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Hunt For Life On Mars Goes Underground In New NASA Mission
Washington (AFP) Jul 17, 2007The hunt for evidence of life on Mars will go underground next year when a NASA probe digs beneath the surface of the red planet's arctic northern plains, US scientists revealed Monday. In a departure from previous missions -- which have seen robotic vehicles explore the planet's hills and craters -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will instead dig into Martian soil for conditions favorable to past o ... more Opportunity Waiting For Dust To Settle 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2007Due to extensive dust storms in Mars' southern hemisphere causing record atmospheric opacity levels, Opportunity is currently experiencing its lowest power levels to date. The tau measurement as of sol 1225 is 4.12, resulting in a mere 280 watt-hours of array energy. A tau measurement of 5.0 would result in approximately 150 watt-hours. If tau begins to approach 5.0, the team will have to begin ... more Ball Aerospace Deep Impact Spacecraft Chosen For NASA EPOXI Mission 
Boulder, CO (SPX) Jul 17, 2007The successful Deep Impact flyby spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., will be returned to service for two NASA Discovery assignments -- the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI), and the Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh), together known as the EPOXI mission. Deep Impact successfully completed its initial mission on July 4, 2005, when the flyby ... more Annual General Stockholders Meeting Of SP Korolev RSC Energia Convenes 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Annual General Stockholders' Meeting of Public Company (OAO) S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia convened in the established order by the Corporation Board of Directors' decision was held. The list of the persons empowered to participate in decision-taking on the Meeting agenda items was drawn up based upon the data from the Corporation Register of Shareholders as of May 28, 2007, ... more Station Crew Prepares For Spacewalk And STS-118 Shuttle Endeavour Mission 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Clay Anderson are gearing up for next Monday's spacewalk. The crew has been configuring spacewalk tools and reviewing spacesuit systems. The July 23 spacewalk will be Anderson's first and Yurchikhin's third. In advance of space shuttle Endeavour visiting the International Space Station in August, the crew has been packing items for return to ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Boeing along with industry teammates and its government customer, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, successfully completed a key Airborne Laser (ABL) flight test Friday, demonstrating the weapon system's ability to actively track an airborne target, compensate for atmospheric turbulence and fire a surrogate for its missile-killing high-energy laser. During the test, the modified Boeing 747- ... more Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Constellation Repositioned To Enhance Global Coverage 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2007A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an on-orbit reconfiguration of the five-satellite Milstar constellation to maximize the system's capabilities to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe. Orbiting the earth at over 22,000 miles in space, the Milstar constellation - which has now surpassed 40 years of co ... more Northrop Grumman Proves BAMS Mission Control System Design 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Northrop Grumman is conducting a range of system simulations in a prototype Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) Mission Control System (MCS) to validate operational models while generating performance measures and manning effectiveness. The Northrop Grumman BAMS Head Start team has integrated the MCS into a mock-up of a Tactical System Center (TSC) used by the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissa ... more US Versus Russia On ABM 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007In the near future, Europe may host two anti-ballistic missile systems, one operated exclusively by the United States and the other a joint project involving America, Russia and other European countries. According to some experts, the initiatives advanced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who proposed joint use of the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan and a radar in southern Russia, have not convinc ... more Russia Has Everything To Win By Freezing Treaty 
Brussels (AFP) Jul 17, 2007Russia has much to win by suspending, or even freezing, a key Soviet-era treaty limiting troops and arms in Europe and the West has little leverage to stop it, experts said Monday. The freeze, decreed by President Vladimir Putin for "exceptional circumstances" relating to Russia's security and due to take effect on December 12, is a new attempt to undermine US and NATO projects, the experts said ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) July 16, 2007Thousands of people who fled their homes around the slopes of a smouldering volcano in Indonesia were Monday told it was safe to return after authorities downgraded the alert status. Mount Gamkonora on the northeastern island of Halmahera was put on top alert last Tuesday, meaning experts believed an eruption could be imminent. "We have downgraded the alert level because the seismic activi ... more China Vital Wetlands Shrinking Due To Climate Change 
Beijing (AFP) July 16, 2007Climate change is shrinking wetlands at the source of China's two greatest rivers and has already led to reduced water flows that could have an impact across Asia, state media reported Monday. The contraction of the wetlands, which serve a vital role regulating the flow of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, comes as China is already struggling to meet the increased water needs of a fast-expanding ec ... more Energy Efficiency Reason For Evolution Of Upright Walking 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Jul 17, 2007A new study provides support for the hypothesis that walking on two legs, or bipedalism, evolved because it used less energy than quadrupedal knucklewalking. David Raichlen, an assistant professor of anthropology at The University of Arizona, conducted the study with Michael Sockol from the University of California, Davis, who was the lead author of the paper, and Herman Pontzer from Washington ... more Russia Will Build Floating Nuclear Power Plants 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007Since 2006, Sevmash, the main company of the Russian State Nuclear Shipbuilding Center, has been working to complete a floating nuclear power plant in northern Russia that will be launched in 2010 and moored in a nearby harbor. This technological marvel will raise quite a few eyebrows and cause widespread apprehension, because the world still fears everything connected with nuclear power. ... more Somali PM Says He Is Not Aware Of Oil Deal With China 
London, UK (AFP) Jul 17, 2007Somalia's interim prime minister said in an interview published Tuesday that he was not aware of a deal struck between Chinese energy companies and his government allotting them oil exploration rights. Ali Mohamed Gedi's comments were interpreted by the Financial Times as signalling a potential internal power struggle within the Somali government, reporting that it had seen a document signed by ... more
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