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SPACEHAB Announces Successful ARCTUS Mid-Air Recovery Test
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2007SPACEHAB has announced the success of a mid air retrieval demonstration test performed with applications to its Advanced Research and Conventional Technology Utilization Spacecraft (ARCTUS) Program. The Company is releasing video of the successful test on SPACEHAB's ARCTUS Program website. The test, performed by Vertigo Incorporated and United Launch Alliance (ULA), was designed to demonst ... more Two Years In Space For Galileo Satellite 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 20, 2007On 28 December, it will be two years since GIOVE-A - the first Galileo satellite - was launched by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. This satellite demonstrates the progress Europe has made in setting up its own navigation system. Since January 2006, Galileo signals have been broadcast by GIOVE-A, and received all around the globe. At ESA's research and technology centre in the ... more SpaceX Completes Dragon Spacecraft Demonstration Systems Review For Berth At ISS 
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed the Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for what will be the third Falcon 9 / Dragon demonstration under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. NASA representatives attended the event, held on the first day of regular business operations at SpaceX's new headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Under COTS, SpaceX w ... more Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract For GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $96.7 million contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to provide the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environmental satellites. GLM's ability to monitor lightning on a global scale will provide new insight into the formation, distribution, ... more Sixth Ariane 5 Mission Of 2007 Set For December 20 Launch 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Arianespace's sixth mission with the workhorse Ariane 5 in 2007 has been given its go-ahead for liftoff on December 20, following the Launch Readiness Review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This review is one of the final milestones before every Ariane flight, and it verifies the readiness of all mission elements - including the launcher, its payload, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport, ... more |
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Kauai HI (SPX) Dec 20, 2007The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully flight tested its first Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard Missile-3. The SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 60 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai launched the ballistic missile target while the crew of the Japane ... more US accelerates nuclear stockpile cuts: White House 
Washington (AFP) Dec 18, 2007The United States has accelerated the scrapping of its nuclear weapons, approving a "significant reduction" in the stockpile by the end of the year, the White House said Tuesday. "The president has approved a significant reduction in the US nuclear weapons stockpile to take effect by the end of 2007," following a major reduction plan first announced in 2004, a White House statement said. ... more Israel test fires improved Patriot missile 
Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 19, 2007Israel successfully test fired an improved Patriot missile as part of efforts to upgrade the country's radar system following last year's war against Hezbollah, the army said on Wednesday. The test-firing was conducted on Tuesday in southern Israel as "part of series of improvements conducted in the missile's operational system towards a new radar system that allows a wider cover and detecti ... more Evidence of China's rise everywhere in 2007 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 19, 2007From the depths of Earth's oil fields to the rarefied atmosphere of space, evidence of China's modernisation seemed to be everywhere in 2007 -- a rise set to be enshrined with next year's Olympics. China will soon overtake Germany as having the world's third biggest economy after a fifth straight year of double-digit growth, and the Asian giant's expanding wealth had huge impacts at home and ... more India tests surface-to-air missile: defence ministry 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Dec 19, 2007India on Wednesday tested its surface-to-air Akash missile twice, the latest in a series of tests of the short-range, defensive weapon, defence officials said. The missile blasted off from the Chandipur-on-Sea testing site in Orissa state on India's eastern coast in successful back-to-back afternoon tests, officials with India's Defence Research and Development Organisation said. Three t ... more |
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Las Vegas NV (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Ausra announced it is building the first U.S. manufacturing plant for solar thermal power systems in Las Vegas. The 130,000-square-foot, highly automated manufacturing and distribution center will produce the reflectors, towers, absorber tubes, and other key components of the company's solar thermal power plants. Solar thermal power plants use fields of mirrors to capture the sun's power t ... more Progress Energy Florida Signs Contract For Second Waste-Wood Plant 
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2007As part of its ongoing commitment to renewable energy and developing technologies, Progress Energy Florida (PEF) has signed another contract with Biomass Gas and Electric LLC (BG and E) to purchase electricity from a second waste-wood biomass plant planned for Florida. BG and E, based in Atlanta, Ga., plans to build a power plant in north or Central Florida that will use waste wood product ... more Outside View: Russia settles Bushehr row 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 Russia and Iran may set up a joint venture to run the Bushehr nuclear power plant and ensure its safety. "We have agreed a time-frame with the Iranian customer for completing the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Difficulties with the Iranian customer have been settled. We'll be able to give an exact time-frame for completing the plant's construction and its commissionin ... more French nuclear group targets third of new reactors 
Paris (AFP) Dec 19, 2007Areva, the world's largest nuclear power group, wants to account for a third of all new nuclear reactors built worldwide between now and 2030, company chief executive Anne Lauvergeon said Wednesday. "Between now and 2030 we believe there could be 100 to 300 (nuclear reactors built around the world)," she told the French National Assembly's economic affairs committee. "We want a third of ... more Xethanol Announces Grant Application For Citrus Waste To Ethanol Production 
New York NY (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Xethanol announced that its subsidiary Southeast Biofuels LLC has filed a grant application with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to expand the company's work on converting waste to energy, using citrus waste as the raw material and converting it into ethanol. Only about 50 percent of a citrus fruit is used to produce juice and related products. Currently, most citrus ... more
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