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Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities On Mars
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 01, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities. Science and engineering teams are looking forward to at least another month of Martian exploration. Due to the spacecraft's sufficient power and experiment capacity, NASA announced on July 31 that the mission would continue operations through Sept. 30. Once the lander ... more Robots Learn To Follow 
Davis CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2008Whether driving on the highway or walking down the street, we pick up on both deliberate signals and unconscious cues to predict what other people are going to do and act accordingly. But robots have trouble following each other around, for example, when a leader turns a corner and disappears from sight. Researchers at UC Davis have come up with a control system that allows a robot to pick ... more Integral Locates Origin Of High-Energy Emission From Crab Nebula 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 01, 2008Paris, France (ESA) Sep 01, 2008 Thanks to data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated to immense energies. The discovery, resulting from more than 600 individual observations of the nebula, put in place another piece of the puzzle in understanding how ... more Gilat Terminates Merger Agreement After Private Equity Consortium Fails To Close 
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Sep 01, 2008Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that it has notified the consortium of buyers that had agreed to purchase the company that it was terminating the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into on March 31, 2008. Gilat cited the buyer's intentional breach of the merger agreement and failure to close the merger transaction prior to 5:00 P.M. New York Time on August 28, 2008, the extended ... more German Satellite Fleet Rapideye Is Launched 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 01, 2008On 29 August 2008 at 09:15 CEST (13:15 local time) the RapidEye satellite fleet launched successfully on a DNEPR-1 launch vehicle from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. The five identical Earth observation satellites provide data from space for commercial use. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has supported the German company RapidEye AG, based in Brandenburg, at a level of 15 million euros. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2008China will not endorse Russia in its battle with the West over the Georgia crisis but cannot say so publicly for fear of upsetting Moscow, political analysts say. Since the Georgia crisis began -- culminating in Moscow recognising the independence of two secessionist regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia -- China's reaction has been subdued. It has expressed concern over the issue but has ... more North Korea marks long-range missile test 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 31, 2008North Korea on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of test-firing its Taepodong-1 long-range missile, which it claims to be the country's first satellite rocket launch. The official Radio Pyongyang, monitored by Yonhap news agency, said in a boastful commentary that the North built "purely self-developed" rocket technology and could repeat the launch anytime it wants. "Our country's ... more US House speaker to make landmark Hiroshima visit 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2008House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later. No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan. Pelosi will travel ... more Taiwan to mass-produce anti-ship missiles: report 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Taiwan plans to mass-produce ship-to-ship missiles to boost its naval defences against China, the United Evening News reported Friday. The defence ministry has set aside more than 2.26 billion Taiwan dollars (71.75 million US) to manufacture the locally-designed Supersonic Hsiung-feng 3, the United Evening News said. The defence ministry declined to comment on the report. Analysts ... more Russian Incursion Could Speed NATO Integration As Finland Eyes Membership 
Bled, Slovenia (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Russia's incursion into Georgia could speed up the integration of the former Soviet republic into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Georgian vice prime minister Giorgi Baramidze said Saturday. "I would not be surprised if this (integration) process would be going even quicker," following Russia's decision to send troops into the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia, Baramidze ... more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2005 Katrina catastrophe, residents of New Orleans evacuated their city Sunday as a new hurricane hailed as "the mother of all storms" threatened the disaster-scarred metropolis. Bumper-to-bumper traffic clogged roads leading out of the city and shops began running low on fuel and emergency supplies as the "monster" Category Four hurricane barreled toward ... more Gulf Coast braces, flees as deadly Gustav takes aim at US 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008More than a million people fled Louisiana as killer Hurricane Gustav on Sunday roared toward New Orleans, a fragile US coastal city still deeply scarred by the devastating 2005 Katrina storm. Highways out of New Orleans have been crammed since before dawn as people scurried to escape a monster storm that could slam the Louisiana coast as early as midday Monday. The state's governor ... more Tropical Storm Hanna Appears To Again Threaten US East Coast 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 01, 2008Tropical Storm Hanna is keeping forecasters on their toes. On Friday, Aug 29, she seemed headed toward the U.S. East Coast. On Saturday, it appeared a high pressure system that is intensifying may shoot her into the Gulf of Mexico. On Sunday, it appears that high may be moving enough and not strengthening enough to push her Gulf-ward and allow her to move toward the U.S. East Coast. She ... more Republicans shut down most of convention over Hurricane 
St Paul, Minnesota (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Republican White House hopeful John McCain suspended most of Monday's first day of his nominating convention, as Hurricane Gustav sparked political turmoil as it zeroed in on New Orleans. Party leaders scrambled to change their plans, keen not to be seen by voters as mounting a celebratory event while a potential natural disaster unfolds on the Gulf Coast, exactly three years after the ... more India flood survivors plead for those left behind 
Banmankhi, India (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Survivors of devastating floods in northeast India said Sunday the rescue operation was failing, accusing the government of abandoning those still stranded in remote villages. At a makeshift relief camp in the state of Bihar, flood survivors pleaded with officials to send help to relatives they said were marooned on rooftops or in the few areas still above water. "I left my village 12 ... more
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