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Liquid Water in the Martian North
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008Perchlorate. Never heard of it? Join the club. But NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has found it in the soil in the icy northern plains of Mars. And now that it's been found, scientists are scrambling to explain how it got there, and what, if anything, its presence means about the habitability of the martian north. Phoenix didn't go to Mars to find perchlorate. It went looking for evidence of ... more Meteorite Fast Track 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet. Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain, but a team from MIT and other institutions has now found what it believes is the answer to the ... more Test rocket destroyed by NASA after launch 
Virginia Beach, Va. (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 U.S. space officials said a suborbital rocket was destroyed by safety officials shortly after liftoff Friday morning from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The rocket was destroyed by launch controllers because it failed to follow its planned path. No injuries or property damage were reported, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a release. The Alliant ... more How Stars Form Very Close To Black Holes 
St Andrews, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2008The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The team, partly funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant clouds of gas being sucked into black holes. The new research may help ... more Stellar Still Births 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2008The systematics of celestial bodies apparently needs to be revised. Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn have discovered that brown dwarfs need to be treated as a separate class in addition to stars and planets. To date they had been merely regarded as stars which were below normal size. However, they may well be stellar 'miscarriages'. ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Aug 25, 2008The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet - the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will be placed onto a low altitude near sun-synchronous orbit by a Russian Rockot vehicle ... more Tiny nation of Niue gets laptop for every child 
Niue (AFP) Aug 21, 2008The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue Thursday became the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all its children, officials said. Every primary and secondary school student was this week given a rugged "relatively waterproof and breakproof" little green laptop, which has wireless connection to the Internet as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. ... more 'Phoney' queues used to spur Polish iPhone launch 
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Poland's biggest telecoms operator, Telekomunikacja Polska, acknowledged Friday that it had paid young, hip-looking film extras to stand in queues for the national launch of Apple's iPhone. "It was a marketing move. We thought it was a pretty interesting strategy," TP spokesman Wojciech Jabczynski told AFP. TP is controlled by France Telecom, which owns the Orange mobile telephone brand. ... more Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton To Launch S-Band Satellite For Europe 
Reston VA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008International Launch Services (ILS) has announced a contract with Inmarsat for the launch of an S-band satellite to provide mobile broadcast and two-way telecommunications services throughout Europe. The contract follows this week's successful launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite on an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle. Inmarsat is a London-based provider of global mobile broadband services. ... more Improved Satellite Navigation For Remote Areas 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 25, 2008Better navigation is critical for the safety of remote workers, and to support productivity improvements within the mining industry. The research project will develop two new Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies. The first system is an integrated GNSS receiver that receives signals from several satellite constellations as well as inputs from other sources. It will ... more |
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Copehill Down, UK (SPX) Aug 25, 2008SELEX Galileo, of Finmeccanica, has achieved success at the MoD Grand Challenge finale as part of the winning Stellar Team. Stellar team's winning SATURN (Sensing and Autonomous Tactical Urban Reconnaissance Network) solution was awarded the highest points of any participants by judging panel after successfully identifying the majority of the threats planted at the MoD's Urban warfare ... more LockMart Receives US Army Contract For Combat-Proven ATACMS Missiles 
Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 25, 2008Lockheed Martin has received an $80 million contract from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for additional Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) Unitary missiles, a move that will bolster the nation's long-range tactical missile reserve. Deliveries for this order will begin in August 2010 and conclude in March 2011. Work will be conducted at the company's facilities in Dallas and ... more India will not accept conditions to clinch US nuclear deal: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 23, 2008India will not accept any new conditions to win approval from nuclear supplier nations for lifting a decades-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, a report said Saturday. The statement by Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee came a day after nuclear supplier nations ended a two-day meeting in Vienna without reaching agreement on lifting the 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with India ... more India Set To Ramp Up Air Force Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters will be positioned at India's Tezpur Air Base in the state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the Indian media. This will be the first time for Su-30MKI fighters to be ... more Tropical storm Julio nears Mexican resorts in Baja 
Miami (AFP) Aug 24, 2008Tropical storm Julio honed in on the resort-heavy southern coastline of Mexico's Baja California Sunday, threatening to unleash torrents of rain and heavy winds on the popular tourist area. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami warned that the storm would dump up to 15 centimeters (six inches) of rain on the southern Baja peninsula. At 1800 GMT the center of Julio was about 35 ... more
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