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Successful Ariane 5 Upper Stage Engine Re-Ignition Experiment
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 23, 2007A successful re-ignition of the Ariane 5 upper stage engine performed during the most recent mission has consolidated Ariane 5's readiness for the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle. The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5 ES upper stage engine. In this context ... more Broccoli Sprout-Derived Extract Protects Against Ultraviolet Radiation 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2007A team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that humans can be protected against the damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation - the most abundant cancer-causing agent in our environment - by topical application of an extract of broccoli sprouts. The results in human volunteers, backed by parallel evidence obtained i ... more Robotic Sun Worship: Interview with David Wettergreen: Part III 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2007In the third segment of Astrobiology Magazine's four-part interview with roboticist David Wettergreen, he discusses a project to design a robot that, quite literally, followed the sun. Wettergreen is an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he works in the Field Robotics Center. Astrobiology Magazine: One of the projects you worked on, a robot named Hyperion, wa ... more To Catch A Galactic Thief 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2007On Earth, thieves steal everything from diamonds to art to bags full of money. In space, gas - fuel for making stars - is a commodity worth the price of theft. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant, massive galaxy in the act of ripping off vast reservoirs of gas - the equivalent of one billion suns - from its smaller, neighbor galaxy. The stolen gas, which has bec ... more ILS Proton Launch Scheduled In November For SES SIRIUS 4 Satellite 
McLeab VA (SPX) Oct 23, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) has scheduled its next Proton Breeze M commercial mission for November 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the launch of the SIRIUS 4 satellite for SES SIRIUS of Sweden. The SIRIUS 4 satellite arrived in Baikonur Friday (October 19). The satellite, a Lockheed Martin A2100AX model, will weigh approximately 4600 kg at liftoff, making it the larg ... more |
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Lanham MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2007Sigma Space Corp announced the appointment of Dr. Mary Cleave to its Board of Directors, effective October 1st, 2007. Dr. Mary L. Cleave was the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate until March of this year. She also served as deputy associate administrator (advanced planning) in the Office of Earth Science at NASA Headquarters. A veteran of two space shuttle flights, C ... more Soyuz Returns Once Again 
Korolev, Russia (SPX) Oct 23, 2007The Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft has returned to Earth the commander and flight engineer of the 15th expedition of the International Space Station (ISS), as well as the space flight participant Malaysia's national Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who in the period from October 12 to October 21 2007 worked under the 13th visiting expedition program (VE-13). Fyodor Yurchkhin (IS ... more China Likely To Launch First Moon Orbiter At 6pm On Oct 24th 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2007China is planning to launch its first moon orbiter at around 6 p.m. on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. "The satellite will be launched between October 24 and 26 and our first choice is around 6 p.m. on October 24," a spokesman for the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The circumlunar satellite, which has been named Chang'e I after the legen ... more Gates hopes Polish military cooperation will continue 
Kiev (AFP) Oct 22, 2007US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said Monday he hopes Poland will continue to cooperate with Washington on Iraq and a proposed missile shield despite the change of government following elections. "We are clearly hopeful that the kind of cooperation we enjoyed recently both in Iraq and Afghanistan on the one hand and... negotiations on an agreement on missile defence will continue as befo ... more QinetiQ Establishes Service And Support Centre For Talon Robots In Australia 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 23, 2007QinetiQ has unveiled plans to establish a service and support centre for its Talon robots in Sydney, Australia in conjunction with its in-country representative, Pacific Security and Environmental Solutions (PSES) Pty. QinetiQ's Talon robots are manufactured in North America and are being sold in ever increasing numbers around the world - there are already over 1000 Talons in-theatre. Part ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 22, 2007The leaders of Russia and the United States Monday stressed the need to "reinforce their cooperation", the Kremlin said, amid disagreement about Washington's missile defence plans in Europe. US President George W. Bush had telephoned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. "The two presidents underscored the need to conserve and reinforce cooperation mechanisms to guarantee perspectiv ... more Rise In Atmospheric CO2 Accelerates As Economy Grows, Natural Carbon Sinks Weakening 
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2007Human activities are releasing carbon dioxide faster than ever, while the natural processes that normally slow its build up in the atmosphere appear to be weakening. These conclusions are drawn in a new study in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 22-26. The report states that "together, these effects characterize a carbon cycle that is genera ... more India's lithospheric roots are studied 
Hyderabad, India (UPI) Oct 22, 2007 The Indian sub-continent collided with the enormous Eurasian continent 50 million years ago with enough force to create the Himalayan Mountains. Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, India, and Germany's National Laboratory for Geosciences determined that with a velocity of about 20 centimeters a year, India was the fastest of the former parts of Gond ... more North Atlantic Slows On The Uptake Of CO2 
East Anglia, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2007Further evidence for the decline of the oceans' historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia. Since the industrial revolution, much of the CO2 we have released into the atmosphere has been taken up by the world's oceans which act as a strong 'sink' for the emissions. This has slowed ... more Cluster Monitors Convection Cells Over The Polar Caps 
Garching, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2007Two papers published in February and July 2007 in Annales Geophysicae have shed new light on the dynamics of convection cells of matter, found at hundreds kilometres altitude over the polar caps. The pattern of these convection cells is intimately linked to the response of the Earth's magnetic environment to solar activity. Six years of data collected in space by the four spacecraft of the Clust ... more
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