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US army awards contract to develop truck-mounted laser weapon
Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2007Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract Friday to develop a mobile truck-mounted laser capable of destroying rockets, artillery shells and mortars, the US Army said. Northrop Grumman will be in competition with Boeing which was awarded a seven million dollar contract to develop a similar higher energy laser that can be mounted on a heavy truck. ... more NASA says shuttle heat shield needs no repair 
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2007NASA determined on Thursday that there was no need to attempt a risky repair to the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield because the damage did not present a significant danger, a spokesman said. Mission management made "a unanimous recommendation that the damage that we saw, after reviewing all the engineering tests and analysis, was not a threat to crew safety," shuttle mission manager John Sha ... more Boeing Completes CubeSat Mission To Advance Nano-Satellite Technology 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Boeing has completed the first phase of its nano-satellite research and experimentation with the successful conclusion of the CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) mission. The spacecraft, launched April 17 from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome in Kazakhstan, accomplished 100 percent of its primary mission objectives. Through experiments such as CSTB1, Boeing is evaluating a variety of technologies, design el ... more Crew Holds Class In Space, Prepares For Possible Repair Work 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2007The STS-118 and Expedition 15 crews are preparing for a possible spacewalk to repair damage on Space Shuttle Endeavour's thermal protection system. During the first half of the day, the crew held class in space for students on Earth. Mission managers have not decided that a repair spacewalk will be needed. But to prepare for that possibility, the crew members are getting ready to do the repair, ... more Endeavour Carries Millions Of Basil Seeds Up And Back 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 17, 2007So, can you make spaghetti sauce in space? Well, you'll need several ingredients, but you're sure to have plenty of one: STS-118 mission specialist Barbara Morgan has carried millions of basil seeds with her on board space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. These seeds are joining three million other basil seeds that have been flying on the station for a year and are waiting ... more |
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic "train wreck" between giant galaxy clusters. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which may pose problems for current theories of dark matter behavior. "These results challenge our understanding of the way clusters merge," ... more Frigid Enceladus: An Unlikely Harbor For Life 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 17, 2007A new model of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may quell hopes of finding life there. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, the model explains the most salient observations on Enceladus without requiring the presence of liquid water. Orbiting Saturn since June 30, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has revealed a south polar region of Enceladus with an elaborate arrangement of frac ... more US military sees looming China threat to satellites 
Huntsville, Alabama (AFP) Aug 14, 2007China may be just three years away from being able to disrupt US military satellites in a regional conflict, a senior US military leader said Tuesday, citing a recent anti-satellite test and other advances. The warning came amid calls at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama for intensified efforts to ensure US "space superiority" in the wake of China's shoot-down January 11 of one of its own ... more Laser-Guided Maverick Missile Meets Urgent Air Force Need 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Having published an urgent operational need for a close air support weapon to defeat high-speed moving targets with minimal collateral damage, the U.S. Air Force has expressed interest in re-establishing production of Raytheon laser-guided Maverick. The laser-guided AGM-65E Maverick missile is an air-to-ground weapon that can meet the service's needs in the near-term. ... more Russian bombers getting closer to US: American commander 
Washington (AFP) Aug 14, 2007Long-range Russian bombers are flying more often and closer to US territory, a top US commander said Tuesday, as Moscow made its latest show of military might with exercises over the North Pole. General Gene Renuart, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, the agencies charged with protecting US and Canadian airspace, said that US forces would c ... more |
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Huntsville, Alabama (AFP) Aug 16, 2007A Russian radar site in Azerbaijan is too close to Iran to serve as a replacement for a planned US missile defense site in eastern Europe, the chief of the US missile defense agency said Thursday. Lieutenant General Henry Obering said the Russian proposal was worth pursuing but only as a complement to the radar and interceptor missiles the United States wants to put in the Czech Republic and ... more Indonesia's 'mud volcano' victims to file complaint 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 15, 2007The victims of a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia are to demand that the country's top court declare unjust a presidential decree on the terms of their compensation, they said Wednesday. Some 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of land in East Java has been inundated with sludge that began spewing when Lapindo Brantas, a company linked to Indonesia's welfare minister, was drilling for gas witho ... more Egyptian villages fight water war 
Cairo (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The land of the Nile is seeing a rising tide of protests at a shortage of drinking water amid accusations the government would rather irrigate golf courses than slake the thirst of villages. A wave of demonstrations and ensuing clashes with police in recent weeks has left dozens injured in a country where the Nile River provides 95 percent of fresh water and irrigation uses up 80 percent of ... more Taiwan braced for powerful typhoon 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The powerful typhoon Sepat was heading for Taiwan Thursday after paralysing the Philippine capital Manila, Taiwanese meteorologists said. Sepat was packing winds of up to 191 kilometres (119 miles) per hour and could hit Taiwan some time between late Friday night and early Saturday morning given its current course, the Central Weather Bureau said. ... more Canada troopers assert Arctic sovereignty 
Aboard The Hmcs Fredericton, Arctic Ocean (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The largest ever military exercise in the Arctic is underway this week to firm Canada's disputed claim to this lonely region. "It's a sovereignty operation" to counter grabs by Russia, Denmark, Norway and the United States, Brigadier General Chris Whitecross, commander of Joint Task Force North, told AFP. Each nation is claiming flaps of Arctic seabed, believed to hold 25 percent of the ... more
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