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ESA Releases Huygens Scientific Archive Data Set
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Since ESA's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and safely landed on its surface on Jan. 14, 2005, the data it collected have revealed an extraordinary new world. NASA Selects Radiation Belt Mission Candidate For Further Study 
San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2006An instrument developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute is part of a proposal selected as a candidate to study the Earth's space weather from a pair of orbiting satellites. First Japanese Space Tourist To Blast Off Next Month 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 02, 2006Japan's first space tourist, Daisuke Enomoto, will blast off on board a Russian spaceship headed for the International Space Station (ISS) on September 14, the Russian space agency Roskosmos said on Wednesday. "The Japanese tourist is due to go into space on September 14. He is continuing his training at Star City (near Moscow)," said spokesman Igor Panarine. |
LM Joins With NASA And USAD To Bring Space Conference To Silicon Valley
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jul 28, 2006Lockheed Martin announced Monday it is partnering with NASA and the U.S. Air Force to bring the Space 2006 Conference and Exposition to Silicon Valley for the first time. Organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the conference will be held Sept. 19 to 21 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. LM Awarded USAF Contract For Nanosatellites 
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday that the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate has chosen the company to provide engineering design and development support for the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space satellite program. ATK Receives $90M To Supply Motors For Missile Defense And Satellite Launch Vehicles 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Alliant Techsystems announced Wednesday it has received a $90 million contract to provide first-, second- and third-stage Orion solid rocket motors to Orbital Sciences Corp. for use in a variety of launch platforms including the U.S. Ground-Based Missile Defense program. |
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TPS Calls For Proposals To Save The World
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Attention Astronomers: Here's Your Chance to Save the World. The Planetary Society Calls for New Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant Proposals "Cataclysmic impacts are a fact of life in our solar system," said Bruce Betts, the society's director of projects. Japan Plans Moon Base By 2030 
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 03, 2006JAXA has set a goal of constructing a manned lunar base in 2030, a space agency official said Wednesday. NASA Awards Engineering And Scientific Services Contract To ASRC Aerospace 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 28, 2006ASRC Aerospace announced Thursday it has been awarded an engineering and scientific services contract by NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. |
Station Crew Prepares For Next Spacewalk
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Space station crew members Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter will work to avoid future shocks during a scheduled 6-hour-plus spacewalk on Wednesday. Dawn Log - Keeping Busy 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2006Dawn continues to keep its human handlers very busy as preparations continue on schedule to meet the planned opening of the launch period on June 20, 2007. Much of June 2006 was devoted to conducting the comprehensive performance tests described in the previous log. Brown Dwarf Survives Jonah Episode With Red Giant 
Space Daily US EditorWashington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2006 Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a binary system in which a Jupiter-sized brown dwarf is orbiting an Earth-sized white dwarf. What's unusual about the arrangement, however, is the brown dwarf once actually orbited inside its companion when the white dwarf grew into a red giant. |
UAV Performing Well In Strategic Plans
Washington (UPI) Aug 01, 2006The U.S. Joint Chief of Staff's director for strategic plans and policy is very positive on data supplied by unmanned aerial vehicles. Air Force Lt. Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr. said in a Pentagon Channel interview that the real-time feedback of information supplied by UAVs were "value added" to military operations. Raytheon Booms On Missile Defense Contracts 
Washington (UPI) Aug 01, 2006Focusing on U.S. ballistic missile defense programs remains good business for Raytheon. On Friday, the defense contracting giant beat estimates for its second quarter, with 5.6 percent year-over-year top-line growth, which management attributed to improved government contract bookings and increased aircraft deliveries, Forbes magazine reported. Magnets To Aid Military in Next-Gen Radar System 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 02, 2006Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a magnetic material that will enable radar technology used by the U.S. military to be smaller, lighter, and cheaper without compromising on performance. China To Modernize Military And Reunify Taiwan Says Defense Minister 
Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2006China will be a force for global peace but it must arm its military with the latest in high-tech weapons and ensure that Taiwan never splits from the mainland, the defence minister said Monday. US Mulls Sanctions After North Korean Missile Test 
Washington (AFP) July 31, 2006The US administration is looking at re-imposing broad economic sanctions on North Korea in response to the Stalinist state's recent missile test, an official said Monday. "It's one of the options that's on the table," said Molly Millerwise, a spokeswoman for Stuart Levey, the US Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. |
Underwater Robots Work Together Without Human
Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 02, 2006This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the aid of humans to make detailed and efficient observations of the ocean. CSIRO Reveals How Continents Can Break Apart 
Perth, Australia (SPX) Aug 02, 2006Continents drift on the surface of the Earth in response to a recycling of oceanic plates, with new plates formed at rifts which are mostly located as sea-floor spreading centres in the middle of oceans. Swedish Nuclear Plant Faced Possible Meltdown 
Forsmark, Sweden (UPI) Aug 01, 2006Last week's shutdown of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, north of Stockholm, reportedly could have resulted in a meltdown. The emergency -- called by some the most dangerous international nuclear incident since the destruction of the Russian Chernobyl plant 20 year ago -- occurred when two of four generators shut down, officials said. Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes 
New York NY (SPX) Aug 02, 2006In terms of their telomeres, mice are more complicated than humans. That's the finding from a recent Rockefeller University study, which shows that mice have two proteins working together to do the job of a single protein in human cells. Google Earth Impacts Science 
Bonn, Germany (UPI) Aug 01, 2006The world's scientists are increasingly using Google Earth's digital globe, which has also attracted millions of non-scientists around the world. CONTENT PARTNERS
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