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MESSENGER Team Wraps Up Radio Science Test
Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2007MESSENGER's Radio Science (RS) team recently completed a month-long orbit simulation test to measure Doppler performance using the probe's low-gain radio frequency (RF) antennas. The test was conducted in an environment similar to one MESSENGER will encounter during its Mercury orbit phase in 2011-12. The Radio Science team will use MESSENGER's RF and telecommunications systems to study se ... more Spirit Makes Progress Across Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is healthy after finishing a remote sensing campaign at Site 2 on "Home Plate." The work included collecting long-baseline stereo images of "Husband Hill," studying a possible fracture in the bedrock, and conducting reconnaissance looking west, southwest, and south in search of drive paths and geological information. On Sol 1315 (Sept. 14, 2007), Spirit bega ... more India to develop own technology for space travel 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 27, 2007India will develop its own technology to launch an astronaut into space rather than rely on outside support, the head of the country's space agency said Thursday. India's space programme suffered in the past from sanctions imposed by the West, barring access to space material and technology transfers, after the country tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and in 1998. "We have learned the hard ... more Maneuver Puts New Horizons On A Straight Path To Pluto 
Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2007With a slight tweak of its trajectory this week, New Horizons is headed toward the heart of the distant Pluto system. Starting at 4:04 p.m. EDT on Sept. 25, New Horizons fired its thrusters for 15 minutes and 37 seconds, using less than a kilogram of fuel to change its velocity by 2.37 meters per second, or just more than 5 miles per hour. Monitored from the New Horizons Mission Operations Cente ... more A Diversity of Worlds 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science Center, presented a lecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In part four of this six-part edited series, she explains how different types of worlds, even ones not like the Earth, can still be potential havens for life. "Not all life is ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Boeing has successfully assisted the U.S. Air Force in deploying a new ground control system that will enhance the operation of 32 Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites currently in orbit. The distributed server-based system, known as the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP), is designed to improve operations, increase efficiency and accommodate future GPS capabilities as they become available ... more BMD Focus: Optimistic realism -- Part 1 
Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Is U.S. ballistic-missile defense making giant strides or is it becalmed? Are the prospects of shooting down incoming ballistic missiles negligible or are they impressively high? The answers aren't always clear-cut, which is why champions of the program and its critics can often draw radically different conclusions from the same data. The Sept. 23 issue of Defense News reported an upbea ... more Russian general warns against space weapons 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2007A Russian general warned on Thursday against other countries trying to dominate space by deploying weapons there, in comments partly aimed at the United States. "We don't want to fight in space but on the other hand we will not permit any other country to lord it over the cosmos," General Vladimir Popovkin was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying. Popovkin, the military's officer res ... more Towering Achievement For Goddard's Visualization Studio 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2007"Towers in the Tempest," a NASA visualization that illustrates the complex science of hurricane hot towers, has been selected for an award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science Magazine's fifth annual International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge. Science Magazine, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), invited illustrators, pho ... more North America's Northernmost Lake Affected By Global Warming 
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Analyses conducted by researchers from Universite Laval's Center for Northern Studies reveal that the continent's northernmost lake is affected by climate change. In an article to be published in the September 28 edition of Geophysical Research Letters, the international research team led by Universite Laval scientists Warwick Vincent and Reinhard Pienitz reports that aquatic life in Ward Hunt L ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Are there times when it is better to simply give up? Psychologists have been exploring this question, and more specifically a possible link between tenacity and both physical and mental health. It would seem that persistence would be tonic over the long haul; hanging tough should increase the odds that you'll succeed, and personal success is closely linked to well-being. But what if the goal is ... more France unveils blueprint for green revolution 
Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2007Green taxes on gas-guzzling cars, lower speed caps on highways and eco-labels on supermarket food: French campaigners and businesses on Thursday unveiled a blueprint for a green revolution ahead of a high-profile environmental summit. Big business, trade unions, government and environmental groups have been pulled together for the first time to draw up a green master plan, to be put to a pub ... more Analysis: Nigerian rebels end cease-fire 
Miami (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Nigeria's leading militant group threatened to resume attacks on foreign and domestic oil and gas operations following a four-month cease-fire intended to allow the new president to make good on vows to reform the petroleum sector and root out corruption. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta earlier this week sent a communique to media stating its intention to resume att ... more Dell Is First Major Computer Company To Go Carbon Neutral 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Dell has become the first major computer manufacturer to commit to neutralizing the carbon impact of its worldwide operations, a significant extension of its global climate policy and environmental stewardship. "Never before in the history of business have we seen such a critical need to build a worldwide community dedicated to improving the environment," Michael Dell, the company's chairman and ... more German National Holiday Celebration Features Local Renewable Energy Industry 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2007By the year 2020, Germany will be the number one country worldwide in renewable energies. The country already possesses the world's largest market in photovoltaic (PV), wind energy, and biodiesel. This is the result of groundbreaking innovations, smart policy, and favorable investment conditions. Displays of German innovations in renewable energies and other industries will be part of two events ... more
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