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The Adventures Of ASTRO And NextSat
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Picture this: Two robots hang suspended in space, nose to nose. One reaches out a crooked silver arm and begins to minister to the needs of the other. Fuel is exchanged, a battery is replaced; servicing complete, the two silently drift apart. These robots, named ASTRO and NextSat, are real and they are in Earth orbit now. On March 8, 2007, an Atlas V rocket boosted the pair into space. Their mis ... more NASA Selects Alcoa As Materials Supplier For Ares 1 Launch Vehicle 
Bettendorf IO (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Alcoa reports that its North American Rolled Products business has won a one year contract from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop the manufacturing capability and supply of high performance aluminum-lithium plate and ingot to be used for the Ares 1 crew launch vehicle (CLV) upper stage, the rocket that will carry a new generation of explorers into space. ... more Warner Goes Digital To Bring New Life To Films 
San Francisco (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Hollywood's shift away from celluloid continued on Tuesday as Warner Brothers Entertainment revealed its film editing and archives have gone digital. Warner said it worked with US computer giant Hewlett-Packard to build a sophisticated digital editing "infrastructure" used to craft recently-released "Oceans 13" and rejuvenate classics such as "The Wizard of Oz." "It is part of our studio m ... more How To Manage Floating Fluids In Space 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Six months is a long time to be away from home. But Astronaut Sunita Williams had plenty of work to keep her busy during her stay on the International Space Station, including a group of experiments she dubbed "lava lamp." "I call it the 'lava lamp' experiment because some of the fluid is pink, and we hang out watching it with video and pictures," she wrote in her mission log. "If only we had a ... more Eurobot Makes A Splash 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 05, 2007Many of the best-loved science fiction movies show intelligent robotic servants working alongside their masters. Fiction is rapidly becoming fact as European engineers develop increasingly sophisticated machines that can operate in space. One of these, known as Eurobot, has just completed trials in the giant pool at the European Astronaut Centre. Eurobot has been under development since 20 ... more |
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University Park PA (SPX) Jul 02, 2007New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and will be published in the August 2007 issue of the journal's print edition. "My paper introduces a new mathematical model that we can use to derive new details about the properties of a quantum ... more International Space Station Provides Classroom for Students Around the World 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 29, 2007Imagine a classroom project to build training hardware for astronauts. Or growing plants on the International Space Station. Or snapping photographs from space. For more than six years, the space station -- where crews perform experiments 220 miles above Earth -- has become a base for an integral part of school curriculums around the world. Nearly 32 million U.S. and international partner ... more Carnegie Leads Team Conducting Most Detailed Cosmological Simulation To Date 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 29, 2007By incorporrating the physics of black holes into a highly sophisticated model running on a powerful supercomputing system, an international team of scientists has produced an unprecedented simulation of cosmic evolution that verifies and deepens our understanding of relationships between black holes and the galaxies in which they reside. Called BHCosmo, the simulation shows that black hol ... more Science Module Structure Arrives At Astrium UK 
London UK (SPX) Jun 29, 2007The Protoflight Model of the Science Module structure built by Oerlikon Space AG has been delivered to Astrium UK at the beginning of June 2007. The lightweight, high stiffness and highly thermally stable structure is made of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) with the exception of the mating ring to the Propulsion Module which is made of aluminium alloy. The structure will provide a s ... more First Detection Of Thorium In An Extragalactic Star 
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jun 29, 2007Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor dwarf galaxy. Their discovery marks the first abundance determination of the actinides element thorium in a star beyond the Milky Way, and follows the detection of thorium in more than ten stars with ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) June 29, 2007Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday Japan should find legal leeway to allow its armed forces to shoot down a ballistic missile fired at its key ally the United States. Abe made the remarks before a panel of advisers which he set up in April to lay the legal groundwork for Japan to fight for allies under attack without breaching its post-World War II pacifist constitution. The constitutio ... more US Wants To Go It Alone On Missile Defense 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to join President George W. Bush at Walker's Point, the Bush family's seaside estate, in Kennebunkport, Maine, this weekend for a short summer retreat. Both leaders will focus on the deployment of elements of a U.S. missile defense system, namely 10 missile interceptors in Poland and an early-warning radar in the Czech Republic. President Putin, mean ... more BAE Systems Completes Major New Facility For Ionospheric Physics Research 
Gakona, Alaska, June 27, 2007BAE Systems has completed work on the world's largest and most capable ionospheric research facility. The facility will be used to study interactions between high-power radio signals and the earth's ionosphere. As the prime contractor for the U.S. Defense Department's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research station, BAE Systems designed and built the facility, operating s ... more GOP House Science Committee To Evaluate NASA Earth Science Budget 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Today, the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics heard from a panel of expert witnesses who discussed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) fiscal year 2008 (FY08) budget request and plans for the agency's Earth science programs. At the hearing, Space and Aeronautics Ranking Member Tom Feeney (R-FL) made the following statement: "Today's hearing on NASA's Earth Science ... more In Russian Far East Nature Makes No Allowances For Tourists 
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (AFP) Jun 28, 2007In a vast wilderness in eastern Russia, scientists and tourism entrepreneurs are anxiously working out how much is left of one of the world's great natural wonders, Geyser Valley. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy in Soviet times, the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula boasts nature at its most unpredictable, as demonstrated by a recent landslide that obliterated many of its prized geysers. In ... more
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