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Orion Ignites The Dreams Of A Rocket Engineer
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 10, 2007Kelvin Manning has seen the space shuttles up close for about 15 years. Now he's excited about helping NASA give birth to a new spacecraft, one destined to go to the moon. The Orion capsule and its service module will take shape in the high bay of the Operations and Checkout Building a few feet from Manning's office and those of the Constellation Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... more X-Rays Provide A New Way To Investigate Exploding Stars 
Paris, France (ESA) May 10, 2007ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed a new class of exploding stars - where the X-ray emission 'lives fast and dies young'. The identification of this particular class of explosions gives astronomers a valuable new constraint to help them model and understand stellar explosions. Exploding stars called novae remain a puzzle to astronomers. "Modelling these outbursts is very diffi ... more Astronomers Make First Exoplanet Weather Map Of HD189733b 
Cambridge, MA (SPX) May 10, 2007Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds. One team of astronomers used the infrared telescope to map temperature variations over the surface of a giant, gas planet HD 189733b, revealing it likely is whipped by roaring winds. Another team determined that gas planet HD 149026b is the hottest yet discovered. Both findings a ... more Faster And Better Emergency Response Through Satellite Telecoms 
Paris, France (ESA) May 10, 2007When emergency teams are well informed and governments can coordinate their efforts, lives and property can be saved. The Health Early Warning System, a project supported by ESA, is intended to bring this benefit to Europe. Extreme natural phenomena like tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes have featured prominently in the news. So, too, has the rapid spread of new diseases such as SARS and avia ... more NASA And FAA Team Up To Encourage Aviation And Space Careers 
Washington (UPI) May 9, 2007NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration have agreed to cooperate in developing U.S. students' skills in science, technology, engineering and math. The agreement signed Wednesday supports the FAA's mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific d ... more |
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Bhubaneswar (AFP) India, May 9, 2007India on Wednesday successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a site in the eastern state of Orissa, defence sources said. The test of the Prithvi-1 (Earth 1) surface-to-surface missile took place at Chandipur-on-sea, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) northeast of Orissa's state capital Bhubaneswar. The 8.5-metre-long (28-foot) missile -- which can carry a one-tonne conven ... more Elbit Hermes 450 UAV Gets Civil Certification In Israel 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) May 10, 2007Elbit Systems Hermes 450 is the first UAV in Israel to receive a certification by civil aviation authorities. Lack of civil standardization for UAVs created a need to develop applicable legislation in Israel, and a special committee was established in order to test the UAV, its mode of operation and the UAV's producer. Elbit Systems is the first company to complete all the required procedures an ... more Revising The CFE Treaties To Counter ABM Doctrinal Changes 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 9, 2007U.S. forces in Europe are being rapidly decreased. In the late 1980s there were four divisions, plus one brigade in West Berlin and nine tactical wings of the U.S. Air Force. Now there are two divisions, one brigade and three wings; moreover, both divisions are actually not even in Germany but in Iraq. The United States has signed agreements on leasing some facilities in Bulgaria, Romania ... more First Named Storm Forms Ahead Of Atlantic Hurricane Season 
Miami (AFP) May 09, 2007Subtropical Storm Andrea formed off the southeastern US coast Wednesday, becoming the first named storm of the year three weeks before the Atlantic hurricane season officially starts. On Wednesday morning, the storm was 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Daytona Beach, Florida, and packed sustained winds of 75 kilometers (45 miles) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. ... more White House Denies Iraq War Hampers Home Rescue Efforts 
Washington (AFP) May 08, 2007The White House on Tuesday dismissed charges that the Iraq war effort had stripped the United States of resources needed to fight catastrophes at home in the wake of a devastating Kansas tornado. "I think they're separate issues... just as in a time of war, you know, the Pentagon plans for more than one conflict at a time, you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time," White House spo ... more |
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Littleton CO (SPX) May 10, 2007Ascent Solar Technologies has announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to develop an innovative flexible thin film tandem solar cell with the goal of demonstrating thin film photovoltaic efficiencies of 20%. Tandem solar cells are a combination of two cells stacked atop one another, with the top and bottom cells gathering energy from separate parts of the solar spectrum. T ... more Small Fuel Cells Market Thrives On Government Support And Demand For Reliable Backup Power 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 10, 2007Enhanced government support, power deficits, and advanced customer requirements are encouraging greater developments in the small fuel cells market. Recent inclement weather and government laws mandating the installation of environment-friendly systems are bolstering sales of small fuel cells. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, North American Small Fuel Cell Market reveals that the mark ... more Investors Moving Into Rapidly Expanding Solar Power Industry 
New York NY (SPX) May 10, 2007Demand for photovoltaic solar power, which directly converts the sun's radiation into electricity, is expected to grow by 40 per cent per year by 2011, offering opportunities for investors who can ride out near-term bumps, according to a new report from RBC Capital Markets, "Investing in Solar Now." "Solar industry profits are here to stay, since both public and government support are like ... more New Materials Might Revolutionize Hydrogen Storage 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 10, 2007Carnegie Mellon University's David S. Sholl is working to identify new materials that would help make hydrogen more stable and cost-efficient than fossil fuels. Increased concern about global warming and a need to conserve natural fuel sources prompted Carnegie Mellon researchers to find new, lightweight, low-cost hydrogen-storage materials. "We are currently studying the use of metal hydr ... more Papua New Guinea Islanders Drive Their Cars On Coconut Power 
Bougainville, PNG (ANI) May 10, 2007Residents of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have found an indigenous solution to high-energy prices, the ubiquitous tropical fruit, coconut. The islanders are developing mini-refineries to produce a coconut oil that can eventually replace diesel. Residents say, coconut oil has not only made them less dependant on expensive fuel, which had to be imported onto the island, enquiries about the fue ... more
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