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Malaysians take last tests before blast off into space
Star City, Russia (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The two candidates to become Malaysia's first man in space underwent final exams on Tuesday before one is selected to blast off on October 10 to the International Space Station (ISS). "I'm very sure of the training given me and I'm ready," Faiz Khaleed, one of the two candidates, told journalists at Russia's Star City training centre outside Moscow. "It's been a wonderful and ... more Strut repairs could delay shuttle launch: NASA 
Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2007A leaking hydraulic seal on the space shuttle Discovery's right main-gear strut could delay the launch of the shuttle to the International Space Station set for October 23, NASA said Monday. "The struts act as shock absorbers during the shuttle's landing. Shuttle managers made the decision to go ahead with the repairs during a meeting Monday afternoon," the US space agency said in a ... more Russian space company calls on Asia, Europe for cooperation 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2007A Russian aerospace organisation has contacted Asian countries and the European Space Agency to seek their participation in its moon exploration program, officials said Tuesday. "Negotiations are underway with countries like India, China, Japan and with the European Space Agency," an official of Lavochkin Research and Production Association told AFP on condition of anonymity. The first ... more The Promised Moon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 19, 2007On September 17, international reports confirmed the seriousness of Beijing's intention to put its own spacecraft in a lunar orbit before the end of this year. While for the leading space players - Russia and the United States - planned expeditions are quite natural if not always justified, China's lunar ambition, and indeed the country's entire space effort, fills one with wonder at such an ... more DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2007The Department of Defense has announced that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals. This capability, known as Selective Availability (SA), will no longer be present in the next generation of GPS satellites. Although the United States stopped the intentional degradation of GPS ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The US Air Force established a provisional Cyber Command Tuesday as part of an expanding mission to prepare for wars in cyberspace, officials said. The move comes amid concerns over the vulnerability of the US communications and computer networks to cyber attack in a conflict, as well as the military's desire to exploit the new medium. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne announced the ... more BMD Watch: Dems duck Euro-BMD issue 
Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2007 The Democrats have backed away from yet another confrontation with the Bush administration on a major national security issue. They have approved funding to start work on a base in Poland for ballistic missile defense interceptors to guard against a future nuclear missile attack by Iran against Western Europe and the United States. Defense News reported Monday that both the Democrat ... more China and Russia spying at Cold War levels : US spy chief 
Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2007Chinese and Russian spies are stalking the United States at levels close to those seen during the tense covert espionage duels of the Cold War, the top US intelligence officer warned Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell raised the specter of a new era of clandestine intelligence wars during a House of Representatives hearing on a contentious new law on warrantless ... more US, other states urged to ratify nuclear test ban treaty 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The United States and other laggards should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty as soon as possible, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and others attending a nuclear conference in Vienna said Tuesday. ""We want US leadership in the CTBT ratification process," said Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, referring to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. She said the treaty and UN nuclear watchdog ... more Increase In Atmospheric Moisture Tied To Human Activities 
Livermore CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007Observations and climate model results confirm that human-induced warming of the planet is having a pronounced effect on the atmosphere's total moisture content. Those are the findings of a new study appearing in the Sept. 17 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "When you heat the planet, you increase the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture," said ... more |
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 18, 2007South Africa is holding off on joining a US-led initiative to spread atomic power because it does not want to give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior South African official said Tuesday. Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica told reporters at a meeting of the UN atomic agency in Vienna that South Africa had received an invitation to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership ... more Areva official to visit China pending EPR contract 
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The head of French nuclear company Areva plans to pay a working visit to China soon as the company awaits confirmation of two contracts for third-generation EPRs (European Pressurised water Reactors), Areva said on Tuesday. An Areva spokesman said company chief executive Anne Lauvergeon "will go to China soon for a working visit as part of the frequent visits that she pays to the country." ... more Squabble over airline carbon emissions takes flight 
Montreal (AFP) Sept 18, 2007Draft measures to clip airlines' skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions are creating a rift at the 36th International Civil Aviation Organization talks, which kicked off here Tuesday. Representatives of 190 nations are meeting in Montreal this week to decide which course to plot to curb CO2 emissions linked to global warming, as the EU readies to take unilateral action to force airlines to ... more Penn Engineers Design Computer Memory In Nanoscale Form That Retrieves Data 1,000 Times Faster 
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memory technologies. Ritesh Agarwal, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science ... more Advance By Chemists May Lead To Better Displays On Laptop Computers And Cell Phones 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers. The research, which could lead to a brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer electronics devices, currently appears in the advance online edition ... more
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