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First Female Cosmonaut Celebrates 45th Anniversary Of Flight
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 17, 2008Forty-five years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to make a journey into space. Her flight aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft lasted for two days, 22 hours and 50 minutes. She orbited the Earth 48 times. She was 26 years old at the time. Tereshkova was selected ahead of 400 other applicants and went through a vigorous training program before blasting off ... more Sole Kazakh telecoms satellite fails: space official 
Almaty (AFP) June 16, 2008Kazakhstan's only telecommunications satellite, designed by Russia, has broken down after just two years and may be lost irretrievably, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Monday. At a news conference in Almaty, space agency chief Talgat Musayev said the satellite, named KazSat, was failing to respond to commands and there was a "very high" chance it could not be recovered. ... more Jules Verne ATV Reveals Unexpected Capabilities 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 17, 2008Eleven weeks into its integrated service to the International Space Station, Jules Verne ATV has followed up its successful automatic docking on 3 April 2008 by achieving all its scheduled objectives - and much more. ATV is providing capabilities never planned for before its mission. In the coming days, Jules Verne is set to transfer its entire 856 kg of refuelling propellant to the Space ... more Astronomers discover clutch of 'super-Earths' 
Nantes, France (AFP) June 16, 2008European scientists on Monday said they had located five 'super-Earths', each of them four-to-30 times bigger than our planet, in a trio of distant solar systems. The discovery suggests that at least one third of stars similar to our own Sun host these difficult-to-detect celestial bodies, multiplying previous estimates by five. It also brings astronomers closer to finding planets ... more Hands In Space Experience To Debut This Month 
Bernard ME (SPX) Jun 17, 2008In 2007 Peter Homer won $200,000 in the first round of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge with his innovative design that outperforms NASA's for flexibility and ease of use. That he invented his solution working alone on his dining room table, with only $500 of material and an antique sewing machine, is the stuff legends are made of. Homer's odyssey of design failures and rapid prototyping ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 17, 2008In Cyprus, disaster management experts of the European Union tested a satellite based system for monitoring disaster areas. On behalf of the European Commission, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed a system that enables disaster relief workers to access up to date satellite images while being in the field and exchange data among themselves. The exercise took place in the ... more Deep Hydrogen 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2008Hydrogen is the simplest, lightest, and most common element in the universe. Although the hydrogen molecule (H2) is highly reactive, and therefore rare in Earth's atmosphere, it is usually found at parts per million levels in deep drill holes. That hydrogen might be a mere curiosity - or it might be relevant to the hot conditions where life seems to have originated. In 2005, Kenneth ... more Lockheed Martin Program Director Inducted Into GPS Hall Of Fame 
Newtown PA (SPX) Jun 17, 2008David J. Podlesney, a 34-year Lockheed Martin employee, was inducted into the Global Positioning System (GPS) Hall of Fame for 2008 during a May 21 ceremony in Long Beach, Calif. The Global Positioning Systems Wing of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. established the GPS Hall of Fame in 1995 to recognize individuals who have made lasting ... more GeoSpot Deep Local Search And Exploration Goes Mobile 
Fremont CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2008GeoSpot has announced a Beta release of GeoSpot Mobile Web service. The service is a patent-pending high-performance sweeping search of local businesses and other POIs (points of interest) that are open either now or at a specified time. Instead of listing POIs of which many may be closed, consumers only see those that are currently open or opening soon. Mobile users can use contextual ... more Artilium Showcases New Apps Developed In Microsoft's Connected Services Sandbox 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jun 17, 2008Artilium has unveiled new mashup applications developed via the Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox, a development environment that facilitates the rapid creation and deployment of new services which combine Web 2.0 type services with traditional telecommunications offerings. Artilium will showcase three applications created in the Sandbox at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas. Featuring Artilium's ... more |
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Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jun 17, 2008On April 11, 2008, Col. Philip Simonsen, commander of the Satellite Control Network and Systems Group, acknowledged the decommissioning of the Command and Control Segment, known for approximately 20 years by those close to the system as "CCS." Colonel Simonsen presented commemorative montages to numerous organizations critical to the success of the legacy satellite control system's life ... more Fears for Mississippi river as flood-hit Iowa cleans up 
Iowa City, Iowa (AFP) June 16, 2008Officials warily eyed the mighty Mississippi Monday swollen by days of flooding as waterlogged Iowan towns began a massive clean-up with damage set to run into billions of dollars. With some 2,500 National Guard already deployed across the state trying to keep the floodwaters at bay, experts believe the Mississippi, the country's second longest river, could crest either Tuesday or Wednesday. ... more Flash floods, mudslides kill 25 in India's northeast 
Guwahati, India (AFP) June 16, 2008Flash floods and mudslides unleashed by heavy monsoon rains have claimed 25 lives and displaced 200,000 people in northeastern India, officials said Monday. Six people drowned overnight in Assam state as they tried to escape gushing floodwaters in bamboo rafts, state relief and rehabilitation minister Bhumidhar Barman said. "We have reports of six deaths so far and about 200,000 people ... more Losing just 15 buildings rips heart out of flooded Iowa town 
Columbus Junction, Iowa (AFP) June 16, 2008Fifteen buildings lost to floodwaters doesn't sound like much. But in Columbus Junction, Iowa it meant there is no more gas station, no more firehouse, no more water treatment plant, grocery store, daycare, doctor's office, dentist, bowling alley, senior's center, pharmacy, hotel or veterinarian. Even the new medical clinic for the town's low-income residents - which had a grand opening ... more NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations In Disaster Aftermath 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 17, 2008When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations. In the hours and days following the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, workers had ... more
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