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Phoenix Takes Flight
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Phoenix is on its way to Mars. The latest spacecraft in NASA's program of Mars exploration launched from Cape Canaveral on August 4 of this year, and is scheduled to land in the planet's northern polar region on May 25, 2008. Its findings will help scientists answer a critical question about the Red Planet: was it ever habitable? Phoenix is in many ways similar to the two Viking landers ... more Mice Stressed In Simulated Weightlessness Show Organ Atrophy 
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 04, 2007A ground-based, experimental model used to simulate astronaut weightlessness in space has provided Rutgers scientists an opportunity to study the effects of stress on immune organs. Earlier collaborative research with Japanese scientists employing this model implicated the protein osteopontin (OPN) in bone mineral loss associated with simulated weightlessness in mice. This research was made ... more ISRO Plans More Launches, INSAT-4CR In Good Health 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Sep 04, 2007A day after the successful launch of the GSLV-F04 from Sriharikota, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director B N Suresh said ISRO's immediate plan was the launch of two more PSLV flights this year and a GSLV launch early next year. Speaking to reporters at the airport here today after arriving from Sriharikota, he said the communication satellite INSAT-4CR put in its pre-determined orbit by ... more One Of The Most Curious Objects In The Sky Delights Astronomers Again 
Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Edwin Hubble once called IC 10 "one of the most curious objects in the sky," and new observations of the extremely faint, lightweight dwarf galaxy are giving scientists new clues about how populations of stars are born. Though the properties of stars is one of the most well-studied topics in astronomy, scientists still don't fully understand all the mechanisms involved in star formation ... more Space Experts Meet To Address Warfighter Needs 
Peterson AFB CO (AFNS) Sep 04, 2007More than 70 senior leaders and experts from across the Services, joint agencies and Intelligence Community came together Aug. 28 at Headquarters Air Force Space Command to discuss the way ahead for Operationally Responsive Space. The objective -- a clearly defined joint process for identifying and developing ORS requirements and capabilities; how they are integrated and deconflicted; and ways ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Boeing, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated in flight tests that the Airborne Laser's battle management and beam control/fire control systems can complete the full series of steps required to support a ballistic missile intercept. During these "low power" tests, which concluded Aug. 23, the modified Boeing 747-400F operated from Edwards Air ... more Britain, France must be included in weapons talks: Russian general 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Nuclear powers Britain and France must be included in any new efforts by Washington and Moscow to reduce stocks of tactical nuclear weapons, a Russian defence ministry official said on Monday. "We're ready to launch such negotiations with the United States but it must take place with the participation in the process of other countries, above all Britain and France," said General Vladimir ... more Russia's Putin, tycoons heading to Australia 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country's most prominent tycoons are set to fly to Australia on Friday amid speculation that Canberra is poised to sign a deal to sell uranium to Moscow. Media reports said a uranium deal could be signed Friday, when the Russian leader makes a one-day official visit before taking part in the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit on ... more Russia draws 'red line' on Kosovo, US missile defence 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Russia's increasingly muscular foreign policy Monday, laying out a series of non-negotiable "red line" issues including Kosovo and US missile defence. "There are so-called 'red line' issues for Russia," Lavrov said in a speech to students at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. "There we cannot fail to react and we must stick to ... more China hacked into Pentagon computer network: report 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2007China's military successfully hacked into the Pentagon's computer network, raising fears it could disrupt the US defence department's systems, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The Chinese military's cyber attack was carried out in June following months of efforts, the London-based newspaper said, citing unnamed current and former US officials. While the Pentagon declined to say who ... more |
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Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Aug 31, 2007The Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole is already seeing the dramatic effects of global warming: the mercury is rising twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet, posing a serious threat to the ecosystem. The Arctic sea ice has never been as small as it is now. This year, it shrank to less than five million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles) -- a grim record for the planet. ... more Desertification is creeping up on world agriculture 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Extreme weather patterns are threatening a number of regions around the world with desertification and a steep drop off in food resources, a senior World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) official said Friday. Speaking ahead of a UN conference on desertification that opens next week in Madrid, the head of the WMO's Agricultural Meteorology Division, M. Mannava Sivakumar, warned that the ... more Maximum strength Hurricane Felix aims for Central America 
Miami (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Hurricane Felix ripped across the warm waters of the Caribbean early Monday towards Honduras and Belize after damaging homes and power lines in Grenada as it gained "potentially catastrophic" class-five strength. The storm was so powerful that it tossed around a US "hurricane hunter" data gathering airplane and forced it to abort its mission, the Miami Herald reported. ... more Henriette expected to regain hurricane strength 
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Tropical storm Henriette, on Mexico's northern Pacific coast, was expected to regain hurricane status Monday as it barreled towards resorts in Baja California, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. Henriette earlier killed seven people, five of them children, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, local officials reported. ... more Dow Corning Solar Solutions Introduces Three Materials To Support Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing 
Midland MI (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Following the launch of its first solar feedstock material (Dow Corning PV 1101 SoG Silicon) last year, Dow Corning's Solar Solutions Group has extended its product offerings for the global solar energy market with an encapsulant and two potting agents that have been tested and qualified for solar applications. "We're taking the guess-work out of figuring out which of the hundreds of ... more
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