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ESA Meets Increasing Demand For Earth Observation Data
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 04, 2008Earth observation satellite data have never been in more demand than today as missions have demonstrated their ability to enable better understanding and improved management of the Earth and its environment. ESA is meeting this demand by providing additional data, serving large science programmes, enlarging network stations and making more data available in near-real time. Responding ... more Obama Promises A Better NASA 
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Aug 04, 2008Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, at a forum in Florida, said he would not cut the NASA budget if he is elected. Obama, campaigning in the state for a second straight day, spoke in Titusville near the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida today reported. "Under my watch, NASA will inspire the world once again and is going to help grow the economy right ... more Superbird 7 Is Readied For Ariane 5's August Mission 
Paris, France (SPXThe Japanese Superbird 7 satellite for Space Communications Corporation has entered final pre-launch preparations for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana during August. This first "made in Japan" commercial satellite for a Japanese telecommunications operator has completed its fueling process, and is now installed on the cone-shaped adapter that serves as ... more Yahoo board re-elected after blasting by shareholders 
San Jose, California (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected Friday after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials. Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang got 85.4 percent of the votes cast by shareholders while board chairman Roy Bostock got the support of 79.5 percent of the shareholders. The weakest support was shown ... more MIT Instruments Featured As Highlight Of NASA's 50 Years 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008The orbiting Chandra Observatory, one of NASA's series of Great Observatories, was featured this week in a collection of highlights from NASA's first five decades that was displayed on Nature magazine's web site. The U.S. space agency officially turned 50 years old on July 29, and Nature commemorated the event with a series of photographs from 10 historical NASA moments. Along with ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2008NASA's Constellation Program has selected 11 companies and one university to independently develop concepts that contribute to how astronauts will live and work on the moon. Each organization will conduct a 180-day study focused on a topic relevant to lunar surface systems. Selected organizations and topics are: + Alternative Packaging Options: Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston ... more Boeing Team To Design New Spacecraft Power Generation System 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 04, 2008A team led by Boeing Advanced Systems has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the first phase of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program. DARPA's FAST is a multiphase effort to design and develop a ground test prototype of a new High Power Generation Subsystem (HPGS) for spacecraft. During Phase 1, Boeing will develop a complete plan for ... more Contract Supports Development Of UAV Test Procedures 
Athens GA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has won a contract to support development of a roadmap designed to improve the testing and evaluation of unmanned and autonomous systems for the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). "The field of unmanned and autonomous systems is evolving rapidly, and new techniques are needed to effectively test and evaluate the capabilities that are ... more Defense Support Program Satellite Decommissioned 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008The United States Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) Flight 19 satellite, built by Northrop Grumman, was decommissioned following nine years of service. Northrop Grumman personnel stationed at the company's Telemetry and Orbital Test Station in Redondo Beach, Calif., terminated the downlink to Flight 19 at the Air Force's command. Flight 19 was launched on April 9, 1999 on a Titan ... more Air force looks to a new drone to keep peace in Iraq: general 
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2008The US Air Force may turn increasingly to a new armed drone, the MQ-9 Reaper, to help keep the peace in Iraq once the conflict shrinks in scale and US ground troops go home, a top US commander says. Lieutenant General Gary North, the commander of US air forces in the Middle East, said he is examining options for when and where he can replace manned fighter and bomber aircraft with armed ... more |
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Mudawwara, Jordan (AFP) Aug 3, 2008Jordan on Sunday launched a near-billion-dollar project to supply the capital with much-needed water from an ancient desert aquifer near the border with Saudi Arabia. Prime Minister Nader Dahabi cut the ribbon on the 990-million-dollar plan to extract 100 million cubic metres (3.5 billion cubic feet) of water a year from the 300,000-year-old Disi aquifer in the Mudawwara area, 325 kilometres ... more SAfrica's ambitious climate change strategy may include carbon tax 
Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 3, 2008South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possible carbon tax on carbon dioxide-spewing industries. Saying the world faced "a global climate emergency," the environment ministry unveiled the strategy geared toward reducing greenhouse gases last week. "The world faces a global climate emergency. It is ... more Scientist says feathers are future of Asia construction 
Manila (AFP) Aug 3, 2008A Filipino scientist says he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry in Asia. The new material would be resistant to the region's armies of termites, and could also solve a major environment problem in the Philippines by providing a way to dispose of millions of kilos of waste feathers each year. ... more Private Austrian Lake Up For Sale 
Vienna (AFP) Aug 2, 2008Hidden in a sea of greenery and tucked away between the mountains of the Salzkammergut region near Salzburg, one of Austria's last privately-owned lakes, the Mondsee or Moon Lake in German, is up for sale. No official notice went up for this little jewel, which is just 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mile) wide and 11 kilometres long with a depth of 65 metres, but its owner Nicolette Waechter ... more How Vulnerable To Flooding Is New York City 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 04, 2008A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by scientists at Stony Brook University will better be able to predict flood levels and when flooding will occur in the New York metropolitan area, information crucial to emergency managers when planning for impending ... more
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