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UP Aerospace Readies Rocket For April 28 Launch
Hartford, CT (SPX) Apr 25, 2007UP Aerospace is geared up for a multi-faceted space launch on April 28th. The mission, named "SL-2", will fly a wide range of educational experiments and commercial payloads into space. The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology and the National Aerospace Leadership Initiative have teamed with UP Aerospace as education partners on the LaunchQuest Program which provides middle and high ... more Out Of This World Weightless Flights By Zero Gravity Corporation Lift Off From Las Vegas 
LAS VEGAS, NV (SPX) Apr 25, 2007To Sin City and Beyond. Raising the bar yet higher in the Entertainment Capital of the World, Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, has officially launched regular service from Signature Air Terminal at McCarran International Airport. This, combined with the recently announced relationship with Sharper Image to sell ... more Minotaur Launched From NASA Wallops Flight Facility 
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Apr 25, 2007An Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket was successfully launched at 2:48 a.m. EDT today from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Va. The four-stage rocket carried the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite. This was the second Minotaur 1 launch from Wallops in just over four months. The previous mission on Dec. 16, 2006, carried the Air ... more Imaging Alicante At Crater Victoria 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 25, 2007Over the last week, Opportunity investigated the second of two "dark streak" soil targets named "Alicante." The sol 1145 Mossbauer touch sequence that was commanded did not make contact with the soil because of a minor targeting discrepancy. Since the Mossbauer touch is used as a reference point for determining where to start taking the microscopic images, the lack of contact caused the ... more Scientists Design New Super-Hard Material 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2007Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch. UCLA scientists are now reporting a promising new approach to designing super-hard materials, which are very difficult to scratch or crack. Their findings appear in the April 20 issue of the journal Science. ... more |
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Bangalore (AFP) India, April 23, 2007India's space agency placed an Italian satellite in orbit Monday, bolstering the South Asian nation's efforts to win a slice of the billion-dollar global launch market. The India-made Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) put the Agile astronomical satellite into its intended orbit about 550 kilometres (325 miles) above the earth 20 minutes after blast-off. It was India's first comme ... more A Polar Orbiter About Titan 
Cameron Park Ca (SPX) Apr 24, 2007In my last installment, I described a possible "Titan-Enceladus Explorer" mission that might fit the lowest cost fringe of NASA's proposed big "Flagship"-class planetary missions -- because it could combine the observations to be made by two different billion-dollar class missions to Titan and Enceladus currently being studied by NASA advisory groups, using a single spacecraft. My possible ... more Iowa State Astrophysicists Provide The Eyes For New Gamma Ray Telescope System 
Ames IA (SPX) Apr 24, 2007There's a "First Light Fiesta" in the works at Mt. Hopkins near Amado, Ariz. And Iowa State University astrophysicists will be among those enjoying the celebration of a new telescope system and all the science it will produce. The $20 million VERITAS telescope system -- that's the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System -- at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory south of T ... more Meet Boron Ball Brother Of Bucky 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 24, 2007A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms. The research, which has been published online and is due to appear as an editor's selection in Physical Review Letters, was conducted bv Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of chemistry, and his associates Nevill Gonza ... more Antarctic Lake Robot Probe Sets Sights On Outer Space 
Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 22, 2007A robotic probe designed to draw an underwater three-dimensional map showing the biological and geochemical composition of an ice-bound Antarctica lake may prove to be the ideal tool to search for life on other planets or moons where ice is known to exist. Peter Doran, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the lead investigator ... more
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