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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008The Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS) has started preparations for the first launch of a Proton-M rocket since one partially failed in March, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said Friday. A company review on June 16 cleared the Proton Breeze M to return to flight this summer following a failure during the March 15 launch of the U.S. AMC-1 ... more Phoenix Scrapes To Icy Soil In Wonderland 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 30, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. Phoenix scientists are now assured they have a complete soil-layer profile in Wonderland's "Snow White" extended trench. By rasping to icy soil, the robotic arm on Phoenix proved it could flatten ... more SOHO Celebrates 1,500th Comet Discovery 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 30, 2008It's the most successful comet catcher in history. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft has just reached a new milestone. It has discovered its 1,500th comet, making it more successful than all the other discoverers of comets throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission. SOHO's history making discovery was made ... more 100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia 
Paris (AFP) June 29, 2008A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day. A dazzling light pierced the heavens, preceding a shock wave with the power of a thousand atomic bombs which flattened 80 million trees in a swathe of more than 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles). Even ... more Tunguska Event Still A Mystery 100 Years OnTunguska Event Still A Mystery 100 Years On 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008Scientists will gather in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event June 26-28, one of the world's most mysterious explosions which flattened 80 million trees but largely went unnoticed at the time. The massive blast, equivalent to around 15 megatons of TNT, occurred approximately 7-10 km (3-6 miles) above the Stony Tunguska River in a remote area of central Siberia early on ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 30, 2008NASA's GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Instrument Operations Center in Huntsville, Ala., the focal point for observing gamma ray bursts, was alive with energy as scientists gathered to witness instrument activation the evening of June 25. The GBM team linked in with GLAST mission operations at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., by teleconference and studied a big screen projecting ... more NASA Awards Information Management And Communications Support Contract 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 30, 2008NASA has selected Abacus Technology Corporation of Chevy Chase, Md., to provide information management and communications support at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The contract begins on Oct. 1 with a five-year base period and four one-year options to extend performance. It is a cost-plus-award-fee contract with indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract line items. ... more Launch pad repairs priced at $2.7 million 
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jun 28, 2008 U.S. space officials said it will cost about $2.7 million to repair a launch pad damaged when the shuttle Discovery launched last month. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said repairs to Launch Pad 39A will begin this weekend and are expected to be complete by the time the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch in October. The east wall of the pad's north flame ... more Cluster Listens To The Sounds Of Earth 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 30, 2008The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds. Scientists call this radio emission the Aurora ... more BAE Systems names new chief executive 
London (AFP) June 27, 2008BAE Systems, the British aerospace company making military equipment, said Friday said its chief operating officer Ian King would replace chief executive Mike Turner from September. BAE had last year announced that Turner would retire in late 2008 after five years in the post, which has seen him lead the group's expansion into the United States and attempt to fight off allegations of corrupt ... more |
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Anaheim CA (SPX) Jun 30, 20083M Library Systems has introduced an upgraded "basic" RFID (radio frequency identification) tag with 1K of memory, a four-fold increase over the former basic tag, here at the American Library Association annual conference, held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The new tag can be imprinted with custom logos and barcodes by library staff, and is fully rewriteable to allow compliance with a ... more Virgin Mobile USA To Acquire Helio For Approximately 39 Million Dollars In Equity 
Warren NJ (SPX) Jun 30, 2008Virgin Mobile USA has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, providing highly advanced postpaid products and services with unique user applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Virgin Mobile USA will acquire Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink for limited partnership units equivalent to 13 million shares of ... more 40 years on, NPT in urgent need of overhaul: experts 
Vienna (AFP) June 29, 2008The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, which celebrates its 40th birthday this week, may have succeeded in keeping the number countries in possession of nuclear weapons down to a mere handful. But the treaty, drawn up during the Cold War period, is now in urgent need of an overhaul if it is to meet present-day challenges such as the proliferation crises in North Korea, Iran and most ... more US withdraws nuclear bombs from Britain: report 
Washington (AFP) June 27, 2008The United States has removed its nuclear arsenal in Britain, ending its half-century deployment there and reducing its European nuclear deployment to six locations in five countries, a report said. The withdrawal follows the removal of nuclear weapons from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany in 2005 and Greece in 2001, according to the The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Strategic ... more Bush exit may pave way for new nuclear security strategy 
Washington (AFP) June 29, 2008President George W. Bush's impending departure has rekindled hopes that new US leadership can prop up the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which marks its 40th year Tuesday. Both the presidential candidates, senators Barack Obama and John McCain, recognize that renewed US leadership on disarmament is critical to strengthen the global accord aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating ... more
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