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SpaceX Conducts Static Test Firing Of Next Falcon 1 Rocket
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Space Exploration Technologies successfully conducted a full launch dress rehearsal and hold down firing of the Falcon 1 Flight 3 vehicle on June 25, 2008 (Marshall Island Time) on Omelek Island, SpaceX's launch site at the Kwajalein Atoll. This test is the final step before launch of the Falcon 1 rocket. This marks the first launch pad firing of SpaceX's new Merlin 1C regeneratively cooled ... more SES Shareholders Approve Cancellation Of Shares And Authorise New Share Buyback Programme 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 27, 2008SES S.A. has announced that its shareholders approved the cancellation of 33,895,710 of the company's shares at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) held in Luxembourg. The cancelled shares consisted of 22,597,140 A-shares and 11,298,570 B-shares. This completed the two share buy-back and cancellation programmes authorised by shareholders at the EGM of 14 December 2006 and the annual ... more Fly Your Thesis - An Astronaut Experience 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 27, 2008Calling all European students! ESA's Education Office is offering the flights of a lifetime with the launch of a new programme called "Fly Your Thesis! - An Astronaut Experience". This exciting programme will enable university students to fly their experiments in microgravity by participating in a series of parabolic flights on an Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. "Fly Your Thesis!" ... more Ghost-Imaging Could Have Satellite Application 
Arlington VA (AFPN) Jun 27, 2008Investigators funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are conducting research under the name of "ghost-imaging," where a visual image of an object is created by means of light that has never interacted with the object. The new technology may result in a more versatile use of field sensors, and have space applications. University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus, professor ... more Nanomirrors Could Enhance Telescopes And Semiconductor Chips 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 27, 2008A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips. X-rays from space provide astronomers with important information about the most exotic events and objects in our universe, such as dark energy, black holes and neutron stars. ... more |
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Olathe KS (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Garmin International has announced the DC 30, a completely redesigned GPS dog tracking collar for use with the Astro GPS Dog Tracking System. The new collar is more rugged and its antennas are positioned differently for optimal tracking. "The new DC 30 collar is designed to stand up to the torturous abuse of hunting dogs. Whether it's hounds crashing through thick and swampy woods, or bird ... more Personal Navigation Device Sales Beat Expectations 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Worldwide shipment growth of personal navigation devices (PNDs) was higher than anticipated last year, with shipments reaching 30.7 million in 2007, up from 13.3 million in 2006, reports In-Stat. The main drivers for this growth were price declines, efficient volume availability through the retail channels during the crucial holiday season, enhanced functionality, and stronger consumer ... more Digital Angel's Destron Fearing Unit Receives USDA's First Visual Tag Approval 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Digital Angel has announced that its Destron Fearing unit has received approval from the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for Premises Identification Number (PIN) tags for identification of swine entering harvest channels. This is the first instance of a visual livestock identification tag to gain USDA approval. While not intended for use as unique individual animal identification ... more Chrysler Launches Umbrella uconnect Name For Connectivity Technologies 
Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Today's consumers are passionate about staying in touch and want to be connected no matter where they are - home, work, school or vehicle. To focus on the experience and connect customers to the things that matter the most, Chrysler will now bundle innovative consumer technologies under one umbrella name - "uconnect." The function of the feature is directly in the name - uconnect phone ... more 3M Track And Trace Solutions Installs RFID System To Manage Records At Fort Hood 
Fort Hood TX (SPX) Jun 27, 20083M has completed the development and installation of an RFID (radio frequency identification) Smart Shelf System to track and manage the more than 150,000 medical files of U.S. Army personnel and their family members at Fort Hood, Texas. Under the terms of a three-year, $3.76-million contract, 3M Track and Trace Solutions will provide training and maintenance services over the next year. ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 27, 2008How does one determine the mass of a supermassive black hole? Research presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis offers astronomers a new simple method to learn about black holes up to eight billion light-years away - thousands of times farther away than black holes can be measured today. And it may be as simple as taking a snapshot of a galaxy. Dr. Marc Seigar, a ... more Successful Ariane 5 Solid Rocket Booster Test Firing 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Earlier this month a successful test firing of an Ariane 5 solid rocket booster took place at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The test was part of the Ariane 5 Research and Technology Accompaniment (ARTA) Programme. The ARTA Programme, part of ESA's Ariane 5 Development Programme, is responsible for verifying the stability of the qualification status of the Ariane 5 launch ... more Cluster Helps Deepen Understanding Of Magnetic Reconnection 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 27, 2008Some of the most explosive phenomena in the Universe are due to a physical process known as magnetic reconnection. Fundamental aspects of this process are still not fully understood but new advances, using Cluster data, have recently been reported by a team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Understanding magnetic reconnection is key to explaining explosive phenomena ... more Detective Astronomers Unearth Hidden Celestial Gem 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 27, 2008ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has re-discovered an ignored celestial gem. The object in question is one of the youngest and brightest supernova remnants in the Milky Way, the corpse of a star that exploded around 1000 years ago. Its shape, age and chemical composition will allow astronomers to better understand the violent ways in which stars end their lives. Exploding ... more NASA Plans To Visit The Sun 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 27, 2008For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. "We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time," says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA Headquarters. "This is an unexplored region of the solar system and the possibilities for discovery are off the charts." The name of the mission is Solar Probe+ ... more
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