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US space shuttle Atlantis returns home
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 20, 2008The shuttle Atlantis safely landed in Florida Wednesday, completing a successful mission to install Europe's first space laboratory. Atlantis touched down at the seaside Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, bringing home seven astronauts following a 13-day mission to deliver the Columbus lab to the orbiting International Space Station. The shuttle's return also cleared the skies for ... more Who's Orbiting The Moon 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The space around Earth is a busy place, as teeming with traffic as a roundabout. More than 500 active satellites are bustling about up there right now. Some are transmitting radio, television, and telephone signals; others are gathering information about Earth's atmosphere and weather; still others are helping people navigate down here; and the rest are conducting space research. Soon the ... more NASA Partners With Orbital Sciences For Space Transport Services 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to develop and demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services that could open new markets and pave the way for contracts to launch and deliver crew and cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Orbital Sciences signed a funded Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, known a ... more NASA Extends Mission For Ball Aerospace-Built ICESat 
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The Ice, Cloud and Land Satellite (ICESat) built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. will continue operations until at least 2010 following a NASA mission extension contract. ICESat, designed for a three-year lifetime with a five-year goal, was launched Jan. 12, 2003. The Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 2000 employed for ICESat was built under contract to NASA's Rapid Space Development Offic ... more Arianespace Mission Update: The ATV Has Been Integrated On Its Ariane 5 Launcher 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Ariane 5's largest payload ever has been integrated on the launch vehicle, taking Arianespace's upcoming historic mission with the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) one step closer to its March 8 liftoff. The integration process at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana began late last week, and was concluded with the spacecraft's power-up this weekend atop the launcher. The European-built ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Sensitive detectors that may help find habitable planets orbiting distant stars as part of NASA's Kepler Mission are undergoing tests at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Scheduled to launch in February 2009, the Kepler Mission will measure tiny variations in the brightness of stars to find planets that pass in front of them during their orbits. During these passes or "transits" ... more Little Green Men Will Have To Wait For A Long Time 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2008First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov warned Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency) against becoming a "space taxi." This is a real threat and it may become reality this year. For many years, Russia has not launched spacecraft in the interests of fundamental science. The federal program's plans to put them in orbit in 2006 and 2007 were not carried out. The Spektr-Radioastron astrophysical o ... more Roper Mobile Technology Unveils Duros Rugged Tablet PC 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Roper Mobile Technology has announced the debut of the Duros Rugged Tablet PC. The Duros is a fourth generation, powerful Windows XP-based tablet PC that is sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water ingress and manufactured to MILSPEC 810F. The Duros is built for "anywhere" use. Equipped with an 8.4-inch brilliant sunlight viewable, SVGA resistive touch screen and an AMD Geode LX 800 ... more RF NEULINK Receives Contract To Support US Marine's IGRS Program 
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008RF INDUSTRIES' RF Neulink Telemetry Division today announced it has been awarded an initial $335,000 Contract to support the United States' Marine Corps' Integrated GPS Radio System. Robert White, Neulink's Sales and Marketing Director, said, "The IGRS is an advanced personnel tracking system which will provide the USMC with GPS-based real-time tracking, position and status information ... more Introducing The ProMark 500 Multi-Constellation GNSS RTK Receiver 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Magellan, the originator of GPS + GLONASSTM GNSS signal processing is this month introducing the ProMark 500, a dual-frequency GNSS receiver that processes GPS, GLONASS and SBAS signals to offer land surveyors fast, real-time centimeter-level accurate surveying. High-end technology and lightweight design the ProMark 500 delivers state-of-the art RTK features in a light, cable ... more |
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West Sale, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2008BAE Systems' developments in the area of unmanned ground vehicles have taken a step forward with the integration of autonomous technologies onto a Supacat vehicle. The autonomous technology at the heart of the BAE Systems Supacat-based unmanned ground vehicle was originally developed by BAE Systems Australia as the Vehicle Management System and ground mission systems for the ... more Assembly Starts Of Taranis Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle 
Warton, UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2008BAE Systems has begun assembly of the first major components of Taranis, the GBP124M Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle that will help inform the UK MoD on the balance and capability of its 'future force mix'. Specialist jigs have now been set up in a dedicated assembly hangar at BAE Systems which will be home to Taranis until it prepares for its first test flights in 2010. Chris ... more Ancient Out Of Africa Migration Left Stamp On European Genetic Diversity 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Human migration from Africa to Europe more than 30,000 years ago appears to have left a mark on the genes of Europeans today. A Cornell-led study, reported in the Feb. 21 issue of the journal Nature, compared more than 10,000 sequenced genes from 15 African-Americans and 20 European-Americans. The results suggest that European populations have proportionately more harmful variations, ... more Antarctic census set to reveal new species: scientists 
Sydney (AFP) Feb 20, 2008An international project to document the sea life of Antarctica is likely to reveal new species among the dinner-plate sized sea spiders and other overgrown animals of the deep, scientists said Wednesday. Researchers from the Australian, French and Japanese venture designed to complete a census of marine life in the icy Southern Ocean before it is degraded by global warming, have brought ... more Cleaner Water Through Nanotechnology 
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active material could be used to remove toxic chemicals, bacteria, viruses, and other hazardous materials from water much more effectively and at lower cost than conventional water purification methods, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology. Peter Majewski and Chiu Ping Chan of the ... more
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