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SATLYNX Completes 300 Site SCADA Network Rollout For EDF Energy
Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Satlynx has announced the completion of a 300 site SCADA network for EDF Energy Networks in the UK. The network is part of a larger improvement programme to monitor and control electricity distribution in the South East of England. In a project already lasting more than 2 years, EDF Energy Networks and Satlynx have been working together to validate the use of satellite technology for the ... more Planets Align For The Fourth Of July 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 02, 2008On 4th of July weekend, NASA forecasts lights in the sky. No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds is gathering: Saturn, Mars and the crescent Moon. The show gets going on Friday, July 4th. Red Mars and ringed Saturn converge just to the left of the bright star Regulus. The three lights make ... more Global Rollout Of Mini-VSAT Broadband Begins 
Middletown RI (SPX) Jul 02, 2008In a move to offer faster, more affordable broadband connections to a growing market of leisure, commercial, and government vessels worldwide, KVH Industries has announced a new agreement with ViaSat to begin the global rollout of the popular mini-VSAT Broadbandsm satellite communications service. Together with the compact 24-inch (60 cm) KVH TracPhone V7 antenna, the mini-VSAT Broadband ... more Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery 
Moscow (AFP) July 1, 2008Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of the 20th century's greatest scientific mysteries -- the "Tunguska Event" 100 years ago this week. But a group of maverick Russian scientists gathered in Moscow this week left no doubt that they share a singular passion to find out what cause ... more NASA Goddard Has More Than A Dozen Exciting Missions In Next Year 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2008NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, has the lead on many exciting space missions launching in the next year. These missions include a final repair trip to upgrade the famous Hubble Space Telescope and spacecraft to study powerful gamma-rays, the moon, the Sun, and Earth's weather and pollution. "This is one of the busiest periods in the history of Goddard ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2008When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the outlets to power everything from your lights to your nifty new big-screen television. When the power goes out, it can be more than just an inconvenience. NASA's Solar Shield experiment explores ... more Procurement Of Full Galileo System Begins 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 02, 2008The European Commission - with the support of ESA - has launched the procurement of Galileo, a global navigation system composed of 30 dedicated navigation satellites and a ground infrastructure with the main control centres in Europe and a network of dedicated stations deployed around the world. The overall programme objective for Galileo is the deployment, by 2013, of a European navigation ... more Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Completes Environmental Tests 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Boeing has completed environmental tests of the first of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites, which confirm the mechanical integrity of the spacecraft. The program is on track to deliver the first satellite to the U.S. Air Force this year. The GPS IIF team completed a series of acoustic tests that replicate the noise levels expected during the spacecraft's launch into ... more Rain Master's Smart Controller Outsmarts The Thief 
Simi Valley CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008A Rain Master Eagle-i Irrigation Controller recently stolen out of a housing development just outside of Tucson traveled nearly 80 miles before rescuing itself. The smart controller is now back in place on the wall where it was originally pinched. 'The thieves were run over by technology and they had no idea what hit them," said Jim Sieminski, Chief Engineer at Rain Master, about the ... more Bayer Uses InSync Software To Develop And Deploy RFID And Sensor Applications 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Bayer Material Science has announced it is deploying a series of RFID and sensor-enabled warehousing and logistics automation solutions using InSync's Edgeware platform. InSync's technology allows Bayer to rapidly build, test, and deploy multiple solutions using a single, common application platform. Bayer has deployed its first solution which manages and automates the placement and picking ... more |
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Owego NY (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Lockheed Martin has received a $3 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop and demonstrate a mission management system that will enable U.S. Navy ships, helicopters and unmanned vehicles to collaborate as a team when mine hunting in shallow coastal waters. The contract is part of a U.S. Navy initiative to explore how the next-generation expeditionary warship - the ... more Analysis: New U.S. Embassy in Berlin 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 The new $143 million U.S. Embassy in the heart of Berlin opens on Independence Day. Its architects have set themselves with the Herculean task of designing it to represent freedom while providing top-level security. Tucked away in the southwestern corner of the Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's and probably Germany's most famous landmark, the fortress-like embassy ... more US warns Poland it could turn elsewhere for missile talks 
Washington (AFP) June 18, 2008The United States warned Poland Tuesday it could turn to other countries if talks with Warsaw on hosting part of a US missile defense shield do not advance. The comments came as a top Lithuanian official was in Washington, although State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas's talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the White House and Pentagon were ... more Far Eastern Patriot Games 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 02, 2008China and Japan have done the unthinkable. For the first time since the end of World War Two, a Japanese warship docked in a Chinese port on June 24 and stayed there until June 28. Several hundred Chinese sailors welcomed the destroyer Sazanami by holding up signs with slogans and chanting praises for bilateral relations as ordered by their commanders. The Sazanami's visit is in ... more China quake was very unusual: US scientists 
Washington (AFP) July 1, 2008The devastating earthquake in China was the unexpected result of a seismological oddity and is likely to occur in the area only about once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, US geoscientists said Monday. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had studied the region around Sichuan province, where the 7.9 magnitude quake hit on May 12, for more than two decades but found ... more
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