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China-Made Satellite Navigation System Monitors Dangerous Chemical Transport
Beijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2008China has begun use of a domestically-developed monitoring system to oversee dangerous chemical transport based on the country's Beidou satellite, its management center announced on Thursday. The system provides all-day data on dangerous chemical transport to the Beidou navigation satellite, which in turn gives corresponding operational order, according to experts who researched and develo ... more Unusual Older Stars Giving Birth To Second Wave Of Planets 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2008Hundreds of millions - or even billions - of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place, UCLA astronomers and colleagues believe. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves for ... more NASA And Gemini Probe Mysterious Distant Explosion 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2008Using the powerful one-two combo of NASA's Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected a mysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before. The explosion, known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), took place 7.4 billion years ago, more than halfway back to the Big Bang. "This discovery dramatically moves back the time at which we know short G ... more Space tourism firm fined for deaths 
Mojave, Calif. (UPI) Jan 19, 2008Rocket pioneer Burt Ratan's space tourism company has been fined $25,870 for an accident that killed three workers at its test site in Mojave, Calif. Scaled Composites was fined by state authorities for violating workplace safety codes, including failing to properly train workers to handle hazardous materials, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Eric Blackwell, 38, Charles M ... more Message From Mercury Safely Down To Earth 
Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2008A day after its successful flyby of Mercury, the Messenger spacecraft turned toward Earth on Tuesday and began downloading the 500 megabytes of data that had been stored on the solid-state recorder during the encounter. All of those data, including 1,213 images from the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras, have now been received by the Science Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins ... more |
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Lanham MD (SPX) Jan 21, 2008Integral Systems announced the award by Northrop Grumman of a Phase A contract to begin development of the GPS OCX (Next Generation Control Segment) satellite command and control system. The total contract value is approximately $20.6 million with a period of performance through March 2009. As a key member of the Northrop Grumman OCX Team, Integral Systems will provide satellite command an ... more Comtech Telecommunications Receives Movement Tracking System Orders 
Melville NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2008Comtech Telecommunications announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders totaling $6.7 million under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the U.S. Army. The orders are for the supply of MTS systems which feature Comtech's Model MT-2012 mobile satellite transceivers integrated with both ruggedized and control station compute ... more GPS Devices And Systems Will Surpass 900 Million Unit Shipments By 2013 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 21, 2008While in-car navigation will remain the most important application of GPS technology, the use of GPS in many other consumer, business, and industrial environments such as telematics and asset tracking will continue to grow. The GPS modernization project and the arrival of additional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou/Compass will increase the av ... more Mercedes-Benz Moves To Evaluation Stage Of Columbus' Product 
Timorim, Israel (SPX) Jan 21, 2008Columbus Geographic Systems announced that are in contact with the truck and sport utility vehicle (SUV) division of Mercedes Benz, the German-based global auto manufacturer, to examine integrating their off-road navigation solution in the in-car PC system. This is part of the Columbus' strategy to integrate their off-road navigation solution in the in-car PC system included in each new vehicle. ... more NAVTEQ Map Content And Programs Drive Location-Based Future At 2008 Mobile World Congress 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 21, 2008NAVTEQ announces its participation in the upcoming Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona from the 11th to the 14th of February. With more than 50,000 visitors the Mobile World Congress (formerly the 3GSM World Congress) brings together the pre-eminent leaders and personalities from mobile operators and equipment vendors, as well as those from the Internet and the world of entertainment ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 20, 2008South Korea plans to buy new US weaponry capable of intercepting North Korean ballistic missiles for its Aegis-equipped destroyers, Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. The United States has agreed to supply South Korea with SM-6 ship-to-air missiles with a range of up to 400 kilometres (250 miles), Yonhap said quoting an unnamed military source. The SM-6 system is an advanced type of the ... more Split Emerges Over North Korean Nuclear Ambitions As Patience Wears Thin 
Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2008North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapons before US President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009, his special envoy said Thursday, calling for a revamp of six-party talks to end the crisis. Jay Lefkowitz, special envoy for human rights in North Korea, also accused China and South Korea of not exerting enough pressure on North Korea during the talks that first began in ... more Russia has right to 'preventative' nuclear strike: general 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 19, 2008Russian army chief Yury Baluevsky on Saturday asserted that the country had the right to use nuclear weapons on a "preventative" basis, news agencies reported. "We are not planning to attack anyone. But our partners should clearly understand... that the armed forces will be used if necessary to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and its allies, inclu ... more WSU Electronics Center Awarded Space Technology Grant 
Pullman WA (SPX) Jan 09, 2008A Washington State University semiconductor research center has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Air Force's Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, N.M., to help develop nanoscale electronics for a new era of advanced satellite technology. Faculty and students in the Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC), headquarter ... more Lab successfully clones human embryos 
La Jolla, Calif. (UPI) Jan 17, 2008A U.S. laboratory said it is the first to create and document a cloned human embryo using somatic cell nuclear transfer. Stemagen, a private research lab in La Jolla, Calif., said five blastocysts were developed from 25 donated mature oocytes. Three were confirmed to be clones based on DNA fingerprinting demonstrating the presence of the skin cell donor DNA in the blastocyst, while one ... more
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