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Nuclear Power In Space
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar cells has grown substantially recently, they have reached the limit of their development and can supply electricity only in near-Earth orbits and for satellite-borne equipment. Such large-scale projects as the exploration of the Moon or a manned mission to Mars require nuclear power plants. ... more Ariane 5 rocket puts US, Japanese satellites into orbit 
Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) Aug 15, 2007An Ariane 5 rocket blasted off here on Tuesday and put into orbit Japanese and US telecommunications satellites, Arianespace said. The rocket, the 33rd launch of an Ariane 5 and the third this year, lifted off at 2344 GMT and successfully placed both satellites into geostationary transfer orbit, the company said. The Spaceway 3, built by Boeing and operated by Hughes Network Systems, is ... more Drive-By-Wire And Human Behavior Systems Key To Virginia Tech Urban Challenge Vehicle 
Blacksburg, VA (SPX) Aug 14, 2007Virginia Tech's entry in DARPA's Urban Challenge is moving forward to the qualifying rounds, thanks in part to a custom-designed drive-by-wire control system and unique navigation software that makes the vehicle's driving decisions almost human. VictorTango, a team of Virginia Tech engineering and geography students, is among 36 semi-finalists selected by DARPA ... more China reveals deadly threat to first flight 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 13, 2007China's historic first manned space mission narrowly averted disaster when ground control lost contact with the returning space capsule, China revealed for the first time Monday, four years later. The communication blackout as the capsule re-entered the Earth's atmosphere threatened a safe landing by astronaut Yang Liwei and forced ground control to use backup systems, Xinhua news agency ... more US teacher gives first lesson from space 
Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2007The first teacher in space taught her first lesson in zero-gravity Tuesday, answering questions from school children in Idaho from the orbiting International Space Station hundreds of miles above Earth. Barbara Morgan, flanked by crewmates Alvin Drew and Dave Williams, talked for 25 minutes to children at the Discovery Center in Boise, Idaho, the northwestern state where Morgan taught at a ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2007NASA has issued a draft environmental impact statement on potential environmental impacts associated with the Constellation Program. NASA's Constellation Program is developing a space transportation system that is designed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement concludes that localized and global environmental impacts associated with implementing ... more Air Force Integrates Space Operations Into A-Staff 
Washington (AFNS) Aug 15, 2007Air Force officials here completed the final phase in integrating space functions into key Air Staff processes for operations, plans and requirements, or A3/5. As of Aug. 1, space functions previously found within the Directorate of Strategic Security, or A3S, have been reorganized to better integrate the space domain throughout the A-staff. "Air Force missions have evolved to encompass ... more US Navy Completes Qualification Testing Of Lockheed Martin Common Submarine Radio Room 
Eagan MN (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Lockheed Martin has reported that the U.S. Navy recently completed operational testing of the strategic Ohio-class Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) and has declared the system operationally suitable for the Navy's submarine fleet and effective by exceeding all tested thresholds. Designed to automate communications, while reducing errors and resource requirements, the CSRR is the only automated ... more Empire Challenge 07 Tests Emerging Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Concepts 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Northrop Grumman's recent participation in a joint military exercise will enhance its work with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to improve how military forces conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). Northrop Grumman contributed its modeling, simulation and analysis expertise to Empire Challenge 07, a demonstration of how coalition forces can work together to collect, analyze a ... more Thompson Files: Joint radio vision dims 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 When U.S. President George W. Bush took office nearly seven years ago, his vision of how the military needed to change could be summed up in one word: transformation. Bush shared with many other observers a belief that the defense establishment inherited from Cold War years was too Balkanized and ingrown to cope with emerging threats. He directed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to fashion a ... more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 14, 2007A powerful storm in the Pacific Ocean was expected to graze Hawaii on Tuesday, delivering strong winds, heavy rain and high surf, US weather forecasters said. The National Weather Service said while a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch remained in effect for Hawaii's big island, Hurricane Flossie appeared to be slowing down on Monday evening. Forecast to pass just south of the is ... more North Korea asks UN agency to help with "massive" floods 
Geneva Aug 14, 2007North Korea has asked the UN's food relief agency for help in the wake of "massive" floods, a spokesman for the World Food Programme said Tuesday. North Korean authorities said the floods are worse than those that reportedly left hundreds dead or missing and tens of thousands homeless in central and southern regions last year, WFP spokesman Simon Pluess told AFP. "Pyongyang has made a pr ... more Cost of South Asia floods nears one billion dollars 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 14, 2007The cost of South Asia's worst flooding in decades has reached nearly one billion dollars, officials said Tuesday, as Bangladesh struggled to cope with a major outbreak of water-borne disease. Losses in India's worst-hit northeast amounted to 875 million dollars so far, including damage to crops and property, India's home ministry said, while Bangladesh said it had counted crop damage of at ... more Northern Indonesian volcano spews smoke, heat clouds 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 14, 2007A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island spewed smoke into the sky and spat heat clouds down its slopes Tuesday, but no evacuation of people in its surrounds was needed, an official said. A column of smoke soared 1,500 metres (yards) above Mount Soputan and clouds of gas shot down its western slope, said Sandi, an official manning the vulcanology observation post on the volcano's slopes. ... more Beyond Batteries: Storing Power In A Sheet Of Paper 
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles. Along ... more
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