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NASA's Deep Impact Begins Hunt For Alien Worlds
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2008NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi. Deep Impact made history when the mission team directed an impactor from the spacecraft into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. NASA recently extended the mission, redirecting the spacecraft for a flyby of comet Hartley-2 ... more Messenger Team Begins Planning For Second Mercury Encounter 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2008Little more than three weeks after Messenger's first historic flyby of Mercury, the team this week began mapping out its trajectory and observation plans for the probe's second pass of the planet this fall. On October 6, 2008, at 4:39 a.m. EST, the spacecraft will once again fly 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of the planet. This is the second of three scheduled passes of Mercury ... more Shuttle Atlantis docks with Space Station 
Houston, Texas (AFP) Feb 9, 2008The US space shuttle Atlantis and its seven member crew docked at the orbiting International Space Station Saturday to deliver the first ever European-made laboratory. The crew entered the space station after the hatches between the station and shuttle opened at 1840 GMT, marking a milestone in Europe's space role with the docking of the shuttle carrying the European-made, 10-ton Columbus ... more Gazcom To Orbit Two New Yamal-300 Satellites 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 11, 2008Gazcom will orbit two new Yamal-300 satellites in the first half of 2009, the telecommunications arm of Russia's energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday. In line with its commitments under a contract with satellite supplier Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, as of the end of 2007, Gascom has paid around 50% of the project fees. Gazcom currently has three Yamal telecommunication satellites ... more Still Grinding After All These Years Makes For Much Opportunity 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2008With only about a month remaining before Opportunity's fourth anniversary (in Earth years) of Mars exploration, NASA's robotic geologist is still grinding into the surface of rocks to unlock the secrets of their interior chemistry. Meanwhile, fall arrived in the southern hemisphere of Mars on Dec. 9, 2007, Opportunity's 1,378th Martian day, or sol, of exploration of the Red Planet. Ten day ... more |
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Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Networks In Motion (NIM) has announced that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,321,826 for "Point of Interest Spatial Rating Search Method and System," a method allowing users to obtain ratings or other useful information when searching for a point of interest using a mobile GPS-enabled device that retrieves information stored on a server rather than the device, also known as 'off-board' data ... more World's mobile phone industry heads for Barcelona 
Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2008The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for the mobile phone industry. This year, like others previously, debate is likely to focus on how to encourage users in developed countries to use their phones for more than simply making calls. With competition and regular ... more Sprint Customers Now Have Access To Sprint Family Locator On All Web-Enabled Sprint Phones 
Overland Park KS (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Sprint announces access to its popular Sprint Family Locator service is available on all Web-enabled Sprint phones, an industry first. Parents on the go now can use any Web-enabled Sprint phone to locate their loved ones with Sprint Family Locator. In addition, more than 100 Sprint phones can be located by the service, including all currently available Sprint phones. "Sprint has always ... more 3D pen 'feels' virtual organ images 
Uppsala, Sweden (UPI) Feb 8, 2008Swedish scientists said new technology will allow doctors to use computerized image analysis to diagnose and plan cancer treatment. Computerized image analysis can be used to determine the size of organs or to construct three-dimensional models of organs when surgery or radiation is being planned. Erik Vidholm of the Center for Image Analysis at Uppsala University has developed interact ... more Ordia Solutions Delivers Mission-Critical Command And Control Technologies To BlackBerry 
Vienna VA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Ordia Solutions announced the availability of the RIM BlackBerry as the newest client platform for its next generation collaborative command and control solution Mobile Tactical Collaboration System and AdvanTraq GPS. This development marks a major milestone in the company's quest to extend its mission-critical, collaborative command and control solution directly to the hand of first ... more |
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Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 10, 2008North Korea remains a nuclear proliferation risk and China's military programme lacks transparency, Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura warned here Saturday. "The North Korean issues have made the regional security environment extremely difficult since the beginning of the 1990s," Koumura told an international security conference in this southern German city. "The international ... more Russian deputy PM promises to keep talking on US shield 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 10, 2008Russia will keep talking with the US about American plans to build a missile defence shield in Europe even though it is fiercely opposed to the project, deputy premier Sergei Ivanov said Sunday. "The Russia-US talks are still going on even if the talks are not positive," Ivanov, one of Russia's two deputy prime ministers, told reporters after meeting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates in Muni ... more US says missile shield antithesis of Cold War arms race 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2008The United States maintained Friday its missile shield program was the antithesis of the Cold War arms race, responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Moscow would respond to US weapons build-up. "Certainly this is the antithesis of the kinds of arms building that you have seen in the past," said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman. "It is a small and limited ... more Russia will 'always respond' to new 'arms race': Putin 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2008Russia will "always respond" to the challenges of a new "arms race" and is developing more high-tech weapons, President Vladmir Putin said Friday in a televised address. "There is a new turn in the arms race," Putin said. "Russia will always respond to this new challenge," he said, promising "new weapons that have the same characteristics, and in some cases better characteristics, as ... more NATO reviewing technical aspects of US missile shield: chief 
Vilnius (AFP) Feb 8, 2008NATO is looking into how a planned US missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic could relate to the alliance, on both technical and political levels, its secretary general said Friday. We are working at a technical level to answer a number of technical questions but we are of course also discussing this at the political level in answering the question (of) how NATO responsibility on ... more
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