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The Threat Of Small Rocks
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media - sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious craters which may have been caused by impacting meteorites; all make ESA's planned mission Don Quijote look increasingly timely. Asteroid and comet impacts have played an important role in the history o ... more Business Ideas For Space Technology 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 02, 2007ESA is calling for proposals from entrepreneurs with new ideas on how space technology can be turned into business opportunities in non-space sectors. The deadline for the last round of proposals for this year is 31 October for the Business Incubator at ESTEC, the Netherlands. To date, more than 50 entrepreneurs have been hosted at one of ESA's three Business Incubation centres to start their co ... more Reflections On Space Progress In The 50 Years Since Sputnik 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2007The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at the California Institute of Technology Sept. 20 and 21 to talk about space milestones of the past and future exploration. Mike O'Sullivan reports, they say the next 50 years should be even more exiting than the ... more Spaceflight Shown To Alter Ability Of Bacteria To Cause Disease 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Now, a new study led by researchers from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has shown that the tiniest passengers flown in space-microbes-can be equally affected by space flight, making them more infectious pathogens. "Space flight alters cellular and ... more Colors Of Alien Plants 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 02, 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 five of this six-part edited series, she explores the impact plants have on planets, and how the type of star providing sunshine may affect the color of the alien equivalent ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2007NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system's formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gr ... more Physicists Establish Spooky Quantum Communication 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast quantum computing. The research could also be a building block for a quantum internet. Scientists used light to establish what's called "entanglement" between two atoms, wh ... more NASA, IMAX Team Up On Hubble Servicing Mission 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Thanks to cooperation between NASA, IMAX Corporation, and Warner Bros. Pictures, the IMAX 3D camera is scheduled for a journey to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008. The camera will accompany astronauts on mission STS-125 and capture film for a new production that will chronicle the telescope's life story. The film is set for release in early 2010 and marks Warner Bros. Pictures' first venture i ... more A New Lunar Impact Observatory 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 02, 2007NASA scientists are proving that you can go home again - if you bring a telescope with you. "Home" is north Georgia's Walker County, where astronomers Bill Cooke and Rob Suggs have just set up a research-grade observatory for their old school system. Years ago, they won't say how many, Cooke and Suggs attended the same high school in Walker County and after school they volunteered at the Walker ... more All Planets Possible 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 02, 2007In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider range of Earth-size planets that astronomers might actually be able to find in the near future. Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Sp ... more |
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Washington DC (AFPN) Oct 02, 2007"The first battle in the wars of the future will be over the control of cyberspace," said Dr. Lani Kass at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 26 in Washington. Ms. Kass, a special assistant to the Air Force chief of staff, has long been an expert on cyberspace and regularly advises Air Force leaders on operations in that domain. "If we don' ... more Northrop Grumman And SAIC Pursue MASINT/AGI Contract 
Reston VA (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Defense industry leaders Northrop Grumman Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation announced the formation of an industry-wide team to bid on the Measurement and Signature Intelligence/Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) program competition for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The MASINT ... more Walker's World: Get rich and shut up 
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2007 The iron hand of Asian repression has succeeded once more, at least for the moment. Just as in the bloody crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square nearly 20 years ago, the troops of Myanmar obeyed their orders to crush peaceful dissent. Most of the world protested. Even the Parisian practitioners of modern realpolitik, the French government and its Total oil giant, were shamed to the poi ... more Analysis: Cold War over North Pole? 
Berlin (UPI) Oct 1, 2007 What may turn into a Cold War-like resource conflict started quietly, with a vehicle called "Peace 1" some 2,500 miles below the North Pole. The Mir 1 miniature submarine, manned with three Russian scientists, on Aug. 2 planted a titanium capsule with a Russian flag into the seabed -- a symbol for Russia's controversial claim of the vast resources that are believed to be stored below it. ... more Japan gets extra seconds to brace for quakes 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 1, 2007Shunsuke Kobayashi's mind blanked for a couple of seconds as a quake alarm rang through the house, making him freeze on the spot before he came to his senses and dived under a table. "Quake of magnitude 6.5 to hit in 15 seconds: 10, nine, eight, seven...," a calm female voice announced until the sound of crashing furniture and splitting glass filled the room. While Japan is used to freq ... more
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