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Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 12, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with artian soil. "We have an oven full," Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said. "It took 10 seconds to fill the oven. The ground moved." Boynton leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA, for Phoenix. The instrument has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to ... more Northwestern Testing Transistors For Radiation Resistance On Space Station 
Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing. Such transistors could prove helpful on long space missions, such as NASA's current Phoenix Mars Mission, since early experiments on Earth indicate ... more Discovery undocks from ISS 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2008The US space shuttle Discovery successfully undocked from the International Space Station Wednesday at 1142 GMT ahead of its return to Earth set for Saturday, NASA said. The undocking, carried out on schedule, took place 344 kilometers (214 miles) above the South Pacific east of Australia. It capped a 10-day building mission that expanded the station with the addition of Japan's bus-sized ... more Welcome To The Glass Kitchen 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2008It pays to persevere. No one knows this better than Goddard astrophysicist Will Zhang. After 10 years of fine-tuning a technique to efficiently manufacture super-thin, curved mirrors needed to focus X-ray photons, he and his team have won a position on the Caltech-led Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission to provide the telescope's more than 3,000 individual mirror segments - a ... more Arecibo Joins Global Network To Create 6,000-Mile Telescope 
Ithaca, NY (SPX) Jun 12, 2008On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles (almost 11,000 kilometers) in diameter. The telescopes are all members of the Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service (EXPReS) project, and May 22 marked a live demonstration ... more |
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Richmond VA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Governor Timothy M. Kaine has announced that Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation has confirmed its selection of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), located at Wallops Island in Accomack County on Virginia's Eastern Shore, as its base of operations for the company's new Taurus II rocket. Orbital will invest approximately $45 million in Virginia to assemble, test and ... more Predator, Reaper Unit Becomes Air Expeditionary Wing 
Creech AFB NV (AFNS) Jun 11, 2008The 432nd Wing here that flies the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles was designated an air expeditionary wing by Air Combat Command officials in May. The wing will now have dual reporting responsibilities to 9th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Central at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., as well as to 12th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Southern at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz ... 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 NAVTEQ Reminds Drivers To Update Their GPS Navigation Maps 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 12, 2008NAVTEQ reminds drivers to update their GPS navigation systems to prepare for the summer driving season. Many drivers using older systems experience frustration when their GPS navigation system doesn't know about that new interstate exit or one-way street change. Map updates are ideal to address this concern. NAVTEQ, the most widely used map for navigation, builds the digital maps that ... more u-blox, paragon And Magna Introduce Rear-View Mirror Navigator 
Thalwil, Switzerland, (SPX) Jun 12, 2008u-blox has partnered with paragon and Magna to develop the rear-view mirror navigator. The MirrorPilot Navigator is a fully functional GPS navigation system, including GPS receiver, antenna and speaker built into a self-dimming rear-view mirror. This innovative navigation system simply replaces the standard rear-view mirror of a car, leaving thecar cockpit free of cables, and includes a ... more |
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Missoula MT (SPX) Jun 12, 2008iCloseBy.com has announced the latest release of iFob, the popular real-space social networking software. As an accepted member of both the Apple Developer Network and Apple's iPhone Developer Program, iCloseBy.com has used the Apple iPhone SDK and has developed iFob 2.0 for Apple's consideration. iFob 2.0, including all of the functionality of the earlier versions of iFob ... more Safeco Wins Silver Anvil Award For Excellence In Public Relations Campaign 
Seattle (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Safeco is the recipient of this year's prestigious Silver Anvil Award, sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The Silver Anvil, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation, was presented during the Silver Anvil Awards Evening held June 5 in New York City. Safeco received the 2008 Silver Anvil Award for its ... more HopStop Chooses Ringleader To Serve Location-Based Ads 
New York NY (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Ringleader Digital has announced that HopStop has selected Ringleader to serve ads over its mobile Web site. Ringleader's third-party ad serving platform enables HopStop advertisers to hyper-target advertisements via user location without the need for gathering GPS data from mobile carriers. As a result, the success potential for mobile advertising campaigns on HopStop increases by ensuring ... more Russia Destroys 20 Ballistic Missiles In 2008 Under START Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 12, 2008Russia has destroyed and sent for scrap about 20 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and 12 mobile missile launchers since the start of 2008, the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) said on Monday. "Since January 2008, the SMF have destroyed and sent for scrap about 20 ICBMs whose service life has expired," the SMF said in a statement, adding the missiles were scrapped as part of the ... more India PM calls for end to opposition to US nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) June 11, 2008Indian Premier Manmohan Singh Wednesday made a fresh appeal to his government's left-wing allies and the opposition to drop objections to an endangered nuclear energy pact with Washington. Singh, who has been pushing the deal that would allow India to buy technology and power plants without signing global non-proliferation pacts, said he was hopeful it would be finalised soon, the Press ... more
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