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Russia Launches Inflatable Test Satellite From Urals
Moscow (RIAN) Jul 13, 2006Russia has conducted a launch of an RS-20 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo in the Urals, the press service of the Strategic Missile Forces said Wednesday. Difficult Road Ahead For Russian Space Navigation 
Moscow, Russia (RIA) Jul 13, 2006The Russian satellite navigation system, which, as the name suggests, monitors ship and air traffic, is itself in need of effective state monitoring. Boeing Puts Aircraft Market At 2.6 Trillion Dollars 
London (AFP) Jul 12, 2006US aircraft giant Boeing forecast Wednesday a market for new aircraft worth 2.6 trillion dollars in the next two decades, and claimed European arch-rival Airbus had the wrong strategy to capitalise on it. |
Flying Over The Cloudy World
Paris (ESA) Jul 13, 2006On 20 April 2006, after its first 9-day, elongated orbit around Venus, ESA�s Venus Express started to get closer to the planet, until it reached its final 24-hour long orbit on 7 May. Opportunity Getting Closer to Victoria Crater 
Pasadena (SPX) Jul 13, 2006Opportunity is healthy. This week, Opportunity continued uplinking its new flight software load and driving toward "Victoria Crater." Cassini Spots Another New Tiny Saturn Moon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2006This magnified view shows tiny Polydeuces, a moon discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft last month, is a mere 3 km across. Along with much larger Helene (32km across), Polydeuces orbits Saturn at the same distance as large, icy Dione (1,126km across). |
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Rolls-Royce And Japanese Materials Institute To Develop Super Alloys
London, England (SPX) Jul 13, 2006Rolls-Royce has announced it has signed a multi-year agreement with Japan's National Institute for Materials Science to develop high-temperature super alloys for use in gas turbine engines. The agreement also creates the Rolls-Royce Center of Excellence for Aerospace Materials, based at NIMS' Sengen site in Tsukuba, Japan, north of Tokyo. One Dose of Radiation Causes 30 Percent Spongy Bone Loss 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2006Mice receiving just one therapeutic dose of radiation lost up to 39% of the spongy portion of their inner bone, reducing the inner bone's weight bearing connections by up to 64%, researchers have reported. SpaceDev To Provide Antenna Mechanisms For MUOS Program 
Poway CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2006SpaceDev, subsidiary Starsys, Inc., was recently awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin to provide antenna pointing gimbals for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program, which is under direction of the U.S. Navy. |
VLT Catches Supernova Between Galaxies
Paranal, Chile (SPX) Jul 13, 2006Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have obtained a unique image of a pair of entangled galaxies that includes a supernova well outside the main body of one of the companions. Next-Generation Tracking Will Change Supply Chain Management 
Chicago (UPI) Jul 13, 2006The second generation of wireless package tracking technology -- radio frequency identification (RFID) gear -- is emerging rapidly, changing the way manufacturers monitor shipments. Paper maker Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. is working with Texas Instruments Inc., the electronics developer, to bring to market a new process for affixing straps to boxes, which contain printed antennae. Researchers Set Speed Record For Silicon-Based Chips 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 13, 2006A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained at extremely cold temperatures, the results suggest that the upper bound for performance in silicon-germanium devices may be higher than originally expected. |
Hot And Heavy Dinos Rules The Earth
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2006If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and heavy. One of the larger animals, a behemoth called Sauroposeidon proteles, weighed close to 120,000 pounds as an adult. Now, a new study led by the University of Florida suggests it may have had a body temperature close to 48 degrees Celsius. Canada To Defend Its Oil And Uranium Exports At G8 Talks 
Ottawa (AFP) Jul 07, 2006Canada will look to defend its massive energy exports at a Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in St. Petersburg, Russia mid-July, officials said Friday. "The issue of energy, energy security, energy supply is very important to Canada," a senior official told reporters at a summit briefing in Ottawa. India And Pakistan Ink Aid Pact Nine Months After Killer Quake 
New Delhi (AFP) Jul 11, 2006India Tuesday approved a donation of 25 million dollars to buy building materials for Pakistani Kashmir nine months after a major earthquake killed 73,000 people there. The Indian foreign ministry said the assistance was part of a pledge made at an UN-sponsored donors' conference for the victims of the October 2005 earthquake which razed tens of thousands of homes in Pakistan. Trees Could Grow In Antarctica Within Century Says Scientist 
Sydney (AFP) Jul 12, 2006Trees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard Wednesday. With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford University. |
Iran To Be Referred To Security Council
London (UPI) Jul 12, 2006Iran is to be referred back to the United Nations Security Council following its failure to respond quickly enough to an incentive package aimed at defusing the current nuclear dispute, world powers announced Wednesday. US Cool To China-Russia Resolution On North Korea 
Rostock, Germany (AFP) Jul 12, 2006The White House on Wednesday gave a cool reception to a compromise resolution by Russia and China on North Korea, reiterating US support for a Japanese measure that calls for sanctions. US Missile Defence Experts To Inspect Czech Sites For Base 
Prague (AFP) Jul 12, 2006US experts will next week tour possible Czech sites for an anti-missile base, the Czech ministry of defence announced on Wednesday. The United States is in the final stages of selecting a Central European surface-to-air missile base which would form part of a network designed to protect it and other NATO countries from hostile missile attack. Northrop Grumman Develops Skyguard Laser Defense System For Local Defense 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2006Northrop Grumman has developed the Skyguard laser-based air defense system for U.S. government agencies and allies that require near-term defense against short-range ballistic missiles, short- and long-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles. US State Department Fends Off Asian Hacker Attack 
Washington(AFP) Jul 12, 2006The US State Department said it was conducting a forensic probe Wednesday after hackers in East Asia tapped into computer systems at its Washington headquarters and diplomatic posts in the region. CONTENT PARTNERS
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