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ATK wins USAF space propulsion contract
Minneapolis (UPI) Sep 14, 2007 Alliant Techsystems has won a U.S. Air Force contract to develop a propulsion system for small spacecraft. Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, said in a statement Tuesday that the USAF Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., had given it a $3.3 million contract, with options worth an additional $4.7 million, "to develop a multi-mode propulsion system for small spacecraft ... more New Film Opening In Boston Gives First 3D Look At The Sun 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 17, 2007NASA's STEREO Mission, the scientists involved and the vital information that they gather and study, is being presented in a new digital 3D film titled "3D Sun." 3D Sun will bring these images to the world in a way that has only been imagined before. 3D Sun opened at the Boston Museum of Science the first week of September. "3D SUN" audiences will experience the Sun in a breath-taking 3D High ... more Indian Institute Of Space Science And Technology (IIST) Inaugurated 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), an institute of excellence being established with the objective of offering high quality education in space science and technology to meet the demands of Indian Space Programme, was inaugurated by Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, today (September 14, 2007) at Thiruvananthapuram. Dr B N Suresh, Director, IIST, Prof D Samchandran ... more Japan says lunar orbiter launch a success 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2007Japan's first lunar orbiter successfully blasted into space Friday on the most extensive mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo programme began nearly four decades ago, officials said. A domestically developed rocket launched with no glitches from a small island in southern Japan at 10:31 am (0131 GMT) carrying the country's hopes of restoring pride in its troubled space ... more Fasten Your Seat Belts 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007"Fasten your seat belts," says Alan Stern, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "One of NASA's most amazing programs is about to get even better." He's talking about Discovery--the adventurous NASA program that gave us the first rover on another planet (Mars Pathfinder), the first landing on an asteroid (NEAR's touchdown on 433 Eros), the first sample return from a ... more |
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Baku (AFP) Sept 16, 2007A US military team will visit ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on Tuesday to inspect Russia's Gabala radar station, touted by Moscow as a potential alternative to controversial missile defence sites in central Europe. The Pentagon delegation will visit the station, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, in the company of Azerbaijani and Russian military experts. ... more Sarkozy wants German role in nuclear defence: report 
Berlin (AFP) Sept 15, 2007President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Germany to open talks about a possible role the country could play in France's nuclear defence system, the weekly Der Spiegel reported. But the magazine said in its edition to be published Monday that Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rejected the offer during a meeting outside Berlin last Monday. Sarkozy told ... more Urban chic: green, ethical T-shirts with a message 
Paris (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Once cheap and often nasty, T-shirts are back on the streets as ethical message-carrying PC wear that comes with a sizeable price tag for the high-end urban chic. "Absolutely everyone is making T-shirts nowadays," said Guillaume Salmon, a spokesman for Paris' trend-setting Colette concept store. "You can wear them anywhere with anything nowadays, at work or at night, like jeans -- and they ... more Typhoon kills at least one, strands 15,000 in South Korea 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 16, 2007A powerful typhoon killed at least one person in South Korea on Sunday, grounded 280 flights and stranded 15,000 passengers on its southern resort island of Jeju, officials said. The anti-disaster agency reported one dead and two missing on Jeju. South Korea's Yonhap news agency put the total typhoon death toll at six -- on Jeju and elsewhere. The agency said Typhoon Nari, expected to ... more Relief on way to quake-ravaged Indonesian islands 
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Indonesian disaster relief officials waited for word Sunday that aid had finally reached an isolated island group hit hard by a series of quakes and aftershocks. Three boats carrying relief aid set sail for ports in the Mentawai islands Saturday off the west coast of Sumatra. "They are likely to have arrived there as the trip would need between eight to 12 hours," said Ade Edward, an ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2007 The idea of using nuclear-powered desalination plants is becoming popular in the Middle East and North Africa, where tension over water rights has gone on for millennia, but it is controversial, and without significant foreign assistance it may turn out to be a mirage. During a visit to Libya by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in late July, the leaders signed a memorandum of ... more Phoenix Canada Oil Extends International Patent Filings On Hydrogen Gas Generation Technology 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Phoenix Canada Oil reports that new patent filings, deriving from the recent issue of U.S. Patent number 7,122,171, have been completed under International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) rules. Under the Technology License Agreement with a major U.S. research university, held by its U.S. unit, Phoenix International Energy Inc., Phoenix holds exclusive worldwide rights to the proprietary ... more Personalized Greenhouse Effect For Commercial Buildings 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Just as a lizard can find the perfect spot in the sun or shade to control its body temperature, Australian award winning solar heating and cooling innovation Sun Lizard can help heat or cool offices and factories while cutting energy bills and greenhouse emissions. Companies can run up large energy bills and contribute to greenhouse emissions for the sake of a few extra degrees in room ... more Iran sees progress in Russia nuclear talks 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said talks with Russia over the much delayed completion of Iran's first nuclear power station are making progress, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. "The question of the Bushehr nuclear power station was raised and we see progress in the negotiations," said Mottaki, referring to his visit last week to Moscow for talks on the atomic plant ... more More countries join US-led nuclear energy programme 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Eleven countries joined Sunday a US-led initiative to spread atomic power but not technology which can be used to make nuclear weapons. Australia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine signed in Vienna a statement of principles for the programme, the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). It called for the "the expansion of ... more
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