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NAVIGON Unveils New Premium GPS Device
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 27, 2008NAVIGON has unveiled its new, high-end NAVIGON 7200T. A premium portable navigation device for those looking for both style and substance, the NAVIGON 7200T offers features no other GPS system has such as Reality View Pro, Lane Assistant Pro and Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life. It features a host of next generation features such as Voice Destination Entry, allowing drivers to ... more NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Crater 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. "We've done everything we entered Victoria Crater to do and more," said Bruce Banerdt, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Banerdt is project scientist for Opportunity and ... more Software Upgrade Allows Farmers To Use Free RTK Networks 
Englewood CO (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Leica Geosystems has announced it will release a new software upgrade for the mojoRTK Auto-steer console allowing producers to take full advantage of the CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station) networks being built across the country - many of them providing free RTK signal access through state departments' of transportation efforts to develop state-wide networks. Customers with a ... more Ice Cold Sunrise On Mars 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 27, 2008From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. This period of maximum solar energy is past -- on Sol 86, the 86th Martian day after the Phoenix landing, the sun fully set behind a slight rise to the north for about half an hour. This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo ... more Astra Microwave Wins Order From Indian Meteorological Department 
Hyderabad, India (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Astra Microwave Products has announced that it has received an INR 255 million order from the Indian Meteorological Department. The order is for the supply, installation, and commissioning of remote unmanned automatic remote weather stations in 550 locations across India. Scheduled to be installed in 2009, the weather stations will feed live data via satellite to the Met Department's ... more |
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San Jose CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008SiRF Technology Holdings has announced that SiRF and the ITC staff have independently filed appeals with the International Trade Commission (ITC) for review of the ITC Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) initial ruling that certain SiRF products infringed upon patents held by Global Locate, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom. In addition, SiRF has taken measures to reassure its ... more Assembling The Most Massive Galaxies In The Universe 
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Astronomers have caught multiple massive galaxies in the act of merging about 4 billion years ago. This discovery, made possible by combining the power of the best ground- and space-based telescopes, uniquely supports the favoured theory of how galaxies form. How do galaxies form? The most widely accepted answer to this fundamental question is the model of 'hierarchical formation' ... more Satellite shooting unneeded says scientist 
Boston (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 The U.S. Navy's February missile shoot down of a spy satellite was unnecessary, a Harvard scientist and former NASA employee said. Yousaf Butt filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking for the National Air and Space Agency's re-entry threat analysis from the disabled USA-193 satellite. His conclusions contradict the government's official explanation that the satellite's hydrazin ... more Seeing Mars In A Particle Of Dust 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. The particle -- shown at higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world -- is a rounded particle about one micrometer, or one millionth of a meter, across. It is a speck of the dust that cloaks Mars. Such dust particles color the ... more NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Aug. 30. Atlantis is targeted to lift off Oct. 8 to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The first motion of the shuttle out of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building is scheduled for 12:01 a.m. EDT. The fully assembled space shuttle, consisting of the orbiter, external tank and twin so ... more |
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Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world has therefore shifted radically as a result of this little six-day war. During the conflict, many people in the Russian media ... more Russia Says Ready To Supply Syria With Defensive Weapons 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008Russia is ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday following a meeting between the two countries leaders in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Russia Wednesday on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, in particular the situation in the Middle East and Iraq. ... more No signs Russia will tear up arms control treaties: US 
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2008The United States said Monday there were no indications Russia would renege on arms reduction pacts, such as the START I nuclear weapons treaty, following the conflict over Georgia but warned that such a move "will be crossing a new threshold." "We don't have any indication that the Russians plan to move away from agreements like the START treaty or Moscow treaty or the INF agreement," said ... more 08 Missile Defenses: Harking Back To The 1980s 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008The year 2008 has been the most productive for American missile shield plans since Ronald Reagan launched his famed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the 1980s. But the 1980s are also remembered for an unprecedented level of military confrontation between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. It looks as if the current situation - on August 20, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza ... more One million trapped as Indian river shifts course 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2008More than one million people have been trapped by floodwaters in eastern India after heavy monsoon showers caused a major river to shift its course, a minister said Tuesday. Massive rains in Bihar state caused the Kosi river to swell, breach its banks and flow through a channel it had previously abandoned. Water levels in the new river, about one mile (1.6 kilometres) across, are not ... more
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