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Progress Cargo Ship With Computer Equipment Docks With ISS
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2007The Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft carrying food, water, and fuel supplies for the crew, and equipment to repair onboard computers has automatically docked with the global orbital station, the mission control said. The cargo ship docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule at 22:40 Moscow time (18:40 GMT) Sunday delivering much needed additional equipment to fix the onboard lap ... more Historic Phoenix Mars Mission Flies Actel RTAX-S Devices 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Bringing the benefits of low-power solutions to mission-essential instruments, Actel reports that its radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are aboard NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars, which launched August 4 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station (MET), provided by the Canadian Space Agency. MDA, ... more India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2007Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed. The clashing galaxies, spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will eventually merge into a single, behemoth galaxy up to 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way. This rare sighting provides an unprecedented look at how the most massive galaxies in the universe fo ... more Indigenous Cryogenic Stage Tested For Eight Minutes 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Aug 07, 2007The indigenously developed cryogenic stage, to be used as the upper stage of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), was ground tested for a long duration of eight minutes today (August 4, 2007) at Liquid Propulsion test facility at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. All the parameters of the stage and the engine were normal. Earlier test was for a short duration of 50 seconds. Today's ... more |
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Balad Air Base, Iraq (AFNS) Aug 07, 2007An Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle crashed off base Tuesday at approximately 8 p.m. local time. This was the second Predator to crash in Iraq in two days. Hostile activity does not appear to be a factor in either crash. The crash site is in an unpopulated area and no collateral damage or injuries occurred. A board will be convened to investigate the incident. The aircraft is a ... more The World's First Internet War 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 06, 2007The computer attack aimed at Estonia recently shows that the world can't ignore the dangers of cyberterrorism any longer. It was one of the biggest cyberattacks ever launched, and it nearly brought an entire country to its knees. On April 27, traffic on government and banking Web sites based in Estonia began to increase rapidly; by the next day, the hackers began to use Russian weblogs to spread ... more Northrop Grumman Appoints James Myers VP And GM Of Navigation Systems Division 
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed James M. Myers sector vice president and general manager of its Navigation Systems Division. "Jim brings more than 20 years of business development, strategic planning, supply chain and program management experience in the aerospace and defense industry to his new position, which will serve the entire organization well," said James F. Pitts, corporate v ... more Northrop Grumman Delivers SBIRS GEO-1 Payload To Lockheed Martin 
Azusa CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Northrop Grumman, the payload integrator for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the nation's next-generation missile warning system, has delivered the first SBIRS geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor Lockheed Martin for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing. This major program milestone was achieved after an extensive thermal vacuum test program t ... more Russia Guided By International Law In Its Polar Shelf Probe 
Manila (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia is guided by international law in its polar shelf probes, the country's foreign minister told a news conference Friday. "When explorers reach an unexplored point they leave flags there," Sergei Lavrov said, commenting on Thursday's probe into the North Pole shelf where Russian researchers left a flag. "No one is throwing flags around." Canada, which has claimed part of the Arctic shelf si ... more |
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Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 06, 2007India and Nepal blamed each other Monday for some of the worst flooding in South Asia in decades, which has affected 25 million people and left rescuers scrambling to help victims. Officials in Bihar, the Indian state worst affected by the inundation, said neighbouring Nepal had failed to build dams to control water surging down from the Himalayas. But Nepal hit back immediately, claiming that I ... more Crystals On Meteorite Reveal Clues To Early Solar System Evolution 
Toronto, Ontario (SPX) Aug 07, 2007A University of Toronto-led study has uncovered tiny zircon crystals in a meteorite originating from Vesta (a large asteroid between Mars and Jupiter) shedding light on the formation of planetesimals, small astronomical objects that form the basis of planets. To date, studying zircons in eucrites - meteorites formed by volcanic activity - has been difficult due to impact- induced fracturing and ... more Energy Future For Yemen Remains Unclear 
Washington (UPI) Aug 07, 2007As Yemen reaches out to foreign companies to invest in its oil and natural gas development, the country faces an on-and-off Shiite insurgency, an ongoing al-Qaeda threat and a populace sympathetic to jihadist militants. Yemen already hosts Canadian, Chinese, U.S., Korean and French energy companies, and in April, Yemen's Minister of Oil and Minerals Khaled Bahah made a trip to Calgary, Canada, i ... more Nissan To Launch First Clean Diesel Vehicle Next Year 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 06, 2007Nissan Motor has unveiled plans to launch its first 'clean diesel' engine vehicle in Japan next year as part of efforts to catch up with rivals in green motoring. Japanese automakers are competing to be the first to launch the low pollution diesel engines, which some analysts predict could eventually become more popular than petrol-electric hybrids due to their lower production cost. Nissan said ... more Russian Oil-Fuelled Boom Continues 
Moscow (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Russia's lucky streak continues. The price of oil, the country's main export item and its chief source of budget revenues, has once again soared to record levels. On July 31, the price of a barrel of oil gained $1.38, closing at $78.21 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). This is the highest it has closed on the NYMEX since the exchange began trading oil in 1983 and is close to its all-t ... more
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