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Probe again fails to obtain Martian soil sample
Washington (AFP) June 10, 2008Clumpy soil on Mars has further hampered the Phoenix lander's attempts to obtain samples for analysis by the spacecraft's test instruments, mission experts said. "Virtually none of the material made it down into the oven" after the probe dug up new soil clumps from the Martian permafrost with its robotic arm, William Boynton, an investigator for Phoenix's thermal and evolved gas analyzer ... more Lockheed Martin And NASA Ames Team Selected To Design New Solar Mission 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to undertake a $750 thousand six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In the recent announcement, NASA selected six missions for study. Two ... more Khrunichev Purchases Majority Interest in International Launch Services 
McLean VA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008ILS International Launch Services reports that Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center acquired the shares of ILS owned by majority shareholder, Space Transport Inc. Financial details were not disclosed. Vladimir Nesterov, General Director of Khrunichev, said: "Building on our strong working relationship with the ILS team, this transaction will cement ILS's leadership role in ... more Intelsat General Awarded X-Band Satellite Services For Middle East 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Intelsat General, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intelsat, has been awarded a contract by DRS Technologies to provide X-band satellite connectivity, fiber and teleport services in the Middle East using Intelsat infrastructure and the Skynet satellite fleet owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications. Under the terms of the contract, Intelsat General will provide DRS Technologies ... more Vanderbilt Astronomers Getting Into Planet-Finding Game 
Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Vanderbilt astronomers have constructed a special-purpose telescope that will allow them to participate in one of the hottest areas in astronomy - the hunt for earthlike planets circling other stars. The instrument, called the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), has been assembled and is being tested at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory. Shortly, it will be shipped to South Africa ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2008In a final meeting of scientists, engineers, technicians and officials, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" from all teams. GLAST is scheduled to launch on a United Launch Alliance's Delta II Heavy rocket with a launch window from 11:45 a.m. - 1:40 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11. During the "Launch Readiness Review," a two hour meeting at ... more Aerojet Ships Propulsion System For Mars Science Laboratory Mission 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Aerojet has shipped the rocket engines destined for use on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). When MSL is launched in the fall of 2009 aboard the Atlas V, Aerojet will provide propulsion for every phase of the mission. The Atlas V will be configured with four Aerojet solid motors to provide an additional one million pounds of thrust to the launch vehicle. The Centaur upper stage will us ... more RMI Alchemy Media Processor Powers NavMate-4 Software 
Cupertino CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008RMI and Horizon Navigation have announced a partnership to deliver the Horizon navigation software incorporated on the RMI Alchemy Au1250 media processor for the PND (personal navigation device) market. RMI and Horizon will demonstrate the combined technologies at Computex 2008, being held in Taipei, Taiwan. The RMI Alchemy Au1250 Processor is in full production and offers 700 MHz performance ... more GPS RADIONOVA M10214 RF Antenna Module Selected For Tranzda's T818 Slim Smart Phone 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Antenova and Tranzda Technologies have announced the availability of Tranzda's T818 ultra-slim smart phone with embedded GPS functionality. Incorporating the market leading SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, Antenova's GPS RADIONOVA M10214 is a complete GPS system in a compact low profile package, which is ideally suited for handset applications such as Tranzda's slim 13mm smart phone. ... more New Options For XLi GPS Synchronized Time And Frequency System 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Symmetricom has announced new option modules for its XLi/XLi SAASM Time and Frequency System. The new option modules provide high performance time and frequency outputs including: Enhanced Low Phase Noise, E1/T1, Parallel BCD, Precision Time and Time Interval (PTTI) interface, upgraded Have Quick, Second Serial Port and an Expansion Module. "The wide range of option modules available for ... more |
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Brussels (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2008The permanent U.S. representative to NATO said on Monday she would like to see Russia as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "Speaking as a mom and as a strategist and a lifetime student and friend of the Russian people, I would love to live in a world where Russia wanted to be a NATO member and Russia had met the very high standards that NATO sets for openness, democracy ... more Walker's World: Bush's Europe problem 
London (UPI) Jun 10, 2008 There are two remarkable ironies about President George Bush's weeklong visit to Europe this week. The first was that he was upstaged by Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, who announced in Berlin on the eve of Bush's arrival that "Atlanticism has had its day and we need to talk about unity between the whole Euro-Atlantic area from Vancouver to Vladivostok." In short, the Atlantic ... more UK Defence Committee Enquiry Into ISTAR And Role Of UAVs 
London, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Northrop Grumman welcomed the opportunity to participate in the enquiry by the House of Commons Defence Select Committee into ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) and the role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in providing ISTAR capability. The company gave evidence based on its extensive experience in the United States in developing UAVs with the US ... more Gates warns states against giving terrorists nuclear bomb 
Washington (AFP) June 10, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Tuesday of "catastrophic" consequences for any state that provided nuclear weapons used in a terrorist attack on the United States. His comments came at the end of a two-day swing through US air bases in which he pressed the air force to give priority attention to its nuclear forces, warning that the need for deterrence was growing, not diminishing. ... more Analysis: Euro 2008 and security 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 10, 2008 The Euro 2008 soccer championship kicked off with a series of arrests, but officials are convinced that security won't be much of an issue during the three-week tournament in Austria and Switzerland. It all started two years ago, with the FIFA Soccer World Cup in Germany. In a scope unseen before, millions of soccer fans flocked to hundreds of public viewing events all over the country ... more
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