - and he can prove it. In new research that's available online and slated for publication in July's issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Damanik and colleague Serguei Tcheremchantsev offer a key proof in the study of quasicrystals, crystal-like materials whose atoms don't line up in neat, unbroken rows l ... more Airline Sector Puts Global Warming High On Meeting Agenda 
New York (AFP) June 02, 2007The world's airline industry opens its annual meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver Sunday with the link between increased air traffic and global warming front and center on its radar screen. "This year, one of the top issues is going to be the environment," said Anthony Concil, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association. IATA represents some 250 airlines, or 94 percent of sch ... more
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