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Mars Mission Lasts Well Past Sell-By Date
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 18, 2006At this very moment, on an alien world millions of miles from Earth, two wheeled robots named Spirit and Opportunity are dutifully exploring Mars. But by all previous accounts, these Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) should have stopped functioning ages ago. After all, their warranty was only good for 90 days Spirit to Get New Robotic Capabilities as Martian Winter Turns to Spring 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2006This week Spirit greeted the 900th day, or sol, of exploration on Mars. Spirit is healthy and continues to make science observations despite winter power limitations. One file of a new software upgrade remains to be transmitted to the rover. Rover handlers plan to have Spirit start using the new software sometime in mid-August. Beagle Crater Is Next Stop For Opportunity 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2006Opportunity is healthy and continued driving towards "Beagle Crater," which is about 140 meters (459 feet) away as of sol 877 (July 12, 2006). The upload of the flight software files was completed on sol 876, and the flight software build process is currently planned for sols 879-881. |
DARPA Clears Falcon 1 For Next Launch Attempt
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2006A review board said this week it has found the cause of the failed March 24 launch of the SpaceX Falcon 1 launch vehicle and has given its approval for a new attempt this fall. First Data Release From UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey 
Swindon, England (SPX) Jul 21, 2006British astronomers announced Thursday they are releasing the first data from the largest and most sensitive survey of the heavens in infrared light to scientists across Europe. Special Case Stellar Blast Teaching Astronomers New Lessons About Cosmic Explosions 
Socorro NM (SPX) Jul 21, 2006A powerful thermonuclear explosion on a dense white-dwarf star last February has given astronomers their best look yet at the early stages of such explosions, called novae, and also is giving them tantalizing new clues about the workings of bigger explosions, called supernovae, that are used to measure the Universe. |
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MIT Team Envisions Exploring Mars With Mini Probes
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2006MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction. BAE and SSTL To Deliver Processor For Chandrayaan-1 
Farnborough UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2006BAE Systems and its small-satellite partner, Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), are under contract to deliver the OBC695B processor to control a small RF subsystem that will fly as an experiment on the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. The experiment's mission is to map the poles of the Moon. Launch is scheduled for 2007. China To Explore Mars As Well As The Moon 
Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2006China plans to embark on an ambitious space exploration program that will see it focusing on Mars as well as the moon, a senior space agency official was quoted as saying Wednesday. The program, to be carried out in the next five years, also calls for stepping up international cooperation, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration, as saying. |
Three-Telescope Interferometer Shows Patchy Red Giants Common Fate Of Sun-Like Stars
Kamuela HI (SPX) Jul 21, 2006As astronomers increasingly link two telescopes as interferometers to reveal greater detail of distant stars, a Keck Observatory astronomer is showing the power of linking three or even more telescopes together. Cassini Reveals Xanadu Region On Titan To Be Earth-Like 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2006New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan. International Space Station Tee Off Approved By NASA 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 21, 2006Element 21 Golf Company ("E21") has reported that NASA has approved E21's "Eagle One Mission" in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s historic Apollo 14 Mission. E21 also announced that Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin will be given a golf lesson from LPGA Hall of Fame member Carol Mann and Rick Martino of the PGA of America on Thursday, July 20, 2006 in Houston, Texas. |
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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