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RSC Energia Board Restructure Company Management
Korolev, Russia (SPX) Aug 09, 2007According to the newly-established management structure, the First Vice-President, General Director of ZAO "ZEM of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev" Alexander Fyodorovich Strekalov and the Vice-President in charge of Security and Personnel Nikolai Ivanovich Chekin continue to perform the duties they are entrusted with. According to the new organization chart of OAO RSC Energia after S.P. Kor ... more ISRO To Build Nano-Satellite Platform, Eyes Overseas Business 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 09, 2007India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said today. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "We are trying ... more Strange Lights The 2007 Aurigid Meteor Shower 
Huntsville AL (MSFC) Aug 09, 2007Will they come, or will they not? That is the question. On Sept. 1, 2007, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors might-emphasis on might--come streaming out of the constellation Auriga, putting on a beautiful early morning show for sky watchers in western North America: sky map. The source of the putative shower is Comet Kiess (C/1911 N1), a mysterious "long-period comet" that has visited ... more Completing The Mission After 21 Years 
Greenbelt MD (GSFC) Aug 08, 2007Dear Friends: It is time for another one of those periodic rambling e-mails that yours truly is famous for sending out on occasion. I know I've missed sending out year-end summary of activities in holiday cards and promise to give the complete Eduardo recap at some point later this year but for now, I just would like to talk two numbers: 7,861 and 1. Most of you are already familiar with m ... more AeroAstro-built STPSat-1 Spacecraft Positions For Shuttle Plume 
Ashburn (SPX) Aug 09, 2007AeroAstro today announced that STPSat-1 payload, SHIMMER, has successfully gathered data from the June 8th launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Twenty-four hours before the launch, operators at the Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM rolled the spacecraft 0.66 degrees by ground command to point the payload to a higher altitude to observe the vapor plume put off by the STS-117 mission. ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Russia's strategic aviation started Wednesday an active phase of military exercises to fly over the North Pole and conduct test launches of cruise missiles, an Air Force spokesman said. During the active phase, four Tu-160 Blackjack, 12 Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers, and 14 Tu-22 Backfire-C theater bombers will conduct simulated bombing raids, and more than ten cruise missile launches at the Pe ... more Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Completes First Flight 
St. Augustine FL (SPX) Aug 06, 2007The first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye development aircraft, known as Delta One, built for the U.S. Navy by prime contractor Northrop Grumman, completed its first flight this afternoon. Northrop Grumman Flight Test Pilot Tom Boutin and U.S. Navy Flight Test Pilot Lt. Drew Ballinger along with Northrop Grumman Flight Test Lead Weapon Systems Operator Zyad Hajo lifted off shortly before 11 a.m. and flew ... more Russia To Boost Space Defense With New Missile System 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Russia is developing a fifth-generation air defense missile system that is superior to S-400 Triumf complex and capable of hitting targets in space, the Air Force commander said Wednesday. Russia recently deployed the first S-400 air defense battalion to protect the airspace around Moscow, and is planning to equip over two dozen battalions with the system by 2015. "While working on the S-400, we ... more Russian Scientists To Study In Detail North Pole Expedition Samples 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Studying the geological samples taken from the North Pole seabed during Russia's symbolic expedition last week could take six months, a Russian Academy of Sciences spokesman said Wednesday. Russian researchers descended 4,200 meters (14,000 feet) below the Pole in two submersibles last Thursday to gather evidence to bolster the country's claim to a vast swathe of extra Polar territory - a missio ... more Immunity In Social Amoeba Suggests Ancient Beginnings 
Houston (SPX) Aug 09, 2007Finding an immune system in the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) is not only surprising but it also may prove a clue as to what is necessary for an organism to become multicellular, said the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in the journal Science. Dictyostelium discoideum usually exists as a single-celled organism. However, when stressed by st ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007All contracts concluded by foreign oil companies with Saddam Hussein's regime and the Kurdistan authorities will be reviewed in line with Iraq's new legislation, the Iraqi oil minister said Wednesday. "A draft oil law stipulates that any contract concluded with the previous regime or the Kurdistan autonomy must be reviewed and brought in line with the new law," Hussain al-Shahristani said on arr ... more Belarus Pays Gazprom Bill For Russian Natural Gas In Full 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Belarus has fully paid its $460 million debt for Russian natural gas supplies, ending a dispute between the country and Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant said Wednesday. "Gazprom today received the last installment of debt payment for Russian gas supplied in the first half of the year," company spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said. Gazprom threatened last Wednesday to slash gas supplies to Bel ... more Russia Oil Firm Russneft Securities Seized 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Investigators from Russia's Interior Ministry said Wednesday they had seized on a court order 100% of private oil group RussNeft's securities. The seizure had been requested by the Interior Ministry, whose investigators are conducting a tax evasion and illegal business probe against the company's CEO. "On July 31, Moscow's Lefortovo district court upheld a motion to seize 100% of the company's s ... more Russian Hostages Freed In Nigeria 
Miami (UPI) Aug 08, 2007Six Russian hostages held by militants in the Niger Delta were freed after more than two months amid gang violence in Port Harcourt that left at least 15 dead. The six Russians were taken hostage June 3 while working at an aluminum factory run by Russian firm UC RUSAL, the No. 1 producer of aluminum in the world. The captives were among the more than 200 people abducted so far this year by milit ... more Changing The Rings: A Key Finding For Magnetics Design 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2007Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical determination of the dominant damping mechanism that settles down excited magnetic states-"ringing" in physics parlance-in some key metals. Their results, published in the Physical Review Letters, point to more efficient methods to predict the dyn ... more
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