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Another Russian Automated Space Truck Docks At Space Station
Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 16, 2007Cargo transport spacecraft Progress M-60 which was launched from the Baikonur launch site on May 12, 2007, after three days of free flight in a low Earth orbit, has docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft rendezvous with ISS, its fly-around, station-keeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The spacecraft approached the docking port on the Zvezda Service Module of ... more Leading Medical Institutes To Develop Collaborative Space Medicine Program 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 16, 2007A comprehensive space medicine resource for the entire civilian spaceflight industry is the focus of a memorandum of understanding that has been signed between Mayo Clinic in Arizona, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Wyle Laboratories. "Collectively, the partners will seek opportunities and develop mutual agreements to provide medical assessment and screening ... more Not Enough Hours In The Day Then Look To Mars 
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2007Scientists have proved it is possible to pack another hour into the day in a study which could help prepare humans for life on Mars. Using bright, fluorescent lights, researchers artificially lengthened the days for 12 people who agreed to spend 65 days living in individual rooms without windows, clocks or any other clues as to the time in the outside world. ... more Industry Leaders Call On Congress To Boost NASA Budget 
Washington DC (SPX) May 16, 2007An unprecedented coalition of nearly two dozen U.S. aerospace corporations told the Congress on Friday, May 11, that NASA is in urgent need of a boost to its fiscal year 2008 budget or America's space leadership could be lost for a generation. The group, which includes the chairmen, presidents and chief executives of such industry giants as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Ray ... more Loral Satellites Built For For Globalstar Ready For Launch 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 16, 2007Four satellites built by Space Systems/Loral for Globalstar are ready for launch later this month on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The four Globalstar satellites, which were manufactured by prime contractor Space Systems/Loral and a consortium of partners and subcontractors, were completed as ground spares in 2002 and placed in storage at SS/L's flight ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 14, 2007Was last week's congressional compromise on U.S. ballistic missile defense funding a disastrous defeat for the program, or was it a resounding victory for ensuring the survival and continued funding of key programs? Was it a bitter, short-sighted bipartisan fight of the kind that gives Congress a bad name? Or was it a triumph for constructive bipartisanship that forged a new and likely lasting c ... more New Generation Of UAVs Could Borrow A Few Secrets From Bats 
Washington (ANI) May 16, 2007Scientists are planning a Batmobile aircraft designed on the bats' flight mannerism. Unlike a bird's feathers, bats' wings are made of bone and membrane and change shape with every stroke, which allows greater manoeuvrability and lift during flight. "Bats are agile hunters, capable of complex manoeuvres through cluttered environments. These are the traits we'd like our unmanned air vehicle ... more Australian Capital Faces Water Cuts 
Canberra (AFP) May 15, 2007The gardens gracing Australia's capital could soon be condemned to death by water restrictions as the country's worst drought in living memory bites deeper, an official said Tuesday. Canberra, where the roof of the federal parliament is covered with green lawn, will face the harshest possible cutbacks in water usage by July if it does not rain. The "stage four" restrictions could be impose ... more NASA Finds Vast Regions Of West Antarctica Melted In Recent Past 
Boulder CO (SPX) May 16, 2007A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. This was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA's QuikScat satellite and the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades. Combined, the affected regions encompassed an a ... more Using Soil To Lock Up Carbon Could Help Offset Global Warming 
Ithica NY (SPX) May 16, 2007Writing in the May 10 issue of the journal Nature, a Cornell biogeochemist describes an economical and efficient way to help offset global warming: Pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by charring, or partially burning, trees, grasses or crop residues without the use of oxygen. This process, he writes, would double the carbon concentration in the residue, which could be returned to the soil ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 16, 2007Russia's mineral resources watchdog said Tuesday it will ask the American Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to provide estimates of Russia's hydrocarbon reserves according to SPE procedures. The Federal Agency for the Management of Mineral Resources said it is primarily interested in estimates of reserves in areas without transport infrastructure. The regulator said earlier some foreign ... more Russia To Build Nuclear Centre In Sanctions-Hit Myanmar 
Moscow (AFP) May 15, 2007Russia said Tuesday it had agreed to help build a nuclear research centre in Myanmar, the Asian state run by a military junta that is under European and US economic sanctions. "The agreement foresees cooperation in the design and equipping of a centre for nuclear research in Myanmar," including a small light-water nuclear reactor, Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom said in a statement. ... more The Driving Force Behind Electric Vehicles 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 16, 2007Cultural differences between countries run right to the heart of government, thereby influencing technological innovation. This is reported in a comparative study by David Calef and Robert Goble published recently in the journal Policy Sciences. The authors outline efforts taken throughout the 1990s by both the US and French governments to adopt legislation fostering technological innovation to ... more Researchers Identify Compounds When Making Cellulosic Ethanol 
Waco, TX (SPX) May 16, 2007As cellulosic ethanol becomes more and more a front-runner to help reduce the country's "addiction to oil," the high cost of producing it still stands as one of the major hurdles. But now, Baylor University researchers have identified about 40 different compounds created in the pre-treatment step when making cellulosic ethanol that could be responsible for restricting the fermenting process, whi ... more Sandia Invention To Make Parabolic Trough Solar Collector Systems More Energy Efficient 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 16, 2007A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient. Diver's new theoretical overlay photographic (TOP) technology is drawing interest from the solar industry because of its simplicity and the need to find solutions for gl ... more
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