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Russia To Raise Space Funding, Build New Space Center
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2008Russia will increase funding for space projects by 13% and start the construction of a new space center this year, a first deputy prime minister said on Monday. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting with the president, Sergei Ivanov said the funding increase does not include military programs. "With the increase in the funds, concrete development programs in the sector should be considered in terms of t ... more MSV Plans Extension Of Current Generation Satellite Services Through 2011 
Reston VA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced plans to extend its current generation network voice and mobile data services through 2011 on its next generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated to be launched in 2010. In parallel with the deployment of MSV's next generation network and launch of two of the most powerful commercial satellites to be built to date--MSV1 a ... more Could The Universe Be Tied Up With Cosmic String 
Brighton, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little points, but tiny vibrating bits of string Cosmic strings are predicted to have extraordinary amounts of mass - perhaps as much as the mass of the Sun - packed into each metre of a tube whose width is less a billion billionth of the size of an at ... more Progress Spacecraft Will Sink In Pacific 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2008The Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station last year, will crash into the Pacific on Tuesday evening, a Mission Control center spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman told RIA Novosti that the parts of the craft that do not burn up in the atmosphere will sink in a "spacecraft cemetery" at 40 longitude in the Pacific. The so called spaceship ceme ... more Ion engine to propel spacecraft to Mercury 
London (UPI) Jan 19, 2008British space experts have been given the green light to start building a Star Trek-like engine for a Mercury-bound spacecraft. The ion-powered BebiColumbo, which is set to leave Earth in 2013 for a six-year voyage to Mercury, will reach fuel efficiencies equal to 17.8 million miles per gallon, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The hot planet has puzzled scientists because of ... more |
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Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 21, 2008India successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite into orbit Monday in a boost to the South Asian nation's efforts to win a share of the multi-billion-dollar space launch market. The launch of the Tecsar satellite by an Indian-made rocket was carried out in clear weather at 9:15 am local time (0345 GMT) from the Sriharikota space station in southern India, the Indian Space Research Organi ... more Walker's World: China or Russia? 
Washington (UPI) Jan 21, 2008It was a relief for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to have been feted in Beijing over the weekend when his opinion poll ratings back home were plunging and his country's relationship with Russia was dropping just as fast back into a chill reminiscent of the Cold War. Enriched and emboldened by its oil and gas wealth, the Russia of President Vladimir Putin is acting like a bully. It ... more TacSat-2's Milestone Mission Advanced Responsive Space Concept 
Kirtland ASFB NM (SPX) Jan 22, 2008After completing its historic, one year experimental mission, the U.S. Air Force's TacSat-2 microsatellite ceased operations on Dec. 21, 2007. Launched on Dec. 16, 2006, from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., the responsive space Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here, served as the ... more Fueling And Feeding Bigfoot 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological footprints. The study, led by former University of California, Berkeley, research fellow Thara Srinivasan, assessed the impacts of agricultural intensification and exp ... more First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanic Eruption In Antarctica 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica's most rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago (325BC) and remains active. Using airborne ice-sounding radar, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a layer of ash produced by a 'subglacial' volcano. It ... more |
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Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Ppreliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The announcement was made by Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director, during his keynote remarks Jan. 15 at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego,CA. The prelim ... more Trees And Grass May Be Able To Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning The Oceans 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. "Ethanol from cellulose, whether from trees or other sources, will be the way to go in the very near future," says Dr. Gopi Podila, a University of ... more Iowa Testing Hybrid Fueled School Buses 
Ames IA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008You've got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go. Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district's new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus on one of the district's six routes, said he likes the 65-passenger machine powered by an electric mot ... more Green US House Of Reps Closer To Reality 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2008The first six months of the greening of the Capitol have brought measurable successes-from beginning the process of relighting the Capitol Dome with environmentally-friendly lighting to eliminating environmentally-unfriendly Styrofoam from House food services-and the initiative promises to deliver more exciting gains in 2008. "We're thrilled with the progress that we've made so far," Chief ... more China Wind Systems Begins First Phase of Expansion Plan 
Wuxi, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2008China Wind Systems has purchased new equipment to expand its forged rolled rings manufacturing capabilities. The $4.13 million purchase was in line with the Company's strategy to focus on the growing wind power industry in China, and was largely funded with the proceeds from its recent private placement financing. The purchase marks the first step in execution of the Company's expansion pl ... more
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