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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2007NASA is joining a Japanese team in a space experiment that uses reverse origami to show the way to help keep satellites in their proper orbits, or to return spent rocket stages quickly to Earth. Les Johnson of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is working with Prof. Hironori A. Fujii of the Tokyo Metropolitan University on the Foldaway Flat Tether Deployment System--or Fortissimo, as it is some ... more Rockwell Collins And ARINC Sign Agreement For Broadband Offering 
Cedar Rapids IO (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Business jet passengers will soon be better connected than ever with the reintroduction of Rockwell Collins eXchange broadband connectivity offering, featuring ARINC SKYLinkSM's highly successful broadband network service. Under the terms of the agreement, Rockwell Collins will supply airborne broadband hardware and after sales support, while ARINC SKYLink will provide the Ku-band satellite ... more Astrium Services Signs Distribution Agreement With Iridium Satellite 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Iridium Satellite has announced that Astrium Services, a subsidiary of EADS Astrium, has signed an agreement to become a value-added reseller (VAR) of Iridium satellite communication equipment and services. Under the VAR agreement, Astrium Services is authorized to package Iridium-based satellite voice and data solutions for a wide range of international defense and commercial customers. ... more Raytheon Ships ARTEMIS Sensor For On-Demand Surveillance From Space 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007A hyper-spectral imaging sensor developed by Raytheon to demonstrate and assess military applications from satellites launched on demand has been delivered to Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The delivery marks the sensor's first leg of a journey into space scheduled in December aboard a vehicle known as TacSat-3. The ARTEMIS (Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging ... more Albertis Seeks Share In Galileo Partner Hispasat As Surrey Welcomes EU Support 
Madrid (AFP) Jun 12, 2007Spanish infrastructure group Albertis said Monday it was considering a stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat, one of the partners in the European satellite navigation network Galileo. Albertis, in a message to the Spanish market regulator CNMV, said its subsidiary, Albertis Telecom "has had talks with the private shareholders of Hispasat to study a possible acqusition, but no commitment ... more |
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Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007The U.S. Air Force has exercised an option on its Alternate Infrared Satellite System (AIRSS) contract with Northrop Grumman to move the program to a System Design Review (SDR) level of maturity. The option was exercised following a successful System Requirements Review. Being developed for the nation's missile warning and missile defense system, the AIRSS program is emphasizing recently mature ... more Democrats For Missile Defense 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007An op-ed last week in Space News provided significant support for our assessment that the new Democrat-controlled 110th Congress wants to praise ballistic missile defense, not bury it. In it, Ellison, one of the most influential proponents of the Bush administration's BMD program, not only comes to the conclusion that Democrats and Republicans in Congress now agree on almost all funding issues a ... more US Intel Budget May Reach 60 Billion Dollars 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The secret budget for U.S. intelligence is much higher than previously thought, perhaps as much as $60 billion, according to the extrapolation of figures inadvertently left buried in a computerized government slideshow. The presentation, made at a Defense Intelligence Agency conference in May and later posted on the agency's Web site, contained a bar chart showing the growing amount of the ... more Who Cyber Smacked Estonia 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The recent cyber attacks on Estonian government networks were likely carried out by politically motivated hacker gangs, not Russian security agencies as some early reports suggested, according to assessments conducted by the U.S. government and the private sector. The attacks were crude so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, utilizing global networks, or botnets, of com ... more Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Achieves Major Milestone 
Minneapolis (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy team of PMA-242, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division - China Lake, and the Italian Air Force recently conducted the first Developmental Test (DT) firing of an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) from an F/A-18 aircraft on the China Lake test ranges on 25 May 2007. The test firing confirmed the effective integration of AARGM with the F/A-18 ... more |
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Austin TX (SPX) Jun 11, 2007A report that recommends steps to reduce hurricane damage in New Orleans was released by an expert engineering panel of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The 84-page report, "The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why," targets the public and policymakers, and complements and synthesizes the thousands of pages released so far by the U.S. Army Corps of Engi ... more Global Warming Not To Blame For The Woes Of Kilimanjaro 
Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 12, 2007The "snows" of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming. However, two researchers writing in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a ... more Kenya Calls For Urgent Action To Save Receding Lake Victoria 
Nairobi (AFP) June 11, 2007Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday called for urgent action to save Lake Victoria, the world's second largest fresh water lake which is facing decline in water levels due to human activities. The lake, which provides livelihoods for some 30 million people in the shoreline countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has suffered a dramatic fall in water levels since 2003. "Lake Victoria is ... more Agonized Death Throes Probable Cause Of Pose Of Many Dino Fossils 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2007The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely results from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according to two paleontologists. A classic example of the posture, which has puzzled paleontologists for ages, is the 150 million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the first-known example of a feathered dinosaur a ... more Green Coffins Go Upmarket At British Funeral Parlors 
London (AFP) June 11, 2007Coffins shaped like a Rolls-Royce, a guitar or a ballet shoe are booming in Britain, where the latest unusual trend in funerals is for "green" burials, kind to the environment. Since 2000, Vic Fearn and Company have been making offbeat caskets which it markets under the title "Crazy Coffins". The firm recently expanded their range to include illustrated ones. "We didn't invent anything, th ... more
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