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Moscow (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 Russia's top space official said international cooperation is needed to deal with the threat of an asteroid collision with the Earth. Anatoly Perminov told the Russian newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda the threat is real and needs to be solved "through broad international cooperation" within the framework of the United Nations, RIA Novosti reported Friday. A Moscow scientific conference ... more United Launch Alliance Launches GeoEye-1 Commercial Satellite 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008An United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of Boeing Launch Systems, successfully launched the GeoEye-1 satellite. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 2 here, it marked the second ULA Delta II mission from Vandenberg in 2008. GeoEye-1 will provide the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system -- 0.41-meters or 16 inches for panchromatic (black and white) imagery and ... more Theory Of The Sun's Role In Formation Of The Solar System Questioned 
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought to date from the beginning of the solar system have a pattern of oxygen types, or isotopes, that differs from those found in all known planetary rocks, including those from Earth, its Moon ... more The Politics Of Shenzhou 
Geelong, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2008After a few days of rumours and conflicting stories, China has finally announced the launch timeframe for its next manned space mission. The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft will lift off somewhere between September 25 and 30. It will carry three astronauts into orbit, and stage China's first spacewalk. This is an unusual and somewhat unexpected development. For months, we have been expecting and ... more Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings. Recent Cassini images show material, called ring arcs, extending ahead of and behind the small ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008GTX will exhibit their GPS Xplorer Shoe at AARP's Life@50+ National Event and Expo in Washington, D.C. from September 4-6. The GTX Corp GPS Xplorer Shoe will be prominently displayed in the "Nana" Technology booth and information will be available and distributed to attendees who visit. More than 30,000 AARP members and their friends from across the country and around the world will ... more Fleet Management Solutions In Top 50 Logistics Companies In USA 
San Luis Obispo CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) has been named among the fastest growing companies in America once again by Inc. magazine. The annual list that recognizes privately held companies across all industries for their impressive growth ranked FMS 32 out of the top 50 logistics companies in the USA. FMS, a recognized leader in GPS and All-satellite Mobile Resource Management Solutions, is noted ... more SiRF Hosts 2nd Annual Location 2.0 Summit 
San Jose CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008Building on the success of last year's inaugural event, SiRF Technology Holdings has announced the second annual Location 2.0 Summit as well as the ten finalists chosen to give Fast-Pitch presentations at the event. More than 200 of the top global location industry executives are expected to gather at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco on September 10, 2008 for this invitation-only event ... more NAVIGON Debuts It's 2200T GPS Navigator 
Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 08, 2008NAVIGON has unveiled its feature-rich NAVIGON 2200T GPS Navigator. The NAVIGON 2200T offers a best-in-class navigation experience characterized by NAVIGON's roster of trademark features + including free real-time traffic updates for the life of the product. The NAVIGON 2200T + "T" for Traffic + is based on NAVIGON's next generation software which makes route calculation fast and entering a ... more Sims creator's long-awaited "playing god" game hits stores 
Paris (AFP) Sept 5, 2008"Spore", the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe, hits stores worldwide this week. The latest brainchild of game legend Will Wright, maker of the world's top-selling computer game "The Sims", "Spore" is being released in Europe and Asia on Friday ahead of its September 7 debut in the United States. "We are hoping ... more |
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Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 08, 2008An international team of scientists that includes University of British Columbia astronomer Brett Gladman has found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets. In the first discovery of its kind, researchers from Canada, France and the United States have discovered an object that orbits around the Sun backwards, and tilted at ... more India hails end to nuclear pariah status 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 6, 2008India's government hailed as "historic" a decision Saturday by nuclear supplier nations to end the country's nuclear pariah status and adopt a US initiative to allow atomic trade with New Delhi. The 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group, meeting in Vienna, agreed to end the 34-year-old ban on nuclear trade with India after Washington sought a waiver so it could share civilian nuclear technology ... more Anti Missile Showdown Building Between East And West 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 The year 2008 has been the most productive for American missile shield plans since President Ronald Reagan launched his famed Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. But the 1980s are also remembered for an unprecedented level of military confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. On Aug. 20 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a U.S.-Polish agreement ... more US may scrap Russia nuclear cooperation next week: official 
Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2008The United States will likely scrap a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact next week in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia, a US official said Friday. "It's probably going to happen next week," the State Department official told reporters when asked about the issue. "The president (George W. Bush) has to withdraw the document from Congress. So he needs to take that step, and ... more Japan defence report warns on Russia 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2008An increasingly assertive Russia is staging more frequent military drills near Japan, including with nuclear submarines, the defence ministry here warned in a report Friday. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet approved the annual "white paper" on defence policy, which also reiterated Japan's longstanding unease about China's rapid military buildup and the threat of North Korea. ... more
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