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Checking Out New Horizons
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Since I last wrote here, at the start of August, New Horizons has already traveled another 100 million kilometers from the Sun, putting us more than 7.5 Astronomical Units out, roughly halfway between Jupiter and Saturn. By the middle of next year, we'll be beyond Saturn's orbit, where Cassini is. That will make New Horizons the farthest spacecraft on its way to or at its target. ... more Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Ten years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. To celebrate this special occasion, the mission's imaging team is releasing today a spate of captivating new images and movies of the ringed planet and some of its most photo ... more FUSE Reaches The End As Astronomers Say Farewell 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 16, 2007The intrepid never-say-die space telescope known as FUSE has finally reached its mission's end and will be turned off after more than eight years of discoveries on everything from planets and nearby stars to galaxies and quasars billions of light-years away. The satellite's control room on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus will go dark on Oct. 18, leaving the satellite itself - its pointing syst ... more Predicting Planets 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Discovering new planets that orbit distant stars has become commonplace. But now a team of astronomers has managed to predict the orbit of an extrasolar planet - before anyone knew for certain that it existed. The last time that happened was more than 150 years ago. The year was 1846. Urbain Le Verrier, a Frenchman, and independently, John Couch Adams of Britain, were puzzled by quirks in the or ... more United Launch Alliance Atlas V Awarded Two NASA Missions 
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007United Launch Alliance was awarded launch services contracts Oct. 3 for two future NASA space exploration missions, Landsat and Juno, scheduled to launch in 2011 aboard Atlas V rockets. Landsat will launch from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Juno from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Under the terms of the contract, ULA is responsible for conduc ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Boeing has successfully demonstrated that its Avenger-mounted laser system can neutralize the kinds of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) that threaten U.S. troops deployed in war zones. During laser firings Sept. 26-27 at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., the Laser Avenger engaged and destroyed five targets representing IED and UXO threats. Laser Avenger ... more Walker's World: Inflating Russian reality 
Milan, Italy (UPI) Oct 15, 2007 When the American secretaries of state and defense went to Moscow to see Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, they did not talk about the one topic on the minds of most ordinary Russians: the soaring cost of food. Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates talked about Iran's nuclear ambitions and the prospects of persuading Russia to join the United States and its European allies in impo ... more CNP Powers Up Advanced Technology Suite To Improve Selection Board Process 
Millington TN (AFNS) Oct 16, 2007With a snip of the scissors, the Chief of Naval Personnel streamlined the process of selecting the Navy's future chiefs, officers, and even astronauts, during a ribbon cutting ceremony, Oct. 10. Vice Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. and Rear Adm. Edward "Sonny" Masso, commander, Navy Personnel Command/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, visited the selection board center at Navy Personnel Command (NPC) to l ... more BMD Focus: Barak's BMD strategy -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is sincere in his hard-driving determination to boost Israel's ballistic missile defenses as quickly as possible. But he also sees that achievement as a stepping stone to two other huge goals -- becoming prime minister and reviving the long-moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Barak sees the creation of a massively expanded, super-effective mi ... more Northrop Grumman Actively Pursuing MP-RTIP Radar Enhancement For Joint STARS Platform 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Oct 16, 2007The capabilities of the U.S. Air Force's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) platform may be enhanced with the addition of a Wide Area Surveillance (WAS) Multi-platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) radar. Northrop Grumman is actively pursuing options with the Air Force; the U.S. Congress has expressed interest in fielding on Joint STARS a viable cruis ... more |
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Amherst MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Raymond S. Bradley, director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a three-year, $416,550 award from the National Science Foundation for his project, titled "Volcanoes in the Arctic System: Geochronology and Climate Impacts." The award will help Bradley and his colleagues to better understand the impacts that natural factors, such as explo ... more India launches tsunami warning system 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 15, 2007India on Monday unveiled a tsunami warning system designed to detect all earthquakes above a magnitude of six on the Richter scale in the Indian Ocean within 20 minutes, the government said. The operation has been set up at a cost of 1.25 billion rupees (32 million dollars) in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. India lost more than 16,000 people in the 2004 tsunami, which killed a to ... more Understanding Mysterious Continental Intraplate Earthquakes 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007A new volume published by the Geological Society of America sheds light on mysterious earthquakes in the interiors of continents. These earthquakes, like those that occur in the central U.S., are what the book's editors describe as "an embarrassing stepchild of modern earthquake seismology." Continental Intraplate Earthquakes: Science, Hazard, and Policy Issues provides a comprehensive overview ... more Why Are We Losing Louisiana 
Rolla MO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007The Mississippi Delta region was losing land long before Hurricane Katrina came ashore. But the correlation between land loss and the risk of flooding in the region is now more evident than ever. The scientific community is not in harmony about what mechanisms are most responsible for the land loss or what to do about it, says Dr. J. David Rogers, the Hasselman Chair of Geological Engineering at ... more International Team Of Scientists Warns Of Climate Change's Impact On Global River Flow 
Cambridge MD (SPX) Oct 16, 2007A global analysis of the potential effect of climate change on river basins indicates that many rivers impacted by dams or extensive development will require significant management interventions to protect ecosystems and people, according to an article published today in the online version of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. "As a result of damming and development, major rivers wo ... more
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