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Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 20, 2007Looking for a cheap fare 'round the world? Your search is over. A NASA team has built a small, low-cost satellite called FASTSAT, and it's almost ready to fly. Need some details before you sign up? Read on. b>Why is it called FASTSAT? br> /b> It's not because it travels fast. It's because it was built in a hurry. The FASTSAT team built this prototype in a mere 10� months for the relative ... more SPACEHAB Supporting Key Milestones Under NASA Space Act Agreement 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 20, 2007SPACEHAB announced that in accordance with the milestone requirements of the previously announced Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA, the Company hosted a formal Systems Requirements Review of its Advanced Research and Conventional Technology Utilization Spacecraft (ARCTUS) on October 25-26 at its Houston Headquarters facility. Attendees included representatives from NASA, the Federal Aviation ... more Lockheed Martin-Built Sirius 4 Launched Successfully From Baikonur Cosmodrome 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Nov 20, 2007The SIRIUS 4 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for SES SIRIUS, was successfully launched today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 4:39 a.m. (5:39 p.m. EST on Nov. 17) aboard a Proton/Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS). Initial contact with the satellite was confirmed at 3:58 a.m. EST ... more Swimming A Salty Sea 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2007There could be life on Jupiter's moon, Europa. The qualities thought necessary for life to arise are liquid water, an energy source, and certain biogenic elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and Europa likely has all of these in abundance. The moon's icy shell is scarred with a crazy-quilt pattern of cracks and grooves, and beneath that outer layer of ice hides a global ocean. Wha ... more China Aims To Double Satellite Life Expectancy By 2010 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 20, 2007China is likely to double the life expectancy of its homemade satellites by 2010, a vice minister in charge of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence said on Sunday. Sun Laiyan, also chief of the China National Space Administration, said the country would strive to boost the life expectancy of its satellite designs in sun-synchronous orbit to four to five years b ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 20, 2007China has finished enclosing land for its fourth satellite launch centre near Wenchang City on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. The Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre covers an area of 20 square kilometres, it will include a command centre, in addition to a rocket-launching site, rocket assembly plant, and a space-science theme park. The most important part, the rocket-launching site, ... more BMD Focus: Euro-base blues -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Nov 19, 2007 Following Rep. Ellen Tauscher's tough talk, it now looks more likely that the funds for the Polish interceptor base will be eliminated after all. And even the smaller cut proposed by the Senate for funding the Czech radar facility may be further reduced. The latest Democratic hardening against the administration on the issue reflected in the comments Nov. 8 of Tauscher, D-Calif., chair ... more Australia And New Zealand Participate In Combined Anti-Submarine Exercise 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 20, 2007The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) completed Exercise ASWEX 07 today; a bilateral exercise involving naval and air force elements from Australia and New Zealand. ASWEX 07 was conducted off the coast of Western Australia from 5 to 16 November 2007. ASWEX 07 is a significant bilateral exercise, improving Fleet interoperability and ties between Australia and New Zealand. This exercise is focused on co ... more MIT Sees Acceleration In US Greenhouse Emissions 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2007U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, and technological change may cause increased emissions rather than control them, according to a new study by an MIT economist and his colleague. What's more, technology itself cannot be relied on as the most efficient tool for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or solving the global ... more New Zealand glaciers retreat due to global warming: scientists 
Wellington (AFP) Nov 19, 2007New Zealand's largest glaciers are retreating fast in the face of global warming and could disappear altogether, scientists said Monday. A report by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said the volume of ice in New Zealand's Southern Alps had shrunk almost 11 percent in the past 30 years. More than 90 percent of this loss was because the 12 largest glaciers in ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007On November 17-18, Saudi Arabia will play host to the third summit in the 47 long-year history of the omnipotent oil cartel - the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). On the eve of the summit, OPEC has been subjected to a massive attack led by oil consumers, who demand that it should immediately increase oil production. The price of oil may surpass the record of $100 per bar ... more Russia Will Supply A Third Of European Gas 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007At the 20th World Energy Congress in Rome on November 11-15, Russian representatives confirmed that they have chosen Europe as a priority market of energy supplies for many years ahead. Gazprom, for instance, intends to increase its share in the European gas market from the current 26% to 33% by 2015. It seems that Russia is not particularly worried about the EU initiative to protect its domesti ... more Venezuela Set To Launch Peaceful Nuclear Program 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007Venezuela will pursue a peaceful nuclear program, the country's president said on Thursday. "Venezuela will start developing a nuclear power sector for peaceful purposes," Hugo Chavez said in an interview with the French TV channel France 24, citing Brazil and Argentina as examples. He said many other states would be compelled to do the same, since it was crucial to avert an energy crisis ... more Iran must do more to clear nuclear suspicions: Russia 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 19, 2007A UN report on Iran's nuclear programme indicates progress, but Tehran must do more to clear up suspicions over its nuclear activities, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday. The report, by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, "so far cannot confirm the absence of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran. For this, Iran still has rather a lot to do in cooperation with ... more Bath Physicists Discover How To Better Manipulate Light 
Bath UK (SPX) Nov 20, 2007A discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week. Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, a team at the University of Bath, UK, has opened the door to what could prove to be a new sub-branch of photonics, the science of light guidance and trapping. The team, led by Dr Fetah Benabid, reports on the ... more
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