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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 Japan plans two more moon missions 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 27, 2007Japan plans to carry out two more missions to the moon and then collaborate internationally to put a man on the lunar surface, a Japanese space scientist said Thursday. Asia's biggest economy this month successfully launched Kaguya (or Selene), its first lunar orbiter, stealing a march over China and India which are planning unmanned missions of their own to the moon. Japan's next missio ... more |
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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 Boeing Supports New USAF GPS Ground Control System 
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 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 Why Quitting May Be Good For You 
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 |
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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 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 FPL Group Plans To Boost US Solar Energy Production 
Juno Beach FL (SPX) Sep 28, 2007FPL Group announced a $2.4 billion investment program aimed at increasing U.S. solar thermal energy output and reducing carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. FPL Group, and its subsidiaries Florida Power and Light and FPL Energy, announced the following three initiatives today: - Investment of up to $1.5 billion in new solar thermal generating facilities in Flor ... more Analysis: TAP pipeline a fantasy 
Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the Caspian's vast hydrocarbon reserves, estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration at proven reserves of 17 billion to 49 billion barrels of oil; proven natural gas reserves are e ... more Major emitters gather for US-led forum 
Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2007The United States on Thursday was launching talks among the world's biggest greenhouse-gas polluters in the quest to spur action against dangerous climate change. Representatives from leading industrial and emerging economies, the UN and European Union (EU) were to meet for two days under the chairmanship of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President George W. Bush, who proposed t ... more
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