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Shutdown Of Connexion-by-Boeing Service Predicted
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2006In a briefing note to clients, Telecom, Media and Finance Associates, Inc. (TMF Associates), the specialist Mobile Satellite Services consulting firm, predicts that it will not be possible to make a commercial success of the in-flight Internet service offered by Connexion-by-Boeing on airlines such as Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, and that the service will ultimately be shut down. Shuttle Crew Enjoys Light Duty After Spacewalks 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2006On the ninth day of their 13-day mission, and following three lengthy spacewalks outside the International Space Station, the crew of space shuttle Discovery enjoyed a period of light duty, interrupted by a few teleconference events. Spirit Continues Work As Martian Days Grow Shorter 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2006Spirit has been busy receiving new flight software upgrades, both directly from Earth via the rover's high-gain antenna and indirectly via relay from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft. |
Hubble Advanced Camera Back In Business
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 14, 2006After a brief hiatus, the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is back in full operation, NASA announced Thursday. The instrument is now involved in a quest to understand the nature of the universe's most dominant but mysterious constituent: dark energy. Supernova Leaves Behind Mysterious Object 
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 14, 2006ESA's XMM-Newton satellite has produced data allowing scientists to examine closely an object discovered more than 25 years ago and find it is like none other known in the Milky Way galaxy. Chandra Spies Cosmic Fireworks 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2006The Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured the remains of four supernovas in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, showing multi-million-degree gas that has been heated by shock waves from the explosions. |
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EADS Space Says MetOp Ready For Launch
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 14, 2006EADS Space announced Thursday that ESA's MetOp spacecraft is ready for its scheduled launch July 17 by Starsem aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. EADS Space is the satellite's prime contractor and is responsible for three of the 11 onboard instruments. Globalstar Satellite Data Services Cover Alaska to Chile 
Milpitas CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2006Globalstar has announced its independent gateway operator in Mexico, Globalstar de Mexico, is expanding its simplex or one-way data coverage throughout all of Mexico and to areas of northern Central America. ESA Selects Esrange Space Center For Galileo Tracking 
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Jul 14, 2006Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed the ESA contract for providing a site for the northern TT and C antenna (Telemetry, Tracking and Command) at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna. The 13-meter antenna that will be located at Esrange is a key part of the global infrastructure needed to control the fleet of Galileo satellites. |
Intelsat To Support EADS And ND SatCom Partnership
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 14, 2006Intelsat General announced Monday that MilSat Services GmbH, a company set up by EADS Space Services and ND SatCom, have signed a 10-year contract for leased satellite services. REDiSat Network Available To Companies And First Responders 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 14, 2006SES AmeriCom announced Tuesday its REDiSat Network is now available for U.S. first responders, emergency management professionals and private enterprises from the financial, manufacturing, retail and oil and gas industries. SATNAV Industry Meet Held at ISRO Satellite Centre 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 10, 2006An ISRO-Industry Meet on Satellite Navigation was organised at the ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, July 4, 2006. The meet, inaugurated by Mr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, covered topics on Indian Satellite Navigation programme, applications and opportunities, research, manufacturing and software development. |
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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