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NASA Launches Atlantis
Cape Canaveral FL (AFP) Feb 07, 2008After two months of technical delays and storm clouds throughout the day, NASA has launched Space Shuttle Atlantis at 2.45pm local time. The mission is to deliver the 10-tonne European laboratory unit Columbus to the International Space Station. With room inside for three people and operated by ground staff at a control center near Munich, Germany, Columbus will enable the European Space Agency ... more Israel Set To Use Indian Rockets To Launch Spy Satellites 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2008Israel will continue using Indian carrier rockets to launch its military satellites into space despite objections from Iran, The Indian Express quoted an Israeli source as saying on Thursday. "Since we have limited capacity to launch rockets, we are looking for partners in this regard, and India is a natural partner since we have such good relations," a senior Israeli diplomat said. Israel ... more Progress M-63 Docks With ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2008Russia's Progress M-63 cargo ship has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as planned, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday. Progress M-63 delivered 2.5 metric tons of cargo, including food, equipment and other supplies, for the ISS. The crew on board the ISS, the 16th expedition to the space station, comprises U.S. astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani, as well as Russi ... more ESA's New Scientific Heart Inaugurated By Spanish Royalty 
Madrid, Spain (ESA) Feb 08, 2008Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Asturias inaugurated this afternoon ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), located on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. The event was also attended by the Spanish Minister for Industry, Joan Clos; the Head of the Spanish Delegation to ESA, Mauricio Lucena; and ESA's Director of Science, David Southwood, as well as by representatives of centr ... more NASA Comet Dust Lands In Manchester 
Manchester, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2008Scientists in Manchester have received small fragments of material from the Wild 2 comet (pronounced 'Vilt 2' after the Swiss astronomer who discovered it), which was brought back to earth by NASA's Stardust space mission. The Cosmochemistry research group, within the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (SEAES), is now analysing the material using two state of the art mass sp ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 08, 2008Boeing has hosted an aerospace industry conference in Huntsville, Ala., to recruit the nation's best suppliers for the Ares I Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) contract. As prime contractor, Boeing will produce, deliver and install avionics systems for the Ares I rocket. The system consists of onboard computers, flight controls, communications equipment, and other instruments and software for monit ... more Gargantuan Galaxy NGC 1132 - A Cosmic Fossil 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 08, 2008The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil - the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belo ... more US DoD Extends Savi's RFID II Contract 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2008The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has extended the time and increased the value of its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) II contract with Savi, a Lockheed Martin company. The contract has been extended to Jan. 31, 2009 and its ceiling increased by about $60 million to $483 million for the company's active RFID products and services. The contract amendments were made by the U.S. Army ... more Garmin Delivers Navigation For Ford Commercial Vehicles 
Olathe KS (SPX) Feb 08, 2008Garmin International announced that its navigation technology will be available in Ford's new 2009 F-150, F-Series Super Duty pickups, and commercial E-Series vans, designed to make business owners more productive and successful. The relationship was announced today at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show. Garmin will provide the navigation component for Ford Work Solutions, a collection of ... more First Chevrolet Vehicle To Offer XM NavTraffic Service 
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 08, 2008XM announced that the all-new 2009 Chevrolet Traverse, unveiled today at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show, will be the first Chevrolet vehicle to offer XM NavTraffic as a factory- installed feature. XM NavTraffic, XM's real-time traffic information service, will be available on Traverse vehicles equipped with navigation. XM Radio, which offers more than 170 channels of commercial-free music, sports ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Feb 7, 2008India will invite Western observers and diplomats to a major war games exercise near its border with rival Pakistan next month, officials said on Thursday. The exercise involving land forces, armour and the air force will begin March 19 at Pokhran in the western desert state of Rajasthan where India conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests in 1998 that drew international sanctions, they ... more Skipping The Nuke Dance North Of The 38th Parallel Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 7, 2008U.S. President George W. Bush never missed a chance to lash out at North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Il, but he did not even mention North Korea in his latest State of the Union address. There must be a reason for this. It is doubtful that the United States has suddenly forgotten all about Pyongyang. In his 2002 State of the Union address, Bush included North Korea in the "axis of evil" ... more Analysis: U.S. weighs new SBU info control 
Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2008The Bush administration is preparing for the huge task of adopting a single new government-wide set of standards for information that is not secret, but which officials still want to control. According to a briefing prepared for congressional staff, and seen by United Press International, the new system will replace dozens of different categories of restricted data with just three new ... more China's Military Hardware Doctrine For The Early 21st Century Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2008China is certainly in no state yet to produce its own long-range strategic bombers, air-refueling tankers or air transport aircraft like the C-130 Hercules or the C-17 Globemaster and must therefore continue to try and buy them off the shelf, if not from the United States because of deteriorating relations, then from Russia. The main reason for the reluctance of China to invest in aircraft ... more US missile plan is surrounding Russia: Lavrov 
Warsaw (AFP) Feb 7, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday blasted US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe, using a Polish newspaper interview to accuse Washington of imperialism and seeking to encircle Russia. "Elements of the strategic anti-missile defence system already exist or are being set up in Alaska, California, in northeast Asia. When you look at a map, it becomes clear that everything ... more
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