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Boeing Opens New Pulse Line For Satellite Assembly
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Boeing has announced that it is ready to use a new "pulse line" process for assembling satellites in El Segundo, Calif. The new process is expected to shorten the time needed to build a space vehicle. The first satellites to be manufactured on the pulse line will be the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites Boeing is building for the U.S. Air Force. All Boeing's satellite ... more New Metamaterials Bend Light Backwards 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render ... more OSU Students Build And Launch A Sensor Into Space 
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches in diameter, the detector flew for more than two hours and reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The device recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes - information that will be used ... more Robots may enhance disabled people's lives 
Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 A U.S. study foresees robots as improving both the quality and flexibility of the lives of people with disabilities that affect the use of their limbs. The robotics engineering research, sponsored by The National Science Foundation, utilized physiological information -- called bio-signals -- produced by the human body to improve external assistive devices called orthoses that help ... more Star Trek-like 'warp drive' theorized 
Waco, Texas (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 U.S. scientists say they've developed a theory that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light without breaking the laws of physics. Baylor University Associate Professor Gerald Cleaver and graduate student Richard Obousy theorize that by manipulating the extra spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an extremely large amount of energy ... more |
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Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Columbus Geographic Systems has announced that it is responding to the growing demand for navigation-related applications by developing a range of customized versions of its leading off-road navigation product, the Ranger. The new versions of the Ranger address applications that are currently not resolved by available navigation products. "As users become more sophisticated, we are seeing ... more Symmetricom Announces New PCI Time And Frequency Processor Modules 
San Jose CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Symmetricom has announced its latest PCI time and frequency processor modules, the bc635PCI-V2 and the GPS referenced bc637PCI-V2, providing precise time and frequency references to host computers and peripheral data acquisition systems. One of the first PCI-based modules to provide a level of timing accuracy to 50 nanoseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the bus cards also support ... more Digital Angel Supplies SARBE To BAE Systems 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Digital Angel has announced that its SARBE division has finalized negotiations with BAE Systems to supply SARBE Advanced Aircrew Personal Locator Beacons (AAPLBs). Based in the United Kingdom, BAE Systems is a global company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defense and aerospace systems in the air, on land and at sea. Although not a large contract, the choice of ... more NASA To Realign Constellation Program Milestones 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2008In a news conference Monday, NASA managers discussed how the agency will be adjusting the budget, schedule and technical performance milestones for its Constellation Program to ensure the first crewed flight of the Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule in March 2015. The Constellation Program is developing the spacecraft and systems, including the Ares I and Ares V rockets, the Orion crew ... more NASA is given a thumbs-up in safety report 
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 The U.S. Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel has released its 2007 Annual Report, giving the U.S. space agency good marks for safety. The annual report examines the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 2007 safety performance and advises the agency on ways to better that performance. "While there are still opportunities for improvement, the panel's finding concluded that ... more |
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San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Researchers at San Diego State University have developed a new concept for improving MEMS accelerometer tunability. This method can increase wide-band tunability with ranges much larger than current practice, a significant improvement from the previously accepted 5-10%. Greater tunability is necessary for new consumer and military products such as cell phones and gaming and GPS devices. ... more ATK Demonstrates Precision Guidance Capabilities For 105mm Artillery 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Alliant Techsystems has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the capability to divert a 105mm artillery round using its existing 155mm Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) with minimal modification to the current design. ATK recently conducted tests of the PGK on M927 rounds at Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Ariz. The tests verified that the ATK-designed PGK provides more than twice the ... more Russian jets stage Georgia raids as Moscow-US tensions worsen 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Advancing Russian forces on Monday took a key Georgian city and the country's armed forces retrenched to defend the capital, a top Georgian official said. Russian troops occupied Gori, close to the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgia's National Security Council secretary Alexander Lomaia told AFP amid growing international calls for a halt to the fighting which has left hundreds ... more Successful Series Of Measurements In Arctic Sea Ice 
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Aug 12, 2008The German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking capabilities in Arctic waters to gain data on two series of long-term research measurements. After working in regions up to latitude 82 degrees N, Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will enter port in Reykjavik (Iceland) on August 10th. "This year, we had ... more Large Reservoir Of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Identified In Humans 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Researchers at the University of Newcastle, England, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in the United States have revealed a large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations present in the general population. Clinical analysis of blood samples from almost 3,000 infants born in north Cumbria, England, showed that at least 1 in 200 individuals in the general public ... more |
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