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Space Cost Controls Urged Los Angeles (UPI) Nov 28, 2006 
The United States military is being urged to take a more deliberate pace in its acquisition of high-priced satellites and other space-based equipment that are a linchpin of the 21st Century fighting force. While the sky literally appears to be the limit when it comes to new uses for satellites, the Government Accountability Office said in a report this month that Department of Defense space programs were getting ahead of the technology that holds so much promise. The result, the GAO said, has been a tendency by the Pentagon to plunge headlong into new projects before the technologies are mature enough, resulting in a process that has more bumps than expected and budgets that quickly stumble into the red. |
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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Space: Paths Of Conversion
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006Combat missiles are now widely used to launch ordinary spacecraft, and rightly so, because huge intellectual and material resources have been invested in their development and it would be wrong, both economically and morally, not to use this potential. EMCORE Wins Solarcell Order From A Leading ComSat Manufacturer 
Somerset NJ (SPX) Nov 29, 2006The Photovoltaics division of EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a multi-year purchase order from a leading manufacturer of high power geosynchronous communications satellites. Magnetic Needles Turn Somersaults 
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Metals Research in Stuttgart have discovered a new mechanism with which it is possible to use weak magnetic fields to reverse tiny magnetic structures, called vortex cores, quickly and with no losses. Up until now, very strong magnetic fields have been necessary to accomplish this, requiring highly complex technology. The new method might open up new possibilities for magnetic data storage. |
China To Launch "Sinosat-3" Next May After Failure
Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 29, 2006A substitute satellite for the failed SinoSat-2, which was to be China's first direct-to-home broadcasting satellite, will take at least three years to develop, according to a SinoSat spokesman. "The company is drafting a replacement plan. The substitute satellite will not be a carbon copy of the previous one and we are expecting more technical upgrades," spokesman Fan Xinming said. ETC Finishes Final Assembly of GYROLAB GL-4000 Human Centrifuge 
Southampton, PA (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Environmental Tectonics is finishing final assembly of its GYROLABTM GL-4000 Advanced Spatial Disorientation Trainer for delivery to a Japanese customer before Christmas. The GL-4000 is designed to train pilots to cope with in-flight Spatial Disorientation (SD). Dwindling Forests And Resources Force Africa To Mull Nuclear Energy 
Cape Town (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Depleting forests and coal reserves, compounded by the environmental cost of traditional energy sources, are forcing Africa to seriously consider going nuclear, experts say. "For the sake of humanity and the environment we should accept nature's gift," South African energy analyst Andrew Kenny told a conference in Cape Town of scientists, businessmen, energy watchdogs and African government officials. |
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Tiger Workshop Highlights Project Results
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 29, 2006Water resources, the 'blue gold' of the 21st century, are scarce across Africa where the hydrological network is the world's least developed. ESA launched the TIGER initiative in 2002 as a CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation satellites) contribution to assist African countries to overcome water-related problems and to bridge Africa's water information gap using satellite data. Measuring A Magnetosphere 
Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Using the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter installed on the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (Mauna Kea, Hawaii), an international team of researchers, led by two French astronomers (C. Catala, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, and J.F. Donati, LATT, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees), has just discovered a magnetic field on tau Bootis, a star orbited by a giant planet on a close-in orbit. This is the first detection of this kind. Up to now, only indirect clues pointed to the presence of magnetic fields on stars hosting giant extra-solar planets. NASA Awards Big Contract To Swales 
Hampton Va (UPI) Nov 28, 2006The U.S. space agency NASA has selected Swales Aerospace of Beltsville, Md., to provide research and technology services to the agency's Langley Research Center. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a maximum value of $200 million over five years, Swales said in a news release Tuesday. |
Room To Move
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Imagine if you could attach an enormous walk-in closet to your house for more storage room. Seven astronauts set to fly aboard Space Shuttle Discovery will benefit from a similar arrangement. The commercially owned SPACEHAB logistics single module will serve as an extra "float-in closet" during STS-116, a 12-day mission to deliver hardware, supplies and a new crew member to the International Space Station. Element 21 Launches First Golf-Dedicated Satellite Into Orbit 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Element 21 Golf Company reports that on the eve of Thanksgiving, November 22nd, 2006 at approximately 7:57 pm EST, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin successfully hit a golf ball off of the orbiting International Space Station, 220 miles above the earth. Pluto Sighted For First Time By New Horizons From Four Billion Kilometers Away 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2006The New Horizons team got a faint glimpse of the mission's distant, main planetary target when one of the spacecraft's telescopic cameras spotted Pluto for the first time. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took the pictures during an optical navigation test on Sept. 21-24, and stored them on the spacecraft's data recorder until their recent transmission back to Earth. |
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Russia Must Remain A Major Nuclear Power Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006 
An all-out war or armed conflict between the great powers no longer seems possible. However, the five official nuclear powers are in no hurry to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their policy, a fact attested to by the US's new nuclear doctrine, loose rules of engagement for using nuclear weapons in the event of a crisis and greater regional tensions.
Kremlin To Limit Foreigners' Access To Strategic Industries 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006The Kremlin may limit foreigners' access to some strategic industries if parliament approves a law on foreign investment in commercial organizations of strategic significance to Russia's national security. Aerial Combat: US Pilots Practiced Against MiGs 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2006A news conference held Thursday at the National Museum of the United States Air Force revealed a long-kept secret: thousands of U.S. military pilots gained an aerial-combat edge by practicing dogfighting against Soviet-designed MiG fighters. QinetiQ World First Flight Demo - Multiple UAV Sys 
Farnborough UK (SPX) Nov 29, 2006QinetiQ has successfully completed the world's first flight demonstration of a system capable of controlling and autonomously organising multiple unmanned aircraft. |
Water In Beijing Reservoir, Lakes Unfit For Drinking Or Irrigation
Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Water from Beijing's fourth-largest drinking source was not fit for human consumption or irrigation during the month of October, the capital's environmental protection agency reported Tuesday. Night Of The Living Enzyme 
Richland WA (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found.. Giant 8,000-Year-Old Tsunami Is Studied 
Pisa (UPI) Nov 28, 2006Italian scientists say geological evidence suggests a giant tsunami resulted from the collapse of the eastern flanks of Mount Etna nearly 8,000 years ago. Prominent Researchers Advocate Creation Of National Climate Service 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2006It's time for the United States to have a national climate service - an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts - say six members of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group. |
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