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Spacehab Subsidiary Wins New NASA Launch Processing Contract At Vandenberg
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 26, 2007Spacehab reports that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a new contract by NASA for payload processing services for expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) at the Western Range in California. With a value not to exceed $35 million, this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quality (IDIQ) contract is for payload processing support on several upco ... more Austria Releases Russian Space Agency Official 
Vienna (RIA Novosti) Jun 21, 2007Austrian authorities have released a Russian space agency official arrested on espionage charges last week and he will be soon handed over to Russian diplomats, Russia's Embassy in Vienna said Thursday. A 51-year-old Russian Federal Space Agency official was arrested June 11 in northern Austria on suspicion of espionage, and an Austrian Air Force officer was arrested on suspicion of supplying th ... more Integral Detection Of Galactic 60Fe Gamma-Ray Line Emission 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 26, 2007By combining observations made during a period of two and a half years with the SPI instrument onboard Integral, a team headed by Roland Diehl has obtained the most significant detection to date of the 60Fe isotope in our Galaxy through its gamma-ray line emission. Based on current stellar evolution models the iron isotope 60Fe is thought to be produced in supermassive stars in the final stages ... more Vizada Launches SkyFile Access For Better Mobile Satellite Data Transfer 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 22, 2007Vizada (formerly France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications) launches SkyFile Access, a simple, secure and cost-effective solution enabling users of Inmarsat mobile satellite terminals to optimize data transfer. On land or at sea, SkyFile Access provides a direct, seamless Internet connection for end-users operating in areas with limited access to terrestrial telecoms infrastructure. V ... more YES2 Given Green Light For Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 26, 2007Paris, France (ESA) Jun 26, 2007 After 5 years of design and development work and preparation of the flight model, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has passed its Final Acceptance Review and been given the green light by ESA for launch in September. Following four and a half months of assembly, integration and testing at ESTEC, the groundbreaking student experiment was shi ... more |
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New Delhi (ANI) (SPX) Jun 26, 2007President APJ Abdul Kalam has called upon the BrahMos Aerospace team to work on Mark-II version of the missile so that the country remains the market leader in supersonic cruise missiles. Congratulating the Indian Army for acquiring supersonic cruise missile BrahMos at a function marking the commencement of its delivery, Kalam said that in the emerging network centric warfare scenario, the fast ... more KVH Receives Order For Fiber Optic Gyros For US Military Simulators 
Middletown RI (SPX) Jun 26, 2007KVH Industries has received a $1.1 million order for its DSP-3000 fiber optic gyros (FOGs) from a U.S. military customer. KVH's compact, highly accurate FOGs will be used for real-time image synchronization and stabilization in military training simulator systems. Shipments for this order are expected to be completed in the near-term. "Our DSP-3000 FOGs, with their precise and instant meas ... more Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Achieves Ninth Hit-to-Kill Intercept In Space 
Kauai, Hawaii (SPX) Jun 22, 2007A Raytheon-produced Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) successfully engaged a ballistic missile target outside the earth's atmosphere during a flight test over the Pacific Ocean. Launched from the USS DECATUR (DDG 73), the SM-3 Block IA destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target that had been launched from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. This flight test mark ... more Northrop Grumman Exceeds Requirements For High Power Solid State Laser Phase 3 Program 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2007Northrop Grumman has entered the integration and test phase for the Joint High Power Solid State Laser (JHPSSL) Phase 3 program after exceeding all demonstration requirements for the first gain module, or building block, that forms the core of its 100 kW solid-state laser system. The achievement came as the company successfully completed a Critical Design Review conducted by Department of Defens ... more Russia Can Claim Lots More Of The Arctic 
Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007Russia can claim an additional 1.2 million square kilometers (0.46 million square miles) outside its economic zone in the Arctic, an area with expected hydrocarbon reserves of about 10 billion tons of fuel equivalent, the director of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. "I am talking about Russia being able to claim territory outside its economic zone," Val ... more |
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London (AFP) Jun 26, 2007Three people were dead and hundreds were stranded on Monday as torrential downpours caused widespread chaos and the worst floods seen in northern England in years. Several hours of effort from rescuers including police divers was not enough to save a 28-year-old man in Hull, northwest England, who died after becoming trapped while trying to clear a flooded drain. Local police in nearby She ... more Scientists Call For Global Push To Advance Research In Synthetic Biology 
Oxnard CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2007With research backgrounds ranging from materials engineering to molecular biophysics, seventeen leading scientists issued a statement announcing that, much as the discovery of DNA and creation of the transistor revolutionized science, there is a new scientific field on the brink of revolutionizing our approach to problems ranging from eco-safe energy to outbreaks of malaria. That research ... more Cooling Problem Halts Russian Nuclear Reactor 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 25, 2007Technicians shut down a nuclear reactor in southwest Russia Monday after a problem with the cooling system, but no increase in radiation levels was recorded, state-run nuclear power company Rosenergoatom said. "Personnel at the Kursk nuclear power station noticed a leak of cooling agent from a pipe in reactor number two," the statement said. "To avoid a malfunction" the reactor was stopped. ... more Ukraine To Move Away From Russian Design For Nuclear Plant 
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007Ukraine's nuclear power utility Energoatom said Monday a new reactor it plans to build in the country's south will break with a long-standing tradition of using Russian design and technology. "We imagine this unit as one of a non-Russian type," the company's chief executive, Andrei Derkach, was quoted as saying in a press release. He said the design for a fourth reactor at the Soviet-era ... more Electricite de France In Running To Build Slovak Nuclear Plant 
Bratislava (AFP) Jun 25, 2007French state-owned electricity giant Electricite de France (EDF) is interested in building a new nuclear plant in Slovakia, the SITA news agency reported on Monday. "We would like to participate in the development of the electricity sector in Slovakia and to use our means and know how to develop new production capacity to ensure that Slovakia is self-sufficient as regards production," vice presi ... more
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