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NASA Mars Rover Ready For Descent Into Crater
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2007NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the Mars Rover science team expect it to provide valuable science. Opportunity already has been exploring layered rocks in cliffs around Victoria Crater. The team has planned ... more New Horizons Slips Into Electronic Slumber 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2007New Horizons' first operational hibernation phase is off to a successful start! On commands transmitted from the Mission Operations Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland, through NASA's Deep Space Network, the spacecraft eased into hibernation mode in the early hours of June 27. Since then, New Horizons has twice broadcast "green" beacon tones back to Earth, indica ... more Ferry-Flight Will Return Atlantis To Kennedy 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2007This weekend, Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin its journey back to Kennedy Space Center "piggy-backed" on top of a modified 747 jetliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Known as a ferry-flight, the orbiter will make the trip from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in one to two days, depending on weather conditions. Atlantis landed a ... more Cornell And NAIC Search For Funding To Keep Arecibo Radar Alive 
Cornell NY (SPX) Jun 29, 2007The planetary radar system at the Arecibo Observatory, which Cornell manages for the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), is the most powerful in the world and is considered the best tool for tracking asteroids that may be on a collision course with the Earth. But since the Arecibo radar system may lose all its funding from NSF as s ... more Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2007Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter's turbulent clouds are always changing as they encounter atmospheric disturbances while sweeping around the planet at hundreds of miles per hour. But these Hubble images reveal a rapid transformation in the shape and color of Jupiter's clouds n ... more |
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Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A group of Russian and foreign experts Thursday began monitoring radiation levels at the site of a 2003 incident involving a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, a Russian Navy official said. The K-159, a November class nuclear submarine with 800 kilograms (about 1,700 pounds) of spent nuclear fuel onboard, sank in 2003 while being towed to Polyarny, in northwest Russia, for decommissio ... more North Korea Tests New Missiles As Inspectors Head To Nuclear Reactor 
Seoul (AFP) June 28, 2007North Korea's latest missile launches were aimed at testing and developing new ballistic missiles, South Korea's defence ministry said Thursday. The ministry confirmed belatedly that the North fired ground-to-ground and ground-to-ship missiles with a range of about 100 kilometres (62 miles) into the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea respectively on Wednesday. The launches appeared to be aime ... more Poland Sees US Missile Shield Deal By October; As Russia Beefs Up Kyrgyzstan Base 
Warsaw (AFP) June 27, 2007Poland and United States could reach a deal by September or October on installing part of the US anti-missile defence system in the central European country, local media reported Wednesday citing a top foreign ministry official. Deputy foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski, who just completed a round of negotiations with the Americans, told Polish journalists in Washington that Warsaw was "satis ... more Puma Small UAS Achieves Record Flight Time Using Fuel Cell Battery Hybrid System 
Monrovia CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2007AeroVironment has successfully flown its Puma small unmanned aircraft for nearly five hours while it was powered by an onboard fuel cell battery hybrid energy storage system. This successful demonstration marked the completion of the first task under AV's contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the development of advanced propulsion technologies for unmanned aircraft. ... more Predators Reach Quarter-Million Flight Hours 
Creech AFB NV (AFPN) Jun 29, 2007Airmen from the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron flew an MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle past the 250,000 flying hour milestone marking the historic milestone with a ceremony June 22 at Creech Air Force Base. "This historic achievement in the evolution of air and space power underlines the United States Air Force commitment to unmanned aerial systems," said Maj. Robert Forino, the pilot with t ... more |
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New York (UPI) June 27, 2007The U.N. Population Fund has issued a warning as the majority of the world's population shifts from rural to urban areas that plans must be prepared now because the coming changes are too large and will happen too fast to allow for simply reacting. the first time in history, more than half of the world's population, or 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas, said the "UNFPA State of W ... more Cooperation Agreement For Satellite Navigation In Africa 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 29, 2007ESA and the Agency for Security of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar have signed a cooperation agreement with the objective of using satellite navigation to improve air traffic safety over the African continent. The framework agreement, which covers cooperation between ESA and the African aviation safety agency (Agence pour la Securite de la Navigation Aerienne en Afrique - ASECNA), was si ... more The Greening Of Alcatraz 
San Francisco (AFP) June 27, 2007Once a sinister home to notorious mobsters and murderers, Alcatraz is in line for an environmental makeover that could see the imposing former prison island become a tree-hugger's paradise. Under plans by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area which manages the rugged rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz is poised to be transformed into a beacon for progressive communities. ... more Impact Of Climate Change Equal To Nuclear War 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Global climate change defies forecasting. Unprecedented heat, floods, droughts and typhoons brought about by climate change cause tremendous damage. The number of such calamities has doubled over the last 10 years, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. Some experts think there is nothing to worry about-periodic alterations in the climate are normal. Some believe the gener ... more Pakistan Aid Flights Start As Afghan Floods Kill 50 
Quetta (AFP) Pakistan, June 28, 2007Military helicopters led efforts to help 800,000 Pakistanis affected by a powerful cyclone Thursday as floods claimed 23 lives in the northeast and at least 50 in neighbouring Afghanistan. Nearly 450 people have now lost their lives in severe pre-monsoon weather which has swept across South Asia in the past week, which the United Nations said highlighted the need to prepare for the impact of glo ... more
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