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New Views Of Martian Moons
Laurel MD (SPX) Nov 28, 2007These two images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low orbit around Mars. Both images were taken while the spacecraft was over Mars' night side, with the spacecraft turned off its normal nadir-viewing geometry to glimpse the moons. The image of Phobos, shown at th ... more Shuttle Flight Readiness Review This Week 
Cape Canveral FL (SPX) Nov 28, 2007NASA managers will hold a flight readiness review on Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center marking the next major milestone for mission STS-122. NASA officials, space shuttle program managers, engineers and contractors will discuss the readiness of space shuttle Atlantis, the flight crew and payloads to determine if everything is set to proceed for launch. Managers will also select an official l ... more Sea Launch Reschedules The Thuraya-3 Launch Campaign 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Due to unusually strong ocean currents at the launch site, Sea Launch is rescheduling the launch campaign for the Thuraya-3 satellite. The team is establishing an extended schedule for the Thuraya-3 mission, as the vessels return to Sea Launch Home Port. All personnel are doing well and all systems and the spacecraft are secure. The Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site on Nov. 10 and ... more Computer Simulation Predicts Voyager 2 Will Reach Major Milestone In Late 2007�Early 2008 
Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the �termination shock,� the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. According to Washimi�s simulations, the spacecraft is set to cross the termination shock in late 2007-early 2 ... more A Last Look At Comet Holmes 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Comet 17P/Holmes, which dazzled sky watchers with a dramatic outburst that made it visible to the unaided eye, now is fading from sight. However, before it returns to the obscurity from which it came, astronomers at the MMT Observatory took a final look. In late October, Holmes brightened by a factor of about one million times when it ejected a vast cloud of dust and gas. That cloud expanded ov ... more |
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Hood River, OR (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Cloud Cap Technology is pleased to announce a new partnership with Guided Systems Technologies to provide Piccolo autopilot solutions for helicopter and other rotary wing unmanned vehicles. Guided Systems Technologies, leveraging more than 18 years of experience in guidance and control, offers advanced flight control technology that has been proven on a wide variety of unmanned rotary wing vehic ... more Thompson Files: Blimps for America 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Nov 27, 2007 Seven years into the new millennium, military planners have figured out that the biggest challenge they face is finding the enemy. All of the emerging threats the nation faces are fleeting and elusive -- from transnational terrorists to ground-hugging cruise missiles to illegal migrants to drug smugglers to fast-burning ballistic weapons. The military has ways of defeating all these da ... more Keating Aims To Improve Communication With China After Port Call Rejections 
Washington DC (AFNS) Nov 28, 2007The top U.S. military officer in the Pacific said he�s concerned that China recently denied U.S. ships� requests for port visits in Hong Kong and plans to take the matter up during a trip he hopes to make to Beijing early next year. Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said he found it �perplexing and troublesome� that the Chinese refused the Kitty Hawk Battle Group e ... more NASA Evaluates Compact Synthetic Aperture Radar 
Edwards CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007NASA is evaluating a compact L-Band synthetic aperture radar for potential use on unmanned aircraft. The sensor detects and measures small changes in Earth�s surface of geophysical interest, such as volcanoes, earthquake faults, landslides and glaciers. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., are partnering in development of the Un ... more NORTHCOM Experience Lends Lessons To Bangladesh Relief 
Washington DC (AFNS) Nov 28, 2007After more than two years at the helm of U.S. Northern Command, Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating oversaw planning for military responses to the most devastating domestic disasters, and mobilized U.S. military support when Hurricane Katrina provided a real-life test of those plans. So when his staff at U.S. Pacific Command watched a fierce tropical cyclone make its way toward Bangladesh earlier this ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he wants to send oil to $200 a barrel. Robert Zubrin has a plan to stop him. In his just released book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, Zubrin, an American aerospace engineer known previously primarily for his inventive approach to Mars exploration, lays out the strategy. To say the book is remarkable, would be a severe unders ... more Where Does Stored Nuclear Waste Go 
Hanford WA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Millions of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation�s nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford. Beneath this desert landscape about two million curies of radioactivity and hundreds of thousands of tons of chemicals are captured within the stratified vadose zone below which gives rise to complex subsurface flow paths. Thes ... more India slams new UN recommendation on carbon cuts 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 27, 2007India on Tuesday slammed a recommendation in a new report from the UN Development Programme that urges developing countries cut carbon emissions by 20 percent over three decades starting in 2020. The report released in Brazil on Tuesday on fighting climate change said global warming could have apocalyptic consequences for the world's poor and also said richer countries need to cut greenhouse ... more Interview: KRG minister on Iraq oil beef 
Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2007 Iraqi Kurdistan's oil minister, Ashti Hawrami, begins his U.S. tour of political and business leaders from Washington to Texas a hot item with international oil companies, but with icy relations with his counterpart in Baghdad. He has signed around 20 oil deals with international oil companies, most after the national oil minister labeled them illegal. Hawrami blames Baghdad for ... more NIST Measures Performance Of Auto Crash Warning Systems 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 28, 2007Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of automobile collision warning systems. Researchers in industry and at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will be able to use the NIST technology to accelerate the development and commercialization of safety systems that alert drivers t ... more
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