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Hurricane shortens Endeavour mission Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2007 
Endeavour astronauts sped up a final spacewalk Saturday, as NASA announced it would bring them back one day early, on Tuesday, to avoid disruption to ground operations from hurricane Dean. The shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday morning -- around 1200 GMT -- ahead of a landing Tuesday, mission spokesman LeRoy Cain told a news conference. The early return was planned "in the event Hurricane Dean threatens the Houston area," in the southern state of Texas, where NASA's mission control base at Johnson Space Center is located, the agency said in a statement. ... read more |
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Global electric car sales rose by 25% in 2024 2024 was Turkey's hottest-ever year on record Tropical storm Dikeledi hits Mozambique Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin's new rocket Cyclone-battered region sees storm Dikeledi leave Mayotte for Mozambique 'Fragile' Mayotte still on high alert as storm moves away Storm moves away from Mayotte, three dead in Madagascar Cyclone-ravaged Mayotte on high alert as new storm approaches Cyclone-ravaged Mayotte on red alert for new storm 
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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 In Search Of Interstellar Dragon Fire 
Greenbelt MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system - cosmic "dragons" that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays. Just as mythical dragons were expected to inhabit stormy seas, these cosmic drago ... more Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13000 Years Ago 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much of the planet and the extinction of large mammals. The discovery was made by scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara and their colleagues. James Kennett, a paleo ... more Moving To The Rhythm Of The Sun 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 20, 2007Scientists from the Ulysses mission have proven that sounds generated deep inside the Sun cause the Earth to shake and vibrate in sympathy. They have found that Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere and terrestrial systems, all take part in this cosmic sing-along. David Thomson and Louis Lanzerotti, team members of the HISCALE experiment, on board Ulysses, together with colleagues Frank Verno ... more Gloomy Skies Show Signs of Clearing 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2007Spirit is healthy as the amount of dust hoisted into the atmosphere by recent wind storms has leveled off and solar energy levels have held steady at about 280 to 300 watt-hours of energy (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour). Since the rover's 1,271st Martian day, or sol, of exploration (July 31, 2007), atmospheric opacity, a measurement known as ... more |
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Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Headquarters Air Force Space Command honored its outgoing vice commander Aug. 16 with a Distinguished Service Medal recognizing his service to the command, its people and programs. Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz, who leaves Aug. 22 to take on his new duties as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, received praise for providing combat forces and capabilities to North American Aerospace Def ... more India can emulate nuclear powers by not staging tests: US 
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The United States said Thursday that India could emulate other major nuclear powers by not testing atomic weapons, amid debate over the fate of a bilateral nuclear deal if New Delhi conducted a test. "We are not testing and I don't think you see advanced nuclear countries around the world testing. And certainly, we don't encourage other states to do that," State Department spokesman Sean ... more Russia revives Soviet-era strategic bomber patrols 
Chebarkul, Russia (AFP) Aug 17, 2007Russia is immediately to resume the Soviet-era practice of sending strategic bombers on long-range flights well beyond its borders, President Vladimir Putin announced here on Friday. Speaking as he and Chinese President Hu Jintao wrapped up joint military exercises at a training ground in the Ural Mountains, Putin said: "We have decided to renew flights of Russian strategic aviation on a ... more BMD Focus: S-400 delays -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 Why will it take more than eight years for Russia to equip another 23 battalions with its new state-of-the-art S-400 Triumf air defense system when the first battalion is already operational? The first point is that although the Russian government, flush with enormous annual surpluses from being the world's largest combined oil and gas exporter at a time when world demand and prices are ... more Bomber patrols a risky Russian 'response' to US, NATO challenges 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Russia's decision to resume Cold War-style strategic bomber patrols confirms it has revived the political will and economic means to challenge US global dominance and NATO expansion with more than just rhetoric, military analysts say. But while the move, announced by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, will play well with domestic audiences and may also win the odd plaudit on the internation ... more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Hurricane Dean bore down on Jamaica early Sunday amid concerns it could become "a potentially catastrophic" category five storm capable of causing death and widespread destruction. Tourists fled resorts in the path of the storm and island residents battened down as the massive swell skirted the Dominican Republic and plowed towards Jamaica, the Caymans and the Mexican coast. ... 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 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 Comet Probes Reveal Evidence Of Origin Of Life 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists. Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the University's Centre for Astrobiology have long argued the case for panspermia - the theory that life began inside comets and then spread to habitable planets across the galaxy. A recent BBC Horizon ... more Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space have been revealed in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new ex ... more
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