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The UA Is Over The Moon About Mars
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The Phoenix Mars Mission is on its way to the Red Planet after a flawless launch from Cape Canaveral in early August. With landing scheduled for late May 2008, it might seem like there is nothing to do but wait through a long nine months. But The University of Arizona won't be idle during the cruise phase. Mission scientists are diligently preparing for landing and science operations. And the ... more Dedication And Perspiration Builds The Next Generation Life Support System 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Marshall Center employees are back at it -- donating time and energy -- exercising on treadmills, bikes, and other equipment to test aspects of a life support system that could someday provide drinking water to people living on the moon or Mars. For almost 20 years, NASA engineers at Marshall have led the design and development of the International Space Station life support system, called the ... more Progress M-60 To Serve Science Before Burning Up In Atmosphere 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2007The Russian Progress M-60 cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and spend several days engaged in research, a mission control official said Monday. The freighter will spend five days in independent flight before leaving orbit and starting a fiery decent through the Earth's atmosphere. "The Progress M-60 spacecraft will be undocked from the ... more All Systems Go For Russian Cockroach-Carrying Bio-Satellite 
Baikonur Space Center (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2007The first experiments are due to begin on board the Foton-M bio-satellite, launched Friday on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur space center, the head of the project told journalists. The cockroach-carrying bio-satellite, whose passengers also includes snails, lizards, butterflies and gerbils, took off at 3 p.m. Moscow time (11 a.m. GMT). The satellite, and its on-board equipment, is ... more Why Is The Hercules Dwarf Galaxy So Flat 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, an international team of astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, named the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round ... more |
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 17, 2007The United States is removing nine tonnes of plutonium, enough to make over 1,000 nuclear weapons, from its weapons stockpiles in a nonproliferation effort, US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Monday. But the plutonium, which is currently a bomb component, will sit for a while before being converted into nuclear reactor fuel, as it "will be removed in the coming decades from retired ... more Analysis: Sulick new head spy for CIA 
Washington (UPI) Sep 17, 2007 CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden has named a new head for the National Clandestine Service, the part of the agency that recruits spies -- or human sources, as they are called by espionage professionals -- for U.S. intelligence. Michael Sulick, a 25-year agency veteran, was named in an announcement to the workforce by Hayden Friday. He will come out of retirement Monday, the ... more Satellites Witness Lowest Arctic Ice Coverage In History 
Paris, France (EAA) Sep 18, 2007The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage - a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable. In the mosaic image, created from nearly 200 images acquired in early September 2007 by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) ... more Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa. Annan said he wanted the impact of climate change on refugee flows and humanitarian strife around the world to be a first priority of a new forum he is launching on October 17. "This is ... more Climate talks in Montreal to take dual aim 
Montreal (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Representatives of 190 countries will meet in Montreal Monday for talks on the twin goals of combating global warming and restoring the ozone layer. The discussions come as part of a UN-sponsored conference marking the 20th anniversary of signing of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty seeking to end production of chemical compounds that contribute to ozone depletion. ... more |
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Vietnam has sent a shipment of highly enriched uranium used at its Soviet-built Dalat research reactor to Russia as part of a fuel conversion plan agreed with the United States, an official said Monday. The shipment -- of an unspecified size -- was sent last week, according to an official at the Vietnamese Atomic Energy Commission, who asked not to be named. In March, the United States ... more New Jersey's Largest Electrical Workers Union Joins Clean Reliable Energy Coalition 
Trenton NJ (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The 35,000-member New Jersey chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Local Union 1289 has joined the growing membership of the New Jersey Affordable, Clean, Reliable Energy Coalition (NJ ACRE). With more than 750,000 members throughout the United States and Canada, the IBEW represents workers employed in a variety of industries including utilities, construction ... more Maxwell Technologies Introduces 75-Volt Ultracapacitor Module For Renewable Energy Industrial Applications 
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Maxwell Technologies is introducing a 75-volt BOOSTCAP ultracapacitor module to provide a scaleable, cost-effective, low-maintenance solution to meet the backup power and power quality requirements of wind turbines and other renewable energy generation and industrial equipment applications. Maxwell developed the new module, which will be generally available early in the fourth quarter, in ... more Praxair And Foster Wheeler Form Alliance To Pursue Clean Coal Demonstration Projects 
Danbury CT (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Praxair and Foster Wheeler North America have signed a multi-year agreement that calls for the joint pursuit of certain demonstration projects that will incorporate clean coal technologies and integrated oxy-coal combustion systems into coal-fired electric generating plants to facilitate capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2). ... more Construction Begins On First-of-Its-Kind Advanced Clean Coal Electric Generating Facility 
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Officials representing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Southern Company, KBR and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) broke ground to begin construction of an advanced 285-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility near Orlando, Fla. The new generating station will be among the cleanest, most efficient coal-fueled power plants in the world. Southern Company ... more
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