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X PRIZE Announces Competitors For Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007A real rocket race is on the horizon with the return of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) -- the centerpiece of the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup and Holloman Air and Space Expo. In the Challenge's second year, the number of teams competing for the $2 million purse has increased from four teams to nine. The NG-LLC, sponsored by NASA's Centennial Challenges Program, is designed to ... more Nap Before You Sleep For Your Cruise Into The Abyss Of Outer Sol 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2007Since I last wrote in mid-May, New Horizons has continued its traverse down the magnetotail of Jupiter. That final phase of our Jupiter flyby science will conclude tomorrow, on June 21. At that point, we will be 1.25 astronomical units, or about 120 million miles, from Jupiter. (For Jupiter aficionados, that's about 2,300 Jupiter radii from the planet). ... more ESA Science At Le Bourget 
Le Bourget, France (ESA) Jun 21, 2007This week, from 18 to 24 June, the 47th Paris Air Show is being held at Le Bourget. The event has again gathered many companies from the international air and space industry. ESA as well as a lot of the agency's industrial partners are also present and several important contracts and agreements have been signed for some of the space agency's missions that are in development. ... more Mars Experiment To Push Mental Endurance To The Limit 
Paris (AFP) June 20, 2007You are in the vanguard of humanity, aboard a spaceship to Mars with five other men and women. For more than 17 months, with the perilous void surrounding your tiny refuge, the six of you will share the work and the heroics, battling emergencies, equipment glitches and other hazards on this pioneering mission. But you will also share your personal habits and prejudices... your body odours. ... more BC Partners Wins Control Of Satellite Group Intelsat 
London (AFP) June 20, 2007British investment fund BC Partners has bought a controlling stake in US firm Intelsat in a deal which values the world's biggest commercial satellite communications provider at 5.03 billion dollars. BC Partners and other unnamed investors have acquired 76 percent of shares in US-based Intelsat for the equivalent of about 3.75 billion euros, the pair said in a statement late Tuesday. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) June 20, 2007The defence chiefs of Russia and Azerbaijan confirmed Wednesday their countries' readiness to host part of a US missile defence system at a Russian-leased radar station in Azerbaijan, Interfax news agency reported. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said during talks with his Azeri counterpart Safar Abiyev that Russia is "ready for the joint use of the Gabala radar station either on a ... more Lockheed Martin Shifts Into Production Phase Of Navy Narrowband Tactical Satellite 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 20, 2007The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the Department of Defense's (DoD) next generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, known as the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), has successfully completed a series of production readiness reviews with the U.S. Navy ahead of schedule. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., prime contractor and systems engineering ... more General Dynamics Wins Deal To Study Alternative Infrared Satellite Systems 
Fairfax VA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $6.4 million contract modification to continue work on the Alternative Infrared Satellite System (AIRSS) program. Under the terms of the award, General Dynamics will perform system design work leading to a system design review for the alternative ... more The Privacy Of Internet E-Mail 
Washington (UPI) June 20, 2007A U.S. appeals court in Ohio has ruled that e-mail messages stored on Internet servers are protected by the Constitution as are telephone conversations and that a federal law permitting warrantless secret searches of e-mail violates the Fourth Amendment. "The Stored Communications Act is very important," former federal prosecutor and counter-terrorism specialist Andrew McCarthy told United ... more Water Spray Latest Headache For Indonesian Mudflow Engineers 
Jakarta (AFP) June 20, 2007Indonesian experts scrambled Wednesday to deal with a massive water spray gushing from the ground near a "mud volcano" of toxic sludge on Indonesia's Java island. Ahmad Zulkarnain, the spokesman for the government team handling the disaster, said that the five-metre (16-feet) high spray began before dawn on Saturday through the floor of a restaurant in Jatirejo village, near the mudflow area. ... more |
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Yokohama, Japan (AFP) June 20, 2007Japan's Nissan Motor Corp and France's Renault will wait to see the market's preference between hybrid and diesel cars before deciding which to pursue, the automakers' chief Carlos Ghosn said Wednesday. The hybrid and new clean diesel technologies are pitted "head to head" in the United States and "it is going to be interesting to see how the market reacts," Ghosn told reporters after a Nissan ... more Gas Prices Worry Americans More Than Terrorism Or Economy 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007With fuel now averaging $3.00(1) per gallon nationwide, more American consumers declare themselves (highly) concerned about high gas prices (83%) than about terrorism (62%) or the economy as a whole (69%). These are findings from the inaugural National Analysts Worldwide "Foods, Fats and Fuels" study completed in March that surveyed a nationally representative sample of 502 consumers via the ... more AREVA Launches Pre-Licensing Nuclear Power Planet Process In UK 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 21, 2007AREVA has applied to the UK Regulators for its EPR nuclear reactor design to be considered for the forthcoming Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process. The application is accompanied by letters of support from British Energy, EDF, E.ON UK, Iberdrola, RWE npower and SUEZ, all who consider EPR to be a potential design for new build nuclear in UK. Other major utilities have also expressed serious ... more US Official Emphasizes Enforcement Role in Energy Markets 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2007The chief enforcement officer of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Wednesday expressed confidence that the federal government can adequately monitor the expanding physical and financial energy markets. At a Platts Energy Podium roundtable with reporters, FERC Office of Enforcement Director Susan Court emphasized the commission's enforcement efforts as members of ... more Engineers Develop Higher-Energy Liquid-Transportation Fuel From Sugar 
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 21, 2007Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth. Reporting in the June 21 issue of the journal Nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering Professor James Dumesic and his research team describe a two-stage process for turning ... more
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