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Air France And ESA Join To Offer Passengers Unique View Of Voyage
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 06, 2007Have you ever wished you could clearly see the mountains, coastline, desert, ocean or city underneath your aircraft as you flew over? Passengers onboard select Air France flights will soon be able to explore the unique range of destinations being flown over, such as the Alps, Himalayas or Gulf of Siam, thanks to satellite images provided by ESA. The show, which has been integrated into ... more Lockheed Martin Demonstrates In-Flight Beam Control For MDA's Airborne Laser 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) team has demonstrated the capability to accurately point and focus the elements of the Lockheed Martin-developed Beam Control/Fire Control system on an airborne target. The ABL team successfully directed the beam generated by a surrogate High Energy Laser at a missile-shaped target on the side of an Air Force ... more Cassini Prepares To Fly by Walnut-Shaped Moon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2007Cassini will make its only close flyby of Saturn's odd, two-toned, walnut-shaped moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, at about 1,640 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the surface. This flyby will be 100 times closer than Cassini's 2004 encounter, and will be the last time the spacecraft will aim its instruments at this moon. "Iapetus spun fast, froze young, and left behind a body with lasting ... more INSAT-4CR Raised To A Perigee Of 15994 Kilometers 
Bangalore (PTI) Sep 06, 2007INSAT-4CR, India's communication satellite successfully launched on Sunday, was today raised to a perigree of 15,994 kms as planned in the third of its orbit raising manoeuvres. The operation was conducted at 4.35 am with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board for 3140 seconds by commanding the satellite from the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka, a release ... more South Korea Chooses First Astronaut For Space Trip 
Seoul (XNA) Sep 06, 2007A 30-year-old computer vision engineer has been chosen as South Korea's first astronaut to make a trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft early next year, the local news agency Yonhap reported Wednesday. Ko san, a researcher at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will go into space on the Soyuz spacecraft in April 2008 and spend seven to eight days on the space ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2007A B-52 bomber flew the length of the United States last week loaded with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles in a major security breach, US military officials said Wednesday. The lapse was reported to President George W. Bush after the nuclear warheads were discovered when the aircraft landed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, a military official said on condition of anonymity. ... more Chinese hackers cyber-attacking British government networks 
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday. The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China's President Hu ... more Lavrov's red line 
Washington (UPI) Sept. 5, 2007 Tensions between the United States, NATO and Russia over the Bush administration's plans to deploy BMD defenses in Central Europe got a lot worse this week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned flatly on Monday that the Kremlin regarded the U.S. plan to build an anti-ballistic missile radar base in Poland over the next three or four years and to construct a sister advanced ... more Several countries trying to hack into US military system: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Several nations and groups are trying to break into the US military's computer system, the Pentagon said Tuesday after reports China's military had successfully hacked into the network. The Chinese military's cyber-attack was carried out in June following months of efforts, the London-based Financial Times reported Tuesday, citing unnamed current and former US officials. Officials had ... more Antarctic scientific station opens its doors... in Brussels 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 5, 2007Belgian explorer Alain Hubert on Wednesday unveiled a new eco-friendly Antarctic base, aimed at generating greater public interest in the problems posed by global warming. The "Princess Elizabeth" base is currently housed in a huge hangar in the Belgian capital but will soon be bound for the frozen south to highlight the effects of climate change. ... more |
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Cornell NJ (SPX) Sep 04, 2007The internal clock in living beings that regulates sleeping and waking patterns -- usually called the circadian clock -- has often befuddled scientists due to its mysterious time delays. Molecular interactions that regulate the circadian clock happen within milliseconds, yet the body clock resets about every 24 hours. What, then, stretches the expression of the clock over such a relatively long ... more New York's yellow cabs brake for strike 
New York (AFP) Sept 5, 2007Thousands of New York's taxi drivers on Wednesday put on the brakes with a 48-hour strike just as the US Open tennis tournament moved toward a climax and the city's Fashion Week started up. Passengers took to the subway or shared rides in lighter-than-usual traffic as drivers of the city's signature yellow cabs halted work in anger at plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in ... more Half-price Big Mac to fight global warming proves big hit in Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 5, 2007A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to anyone demonstrating a commitment to preventing climate change. People were asked to ... more Areva pledges commitment to peace in Niger's uranium zone 
Niamey (AFP) Sept 5, 2007French nuclear engineering group Areva has assured Niger of its commitment to peace in a nation where it has been accused of financing Tuareg rebel unrest where it mines uranium, state media reported Wednesday. "We're a major player in the economic and social development of Niger, which translates into a commitment to peace and security in this country," Areva's regional representative ... more Synova-Manz Automation Partnership Unveils Fully Automated Photovoltaic Manufacturing System For Edge Isolation 
Milan, Italy (SPX) Sep 06, 2007EU PVSEC -- Manz Automation AG (Reutlingen, Germany) and Synova SA has unveiled the ILE 2400, an inline laser edge isolation system for photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing of mono- and multi-crystalline solar cells. Integrated with Synova's proprietary water jet-guided laser technology -- Laser MicroJet -- the enables manufacturers to effectively isolate the edge of PV cells to prevent short ... more
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