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The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. "The time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "There should be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute." The source of the shower is Comet Swift ... more South Korea's First Rocket Launch Might Be Put Off 
Seoul, Korea (XNA) Jul 24, 2008South Korea's first rocket launch may be put off until 2009 due to delays in the arrival of the main booster rocket and other key parts from Russia, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Wednesday. The ministry said it plans to talk with the Russian authorities next month to determine the exact launch date. The ministry said that the Korea Launch Vehicle System-1 ... more Russia unveils new spacecraft design 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 23, 2008 The next generation of Russian manned spacecraft will use thrusters to provide a soft landing on Earth, the first official images of the design reveal. The new space vehicle, which is to replace the Soyuz spacecraft now in use by Russia, was designed by the Russian company RKK Energia, which has spent two years designing it, the BBC reported Tuesday. The British network reports ... more Russia Puts Fifth German Spy Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 24, 2008A Russian carrier rocket has successfully put into orbit a fifth German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite, a Russian Space Forces spokesman said on Tuesday. "A Cosmos 3M carrier rocket, launched at 06:40 Moscow time (02:40 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia has successfully orbited a German SAR-Lupe satellite," Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said. The German SAR-Lupe ... more China's Astronauts To Wear Domestic, Russian-Made Suits 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2008China has two types of space suits-- one domestic, one from Russia -- for three "taikonauts" in the third manned launch, reportedly scheduled for October, a senior scientist has said. The taikonaut who would do the space walk might wear a domestic suit, designed according to local standards, including the seaming technology, said Zhao Changxi, general technologist with the Beijing Satellite ... more |
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Portland OR (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Njection.com has added several new features allowing visitors to view where Red Light Cameras, Speed Detection Cameras and Speed Traps are located anywhere in the world. Njection.com uses Microsoft Virtual Earth Map Controls to display the location of Speed Traps and Red Light Cameras worldwide. Users with an Internet connection can view, contribute and rate where these speed traps are ... more New Aercept GPS Trackers Featuring Industry Leading GPS Sensitivity 
Oxnard CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008CalAmp has announced the introduction of the Aercept 1400S and 1450S Trackers for mobile asset tracking. These new tracking devices feature more than 100-times greater GPS reacquisition sensitivity and 20-times greater GPS tracking sensitivity compared to previous Aercept offerings. Designed and manufactured by CalAmp, the 1400S and 1450S are the latest GPS and GSM/GPRS tracking devices ... more TruePosition Expands R and D On Location-Based Safety And Security Solutions 
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008TruePosition has announced the worldwide expansion of its research and development initiatives and the opening of a world-class Research and Development Center in Westborough, Massachusetts. The employees in the new facility will work on developing innovative location technologies that will enable next-generation, location-based safety and security solutions. The Westborough Center, located ... more SiRF Sets Date For Second Annual Location 2.0 Summit 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008SiRF Technology Holdings has announced that SiRFecosystem's second annual Location 2.0 Summit will be held in San Francisco on September 10, 2008. Bringing together innovators, industry leaders and developers in the location ecosystem, this year's invitation-only event introduces Fast-Pitch presentations and People's Choice awards to highlight innovation in the LBS industry. SiRF is ... more PA Auditor General Recommends Use of GPS To Track Registered Offenders 
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008The Auditor General Jack Wagner has recommended that the Pennsylvania State Police and the Board of Probation and Parole should request that the General Assembly amend the state's Megan's Law to require five years of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring for s*x offenders who break the state law requiring them to verify their addresses. Wagner also recommended that the state police ... more |
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Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ours were just as strong as those existing today, prompting a rethinking of how our galaxy and others may have formed. With powerful telescopes and sophisticated measurements, the team ... more RT Logic Awarded South Pole TDRSS Relay II Project 
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jul 24, 2008RT Logic has announced a contract award by LJT and Associates for the South Pole TDRSS Relay II Project (SPTR II). LJT and Associates is a prime contractor for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and SPAWAR upgrade of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station data relay link to the White Sands Complex (WSC). Scheduled delivery is mid-August, 2008. Under the SPTR II upgrade effort RT Logic ... more Space focus shifts back toward moon 
Moffett Field, Calif. (UPI) Jul 22, 2008 Hundreds of scientists are meeting this week in California as part of the celebration of the 39th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The Lunar Science Conference at NASA Ames Research Center, which runs through Wednesday, was designed to give scientists an opportunity to review the state of knowledge of the moon, the evolution of the solar system, effects of the lunar ... more More EU states eyeing ESA 
Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) July 22, 2008Four countries that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 are knocking on the door of the European Space Agency (ESA), French Research Minister Valerie Pecresse said here on Tuesday. "A certain number of states have started to seriously contemplate joining the European Space Agency," Pecresse told reporters after an informal meeting here of EU ministers responsible for space. ... more New Cuban nuke crisis threat 
Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2008 Is Russia serious about deploying its nuclear bombers in Cuba to retaliate against U.S. ballistic missile defense deployments in Poland or Lithuania? The story broke Monday this week when the Russian newspaper Izvestia, citing what it described as "a high placed source" in the Russian government, said if the United States went ahead with its plans to deploy Ground-based Mid-course Inte ... more
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