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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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Belligerent Tone Mars US Administration Space Policy
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2006The Bush Administration's revised space policy for the United States has elicited a lot of comment in the press, in editorials, and on the World Wide Web. It was issued late on a Friday afternoon, October 6, 2006, five weeks after its approval by the President. That seems as if the White House was hoping no one would notice. Hunt For Alien Life Turns To ET-TV 
Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2006A new generation of ultra-powerful radio telescopes designed to peer into the origins of the Universe could also be used to look for any radio or TV emissions by extraterrestrial civilisations, New Scientist says. TV and radio broadcasts are in the 50-400 megahertz range, which overlaps with the frequency range of between tens and hundreds of megahertz made by radio waves from hydrogen atoms forged in the early Universe. Yahoo To Showcase Digital Time Capsule Offerings 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 25, 2006Videos and photographs from around the world will be projected on canyon walls and beamed into space from an ancient pueblo as leading website company Yahoo showcases its 2006 digital time capsule beginning Wednesday. The three-day event at Jemez in the US state of New Mexico will showcase some of the more than 70,000 poems, stories, videos, songs, and pictures uploaded to the Yahoo Time Capsule depicting life in 2006. |
Kent Rominger Joins ATK Launch Systems Group As VP Advanced Programs
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 26, 2006Alliant Techsystems has announced that Kent Rominger, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Corps, has accepted the position of Vice President, Advanced Programs within the Launch Systems Group. "We are honored to have Kent join our team at ATK," said Ron Dittemore, President ATK Launch Systems. "His background and experience will be a valuable asset to our company." Alcatel Alenia Space To Provide On-Board And Ground Segment Equipment For The LISA Pathfinder 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 26, 2006Alcatel Alenia Space has announced that it will develop and deliver on-board and ground segments equipment for the LISA Pathfinder program. LISA Pathfinder will provide in-orbit testing and validation for the new concepts and technologies that will be used on ESA/NASA's Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which aims to detect and measure interplanetary gravitational waves. SAIC Awarded Contract to Assist the Air Force with Satellite System Risk Reduction Program 
San Diego VA (SPX) Oct 26, 2006Science Applications International Corporation has report that it has won a cost-plus award fee contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/VS) with a ceiling value of approximately $25 million, and a 29-month period of performance. |
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Star Ends Infancy Abruptly
Hilo HI (SPX) Oct 26, 2006Zooming in on a nearby young star called HD 141569A, astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy used the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, to discover a hole in a disk of gas and dust encircling the star. The existence of this large gap, which is about the size of the orbit of Saturn, supports the theory that this young star ended its infancy abruptly, by ionizing and pushing away the gas in the disk from which it was born. Space Radiation Threats To Astronauts Addressed In Federal Research Study 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 26, 2006A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the moon and Mars in the coming decades, according to a new National Research Council report. European Expertise Helps To View The Sun In A New Way 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 26, 2006European experts have played an integral role in developing and building the instruments on NASA�s STEREO spacecraft. This exciting new solar mission will allow scientists to build on the work of the ESA/NASA SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. The STEREO mission consists of a pair of spacecraft that will separate after launch and move apart. This will allow them to look at the Sun simultaneously from different angles. |
Progress 23 On Track For Thursday Docking
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 26, 2006After a successful launch Monday morning from Kazakhstan, the Progress 23 cargo craft is on track for a Thursday docking with the International Space Station at 10:28 a.m. EDT. The unpiloted cargo carrier is carrying supplies, equipment, propellant and oxygen. Start of Operations Phase For ALOS And Data Provision To The Public 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 26, 2006The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency completed the initial functional verification phase and initial calibration and verification phase of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi" (ALOS) and will move on to the operations phase tomorrow. The "Daichi" was launched on January 24, 2006, (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. UCLA And JPL Partner On Regional Climate Change And Support Future Space Missions 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2006UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have formed a research institute to better understand and predict regional environmental and climate change and support future space missions. The Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering will examine relationships between global climate change and Southern California weather and climate patterns and the environment. |
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. |
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