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TECH SPACE + LockMart Awarded Concept Development Contract For USAF Space Fence 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations centers that will detect and report on objects and debris orbiting the Earth. Lockheed Martin was one of three industry teams to receive contracts. The Air Force Materiel Command's Electronic Systems Center at Han ... moreROCKET SCIENCE + Indonesia launches rocket into space 
Jakarta (AFP) July 2, 2009 -
Indonesia successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space on Thursday as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials said. The RX-420 rocket took off from a launch pad in Garut regency, West Java province, around 8:00am (0100 GMT). "The RX-420 rocket was successfully launched this morning. We're very happy," Aeronautics and Space Agency spokeswoman Elly Kuntjahyo ... moreSPACEMART + Interview With ISRO's Madhavan Nair 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 03, 2009 -
ISRO has had a long standing and successful co-operation with the erstwhile USSR in Space with the active participation of USSR in setting up the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in early Sixties, Joint meteorological studies using more than 1000 meteorological sounding rockets launched from Thumba supplied ... moreTIME AND SPACE + XMM-Newton Discovers A New Class Of Black Holes 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2009 -
Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses, a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier supermassive black holes, in a distant galaxy. This discovery is the best detection to date of a new class that has long been searched for: intermediate mass black holes. Due to appear tomorrow in the journal Nature, ... moreTECH SPACE + Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers. The world's largest commercial satellite deployed its solar arrays Wednesday evening, following its launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite's first thruster firing will begin later today, ... more |
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EARTH OBSERVATION + GOES-O Satellite Launched With e2v Image Sensors 
Essex, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
e2v has supplied image sensors for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, which launched on 26 June 2009. GOES-0 is the latest in a series of satellites that monitor Earth and space weather systems, in order to improve predictions regarding hurricanes, flash floods and severe storm warnings, and to help track global climate change. e2v supplied 20 flight model and 2 ... moreSKY NIGHTLY + IYA2009 Raises Millions Of Eyes To The Skies 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) reaches its six-month milestone, over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for the first time, and even more have newly engaged in astronomy. This is just one of many achievements, as countless ongoing projects and planned initiatives indicate that the IYA2009 is well on the way towards achieving many of its goa ... moreSPACEMART + Festive Ceremony Inaugurates University Programs At NASA Ames 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, June 29, 2009. The celebration welcomed more than 170 students, along with dozens of faculty and guest lecturers from more than 40 countries to ISU's 22nd annual Space Studi ... moreSPACE SCOPES + Canada's Space Telescope Celebrates Birthday Number Six 
Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite was launched June 30, 2003 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a 12-month mission to study the vibration of distant stars and draw inferences about their hidden composition - a technique called asterose ... moreSPACE TRAVEL + Boeing Team To Develop Revolutionary Spacecraft Power System 
Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 -
An industry team led by Boeing has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for work on Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program. The $15.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is currently funded to $13.8 million. DARPA's FAST program aims to develop a new, ultra-lightweight High Power Generation System (HPGS) that can generate up ... more |
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UAV NEWS + New generation of UAVs displayed 
Palmdale, Calif. (UPI) Jun 30, 2009 -
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have displayed a new generation of the company's unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
Officials unveiled the RQ-4 Block 40 Global Hawk last week in California. The craft is the latest in a series of unmanned aerial vehicles from Northrop Grumman. The company said its previous entries in the series have approximately 24,000 hours in support of troops ... moreCYBER WARS + China's Internet filter delay a victory for public opinion: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2009 -
China's decision to delay the installation of Internet filtering software on computers is a victory for public opinion but will not change the government's hold on censorship, analysts said Wednesday. The communist government had originally ordered the software come with all PCs sold in the country from Wednesday, prompting criticism at home and abroad of what was seen as a new attempt to ... moreCLIMATE SCIENCE + Climate efforts: Germany No.1, Canada last 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 1, 2009 -
Germany ranks first among Group of Eight nations for tackling climate change while the United States has passed on the last place to Canada, according to scorecards released Wednesday by the World Wildlife Fund and German insurance giant Allianz.
The ratings, unveiled roughly a week before G8 leaders are due to meet in Italy for their annual summit, blasts Canada for skyrocketing ... moreCLIMATE SCIENCE + G8 summit to seek 80 pct emissions cut by 2050: report 
Tokyo (AFP) July 1, 2009 -
The Group of Eight rich nations summit in Italy next week is likely to call on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, a report said Wednesday. The reduction target is in the draft of a declaration to be issued at the end of the July 8-10 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, the Nikkei economic daily said, without naming its source. The base year for ... moreABOUT US + Marshall islanders move to US as living costs soar 
Majuro (AFP) July 1, 2009 -
The migration of Marshall islanders from the tiny nation in the Pacific to the United States has risen to an eight-year high due to the impact of soaring living costs, officials said. A total of 1,503 people left the Marshall Islands for the United States in 2008, nearly triple the number in 2007, according to US Department of Transportation statistics. "The dramatic increases in fuel ... more |
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ENERGY TECH + Big Oil seems to have Iraq over a barrel 
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 1, 2009 -
The Iraqi government's much-touted award of major production contracts for international oil majors on June 29-30 turned out to be a big fizzle. There was barely any bidding for the six oil fields and two gas fields the Iraqis planned to open up for badly needed development. These contain some 43 billion of Iraq's 115 billion barrels of oil reserves. Only one contract was ... moreCIVIL NUCLEAR + French state nuclear giant Areva invites new investors 
Paris (AFP) June 30, 2009 -
French state-controlled nuclear giant Areva said Tuesday it was opening its capital to new investors and would sell a subsidiary to raise money for massive investments in new nuclear technology. The company also said it was considering the sale of its stakes in French metal mining group Eramet and Geneva-based computer chip maker STMicroelectronics. "The AREVA Supervisory Board has ... moreENERGY TECH + China takes ambitious oil acquisition strategy further 
Beijing (AFP) June 30, 2009 -
China's government-backed oil companies are jostling with each other to make landmark overseas acquisitions, seizing on the economic crisis -- and accompanying low asset prices -- to grow. Asia's largest refiner, Sinopec, agreed to acquire Canadian company Addax Petroleum for 7.2 billion dollars in a deal announced last week, just days after PetroChina bought a 45.51 percent stake in ... moreAEROSPACE + Airbus kicks off construction on new China plant 
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2009 -
European aviation giant Airbus said Wednesday it had started building a new plant in China that would make major components for its A350 XWB - an aircraft designed to compete with Boeing's Dreamliner. The plant in the northern city of Harbin is part of a programme to realise an Airbus commitment of allocating five percent of the A350 XWB airframe to the Chinese aviation industry, the ... moreCIVIL NUCLEAR + IAEA race down to three as Belgian candidate quits 
Vienna (AFP) July 1, 2009 -
Belgian candidate Jean-Pol Poncelet pulled out of the race to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the UN atomic watchdog on Wednesday, leaving only three candidates still in the running. International Atomic Energy Agency spokesman Ayhan Evrensel confirmed that Belgium had sent a letter to the agency saying that Poncelet would not stand in a formal vote by the agency's 35-member board of go ... more |
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