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ESA's Earth Explorer Gravity Satellite On Show
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 20, 2007GOCE, ESA's first satellite dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field, has been presented to the press today in Turin, Italy, before being shipped to ESTEC - the space agency's research and technology centre in the Netherlands - for final testing. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer(GOCE), the first core Earth Explorer mission to be developed as part of ESA's Liv ... more Blue Needle Presents New Challenge For Theorists 
Kamuela HI (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study disks of debris around stars have found one that is extremely lopsided. While scientists are accustomed to finding asymmetrical accumulations of dust and larger bodies around stars, the debris disk around a star known as HD 15115 has a needle-like shape. Astronomers believe the shape of debris disks can ... more New SIDC Commander Has The Wright Stuff 
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2007The organization charged with developing new techniques and procedures to apply space-based capabilities to warfighters gained new leadership July 18. Col. Robert Wright Jr. became the commander of the Space Innovation and Development Center during a change-of-command ceremony held at the Consolidated Club on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, vice commander of Air Force ... more Saturn Turns 60 
London UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2007"We detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft's powerful wide-angle camera," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London. "I was looking at images of the region near the Saturnian moons Methone and Pallene and something caught my eye." The newly discovered moon first appeared as a very faint dot in a series of images Cassini ... more New KVH TracVision SlimLine Satellite TV Systems Bring Unmatched Performance To RVs 
Middletown RI (SPX) Jul 20, 2007KVH Industries unveiled a whole new line of high-performance, low-profile mobile satellite TV systems today at The Rally in Redmond, OR. The new TracVision SlimLine series of 12" satellite TV antennas for RVs offers RV owners unmatched benefits, including the highest signal gain and best reception in the industry, superior integration with DIRECTV standard and high-definition programming, and au ... more |
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Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007ViaSat has won a delivery order valued at approximately $44.9 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals from The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego. By gathering information into a digital view of the battlefield, MIDS provides greater situational awareness in combat for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and for U.S. defense partne ... more US Marine Corps Begins Transitioning To Shadow Tactical UAS 
Hunt Valley MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2007United Industrial Corporation has announced that its AAI Corporation subsidiary has begun training U.S. Marine Corps personnel to fly and maintain Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems (TUAS) in preparation for the service's transition later this year to the Shadow surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering system. The Marine Corps has decided to retire its Pioneer unmann ... more Czech Opposition To Radar Plans Grows As Russia About Consequences 
Prague (AFP) July 19, 2007The number of Czechs opposed to siting a radar in their country as part of a US missile defence shield has risen to nearly two thirds, according to a poll published on Thursday. Some 65 percent of Czechs are opposed to the tracking radar, according to the CVVM poll of 1,013 people between June 4 and 11, up from 61 percent in a similar poll in May. Forty percent of those questioned in the latest ... more The Sub That Quickbird Saw 
Washington (UPI) Jul 20, 2007The Federation of American Scientists scored a major journalistic scoop earlier this month. As previously reported by UPI, the venerable, Washington-based arms-control group claimed to have identified the very first commercial imagery of a new Chinese ballistic-missile-carrying nuclear submarine. FAS analyst and blogger Hans Kristensen believes that Google Earth satellite imagery in late 2 ... more Lockheed Martin Conducts PAC-3 Missile Test At White Sands Missile Range 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Lockheed Martin successfully conducted a PAC-3 Missile flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The test was an engagement against a low-flying, air-breathing target, which was intercepted and destroyed by a PAC-3 Missile. The flight test was conducted by PATRIOT soldiers from the 5th Battalion of the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment (ADA) Regiment, 11th ADA Brigade at Fort Bliss. ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The researchers concluded that glaciers and ice caps are currently contributing about 60 percent of the world's ice to the oceans and the rate has been markedly accelerating in the past d ... more Alternative Farming Cleans Up Water 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Although the addition of nutrients to soil helps to maximize crop production, fertilizer can leach nutrients, polluting the water supply. A recent study by researchers at the University of Minnesota shows alternative cropping practices may help to protect the environment by reducing high nitrate levels in surface and ground water caused by conventional fertilizer use. The team of scientists repo ... more New Clue Into How Diet And Exercise Enhance Longevity 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007The traditional prescriptions for a healthy life-sensible diet, exercise and weight control-extend life by reducing signaling through a specific pathway in the brain, according to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who discovered the connection while studying long-lived mice. They said their findings underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and may also offer promisi ... more Energy Worries Grow For Japan As Nuclear Plant Shut 
Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2007Worries about energy supply in Japan grew Thursday as officials said an earthquake-hit nuclear plant would stay shut at least for the summer amid fresh safety fears. The powerful earthquake killed 10 people, injured more than 1,000 and destroyed hundreds of buildings, forcing Japan's fast-growing automakers to curtail production. Measuring 6.8 on the Richter-scale, it struck just nine kilometres ... more US And Russia Facing Energy Crises 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 20, 2007New Yorkers still remember the "night of terror" provoked by a blackout on a hot summer's night in 1977, when stores were ransacked, looted and destroyed, buildings were set ablaze, and the police, for the most part, stood helpless. In the 30 years since then, electricity experts have not found a foolproof way of developing electricity systems that would rule out a repetition of such disasters. ... more
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