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Boeing Signed On the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Rocket Program
Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2006Boeing is being awarded a $674,116,428 cost-plus-award fee contract. This action provides for Delta IV Launch Capability for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) rocket program. This effort includes launch and Range Operations for Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.; Mission Integration Mission Unique Development and Integration; System Engineering and program management; subcontractor support; factory support engineering; and special studies. Rocket Motor Test Helps NASA's Shuttle And Ares I 
Promontory UT (SPX) Nov 19, 2006NASA's Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a reusable solid rocket motor Thursday, Nov. 16, at a Utah facility. The two-minute test provided important information for nighttime shuttle launches and for the development of the rocket that will carry the next human spacecraft to the moon. NASA's Newest Mars Orbiter Passes Communications Relay Test 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2006An orbiting NASA spacecraft just starting to study Mars with six science instruments has successfully tested another key part of its payload, a versatile radio for relaying communications with robots on the surface of Mars. During its first relay test since reaching Mars in March, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used this radio payload, called Electra, in a two-way link with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. |
On-Orbit Checkout Of SBIRS Payload Confirmed
Peterson AFB CO (AFPN) Nov 19, 2006The Air Force successfully completed initial early on-orbit checkout of the first Space Based Infrared System payload. SBIRS will deliver a new generation of space-based satellites providing missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness to combatant commanders. Soyuz Booster Rocket Launches From Kourou To Cost 50 Million Dollars 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2006Launching one of Russia's new booster rockets from a site in French Guiana will cost customers $50 million, a European space company said Friday. Russian and French space officials signed a contract in February to launch four Soyuz-ST booster rockets from the Kourou launch site, on the northern coast of South America, over 10 years to orbit heavy cargoes. Boeing Delta II Delivers GPS Satellite To Orbit 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 20, 2006A Boeing Delta II launch vehicle has successfully delivered to orbit a replenishment Block IIR Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The Delta II rocket carrying the GPS IIR-16 (M) satellite lifted off from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 2:12 p.m. Eastern time, deploying the satellite to a transfer orbit 68 minutes later. |
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China's First Ever Space Textbook Published
Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 20, 2006The formerly classified manuscript written by the father of China's space and missile industry has been published. Qian Xuesen's manuscript entitled "A General Introduction to the Missile" hit the shelves in Beijing on Friday, 50 years after Qian first used it to teach 156 university students, China's first generation of space scientists. An X-ray Transit Of Mercury 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 19, 2006To appreciate the majesty and power of a typical G-type star, you need only glance at this photo: The tiny black speck is Mercury. The star looming in the background is our own sun. The Japanese Space Agency's new orbiting solar observatory, Hinode (formerly known as Solar B), took the picture on Nov. 8th just as Mercury was about to begin a rare solar transit. Ulysses Embarks On Third Set Of Polar Passes 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 19, 2006On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission will reach another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole. Launched in 1990, the European-built spacecraft is engaged in the exploration of the heliosphere, the bubble in space blown out by the solar wind. Given the capricious nature of the Sun, this third visit will undoubtedly reveal new and unexpected features of our star's environment. |
A Robot Invention With A Leg To Stand On
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2006A US scientist has created a robot that can find a way to keep working on its own after suffering damage, an invention that could prove useful for robotic space missions in distant planets, according to a study. Joshua Bongard, a University of Vermont engineer whose research article appeared in Friday's Science Magazine, pulled off one of a homemade robot's four legs for his experiment. Roscomos Confirms Green Light For E21 Golf Company Golf Shot In Space 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 19, 2006Element 21 Golf Company reports the announcement by Igor Panarin, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, that a cosmonaut at the International Space Station (ISS) will play golf in outer space and in zero gravity conditions for the first time in history. ISS Crew Getting Ready For Golf Day 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 19, 2006Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Thomas Reiter continue to prepare for a spacewalk Wednesday, Nov. 22, out of the International Space Station's Russian Pirs Docking Compartment airlock. Lopez-Alegria, who will make his sixth spacewalk, and Tyurin, with three previous spacewalks to his credit, climbed into Russian Orlan spacesuits Friday to test all systems and communications gear. |
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Russian Nuke Strategy: In Search Of Amendments Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 17, 2006 
Since the U.S. State Department, three months after 9/11, said America was going to quit the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - which it did half a year later - Moscow's response has been conspicuous by its nearly total absence.Pakistan Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile 
Islamabad (AFP) Nov 16, 2006Pakistan Thursday test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, a day after concluding peace talks with India where the South Asian rivals agreed to fresh atomic safety measures. US Panel Seeks Broader Sanctions Against China 
Washington DC (AFP) Nov 16, 2006A US Congress-appointed panel on Thursday sought broader sanctions against Chinese firms proliferating unconventional weapons and wanted Beijing to inspect ships plying to or from nuclear-armed North Korea's ports. Russia Prioritizes Strategic Forces On Security Agenda 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 17, 2006Russia's president and defense minister said Thursday that developing the strategic forces is the main priority for the country's defense agenda. President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with top military officials, "Maintaining a strategic balance will mean that our strategic deterrent forces should be able to guarantee the neutralization of any potential aggressor, no matter what modern weapons systems he possesses." Boeing ScanEagle Achieves Major Flight Milestones 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 17, 2006Boeing and its ScanEagle unmanned aerial system (UAS) team member Insitu have achieved two program milestones. First, the team recently logged the longest continuous flight of its UAS by flying a preproduction prototype Block D ScanEagle for 22 hours and eight minutes at the Boeing test range in Boardman, Ore. |
Himalayan Megaquakes Powered By Elastic Energy In Tibetan Plateau
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 17, 2006Computer simulations indicate that Himalayan mega-earthquakes must occur every 1,000 years or so to empty a reservoir of energy in southern Tibet not released by smaller earthquakes, according to a paper that will appear in the Nov. issue of the Nature. Pressured By Predators, Lizards See Rapid Shift In Natural Selection 
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 17, 2006Countering the widespread view of evolution as a process played out over the course of eons, evolutionary biologists have shown that natural selection can turn on a dime as a population's needs change. European Space Agency And Google Earth Showcase Our Planet Paris, France (ESA) Nov 17, 2006 Ever wanted to see what volcanic eruptions, dust storms and changing ice glaciers look like from space? Polar Expedition To Siberian Lake Will Yield Details Of Past Climate Amherst MA (SPX) Nov 17, 2006 An international team of scientists led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received $3.2 million from the National Science Foundation to fund an expedition to a polar lake in Siberia, which should yield data that will provide the most detailed record of past Arctic climate to date. Lead's Toxic Legacy 
Washington (UPI) Nov 15, 2006Scientists have known lead can damage the nervous systems, particularly of children, for decades. But they are still figuring out how children growing in the mother's womb are affected by the toxic metal, and when that exposure is most acute. |
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