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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2007The Space Shuttle Program still can surprise engineers and technicians, even after 117 flights. And the engineers have proven up to the task, even if it means building unique tools to handle the situation. The latest example came from a freak hail storm that hit shuttle Atlantis while it sat on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The hail dinged the foam on the external tan ... more Computer Models Suggest Planetary And Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jun 20, 2007The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. Bruce Fegley, Jr., Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has worked on computer models that can provide hints to what comprises the atmos ... more Spirit Gets A Solar Panel Spring Clean 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 20, 2007Spirit got a second spring cleaning on Mars with a dust-cleaning event that increased power from the rover's solar arrays by 120 watt-hours (a 100-watt light bulb that burns for one hour uses 100 watt-hours of electricity). Spirit previously experienced dust-lifting winds in 2005. Energy from the rover's solar arrays is now higher than 600 watt-hours. After completing scientific studies ... more ESA Wants Space Pioneers For 520-Day Mars Experiment 
Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 19, 2007The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth. Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in an research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut ... more Air Force Continues Northrop Grumman Contract For Upper Stage Engine Program 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2007A contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will allow Northrop Grumman to continue technology development for the Upper Stage Engine Technology (USET) program. The program's goal is to design and test a 40,000-pound thrust-class turbopump for liquid hydrogen propellants to reduce risk in future upper stage engine procurements. Under this most recent USET contract, the co ... more |
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Garching, Germany (ESO) Jun 20, 2007An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's most advanced large ground-based telescopes. This system provides assistance for the adaptive optics instruments on the VLT and so allows astronomers to obtain images free from the blurring effect of the atmosphere, regardless of the brightness and the location on th ... more Double Explosion Heralds The Death Of A Very Massive Star 
Belfast UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2007A unique discovery of two celestial explosions at exactly the same position in the sky has led astronomers to suggest they have witnessed the death of one of the most massive stars that can exist. A global collaboration of astronomers, led by Queen's University Belfast teamed up with Japanese supernova hunter Koichi Itagaki to report an amazing new discovery in Nature this week (June 14th). This ... more Paving The Way To Test Einstein With LISA Pathfinder 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 20, 2007A mission which will ultimately test Einstein's Theory of General Relatively and provide us with a detailed insight into the behaviour of some of the most exotic objects in the Universe, supermassive black holes, moved a step closer today with a formal agreement being signed between NASA and the European Space Agency for the technology demonstrator mission, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LI ... more Spitzer Searches For The Origins Of Life 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2007Astronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly bombarded by cosmic debris. Many scientists believe that life's starting materials, or building blocks, must have been very resilient to have survived this tumultuous environment. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has learned that organic molecules believed to be among lif ... more Lockheed Martin Set To Deliver BSAT-3A And JCSAT-11 Spacecraft In 3rd Quarter Of 2007 
Paris (SPX) Jun 20, 2007Lockheed Martin is poised to deliver two spacecraft in the third quarter of 2007 for two premiere customers, the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and the JSAT Corporation (JSAT), both based in Japan. BSAT-3a, designed and built for B-SAT, recently completed its Pre-Shipment Review and is in preparation for shipment to the Arianespace launch site in French Guiana. The BSAT- ... more |
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Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2007Northrop Grumman has delivered to the U.S. Air Force the first of 31 production LN-120G stellar-inertial navigation systems for the RC-135 aircraft. Aided by the LN-120G, the Air Force can accurately pinpoint hostile targets detected by the RC-135 and transmit the information to the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft and, ultimately, to fighter aircraft. ... more MDA Test Fires Kinetic Energy Interceptor Motor 
Washington (UPI) June 19, 2007MDA Director Lt. Gen. Henry A. "Trey" Obering said Friday the agency had successfully carried out the testing of the first-stage rocket motor of its new Kinetic Energy Interceptor, or KEI, a high-speed, three-stage interceptor system designed to destroy incoming ballistic missiles. The Missile Defense Agency said in a statement that the static test firing was carried out at the Alliant ... more North Korea Fires Short-Range Missile 
Seoul (AFP) June 19, 2007North Korea Tuesday test-fired a short-range missile into the sea, South Korean officials said, as international efforts to shut down its nuclear programme began making headway. It was the third launch of short-range conventionally armed missiles in less than a month. The two previous launches have been described as part of routine annual exercises. "North Korea fired a missile today. We ... more Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia In Ancient Turkey 
Nice, France (SPX) Jun 20, 2007The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turin, Italy, will say that there is overwhelming evidence that the Etruscans, whose brilliant civilisation flourished 3000 ... more QuikSCAT Marks Eight Years On-Orbit Watching Planet Earth 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 20, 2007The Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. completed eight years of outstanding on-orbit operations today, performing six years beyond its minimum two-year mission requirement. QuikSCAT continues to return critical wind data to forecast hurricanes and El Nino effects and pinpoint typhoons and other marine storms, as well as help scientists ... more
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