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Strekalov To Become Acting Energia President
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 25, 2007The first vice president of Russian space corporation Energia, Alexander Strekalov, will fulfill the duties of the corporation's president, who has been suspended, the board chairman said Friday. The decision was made by the board of directors of state-controlled Energia, which designs Soyuz piloted spaceships and Progress carrier rockets, launches communications satellites, and operates the ... more Lack Of Willingness To Discuss NASA Budget Deeply Disappointing 
Washington, DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2007House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN), Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Mark Udall (D-CO), and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Nick Lampson (D-TX) have issued the following statement in response to the Administration's letter rejecting their request for a meeting of Members of Congress with President Bush to discuss NASA's budgetary situation ... more SpaceDev To Develop Deployable Structures Technology For AFRL 
Poway CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007SpaceDev reports that its subsidiary, Starsys, Inc., has been awarded a $750,000 cost reimbursable design and development subcontract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, for continued development of deployable boom structures for satellites. The award is a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract resulting from design and trade study ... more Mars Rover Laser Tool Ready For Testing 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jun 22, 2007Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool. Now learn the nature of the debris by spectrographically analyzing the ensuing dust and fragments. It's every kid's dream, vaporizing pebbles on other planets, and thanks to a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, it's going to happen. When the JPL-NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover launches in 2009, ... more Plan G For Mars Offers Much For Geological And Geophysical Exploration 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2007The third general type of Mars Science Orbiter mission proposed by the MSO science advisory group's just-published report is "Geological and Geophysical Exploration" ("Plan G"), which would focus -- as its name suggests -- on the actual features and processes on Mars' mineral surface, rather than on its atmosphere or on the structures of its polar caps and their connection to Mars' climate record ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2007The Bush administration has announced its intention to build a national missile defense complex in Europe to supplement current deployments of the system's components, including interceptor sites in Alaska and California. This decision is premature, misguided, wasteful of billions of dollars and damaging to U.S. relationships with our European allies and Russia. National missile defense, n ... more Kinetic Energy Weapons Making Progress In ABM Program 
Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2007Last week's successful test-firing of the first stage rocket motor for the proposed U.S. Kinetic Energy Interceptor was totally ignored by the mainstream U.S. media and got only a handful of references even in the specialized defense and aerospace publications. But it offers the hope of a bold new era in ballistic missile defense technology. U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry A. ... more Chaos in Karachi as storms kill 228 And Hundreds More Across Asia 
Karachi (AFP) Jun 24, 2007More than 200 people were killed as torrential rain and thunderstorms lashed the Pakistani port city of Karachi, destroying hundreds of homes and causing widespread power outages on Sunday. Gale-force winds uprooted trees and power pylons and blew down roofs and walls, crushing and electrocuting scores of victims. Provincial health minister Syed Sardar Ahmed said 43 people were killed on Saturda ... more Extra Police And Military For Australian Aboriginal Towns 
Sydney (AFP) Jun 24, 2007Police backed by military support will arrive in Australian Aboriginal communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday. The deployment heralds a new strategy to end rampant sexual exploitation of children fuelled by alcohol abuse in indigenous communities in the vast Northern Territory. The plan, which has been criticis ... more Canadian Oil Sands Development An Economic Boon But Leaves A Mess 
Fort Mcmurray (AFP) Canada, June 22, 2007The development of Canada's oil sands is laying waste to its great northern forest and western plains, say critics who point to skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions, diverted rivers and razed backwoods. And the devastation can only get worse, they say, as energy companies pump billions of dollars into new projects to triple local oil production to some 3.0 million barrels per day within the nex ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 25, 2007Several events this week cast interesting light on Russia's economy, and the different perceptions of the country here and abroad. After Heiligendamm and the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Renaissance Capital, one of Russia's leading investment banks, held its 11th Annual Investor Conference in Moscow, this year on the theme "Russia: Investing in Prosperity." As Renaissance C ... more Billionaire Hopes To Move Entire Plant From Brazil To China 
Chongqing, China (AFP) Jun 24, 2007Buy a factory in Brazil and move it to China. It is a plan that is as simple as it is sweeping in its sheer scale and ambition, and if anyone can do it, it must be Chinese billionaire Yin Mingshan -- assuming, that is, the Brazilian government will let him. "Brazil has told us we can buy the factory, but only if we agree not to move it," said 69-year-old Yin, the founder and chairman of Chongqin ... more dsIT to Supply First Underwater Surveillance System To Protect Oil Platform 
Givat Shmuel, Israel (SPX) Jun 22, 2007dsIT Solutions Ltd. (dsIT) has announced that it has received an order from NAFTOPORT Liquid Fuels Loading Company Ltd (Poland), a leading European oil terminal operator, for a Diver Detection Sonar (DDS) system. Naftoport operates an oil terminal and conducts reloading of crude oil at the Gdansk port. The company has a key role in supplying crude oil to Polish and German refineries and in expor ... more Exploring The Polar And Climatic Processes Of Mars 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2007Besides the possible "Atmospheric Signatures and Near-Surface Change" mission that I mentioned in my last installment, the "MEPAG" science team assigned to pick possible goals for NASA's big 2013 Mars Science Orbiter proposed two other general types of possible science mission for the craft. One is "Polar and Climate Processes" ("Plan P"). Mars' polar caps are among the most scientifically ... more Spaceport Closer To Breaking Ground 
Las Cruces NM (UPI) Jun 22, 2007The New Mexico Spaceport Authority says the Spaceport America project could break ground next April. It is expected to be the first-ever purpose-built commercial spaceport, the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News said Wednesday. Officials say discussions are continuing with anchor tenant Virgin Galactic, a British firm planning to send paying customers into space. Mike Holston, the spaceport's ... more
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