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STS-120 To Deliver Harmony Node To ISS
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2007A series of recent shuttle missions have added to the International Space Station's exterior with new elements for its main truss. Now, Discovery will take into orbit a connecting module that will increase the orbiting laboratory's interior space. October's STS-120 mission will bring the Harmony module, christened after a school contest, that will provide attachment points for European and ... more Engineers Rescue Aging Satellites And Save Millions 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 11, 2007Researchers have used a new technique to save $60 million for broadcasters by extending the service life of two communications satellites. The technique works by applying an advanced simulation and a method that equalizes the amount of propellant in a series of fuel tanks so that the satellite consumes all of the fuel before being retired from service. The two satellites would have been ... more More Teachers Get A Lesson In Weightlessness 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007The Northrop Grumman Foundation launched 57 teachers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania into weightlessness today as part of the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery program. The goal: To inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers -- critical areas where the U.S. has fallen behind globally. The teachers performed a ... more The Protocell Project 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 11, 2007At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists are trying to create life. No slimy blobs have yet oozed their way out of a beaker of primordial soup, but scientists are combining some of the most basic elements of life to see if they can make non-living chemistry behave in a life-like way. Cracking the mysterious barrier between life and non-life could give us a clue to how life originated ... more Russia To Launch UAE Spacecraft In 2008 From Baikonur 
Abu Dhabi, UAE (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2007The chief of Russia's space agency said Monday Russia would launch a spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2008 from the launch site in Kazakhstan. "We plan to launch a remote sensing satellite for the UAE in 2008," Anatoly Perminov said, adding that a related agreement had been signed on the sidelines of President Vladimir Putin's first visit to the Arab state. Perminov said ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 The only upside to the heavy burden the U.S. Army is carrying in Iraq is an abundance of money. Congress may not know how to deal with IEDs or save the marriage of a soldier deploying for his fourth tour in Mesopotamia, but it sure knows how to spend money, and right now the U.S. Army is getting pretty much everything it asks for. That's a distinct departure from budgetary tradition, which in ... more Lockheed Martin Achieves Key Integration Milestone On First-Of-Its-Kind Missile Warning Satellite 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2007Lockheed Martin has announced that it has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite. SBIRS will provide early warning of ballistic missile launches and support other missions simultaneously, including missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness. The GEO-1 bus is the ... more Putin 'optimistic' accord possible with US on missile defence 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 10, 2007Russia and the United States still have a chance to reach agreement on the vexed question of Washington's missile defence plans, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "All is not lost and we still have a certain amount of healthy optimism," Putin said in comments broadcast on Russian television. "Regarding our differences, they've always existed and of course will do so given the ... more Outside View: Life after START 
Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 Russia's planned suspension of participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and its warnings surrounding the proposed American missile defense shield in Europe have reflected a post-Cold War low in bilateral relations. In light of these events, transparency regarding military capabilities and nuclear weapons takes increasing prominence. The most significant and complex ... more Icy Calculations On A Hot Topic 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 11, 2007University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice - a discovery that promises to improve forecasts of how global warming will affect polar icepacks. In the current issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, math Professor Ken Golden and colleagues show that brine moving up or down through floating sea ice ... more |
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Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 10, 2007Major European automakers will join forces against an EU proposal for strict CO2 emmissions limits by 2012, sector leaders said Monday. "There is no 'great route' to reduced emissions and fuel consumption, but instead a large palette of concepts and solutions," said Matthias Wissmann of the German Automobile Federation (VDA). He spoke to media ahead of the International Motor Show ... more Tiny Tubes And Rods Show Promise As Catalysts 
Upton NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of industrial and medical applications. The methods and new titanium oxide materials may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen production, more efficient solar cells, and more protective sunscreens. ... more Budget blow-out, but work to begin on fast Beijing-Shanghai train 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 10, 2007Construction on China's high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai will begin soon but the budget for the long awaited project has blown out by five billion dollars, state press reported Monday. The line, which will cut travel time between the nation's capital and economic hub from 13 hours to five, is expected to start ferrying passengers in 2010, the China Daily quoted Railways ... more Chinese 4X4 to go on show in Frankfurt amid copycat spat 
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 10, 2007The four-wheel-drive CEO made by Chinese automaker Shuanghuan will be on display at the International Motor Show (IAA) despite a complaint by BMW that it is a copy of one of its cars, the head of China Automobile Deutschland said Monday. "Of course we are coming to the IAA, there is no question of that for us," chief executive Karl Schloessl told the WISO programme that is broadcast by ZDF ... more Analysis: Poland's energy ambitions 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 Poland is one of the least energy import dependent countries in Eastern Europe, but among the fiercest when it comes to its desire to dominate energy security policy in Europe. "Poland sees itself as a precursor in Europe when it comes to energy policy," Kai-Olaf Lang, Poland expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told United Press International in a ... more
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