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LIGO Sheds Light On Cosmic Event
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma-ray burst that occurred last winter. Gamma-ray bursts are among the most violent and energetic events in the universe, and scientists have only recently begun to understand their origins. The ... more Sea Launch Continues Thuraya-3 Mission 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port, for the rescheduled Thuraya-3 mission. Liftoff is now planned for January 15, in a 44-minute launch window that opens at 3:49am Pacific Standard Time (11:49 GMT). Following delays in November due to unusually strong currents at the launch site, Sea Launch has increased power and fuel capabilities o ... more A Young Extrasolar Planet In Its Cosmic Nursery 
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have discovered the youngest known extrasolar planet. Its host star is still surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which it was only recently born. This discovery allows scientists to draw important conclusions about the timing of planet formation. How do planetary systems form? How common are they? What is their arch ... more Looking Back And Looking Forward 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 03, 20082007 has been another year of scientific discovery. Every one of the science missions in operation has produced new results in many fields of astronomy. The International Heliophysical Year has been marked by a number of science observations from ESA's fleet of Sun monitoring spacecraft. Alongside the serendipitous observation of a new periodic comet, SOHO observations of coronal mass ejections ... more Spirit's West Valley Panorama 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007. After several months near the base of the plateau called "Home Plate" in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills range inside Gusev Crater, Spirit climbed onto the eastern edge of the plateau during the rover's 1,306th Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 5, 2007). It ... more |
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Livermore CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Samples of the material picked up during the NASA Stardust mission indicate that parts of the comet Wild 2 actually formed in an area close to the sun. New research by an international collaboration including Livermore researcher Sa�a Bajt analyzed noble gases within Stardust samples. The helium and neon isotope analysis suggests that some of the Stardust grains match a special type of ca ... more ViaSat Signs Distribution Agreements With Rockwell Collins And ARINC 
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2008ViaSat has signed new distribution agreements with Rockwell Collins and ARINC to supply business jets with ViaSat airborne broadband terminals and satellite services. The agreements maintain the four-year relationship with ARINC SKYLink and add Rockwell Collins eXchange as a distribution partner for ViaSat. Under these new agreements, Rockwell Collins has ordered additional airborne broadb ... more Two Milestones Reached For Integration Of High-Energy Laser With MDA's Airborne Laser Aircraft 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Northrop Grumman has achieved two milestones that helped prepare the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft for integration of the Northrop Grumman-developed high-energy laser. Both accomplishments contributed to MDA's success in meeting its fifth and final "Knowledge Point" or milestone for 2007 covering high-power systems integration readiness, continuing recent prog ... more Global Ballistic Missile Defense Systems In 2007 
Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2008 The dramatic progress posted by nations such as the United States, Russia, Israel, Japan, India and even Iran in ballistic missile defense was balanced by the complacency for loss of political will on the issue in many other countries. For every "hare" nation on BMD in 2007, there was also a "tortoise." Britain threatened to become even more of a "tortoise" nation and France remained on ... more Raytheon Completes Testing Of US Navy's New Ship Control Segment For The MQ-8B Fire Scout 
Falls Church VA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Raytheon recently completed initial testing of the Tactical Control System's (TCS) command and control capabilities for the U.S. Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. The testing was conducted Dec. 15, 2007, at the Webster Field annex, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. The TCS provides the Navy with a single unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that can control two air vehicles. Th ... more |
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Manila (AFP) Jan 3, 2008The Asian Development Bank said Thursday it would help China protect Yancheng, one of Asia's largest coastal wetlands which is an important winter site for threatened red-crowned cranes. The Manila-based ADB said it approved a 650,000-dollar grant to help Beijing launch a protection project for the four million-hectare (9.9 million-acre) stretch of mud flats, creeks, salt marshes and reed be ... more Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jan 03, 2008In America, helium is running out of gas. The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world's largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to be depleted there within the next eight years. This deflates more than the Goodyear blimp and party favors. Its larger impact is on science and technology, accor ... more Plate Tectonics May Take A Break 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has been slow but continuous over most of the Earth's history, but a new study from researchers at the Carnegie Institution suggests that plate tectonics may have ground to a hal ... more 100-dollar crude is good and bad news for environment 
Paris (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say. Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns. Oil briefly topped 100 dollars on Wednesday, driven by escalating energy demand in China, stagnant ... more Japan to buy China emissions quotas: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Japan has agreed to buy greenhouse gas emissions quotas from China as part of efforts to meet its Kyoto Protocol target, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Thursday. The two countries will seek a formal accord on the plan during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan, scheduled for late March, the newspaper said. Japan plans to use the so-called clean development mechanism, under whic ... more
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