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Boeing Demonstrates Future On-Orbit Servicing Capability With Orbital Express
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 31, 2007A four-month demonstration conducted in space of the Boeing Orbital Express system culminated in an unqualified success. The mission, sponsored and led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to validate on-orbit servicing technologies, tested the system from March 8 to July 2. Orbital Express met or exceeded all of its test objectives to become the world's first spacecraft ... more Environmental Tectonics' NASTAR Center To Provide Space Training For Virgin Galactic 
Southampton PA (SPX) Aug 31, 2007Environmental Tectonics' National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, has signed a contract with Virgin Galactic to provide training for Virgin Galactic's suborbital space travelers. NASTAR Center is the world leader in aviation and spaceflight training and research, and Virgin Galactic is on track to become the world's first commercial spaceline and provider of private suborbital ... more SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Receives Initial Approval From NASA Safety Review Panel 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007SpaceX has successfully completed the first of three phases of review required by NASA's Safety Review Panel (SRP) to send its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Over a series of meetings spanning four days at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the team of SpaceX engineers developing the Dragon spacecraft presented their Phase I plans for sending the cargo version ... more All Set For GSLV-F04 Take-Off On Sept 02; Countdown Starts Today 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 30, 2007The countdown for the launch of a rocket from Sriharikota, about 100 km from here, carrying India's communication satellite INSAT-4CR, will start today. "The countdown for the launch will start today afternoon," ISRO sources told PTI. The 49-metre tall rocket will be launched at 4.21 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, they said. ... more NASA Study Will Help Stop Stowaways To Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered ultra-hardy organisms collectively known as 'extremophiles'. Some species of bacteria uncovered in a recent NASA study have never been detected anywhere else. According to Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, who led the study ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 Azerbaijan, the United States and Russia will meet in Baku in early September for consultations on the joint use of the Gabala radar. On June 7, during the G8 summit in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the United States to share the early-warning radar in Gabala, Azerbaijan, if it abandons its plans to deploy elements of its anti-ballistic missile system in Europe. ... more Amber Specimen Captures Ancient Chemical Battle 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Aug 30, 2007It appears that chemical warfare has been around a lot longer than poison arrows, mustard gas or nerve weapons - about 100 million years, give or take a little. A new study by researchers at Oregon State University has identified a soldier beetle, preserved almost perfectly in amber, which was in the process of using chemical repellants to fight off an attacker when an oozing flow of sap ... more BMD Focus: Israel's BMD two-front war 
Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 On Tuesday, we reported in our sister BMD Watch column about Israeli defense planners' decision to radically beef up the deployment of their Arrow anti-ballistic missile interceptors in the north of their country to prepare for a massive very short-range ballistic missile bombardment from Syria in the event of war. Most of the coverage of Israeli ballistic missile defense procurement ... more Raytheon Names Dr. Thomas Kennedy VP Tactical Airborne Systems 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business has named Dr. Thomas A. Kennedy vice president of its Tactical Airborne Systems organization. Kennedy will report to Jon Jones, Raytheon Company vice president and president of SAS. Kennedy assumes overall responsibility for the business operations and strategic direction of Tactical Airborne Systems, which administers radar, electronic ... more DRS Receives 250 Million Dollars Award From US Navy To Provide a Sat-Based Network For Overseas Troops 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Aug 31, 2007DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $250 million contract, including options, from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Charleston in South Carolina. In support of this single-award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract DRS will provide a satellite-based internet-broadband service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to ... more |
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Miami (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 Nigeria loses $14 billion a year to oil theft, according to Stephen Hayes, the president of the Corporate Council on Africa. The supposed monetary losses incurred by the oil-rich West African country were calculated based on the estimated number of barrels of lost production due to corruption and crime, said Hayes. "If you are losing 600,000 barrels a day on oil at $70 a barrel ... more Indian committee to review objections to US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 30, 2007India's foreign minister said Thursday that the Congress party-led government would set up a committee to review objections by communist allies to a controversial nuclear deal with the United States. "The operationalisation of the nuclear deal will take into account the committee's findings," foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement after a meeting with communist parties. ... more Grain Will Not Become Oil 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 31, 2007Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more OSU Sweet Biofuels Research Goes Down On The Farm 
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout temperate climate zones of the United States, including Oklahoma. It provides high biomass yield with low irrigation and fertilizer requirements. Corn ethanol ... more Molecules Line Up To Make The Tiniest Of Wires 
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2007As technology gets smaller and smaller, the computer industry is facing the complex challenge of finding ways to manufacture the minuscule components necessary. "Computer chips are constantly getting smaller and smaller. There's an unrelenting decrease in size. And the question arises, how do you wire these things in"" said Dr. Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta professor and senior ... more
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