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Near-Flawless Shuttle Mission Gives Boost To US Space Program
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Jul 17, 2006The US space shuttle Discovery ended a near-flawless 8.8 million-kilometer (5.5 million-mile) journey with a smooth return Monday, giving a major boost to the trouble-plagued US space program. NASA Seeks Master Developer For Kennedy Space Center Exploration Park 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 19, 2006NASA has issued a solicitation to attract offers for the development and long-term operation of Exploration Park at Kennedy Space Center. Molecular DNA Switch Found To Be The Same For All Life 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2006The molecular machinery that starts the process by which a biological cell divides into two identical daughter cells worked so well early on that evolution has conserved it across the eons in all forms of life. |
Bigelow Spacecraft Carries NASA Genebox For Orbital Testing
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 19, 2006A NASA shoebox-size payload, called GeneBox, is now orbiting Earth as a passenger inside Bigelow's one-third scale, inflatable Genesis I test spacecraft. UK Maritime And Coastguard Agency Equips With Iridium Satphones 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2006Iridium announced Monday that the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency has equipped its newly formed firefighting teams with the company's satellite phones to provide reliable communications when responding to fires on ships in the country's coastal waters. The Puzzling Impact Of Polluted Skies On Climate 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2006NASA scientists have determined that the formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles. This also impacts Earth's climate. |
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SMART-1 Views Sulpicius Gallus
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 19, 2006This mosaic of three images, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the area close to the Sulpicius Gallus crater on the Moon. AMIE obtained this sequence on March 18, from a distance of 1,200 kilometers (744 miles) from the surface, with a ground resolution ranging from 110 meters to 114 meters (357 feet to 370 feet) per pixel. Sharply Tuned Nanostrings Work at Room Temperature 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 19, 2006Using a fast, low-cost fabrication technique that allows inexpensive testing of a wide variety of materials, Cornell researchers have come up with nanoscale resonators - tiny vibrating strings - with the highest quality factor so far obtainable at room temperature for devices so small. Ford First To Offer Clean-Burning Hydrogen Vehicles 
Dearborn, Michigan (AFP) Jul 18, 2006Ford on Monday became the first automaker to begin production of a commercially viable hydrogen engine, which emits little but clean water vapor into the air. |
MetOp-A Launch Delayed A Second Time
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 19, 2006The launch of the MetOp-A satellite has been postponed for the second straight day due to an anomaly on one piece of equipment of the Soyuz launch vehicle. The next scheduled launch attempt has not yet been announced. CNES Alcatel And Orange France Testing Hybrid Satellite System 
Toulouse and Paris, France (SPX) Jul 19, 2006CNES, Orange France and Alcatel announced Tuesday they have selected Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrenees region for the first trial outside their laboratories of the main technical characteristics of a new mobile broadcasting system transmitted via a hybrid satellite and a terrestrial transmission system using the S-band. South Korea Delays Military Satellite Launch 
Seoul (AFP) Jul 18, 2006South Korea on Tuesday delayed the launch of its first military satellite by 10 days to August 20 at the request of the US launching company, defense officials said. |
Europe's Heat Wave Claims Five More Lives
Paris (AFP) Jul 18, 2006Much of Europe on Tuesday baked in tropical temperatures as high as 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places, in a heatwave that has claimed at least six lives. Five deaths related to the oppressive heat were recorded on Tuesday alone, following the death Sunday of a man in Murcia, southern Spain. Second Tropical Storm Of 2006 Brews Off North Carolina Coast 
Miami (AFP) Jul 18, 2006The second tropical storm of the 2006 hurricane season formed Tuesday off the coast of North Carolina, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. At 5 pm (2100 GMT) tropical storm Beryl was located 290 kilometers (180 miles) in the Atlantic southeast of Cape Hatteras, with winds of 64 kilometers (40 miles) per hour. Undersea Vehicles Study Precious Metals Deposits On Pacific Ocean Floor 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jul 19, 2006An international team of scientists will explore the seafloor near Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean later this month with remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, investigating active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the formation of mineral deposits containing copper, gold and other commercially valuable minerals. European Research Team Strives To Make Robotic Systems More Decisive 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 19, 2006The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is a partner in the Integrated Research Project BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems), which is being sponsored by the EU and will run until 2010. |
EADS And India Join Forces To Develop A Missile Warning System
London, UK (SPX) Jul 18, 2006EADS and the Indian government are poised to strengthen their co-operation in the highly sensitive field of electronic warfare with a contract covering the joint development of a missile warning system for the Indian Air Force having been signed between EADS Defence Electronics and the Indian Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE). China's Top General Visits The Pentagon 
Washington(AFP) Jul 18, 2006China's top military official met with US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday to discuss closer military relations in the highest level visit of its kind in more than five years, officials said. North Korea Launches Wartime Alert 
Seoul (AFP) Jul 19, 2006North Korea has launched a wartime alert, putting its armed forces and nationals in a state of a war mobilization, an unconfirmed news report said here Wednesday. Northrop Grumman Begins Flight Testing Of Global Hawk Radar Tech 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 19, 2006Northrop Grumman has received a $90 million contract, to be completed in September 2009, from the U.S. Air Force to integrate a new airborne surveillance radar on the Global Hawk unmanned aerial system (UAS) to provide unprecedented situational awareness to battlefield commanders. CONTENT PARTNERS
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