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Opportunity Begins Sustained Exploration Inside Crater
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2007NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity finished the last step of a test in-and-out maneuver checking wheel slippage at the rim of Victoria Crater today. Then the rover immediately drove back into the crater as the start of a multi-week investigation on the big bowl's inner slope. Opportunity started the day with just two of its six wheels inside the rim of Victoria Crater and ended the ... more Having a blast: tourists take first steps into historic cosmodrome 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 11, 2007Five star it is not: few creature comforts await the tourists who trickle to the birthplace of modern space flight for launches such as this week's Soyuz blast-off. But for some that is all part of the mystique. Dotted with camels and the paraphernalia of half a century of space travel, the Baikonur cosmodrome on the arid plains of Kazakhstan has already been used to launch space touris ... more Malaysian PM Keen To Accept Russia's Offer For Second Astronaut 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said the other astronaut candidate, Dr Faiz Khaleed, would be the second Malaysian to go to space if a place is offered by Russia in the next mission to the ISS, local media reported on Thursday. At a press conference after witnessing the live telecast of theSoyuz TMA-11 blast-off at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) on Wednesday e ... more Cassini Mission To Saturn Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Its latest discoveries about the ringed planet are a leading topic of conversation among the nearly 1,500 scientists gathered this week at a major astronomy conference in Orlando, Fla. Cassini rode into space Oct. 15, 1997, atop a U. ... more Moscow-Astana Space Symbiosis 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 12, 2007Kazakhstan and Russia have few reasons for discord, but Russian rocket launches are an increasingly sore point between them. In Kazakhstan's opinion, they often fall on its territory causing significant environmental damage. The recent crash on Kazakh territory of a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a Japanese satellite has sparked a wave of speculation about the future of space cooperation ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 11, 2007North Korea has successfully tested a highly mobile short-range missile which could hit targets inside South Korea with chemical or explosive warheads, a lawmaker said Thursday. The communist state successfully launched the KN-02 missile in June, said Kim Hak-Song of the opposition Grand National Party, who is a member of parliament's defence committee. Quoting a recent report to parliam ... more USAF Launches First Of Next Gen Communications Satellites 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 12, 2007The U.S. Air Force launched the first of a next generation of military communications satellites from here Oct. 10 at 8:22 p.m. (EDT), when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster carried a Wideband Global SATCOM satellite into space. WGS is the nation's next-generation wideband satellite communications system. The Oct. 10 launch begins the process of augmenting and eventually replacing t ... more Raytheon Illuminator Succeeds In Airborne Laser Flight Tests 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2007A solid-state illuminator laser developed by Raytheon for the Missile Defense Agency has been fired successfully more than 50 times for periods of up to 90 seconds since in-flight tests began in January. The kilowatt-class illuminator, built for the agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) program and fired from a heavily modified Boeing 747, is used to track a boosting ballistic missile. The project ... more Boeing Advanced Military Satellite Begins On-Orbit Checkout 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Boeing has acquired signals from the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, a new military spacecraft that will help meet the growing demand for military satellite communications by providing a 10-fold increase in telecommunications capacity over the satellite it will replace. The satellite -- the first of five that Boeing is building for the U.S. Air Force -- was successfully launc ... more Green Alga Genome Project Catalogs Carbon Capture Machinery 
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2007The genome analysis of a tiny green alga has uncovered hundreds of genes that are uniquely associated with carbon dioxide capture and generation of biomass. Among the 15,000-plus genes revealed in the study are those that encode the structure and function of the specialized organelle that houses the photosynthetic apparatus, the chloroplast, which is responsible for converting light to chemical ... more |
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Tallinn (AFP) Oct 11, 2007Estonian authorities said Thursday they had finished rebuilding a secure facility meant to prevent potential leaks from two mothballed nuclear reactors and radioactive waste left by the Soviet navy. The upgraded facility at a former Soviet military base in the Estonian coastal town of Paldiski is meant to provide safe storage for the next 50 years, after which the reactors are to be dismantl ... more China, Japan meet on long-running East China Sea dispute 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2007Chinese and Japanese officials met in Beijing on Thursday for a fresh round of talks on resolving a dispute over rival claims in the energy-rich East China Sea, a government spokesman said. The Asian rivals, two of the world's largest energy importers, are locked in a long-running disagreement over the boundaries of their territorial waters and have held regular bilateral talks on the issue ... more Chlamy Genome Holds Clues For Renewable Energy, The Environment And Human Health 
Twin Cities MN (SPX) Oct 12, 2007University of Minnesota researchers contributed to a national effort to sequence the genome of an ancient, one-celled organism that will help advance research in a broad range of areas, from biofuels to restoring the environment to understanding a variety of human diseases. The organism, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, known affectionately as "Chlamy," has long fascinated scientists because it ... more Nanoparticle Exposures Happen, Says Expert 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Some nanotechnology fanciers suggest that, like proverbial birds of a feather, engineered nanoscale materials will flock - or clump - together. This tendency, they maintain, should reduce or eliminate risks as nanotechnology manufacturing increases and the number of nanotechnology-enabled products grows. Think again, cautions nanoparticle expert Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor to the ... more Analysis: The Caspian's division 
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2007 The eyes of Western energy companies will be focused next week on Tehran, where the second Caspian Sea Littoral States Summit will convene Oct. 16. The reason? Atop the meeting's agenda is a discussion of the final status of the division of Caspian waters among the five littoral states of Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, an issue that has bedeviled their relations ... more
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