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1000 Sols On Mars Pasadena (JPL) Oct 26, 2006 
NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday, continuing a successful mission originally planned for 90 Martian days. A color 360-degree panorama released today -- produced from the most detailed imaging yet completed by either Spirit or its twin, Opportunity -- shows rugged terrain of the robot's current location amid a range of hills. Spirit has been examining the surroundings for several months while perched with a tilt to the north for maximum solar energy during winter in Mars' southern hemisphere. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Preparations Continue For Manned Expedition To Mars One Day
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 25, 2006The 1920s are remembered not only for their political upheavals but also for a new interest in exploring other planets. Imaginative authors of all calibers wove intricate fantasies about exploring the length and breadth of Mars in their books. The budding movie industry made its contribution, too. But it is only a century later, in the 2020s, that humankind has hope of finally touching down on the Red Planet. Study Fuels Debate Of Life On Mars Bloomington IN (Indiana Daily Student) Oct 25, 2006 
According to the study, published in this week's issue of the peer-reviewed journal Science, the bacteria community, which lives completely independent of resources found on Earth's surface, supports itself using resources obtained from water molecules that are converted into energy by radioactive uranium found in subsurface rocks.Third Team Straps-In for Rocket Racing League 
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Oct 25, 2006The Rocket Racing League (RRL) has announced the third team, and the first New Mexico team, to compete in its inaugural racing season that kicks off next year. |
China Launches Two Space Experiment Satellites
Taiyuan (XNA) Oct 24, 2006China successfully launched two satellites for space environment exploration into space with a Long March-4B carrier rocket Tuesday morning. They were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province at 7:34 a.m. Satellite A was detached from the rocket after 11 minutes of take-off, followed by the detachment of Satellite B about one minute later. Both have successfully entered preset orbits. NASA To Launch 3D Mission To Study Sun 
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2006NASA plans to launch Wednesday a 3-D mission to study the sun, using twin satellites in mirror orbits to trace the fiery star's streams of energy and matter to Earth. "We are at the dawning of a new age of solar observations," Russ Howard of the Naval Research Laboratory said at a NASA news conference. The two-year Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission will be the first to view the sun from two separate vantage points outside Earth's orbit. Hubble Yields Direct Proof Of Stellar Sorting In A Globular Cluster 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Imagine trying to understand how a football game works based on just a few fuzzy snapshots of the game in play. Astronomers have faced this challenge when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the beehive swarm of stars in the globular star clusters that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy. |
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NASA, Lock-Mart, Boeing to Speak at Phoenix Integration System of Systems Workshop
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2006Phoenix Integration, the aerospace and defense industry leader in process integration and design optimization software, will be hosting a two-day workshop November 13-14, 2006 on "Decision Tools for Complex System of Systems Engineering" at the Hilton Hotel in Pasadena, California, adjacent to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrofuture Products Launches Space Food Sticks 
Port Washington NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Retrofuture Products LLC has re-launched Space Food Sticks, the classic astro-snack first developed for early space missions. Retrofuture President Eric Lefcowitz says, "We're confident fans of the original will love the taste and we're happy a whole new generation of Sticks fans will get an opportunity to find out about this unique treat." The inimitable chewy snack - available in chocolate and peanut butter - was originally developed in the late 1960s for NASA. Boeing's Spectrolab Produces Two Millionth Multi-Junction Solar Cell 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Boeing has announced that Spectrolab has produced its two millionth multi-junction, gallium-arsenide solar cell. Spectrolab pioneered this type of cell in 1983, perfecting the technology for production several years later. Spectrolab's advancements gave satellite operators the option of doubling satellite power and increasing potential revenue or controlling costs by reducing spacecraft size without sacrificing capability. |
Russia Can Repel Asteroids To Save Earth
Moscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2006Russia is prepared to repel asteroids to save Earth "if necessary," deputy head of the Russian space agency Viktor Remishevsky said Tuesday, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. "If necessary, Russia's rocket-manufacturing complex can create the means in space to repulse asteroids threatening Earth," Remishevsky said, without giving further details. The official stressed that saving Earth from the threat of asteroids demanded international cooperation. Former US Congressman Robert Walker Joins Advisory Board Of Rocket Racing League 
