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Space Sentinels: New Tools In Space To Improve European Environment And Security Policies
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 29, 2008ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and European Commission Director General for Enterprise and Industry Heinz Zourek today signed in Brussels an agreement which establishes the allocation of an EC budget of 624 million euros to ESA as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component. This will be provided in two stages: 419 million euros for Segment 1 and 205 ... more Opportunity Proceeds With Caution On Sandy Slopes 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 29, 2008After recovering from a stall in Joint 1, which controls the compass orientation of the shoulder on the rover's robotic arm, Opportunity is proceeding carefully to its next target, an exposure of layered rocks known as "Gilbert." Opportunity ran the usual diagnostic tests for this sort of fault, which occurred while the rover was studying a rock target known as "Buckland," and successfully place ... more Mars Express One Of Three Orbiters Preparing For Phoenix Landing 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 29, 2008A trio of NASA and ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars are preparing for the 25 May arrival of NASA's Phoenix lander. ESA's Mars Express has already started adjusting its orbit to provide critical back-up monitoring of Phoenix. In May, when Phoenix enters the Red Planet's atmosphere at over 20 000 km/h, two NASA spacecraft - Mars Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - will closely monitor ... more China To Carry Out First Spacewalk In Late 2008 
Beijing (XNA) Feb 29, 2008China plans to carry out its first spacewalk in second half of the year, an official of the nation's manned space program said here on Thursday. The Shenzhou VII spacecraft will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu latein the year and the astronauts will leave their spacecraft for the first time, the official told Xinhua. The spacecraft ... more Seeing Red 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 29, 2008This New Horizons image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was taken at 13:05 Universal Time during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby on February 28, 2007. It shows the reddish color of the deposits from the giant volcanic eruption at the volcano Tvashtar, near the top of the sunlit crescent, as well as the bluish plume itself and the orange glow of the hot lava at its source. The relatively ... more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Preparations for Arianespace's initial two Ariane 5 flights of 2008 are in full swing at Europe's Spaceport as the company continues to demonstrate its ability to provide launch capacity and mission flexibility that meet customers' needs. The two vehicles currently being readied at the Spaceport are an Ariane 5 ECA for liftoff in April with a pair of commercial telecommunications satellite ... more The 2007 Electronic Monitoring And Surveillance Survey 
New York NY (SPX) Feb 29, 2008From e-mail monitoring and Website blocking to phone tapping and GPS tracking, employers increasingly combine technology with policy to manage productivity and minimize litigation, security, and other risks. To motivate compliance with rules and policies, more than one fourth of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and nearly one third have fired employees for misusing the Internet ... more Quest Global Selects TransCore's GlobalWave Trailer Tracking And Monitoring System 
Portland OR (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Quest Global has selected TransCore's GlobalWave trailer tracking system and will install more than 250 Sense and Track units throughout its fleet. Quest Global supports various Fortune 500 customers and specializes in expedited loads to the West coast from the Southeast. Founded by Jason and Jeremy Dickerson, Quest Global has leveraged technology and state-of-the-art equipment enabling the ... more Boeing GPS Ground Control System Keeps Navigation Satellites Operational 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Boeing reported the continuing success of its Global Positioning Satellite ground control system that operates the on-orbit constellation of 32 GPS satellites built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. "The Boeing ground control system, known as the Architecture Evolution Plan, was deployed seamlessly in September 2007 and has the technical flexibility to operate not only the oldest ... more Hi-G-Tek And INTA Provide Wireless Trade Lane Security Solution For Lithuania 
Rockville MD (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Hi-G-Tek has partnered with INTA, a Lithuania-based systems integrator. Hi-G-Tek and INTA have installed an electronic seal and sensor RFID monitoring system along the trade routes of eight major borders, four on the Belorussia frontier and four on the Russian Federation frontier (Kaliningrad area), for the Lithuanian Customs Authority. This specific application is used by the LCA to ... more |
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Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Orbital Sciences has announced that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a Phase 1 concept for System F6 (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft united by Information eXchange). DARPA is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense. It manages and directs selected basic and ... more Analysis: New cyber chief faces Hill anger 
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2008The new job of Scott Charbo, the man President Bush has picked to head up the protection of U.S. computer networks, involves countering threats from Russian hackers, Chinese cyber spies and Internet Jihadis. But perhaps his most immediately dangerous adversary is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. The two men will be face to face Thursday, when Charbo, the deputy ... more Analysis: Germany stops Big Brother law 
Berlin (UPI) Feb 27, 2008The decision by Germany's highest court Wednesday to annul a controversial state law allowing secret computer searches for security and anti-terror investigations rightfully puts civil rights above security interests, experts say. If you are living in Germany, police will have a tougher time secretly invading your computer. Judges of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, German ... more Rock Studies Help Crack Questions Of Glacier Thinning In West Antarctica 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Boulders the size footballs could help scientists predict the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's (WAIS) contribution to sea-level rise according to new research published this week in the journal Geology. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Durham University and Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) collected boulders deposited by three glaciers in the ... more Has The Mystery Of The Antarctic Ice Sheet Been Solved 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Feb 29, 2008A team of scientists from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery surrounding the appearance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Ice sheet formation in the Antarctic is one of the most important climatic shifts in Earth's history. However ... more
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