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India To Launch INSAT-4CR From Sriharikota On Sept 01
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 21, 2007India is planning to launch its latest communication satellite, INSAT-4CR, from Sriharikota spaceport on September 1, ISRO sources said. "INSAT-4CR is expected to be launched at around 4.30 pm on September one," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation, headquartered here, said. This spacecraft is identical to INSAT-4C, which was lost during the unsuccessful launch of Geo-synchron ... more Endeavour Cleared For Landing 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Mission managers announced Monday that Space Shuttle Endeavour is cleared for landing. The decision came after a thorough review of imagery and data collected during late inspection of the orbiter on Sunday. In space, the seven-member STS-118 crew prepared for its return to Earth aboard Endeavour after a successful stay at the International Space Station. The crew completed tests Monday mo ... more Operation Dark Dune 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2007On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Space Shuttle Endeavour sat bathed in glowing light, silhouetting the vehicle against the dark night sky over the seaside complex. It may sound like an awesome and idyllic scene, but not for nesting sea turtles and their newly hatched babies. During their summer nesting season, these turtles emerge from the ocean along the pristine ... more Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark Thirty Years Of Flight 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2007NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment. Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto. "The Voyager mission i ... more Princeton Scientists Confirm Long-Held Theory About Source Of Sunshine 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Scientists are a step closer to understanding sunshine. A monumental experiment buried deep beneath the mountains of Italy has provided Princeton physicists with a clearer understanding of the sun's heart -- and of a mysterious class of subatomic particles born there. The researchers, working as part of an international collaboration at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory near L ... more |
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Zhukovsky, Russia (AFP) Aug 21, 2007Indonesia is set to buy six Sukhoi fighter jets Tuesday, a representative from Russian weapons exporter Rosoboronexport said at an airshow outside Moscow. "The contract is for 330 to 350 million dollars. It's for six Su-30 jets. The contract will be signed at 3:00 pm (1100 GMT)," an official with Rosoboronexport told AFP at the start of Russia's major annual air show at the Zhukovsky airfiel ... more China Southern intending to buy 55 Boeing 737 aircraft 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 21, 2007China Southern Airlines, the country's largest carrier by fleet size, said Tuesday it planned to buy 55 Boeing 737s aircraft in a deal that could be worth billions of dollars. The intended orders are aimed at renewing China Southern's fleet and enhancing its competitiveness in the country's booming aviation market, said a statement filed with the Shanghai bourse. Deliveries are scheduled ... more Russia Builds Highly Effective Pechora Surface-To-Air Missiles 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007The final stage of the Combat Fraternity 2007 military exercise will be held at the Ashuluk firing range in the Astrakhan Region (southern Russia) on August 22. Defense ministers from ten CIS states will fly to the range after the opening ceremony of the MAKS 2007 aerospace show, which opens in Zhukovsky near Moscow on August 21. They will see the operation of the S-125 Pechora (NATO repor ... more 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 The Final Frontier Closer To Home Than Ever Before 
Maxwell AL (AFPN) Aug 20, 2007Air University officials here will host an educational symposium on the realm of space, America's dependence on the cosmos, and how military and civilian communities discuss the nation's space vulnerabilities Sept. 25 to 27 in downtown Montgomery, Ala. Headed by the National Space Studies Center at Air University, the symposium touts the motto: "Building an educational foundation for understandi ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Asia-Pacific countries accounted for 90 percent of people affected by natural disasters around the world since 2000, the region's emergency management chiefs were told Monday. Climate change and population growth were likely to increase the incidence and severity of the disasters, which already affect about 250 million people globally each year, said UN expert Terje Skavdal. The Asia-Pac ... more Milestone In The Regeneration Of Brain Cells: Supportive Cells Generate New Nerve Cells 
Neuherberg, Germany (SPX) Aug 21, 2007The research group of Prof. Dr. Magdalena Gotz at the Institute of Stem Cell Research of the GSF - National Research Centre for Environment and Health, and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, has achieved an additional step for the potential replacement of damaged brain cells after injury or disease: functional nerve cells can be generated from astroglia, a type of supportive cells in the ... more Russia's New Research Station In Arctic To Open In Late September 
St Petersburg (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007Russia's new drifting research station in the Arctic will begin working in late September, the press spokesman of the Artic and Antarctic Research Institute said Monday. The North Pole 35 station being set up with the help of the Akademik Fedorov research vessel and the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya, which brought mini-submarines to the pole for the first ever dive to the seabed earlier in Au ... more Polar Ice Clouds May Be Climate Change Symptom 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Aug 21, 2007As the late summer sun sets in the Arctic, bands of wispy, luminescent clouds shine against the deep blue of the northern sky. To the casual observer, they may simply be a curiosity, dismissed as the waning light of the midnight sun. But to scientists, these noctilucent ice clouds could be an upper-atmospheric symptom of a changing climate. "The question which everyone in Alaska is dealing ... more Mexico braces for monstrous Hurricane Dean 
Cancun, Mexico (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Hurricane Dean barreled toward Mexico with monstrous force on Tuesday, lashing heavy rains along the Caribbean coast ahead of landfall expected within hours, officials said. The killer storm strengthened into a "potentially catastrophic" category five hurricane Monday, whipping up maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometers (160 miles) per hour with higher gusts, the Miami-based National Weath ... more
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