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Satellite Tracking Will Help Answer Questions About Penguin Travels
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007 You could understand if a half-dozen Magellanic penguins developed a "big bird is watching" phobia before this month is over, but the surveillance really will be for their own good. University of Washington scientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in northern Argentina after their feathers ... more NASA Gives Green Light For Space Shuttle Flight 
Washington DC (AFP) Aug 08, 2007NASA on Monday gave the final green light to a space shuttle launch planned for Wednesday, an event the US space agency hopes will help the public forget recent stories of drunk and lovesick astronauts. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency has already started the countdown for shuttle Endeavour's launch, scheduled for 6:36 pm (2236 GMT) Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canavera ... more Stardust On Way Back To Tempel 1 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007The reuse of Deep Impact for a second comet flyby, while sensible, was always probable -- it's still a nice fresh spacecraft that took only six months to get from Earth to Tempel 1 and will be only four years old when it flies by Comet Boethin. The reuse of the Stardust comet-sampling probe is a lot more surprising. In order to set itself up to fly past a comet at an acceptable low speed ( ... more Iridium Announces First Development Partners For NEXT 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Iridium Satellite has contracted with seven key partners in the beginning phase of designing and developing its "Iridium NEXT" satellite constellation. These first partners -- Avaliant, Boeing, General Dynamics, KinetX, MicroSat Systems, Inc. (MSI) and Trident Sensors -- will work with Iridium on systems engineering, requirements definition and architecture development. "We are excited by ... more Purdue Milestone A Step Toward Advanced Sensors And Communications 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise laboratory instruments. The laser pulses could be likened to strobes used in high-speed photography to freeze fast-moving objects such as bullets or flying insects. These laser pulses ... more |
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Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners is replacing manual inspection. The new process begins with the upcoming shuttle mission, STS-118. Endeavour is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 6:36 p.m. EDT. Technicians have been using six new scanners to look for cracks and other imperfections in some of the 2 ... more ILS to Launch Inmarsat Satellite On Proton Vehicle Next Spring 
McLean VA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) and Inmarsat announced a contract for launch of the Inmarsat 4-F3 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle in early 2008. This satellite, third in the constellation, will enable Inmarsat to offer global coverage with its BGAN mobile broadband service, as well as existing services. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is planned for the March-April t ... more Russia Approves Mass Production Of Cutting-Edge Bulava Missile 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2007Russia has moved to a higher level in the design of strategic sea-based nuclear systems. Admiral Vladimir Masorin, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, said the Bulava-M (SS-NX-30), a naval derivative of the land-based missile Topol (SS-27), had been approved for mass production. It will be supplied to the new fourth-generation Project 955 Borey-class strategic submarines. Three such submarin ... more Japan Buys Another Aegis System 
Moorestown, NJ (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Lockheed Martin has received a $33 million contract to provide Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability to the Aegis-equipped Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JDS Chokai. JDS Chokai is the second of four Japanese destroyers to be outfitted with the Aegis BMD Weapon System. Aegis BMD is currently being installed on JDS Kongo, which is scheduled to return to sea and conduct ... more Russia To Export S-400 Air Defense System From 2009 
Elektrostal, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia could start producing the S-400 Triumf (NATO codename SA-21 Growler) air defense complex for export from 2009, the head of the Almaz central design bureau said Monday. "Within two years, our forces will test this system to ensure that there are no problems with it [on the market]... and then we will start producing them for export from 2009," Igor Ashurbeili said. He said the first S-400 ... more |
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Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Staring at the few carefree teenagers frolicking about in the water, beach worker Hitoshi Arakawa was full of resentment over a leak at a nearby nuclear plant. "They say the exposure level won't harm people's health, but the very fact that there was radiation leakage kills businesses like ours," Arakawa said furiously, with unsold stocks of corn piled up under his table. Arakawa, 42, is one of t ... more Scientists Train Nano-Building Blocks To Take On New Shapes 
Newark DE (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave--to literally "self-assemble" --and form into long, multicompartment cylinders 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, with potential uses in radiology, signal communication and the delivery of therapeutic drugs in the human body. The discove ... more Porphyrin Electron-Transfer Reactions Observed At The Molecular Level 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas such as molecular electronics, electrochemistry, biology, catalysis, information storage, and solar energy conversion. The researchers have published their findings, "Dynamics of P ... more Putin Says Recent North Pole Mission To Back Russian Claim To Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2007The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russian researchers made the first-ever dive below the North Pole in two mini-submarines last Thursday, taking rock samples from the seabed to gather proof that Russia's continental shelf stretches out into the Arcti ... more WMO Says World Hit By Record Extreme Weather Events In 2007 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Many parts of the world have experienced record extreme weather conditions including unusual floods, heatwaves, storms and cold snaps since the beginning of the year, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday. Preliminary observations also indicated that global land surface temperatures in January and April reached the highest levels ever recorded for those months, the World Meteorological Organisati ... more
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