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NASA Announces CLV Support Contract
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2006NASA announced Wednesday it has selected MTS Systems Corp. of Eden Prairie, Minn., to support the agency's Crew Launch Vehicle Program. The maximum value of the fixed-price contract is about $9 million, with the maximum period of performance 25 months. Deorbited Russian Progress Cargo Craft Dumped In Pacific 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 21, 2006Fragments of a Russian Progress cargo vessel carrying space trash plunged into the Pacific Ocean early Tuesday after a three-hour flight after undocking from the International Space Station. Even Rocket Scientists Work Out Technology Pays Better In India 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jun 21, 2006After more than two decades as a scientist in India's premier space agency, 54-year-old Kalyan Raman has called it quits. His new job as a telecommunications specialist with a private firm, he says, pays double his previous salary and is more glamorous. |
Boeing Hands Over GOES-N Early To NASA
St Louis MO (SPX) Jun 21, 2006Boeing announced Wednesday that GOES-N - the first of three Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites built for NASA and the NOAA - has reached its orbital slot 22,300 miles above the equator, and Boeing engineers have transferred control of the satellite to NASA. NASA To Orbit Fruit Flies To Test Immune System 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006Thousands of tiny fruit flies soon will journey into space aboard shuttle Discovery to help NASA scientists better understand changes in the human immune system caused by space flight. Botanist To Study Seed Behavior Aboard Space Station 
Oxford OH (SPX) Jun 21, 2006When shuttle Discovery launches July 1, it will carry the continuing research of botanist John Kiss to study if and how well plants can be grown in microgravity. Kiss' project is one of only two experiments launched on Discovery that will be performed on the International Space Station at this time. |
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Spirit Continues Work As Martian Winter Deepens
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006NASA mission controllers report that Spirit continues to be productive even as Martian winter conditions harshen. Controllers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that Spirit now receives about one-third as much solar energy as the rover received during the Martian summer while it explored Husband Hill, in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater. Webb Telescope Mirror Backplane Prototype Delivered For Testing 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006Northrop Grumman announced Wednesday it has delivered an important element of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Backplane Stability Test Article, to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for a series of tests designed to verify its readiness for use in space. A Tale Of Two Moons 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006Many moons in the Saturnian system wear a uniformly gray mantle of darkened ice, but not these two. The brightest body in the solar system, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan's smoggy, golden murk. |
GeoEye Awarded Airport Mapping Database Contract
Dulles VA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006GeoEye announced Wednesday the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Stereo Airfield Collection program has awarded the company $3.7 million to image 365 airfields and produce Airport Mapping Databases over a 12-month period. Microsoft Shows Off Software Kit For Robot Builders 
San Francisco (AFP) Jun 21, 2006Microsoft showed off a software kit for robot builders on Tuesday that it said will free inventors to make creations limited only by their imaginations. Microsoft pulled the curtain back on its Microsoft Robotics Studio at the RoboBusiness and Exposition 2006 in the eastern state of Pennsylvania. Chunghwa Telecom Mulling Second Taiwan Satellite With Singapore Telecom 
Taipei (AFP) Jun 22, 2006Chunghwa Telecom said Wednesay it is studying the feasibility of teaming up with Singapore Telecommunications again to launch a second satellite for commercial applications. |
Military Police To Combat Crime In New Orleans
New Orleans (AFP) Jun 21, 2006Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco on Tuesday welcomed 100 military police officers and 60 state police troopers deployed to help New Orleans deal with a flood of violent crime as it struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina. US And French Power Companies Sign MoU For Evolutionary Power Reactor 
Baltimore MD (SPX)Jun 20, 2006Constellation Energy and Electricite de France (EdF) today announced that the two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Merapi May Be At End Of Current Active Cycle 
Mount Merapi (AFP) Jun 21, 2006A new lava dome which began forming last week at Indonesia's Mount Merapi may signal that heightened activity is ending at the volcano, a scientist said Tuesday. CONTENT PARTNERS
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US Defenses Likely Activated For NKorean Test
Washington (AFP) Jun 20, 2006The launch of a long-range North Korean missile would provide the first real test of a US missile defense system that has cost billions of dollars to build and is still in development, analysts said Tuesday. Precision-Guided Munitions Play Key Role 
Eglin AAF FL (AFNS) Jun 21, 2006The two 500-pound bombs that took out terrorist leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi June 7 have a long history of development and improvements at the Air Armament Center here.to the target. Iraq Mission Sets Precedent For Japan Global Role 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 21, 2006Japan's historic military mission to Iraq, which was declared complete Tuesday, has set a precedent for its expanding role overseas which remains deeply controversial, analysts said. |
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