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British Scientists Unveil Latest Craft To Search For Life On Mars
London, England (AFP) Jun 12, 2006British scientists on Monday took the wraps off a prototype craft to search for signs of life on Mars, hailing it the smartest piece of equipment ever designed for exploration of the red planet. Spirit Finds Possible Iron Meteorite 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006NASA mission controllers suspect the rock in the center foreground of this image is an iron meteorite. The panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the image during the rover's 809th Martian day, or sol, on April 12. Irvin Aerospace to Develop CEV Airbags For NASA 
Santa Ana CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Irvin Aerospace announced Monday it has been awarded a five-year NASA contract to develop an advanced space capsule airbag landing attenuation system for its Crew Exploration Vehicle. |
CALIPSO Ready To Collect Atmospheric Data
Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation spacecraft has begun gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere that are expected to become a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the planet's changing climate. NASA Detector Sees Infrared Light In Colors 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 13, 2006An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colors," or wavelengths. The detector, called a Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector array, was the world's largest (1 million-pixel) infrared array when the project was announced in March 2003. Sea Launch Wins Thuraya-3 Launch 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Sea Launch announced Monday it has signed a contract with Boeing Satellite Systems International to use a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle to lift Thuraya-3 in 2007. |
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Collaboration Finds A Rolling Moon
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Bob Pappalardo gets by with a little help from his friends. Pappalardo is a newly hired JPL planetary scientist who credits a collaborative effort with colleagues for a recent unusual discovery based on images from Cassini. The Plumes Of Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Saturn's little moon Enceladus continues to gush icy particles into orbit, making it one of a select group of geologically active bodies in the solar system, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday. Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is seen here against the night side of Saturn. Chandra Finds Heat At Center Of Andromeda 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006This color-coded image by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory - red means low energy, green means medium energy and blue means high-energy X-rays - shows the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, where a diffuse, X-ray emitting cloud of hot gas was discovered in the midst of a collection of point-like sources. |
Station Crew Boosts Orbit
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Ground controllers commanded the International Space Station's Progress 21 thrusters to reboost the facility's orbit last Friday, placing it at the proper altitude for the upcoming rendezvous and docking of the Russian Progress 22 cargo ship, which will launch June 24 and dock June 26. Saab Acquires Ericsson Microwave Systems 
Arlington VA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Saab AB announced Monday it is acquiring Ericsson Microwave Systems. The acquisition adds world-leading radar and sensor operations to Saab's product portfolio in defense, aviation, space and civil security. XMM-Newton Spots Greatest Ball Of Fire 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists has found a comet-like ball of gas over a billion times the mass of the Sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster at more than 750 kilometers (465 miles) per second. |
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Physical Laws Are Constantly Changing
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Physical quantities such as the speed of light, the gravitational constant and the electron mass are believed to be the same independent of where and when they appear in the universe. China Moves Ahead With Ambitious Plan For More Yangtze River Hydro Power 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 13, 2006China plans to build a dozen hydroelectric power plants in the next 20 years with an installed capacity totalling 90.2 million kilowatts, state media reported Monday. Activity At Merapi Slows 
Mount Merapi, Indonesia (AFP) Jun 13, 2006Indonesia's Mount Merapi has slowed its threatening activity, spewing less lava and fewer clouds of gas and ash but a top alert on the volcano is being maintained, scientists said Monday. Researchers Take the Pulse of a Gene in Living Cells 
Bronx NY (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have observed for the first time that gene expression can occur in the form of discrete "pulses" of gene activity. Germany - First Biodiversity Exploratories 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 13, 2006In order to promote ecological research in Germany, the DFG has announced the establishment of the first three large-scale research platforms, so-called biodiversity exploratories, in Germany. |
RTI Selected LM Team For Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Real-Time Innovations has announced that middleware provided by RTI was selected by a US Navy's Lockheed Martin team to provide the real-time data-distribution infrastructure for Aegis Open Architecture, the next generation of the Aegis Weapon System. Elbit Systems 30mm Unmanned Turret Tested Successfully in Finland 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Elbit Systems recently announced that its 30mm Unmanned Turret system has successfully completed extensive field trials at a firing range in Finland. India/US Talk On Landmark Nuclear Energy Pact 
New Delhi (AFP) Jun 12, 2006Diplomats from India and the United States met in New Delhi Monday for their first high-level talks on the details of a landmark but controversial nuclear cooperation deal. Elbit Adds New UAV System To Skylark Family 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 13, 2006Elbit Systems has introduced the the Skylark II - a close range class tactical UAV system providing advanced, high performance ISTAR capabilities. CONTENT PARTNERS
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