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Google offers reward to land robot on moon
New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data. Google launched Google Moon, a page on its site with images mapping out stretches of the orb's pock-marked surface. They are compiled from photographs taken by previous moon missions including the historic ... more Arianespace To Launch ELISA Satellites 
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 14, 2007The four ELISA satellites will be placed in heliosynchronous orbit by a Soyuz rocket to be launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. They will be auxiliary passengers on the launch of the first Pleiades satellite in late 2009. Astrium is lead manager for the program, working with co-contractor Thales for French MoD procurement agency DGA. Astrium is prime contractor for ... more NASA Keeps Eye On Ozone Layer Amid Montreal Protocol's Success 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2007NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer. The United Nations Environment Programme will host the meeting from Sept. 23 to 26 in Athens, Greece. NASA scientists study climate change and research the timing of the recovery of the ... more Foton-M3 On Schedule For Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 14, 2007An unmanned Foton capsule, carrying a payload of over 40 European experiments, is on schedule for launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UT) tomorrow. The Soyuz-U launcher, which will carry the Foton-M3 spacecraft into orbit, was transferred to the launch pad this morning. The Foton-M3 assembly and test work was completed at Baikonur on Tuesday evening. ... more Iowa State Astronomer Helps Discover Planet That Offers Clues To Earth's Future 
Ames IO (SPX) Sep 14, 2007An international team of astronomers that includes Steve Kawaler of Iowa State University has announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life. The announcement, culminating seven years of research, will be published in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Nature. The news provides a preliminary picture of what could be the Earth's destiny in four to five billion ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Negotiations in Paris earlier this week between the United States and Russia on a controversial planned US missile shield in central Europe failed to make headway, Russian's foreign ministry said Thursday. "I could not say that there has been great progress," said Deputy Minister Sergei Kislyak, who led the Russian delegation at the talks, agency Ria Novosti reported. Russian President ... more Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout Gets a Lift From Marine Corps KC-130T Hercules 
Moss Point MI (SPX) Sep 14, 2007A cooperative effort between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) resulted in the first ever transport of a Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take-off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) in a Marine Corps KC-130T aircraft, flown by Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234, Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth ... more ThalesRaytheonSystems To Provide Upgrade For Battle Control System 
Fullerton CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2007ThalesRaytheonSystems has received a $25.6 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with capability upgrades to the Battle Control System-Fixed (BCS-F) for Air Combat Command, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) and Air Forces Northern (AFNORTH). "Having common software and a common human-machine interface between the fixed and mobile communities will reduce development, testing, and ... more Climate change and desertification two sides of same coin 
Madrid (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Climate change and desertification are two sides of the same coin and must be tackled together, according to participants at the Madrid conference on desertification. "These two issues are very intimately related in the way you can describe them as two halfs of a coin," according to Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Spanish ... more Hurricane batters Texas, storms Louisiana 
Miami (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Hurricane Humberto battered Texas and dragged on across Louisiana as a tropical storm Thursday, killing at least one person and leaving a trail of damage and flood warnings, authorities said. Downgraded from a hurricane which blocked roads and shut down oil refineries in Texas, the storm plowed east into Louisiana, where memories are still fresh of the deadly Hurricane Katrina that ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Thailand's energy minister on Thursday urged the nation's next government to press ahead with a proposed six-billion-dollar nuclear power project to safeguard the national energy supply. Piyasvasti Amranand, who was appointed after a coup one year ago, said nuclear energy was vital to Thailand's long-term energy supply and that the next government should pursue it immediately. ... more Judge hits auto makers, allows Vermont to limit emissions 
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2007In a blow to US automakers, a federal judge has ruled that the state of Vermont can set limits on car emissions believed to contribute to global warming, rejecting arguments that only the US government can regulate the industry. Judge William Sessions said automakers, which had sued to block the rules as burdensome, have proven themselves able to meet stringent standards. "History ... more German Chancellor Merkel backs EU automakers on CO2 issue 
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 13, 2007German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed her nation's automakers Thursday in a European debate over how to reduce greenhouse emissions as she opened the world's largest motor show in Frankfurt. "The automobile industry has my support" for its position that different categories of vehicles should be given different targets for carbon dioxide emissions, the German leader said. ... more NASA Researchers Extend Life Of Hot Temperature Electronic Chip 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 14, 2007NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat like never before. In the past, integrated circuit chips could not withstand more than a few hours of high temperatures before degrading or failing. This chip exceeded 1,700 hours of continuous operation at 500 degrees Celsius - a breakthrough that represents a 100-fold increase in what has previously been ... more Greenpeace stages pink pig protest at Frankfurt motor show 
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 13, 2007German Greenpeace militants denounced auto pollution Thursday by painting three cars pink and adding pigs' noses, ears and tails to them as the Frankfort motor show opened to the public. "Manufacturers have resorted to all sorts of tricks to transform the show into a green week," the environmental group's auto specialist Wolfgang Lohbeck claimed as he stood before the sprawling Frankfurt ... more
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