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Atlantis Ready For First Shuttle Flight Of The Year
Washington (AFP) Jun 06, 2007After a three-month delay, Atlantis is ready to blast off Friday on the first space shuttle mission of the year as NASA presses on with efforts to complete the International Space Station. Atlantis was originally scheduled to launch in March, but a freak hail storm damaged the shuttle's massive external fuel tank as the orbiter stood on its Florida launch pad, forcing NASA to bring it back to it ... more Ball Aerospace Completes Schmidt Corrector Optic Bonding For Kepler 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 07, 2007Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed the critical milestone of bonding the Schmidt Corrector optic to its mounting ring for the Kepler Mission. Ball anticipates delivery of all Kepler optics by late-June. The spacecraft integration is scheduled to begin in August 2007, while Kepler photometer integration with the spacecraft will begin in July 2008. Ball is building bo ... more Robot To Stand Guard At School 
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Jun 07, 2007A robot is to be deployed as a security guard at a South Korean school in what its creators claim is a world first, the Korea Times reported Thursday. The robot, dubbed OFRO, will be posted at a Seoul middle school to test its potential before going on sale. Makers DU Robo said it could be used to alert staff to attempts by outsiders to seduce students. "One possible scenario is that OFRO ... more NRAO Teams With NASA Gamma-Ray Satellite 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2007The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is teaming with NASA's upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) to allow astronomers to use both the orbiting facility and ground-based radio telescopes to maximize their scientific payoff. Under the new, streamlined process, astronomers can compete for coordinated observing time and support from both GLAST and NRAO's radio telescopes. ... more EU To Back Galileo Bailout And But Faces Tough Talks On New Funds 
Brussels (AFP) Jun 06, 2007The EU will try on Friday to save its Galileo satellite project by opting to inject huge sums of taxpayers' money, although member countries face tough talks afterwards on how to pay for the bailout. What was once supposed to be a showcase of Europe's technological prowess has recently become an embarrassment as delays and cost overruns pile up amid bickering within the private consortium that w ... more |
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Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 06, 2007Russia plans a "totally effective" response to any deployment of a US anti-missile system, but will not necessarily aim weapons at European cities, the Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday. "It will be totally effective from the point of view of ensuring our security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at the Group of Eight summit in Germany. The targeting of Europe, referred to ... more Putin's State Of Mind 
Washington DC (UPI) June 06, 2007The reasons behind Vladimir Putin's increasingly hostile attitude toward the Bush administration are becoming clearer. To understand them in their proper context, imagine the United States and its allies had lost the Cold War. NATO has collapsed. Next thing we know capitalism collapses, along with America's two political parties. In their place springs a one-party system, known as USA ... more Walling Off The Net 
Washington (UPI) Jun 07, 2007One issue that this week's G8 summit will not be addressing is the emergence of a new ideological divide. It is not as sharp as the grim rivalry of the Cold War, but it carries profoundly unpleasant implications for the future. Most of us think the Internet has been a great boon, spreading communication and access to information. But some states are terrified of this, and Amnesty International ... more A Coalition Of Rogues Could Dent The Shield 
Washington (UPI) June 06, 2007If U.S. President George W. Bush follows through with his controversial plan to set up a defensive missile shield in two former Warsaw Pact countries, years from now historians will be asking which came first: the missile shield to protect Western allies from rogue states, or a coalition of rogue states assembled by Russia to counter the missile shield proposed by the United States? ... more Putin Missile Threats Seen As Rational By Some As Putin Confronts G8 Critics 
Moscow (AFP) June 06, 2007President Vladimir Putin's threat to aim missiles at Europe was a rational Russian response to US missile defence plans and other deployments that call Washington's stated intentions into question, analysts say. His recent rhetorical offensive also marks a "line in the sand" to halt what Moscow sees as a pattern of thwarted expectations and broken promises by the United States since the 1991 ... more |
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Tromso, Norway (UPI) June 05, 2007Melting snow covers, ice and glaciers in Asia alone could affect about 40 percent of the world's population, said the U.N. Environment Program. Despite the melting, availability of water supplies for both drinking and agricultural uses will also be impacted, while rising sea levels will affect low-lying coastal areas and islands, said the report, Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. ... more Cyclone Gonu Lashes Gulf Region 
Muscat (AFP) Jun 07, 2007Cyclone Gonu lashed Oman with heavy rains and winds on Wednesday, as thousands of people were evacuated from low-lying areas in the Gulf state and neighbouring Iran for the strongest tropical storm to hit the region in 30 years. Flights were suspended at Oman's Muscat airport but the cyclone has not so far affected shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, where at least a quarter of world oil ... more Envirepel Energy Submits 240 MW Of Renewable Energy Projects To SDGE 
Vista CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2007As the deadline to submit offers to SDG and E closed on May 30, Envirepel Energy announced it had submitted for consideration, an additional 240 Mega Watts of renewable ultra low emissions biomass energy projects to the electric company. The request for offers to companies like Envirepel Energy answers California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Renewable Energy mandate that utilities purc ... more Malaysia On Palmoil Charm Offensive In Europe 
Brussels (AFP) June 06, 2007Malaysia, a leading palm oil producer, sought Wednesday to dispel concerns in Europe that palm oil plantations endanger tropical forests. Malaysia and Indonesia are leading a campaign to fight environmentalist claims that the plantations destroy vast swathes of tropical forest, pushing endangered animals like the orangutan towards extinction. After describing such claims as "disinformation ... more Russia To Redirect Billions In Major Nanotechnology Push 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 06, 2007Russia is budgeting billions of dollars to spend on nanotechnologies in a bid to catch up with the West, but development of the sector is still held back by a wary business community, experts say. Lawmakers on Monday put forward a draft law to create Rosnanotekh, a state nanotechnology corporation with a budget of five billion dollars (3.7 billion euros) that will inject funds into Russia's long ... more
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