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Oct 23, 2006Former U.S. Congressman and science/space/technology expert Robert S. Walker has joined the advisory board of the Rocket Racing League (RRL) and will serve as its liaison for public and government relations. The RRL, which aims to debut its first NASCAR-style races in late Fall 2007, is a first-of-its-kind aerospace sports and entertainment league formed by X PRIZE founder Peter Diamandis, a space travel enthusiast, and Granger Whitelaw, a two-time Indy 500 champion team partner. Messenger Completes Venus Flyby 
Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2006NASA's Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft came within 2,990 kilometers (1,860 miles) of the surface of Venus early this morning during its second planetary encounter. The spacecraft used the tug of the planet's gravity to change its trajectory significantly, shrinking the radius of its orbit around the Sun. |
Hard Energy Dialog: Lose In West, Gain In East
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 25, 2006Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft and China's CNPC have signed a protocol to set up a joint venture, Vostok Energy, to develop and produce mineral resources in Eastern Siberia. China will finance the development stage in exchange for access to Russian deposits and stable deliveries of oil and petrochemicals. EU Gives Green Light To French Nuke Power Station 
Brussels (AFP) Oct 24, 2006The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it had given the green light for the construction of a nuclear power plant in northern France. Climate Change Could Lead To More Failed States Warns British FM 
London (AFP) Oct 24, 2006Global warming is exacerbating disputes over access to water and food resources, and could lead to more failed states, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned in an interview published in the Financial Times on Tuesday. It Took More than One Punch To KO the Dinos 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2006There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period. Russia Tests Bird Flu Vaccine 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 25, 2006Clinical tests of a bird flu vaccine, developed by the Russian Health Ministry's state-owned Science and Production Association Mikrogen in conjunction with the Academy of Medical Sciences, have been conducted in the last three months. First Time In 2006 Venice Swamped By Aaqua Alta 
Venice (AFP) Oct 24, 2006A steep rise in sea levels swamped part of the historic lagooon city of Venice on Tuesday, the first "aqua alta" (high water) of the year. Amazon River Reversed Flow 
Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Oct 25, 2006Ask any South American dinosaur which way the Amazon River flows and she would have told you east-to-west, the opposite of today. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers studying ancient mineral grains buried in the Amazon Basin. |
SK Successfully Tests Longer-Range Cruise Missile Seoul (AFP) Oct 24, 2006 
South Korea has successfully tested a new longer-range cruise missile which has not only North Korea but also parts of China and Japan within range, a news report said Tuesday. The Munhwa Ilbo newspaper, quoting unnamed senior government officials, said the country had succeeded in test-firing a cruise missile with a 1,000 kilometer (620-mile) range.General Dynamics And Rafael Unleash Thor In US For Standoff Ordnance Neutralization 
St Petersburg FL (SPX) Oct 25, 2006General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), a leading provider of ammunition, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), and ordnance DEMIL products and services has partnered with RAFAEL Armament Development Authority in Israel to bring a dual mode, standoff ordnance neutralization system into the US. Future Combat Systems Team Opens Field Test Center In New Mexico 
St. Louis (SPX) Oct 25, 2006Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation, as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program, yesterday celebrated the opening of the Army's Test Operation Complex at White Sands, N.M. SKorea Officials Hit Back Over NKorea Intelligence 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 24, 2006South Korean officials, criticised for insufficient advance knowledge of North Korea's nuclear test, said Tuesday that satellite photos had been taken of the suspected test site. The Politics Of Terror 
Washington (UPI) Oct 24, 2006The Republicans are betting on their national security record in the congressional elections. But their failures in Iraq look like wrecking the strategy. The irony is that -- apart from Iraq -- their record, though flawed, is still substantial and serious. The Jihad Rages In Cyberspace 
Washington (UPI) Oct 24, 2006Below the radar screen of Western intelligence and security services, there is a global re-education process on the Internet to proselytize on the true meaning of an Islamic state. This "cyberwar" is transforming the political landscape of the Middle East. CONTENT PARTNERS
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