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Opportunity Is Busting Loose And Going For It On Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 19, 2008Opportunity finally escaped the Martian sand and backed up onto solid rock inside "Victoria Crater." Driving backward on Martian day, or sol, 1557 (June 10, 2008), the rover successfully moved the last of its six wheels up over a rocky ledge. The successful maneuver freed Opportunity to follow another route that will bring the rover closer to the cliff known as "Cape Verde." From there ... more NASA Extends Expendable Launch Vehicles Support Contract 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2008NASA has awarded Analex an option for the Expendable Launch Vehicles Integrated Support, or ELVIS, contract. This second option period award is a hybrid performance-based, cost-plus-award-fee, fixed-price-award-fee, and fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. It extends ELVIS through Sept. 30, 2011. The award has a potential value of approximately $90 million. ... more Lavell To Acquire Skyport Global Communications 
Reston VA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Lavell Systems has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase SkyPort Global Communications located in Houston, TX. "Based on the ever-increasing demand for broadband, the growing sophistication of network applications and customer demand for a single communications provider, the integration business is now at the forefront of both growth and profitability - and ... more Integral Systems Integrated Solution To Support JCSAT-12 
Lanham, MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Integral Systems, Inc. has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems to expand JSAT Corporation's existing EPOCH IPS (Integrated Product Suite)-based ground system to support their new JCSAT-12 satellite, a Lockheed Martin A2100AX spacecraft planned for launch in 2009. This upgrade extends the existing EPOCH ground system, originally delivered to support JCSAT-9, -10 ... more NASA Mars Lander To Dig As Team Probes Flash Memory 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 19, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data. Phoenix engineers are analyzing why this anomaly occurred. The science team is planning spacecraft activities for Thursday that will not rely on Phoenix storing science data overnight but will make use of multiple communication relays ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class of black holes. The conclusion comes from ... more INRIX National Traffic Scorecard Exmanines Traffic Congestion In The USA 
Kirkland WA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008INRIX has released the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, the most comprehensive country-wide perspective and city-by-city analysis of one of the nation's most frustrating and intractable issues: traffic congestion. How bad is traffic overall? Which cities have the most traffic congestion? Where are the worst bottlenecks across the country? This new report answers these questions and more. ... more GTX Brings Personal Location-Based Services To The Masses with Google Maps API Premier 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008GTX has announced the integration of Google Maps API Premier into the tracking platform of the gpVector Personal Location Service (PLS) technology. The company's PLS system consists of a matchbook-sized, location-reporting module that utilizes GTX Corp's "always-on" Assisted-GPS tracking capabilities. Cellular transmission services are provided by the company's wireless carrier partner ... more Keep Your GPS Safe From Criminals With Secure-It's Beach Safe 
East Longmeadow MA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Who hasn't gone to the beach, stuffed their wallet into an old sneaker and taken off for a walk? Who hasn't left their iPod, car keys, or electronic games under a t-shirt and asked a complete stranger to keep an eye on things while they play in the surf? What can be riskier than that? Not much. Now Secure-It takes safety and security to a new level with Beach Safe, a compact, portable ... more IntelliGolf Version 9.0 GPS Software Ships For Windows Mobile, Palm, Nokia, And The Blackberry 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2008IntelliGolf has announced the shipment of its new IntelliGolf version 9.0 software for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones, Palm and Treo handhelds, Nokia Series 60-based smartphones, RIM's Blackberry, and Windows-based PC. Version 9.0 includes enhanced support for GPS-enabled smartphones and receivers, free access to over 24,000 course scorecards, and improved ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) June 18, 2008China has no plans to try and dominate the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, its ambassador to India said in Hong Kong Wednesday. "We don't have such an intention to establish a chain to encircle India," said ambassador Zhang Yan at a lunch held by the Asia Society in Hong Kong. "It's not in China's interest to undertake this kind of strategic move. We see India as our partner," he ... more Outside View: Nuke weapons cleanup 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has granted Russia more than 70 million euros for disposing of scrapped nuclear ships and submarines moored at naval bases in Russia's northwest. Russia's state nuclear corporation -- Rosatom -- and the EBRD signed four relevant agreements on June 5. The EBRD is managing the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership ... more Crunch talks on India-US nuclear deal postponed 
New Delhi (AFP) June 18, 2008Crucial talks between the Indian government and its left-wing allies on a controversial nuclear energy pact with the United States were postponed Wednesday with both sides still at odds over the deal. Neither side gave any reason for the delay but a source close to the talks, who asked not to be named, said left-wing parties were refusing to respond to a government appeal for the deal to go ... more BMD Focus: Will Lithuania host BMD base? 
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 Will the Bush administration try to build its proposed BMD base against the Iranian threat in Lithuania rather than Poland? U.S. officials admitted Tuesday they were holding what one described as "general conversations" with Lithuania, a former Soviet republic from 1940 to 1989 and now a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, about moving a proposed base for anti-ballistic ... more US Plans To Neutralize Russian Nuclear Weapons By 2012-2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 19, 2008U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in his address to officers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia that Russia was focused on strengthening its nuclear capabilities rather than building up its regular armed forces, which makes maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal increasingly important. The two nuclear superpowers may be building up their nuclear capabilities, but no reasonable ... more
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