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New Space Technology Provides Less Shake Rattle And Roll
Kirtland AFB NM (AFNS) Feb 12, 2007Current deployment mechanisms operating aboard spacecraft primarily consist of heavy springs which, when activated, inflict shock to components such as solar arrays and antennae. This often hinders the equipment's efficiency in the harsh environment of space. Air Force Materiel Command's Space Vehicles Directorate and Composite Technology Development have developed a technology that could put a halt to the not-so-good vibrations. Foreign Legion In Vanguard Of Silicon Valley Innovation 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 7, 2007The American dream is alive and well and living in Silicon Valley, according to a recent study which reveals the increasingly multi-cultural face of the high-tech sector. More than half of high-technology start-ups launched between 1995 and 2005 had at least one founder of overseas origin, the study from Duke University in Northern Carolina has found. Two Astronauts Finish Third Spacewalk Outside ISS 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2007International Space Station commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and fellow US astronaut Sunita Williams on Thursday completed the third spacewalk in nine days at the orbiting space station, NASA officials said. |
Spring Comes To Spirit At Gusev
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2007Spring is in the thin, Martian atmosphere once again as NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit scans the local terrain for dust devils expected this time of year. The rover remains healthy and has completed remote sensing studies of a soil target known as "Tyrone," conducted from a distance of about 10 meters (33 feet) away. Tyrone has bright soil upturned in wheel tracks. Robotic Exoskeleton Replaces Muscle Work 
Ann Arbor, MI (SPX) Feb 11, 2007A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers. The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle function. Clustering Of Quasars 10 Billion Light Years Away Determine Relationship With Dark Matter 
Princeton NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2007Using a map of more than 4,000 luminous quasars in the distant universe, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have shown that these brilliant beacons are strongly clumped, with huge quasar superclusters separated by vast stretches of empty space. The strong clustering shows that the quasars lie within massive concentrations of dark matter. |
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Six Aurora-Research Rockets To Launch From Poker Flat
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Feb 12, 2007Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire have experiments ready on the launch rails at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, and another scientist is waiting in New Hampshire to launch an additional experiment from Poker Flat. Japan Launches Alert System For Tsunamis And Missiles 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 9, 2007Japan on Friday launched a satellite-based alert system to speed up evacuations if the country is hit by earthquakes, tsunamis or missiles. Authorities, who earlier relied on low-tech ways to spread alerts, will now be able to send instant warnings via sirens of imminent tsunamis, volcano eruptions or other disasters. Iridium Satellite Expands Data Service Offerings With Appointment Of Eight New Value-Added Partners 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2007Iridium Satellite today announced the appointment of eight new value-added partners offering Iridium-based products and services for remote asset management and other machine-to-machine (M2M) data applications. Iridium's newly appointed value-added resellers (VARs) are GEOTrac International, Implicit Solutions, IonEarth, PremierGPS and ROM Communications. |
Scientists Find High Energy Systems Hidden In Gas Cocoon
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2007Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star. In a strange twist of fate, these objects may be tremendously luminous, but the enshrouding cocoon absorbs almost all their emission, making them nearly invisible to telescopes on Earth until now. Despite Chill Antarctica Offers Heavenly View To Astronomers 
Concordia Base (AFP) Antarctica, Feb 9, 2007To be perched under pollution-free, open skies on the Antarctic Plateau 3.2 kilometers (10,400 feet) above sea level is a professional stargazer's dream come true, even if the cold is deep enough to freeze your blood. Armed with a small telescope and a photometer to measure light intensity, Herve Trinquet, from the University Astrophysics Laboratory in the southern French city of Nice, gazes out on an unblemished celestial vault. Magnetic Explosions In The Distant Universe Get The Gamma Going 
London UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2007Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), first discovered in the 1970s, are the most explosive events in the Universe. Finding out what happens during these cataclysmic events is a major challenge, partly because they usually occur at the edge of the visible Universe and partly because the bursts last only a matter of seconds. |
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