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Jules Verne ATV Declared Ready For Launch
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Mar 06, 2008The successful Launch Readiness Review (LRR) for the inaugural launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle-V162 was today held at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. In the presence of John Ellwood, ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Project Manager, with the participation of around 60 people from ESA, Arianespace, CNES, Astrium, RSC-Energia and NASA, the European spa ... more RAS Remains Dismayed At Cuts To UK Astronomy 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2008The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) welcomes the consultation announced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) on priorities for scientific research. However, the Society remains deeply concerned about the impact planned cuts will have on UK research in astronomy, space science and solar-system physics. At Monday's' Town Meeting' organised for the members of the scientific ... more GLAST Spacecraft Arrives in Florida To Prepare For Launch 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2008NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, arrived Tuesday at the Astrotech payload processing facility near the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for launch. Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 11:45 a.m. EDT on May 16. GLAST is a collaborative mission with the U.S. Department of Energy, international partners from France, Germany ... more Advantech's New Fleet Of Mobile Antenna Systems 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Advantech AMT is delighted to announce its new fleet of mobile antenna systems for DSNG and VSAT applications. Each system incorporates Advantech's innovative IPOINT auto acquisition controller which enables anyone to acquire satellites in less than three minutes from a push of a button, and allows the system to be ready to communicate as soon as you are. Within the Advantech fleet are the ... more Putin Signs Decree To Set Up Rocket-And-Space Research Center 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 06, 2008President Putin has signed a decree establishing a federal government-sponsored Rocket and Space Industry Research and Test Center, the Kremlin press service said on Friday. It said the center would be created by reorganizing the Scientific and Research Institute of Chemical Engineering, which will be merged with the Scientific and Research Institute of Chemical and Construction Machine Ma ... more |
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Marshalltown IA (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Mechdyne has announced that it has installed an immersive CAVE display system as the focal point of the new Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration at Washington University St. Louis (WUSTL). As a teaching and research facility of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Laboratory will provide 3D imaging capability for visualization of data collected by national and inte ... more Northrop Grumman Wins 239 Million USD USAF Weather Agency Contract 
Reston VA (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Northrop Grumman has been awarded the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment II contract to increase effectiveness, reliability, and performance, while reducing total cost of ownership for a variety of classified and unclassified Air Force weather systems. The $239 million cost-plus-award-fee contract includes a one-year base and four option ... more Northrop Grumman Delivers Payload Module For Second Advanced EHF Military Communications Satellite 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Northrop Grumman delivered the payload module for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite ahead of schedule to the Sunnyvale, Calif., facilities of Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Advanced EHF program. Delivery of this second payload module follows one year after the first payload module delivery, which was also delivered ahead of schedule. ... more GPS Helps Troops Locate Targets And One Another 
Robins AFB GA (AFNS) Mar 06, 2008Robins AFB GA (AFNS) Mar 06, 2008 Members of the Joint Service System Management Office here provide global positioning systems-enabled technology in direct support of warfighters worldwide. Part of the 752nd Combat Sustainment Group, the JSSMO has representatives from all military branches. The unit maintains GPS receivers in the only operational GPS lab in the Department of Defense. ... more SatNAV Start-Up Companies At CeBIT 2008 
Hanover, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2008CeBIT 2008, the world's largest information technology trade fair, is taking place this week in Hanover, Germany. One of the many exhibition halls is dedicated to satellite navigation where several start-up companies, members of ESA's business incubation programme, will present innovative products and solutions that will benefit from Galileo, the European SatNav project. Even though Europe ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) March 4, 2008German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Tuesday he wants to make Russia a central ally following Dmitry Medvedev's sweeping presidential win. "Russia is and remains an indispensable strategic partner if we want to secure peace in Europe," Steinmeier said. "But it's not only us who need Russia -- Russia also needs us." German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet Medvedev ... more Premier says China will stick with one-child policy 
Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2008China will stick with its strict family planning rules, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, in an apparent rebuttal to officials who raised the possibility of changes to the one-child policy. "We will adhere to the current policy of family planning, keep the birthrate low, improve the health of newborns and adopt a full range of measures to address the gender imbalance in babies," Wen told the ... more When It Comes To Emotions, Eastern And Western Cultures See Things Very Differently 
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Mar 06, 2008A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable results on how eastern and western cultures assess situations very differently. Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers manipulated the facial emotion (happy, angry, sad) in the centre or background models a ... more US Internet users going mobile: study 
San Francisco (AFP) March 4, 2008A comScore study released Tuesday shows US mobile Internet use is rising exponentially as people increasingly opt to be online while on the move. The number of people using broadband mobile Internet connections jumped to 2.16 million in the final three months of 2007 as compared to 854,000 in the same period a year earlier, according to comScore. "Though mobile broadband access is currently ... more Warmer Springs Mean Less Snow, Fewer Flowers In The Rockies 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Spring in the Rockies begins when the snowpack melts. But with the advent of global climate change, the snow is gone sooner. Research conducted on the region's wildflowers shows some plants are blooming less because of it. David Inouye (University of Maryland) used data gathered in the Rockies from 1973 to the present to uncover the problem. Writing in the journal Ecology, he demonstrates ... more
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