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Data From Chinese Lunar Orbiter Available To All
Shanghai (XNA) Dec 04, 2007Scientists and astronomy enthusiasts all over the country all have access to data sent back from China's first lunar orbiter Chang'e-I, a leading scientist in the program said here Sunday. Ouyang Ziyuan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and chief scientist of the lunar exploration program, said at present the scientific instruments on board Chang'e-1 have all gone into operat ... more Dark Matter In Newborn Universe Doused Earliest Stars 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible "dark stars" 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of mysterious dark matter, a University of Utah study concludes. The study - to be published next month in the journal Physical Review Letters - calculated how the birth of the first stars almost 13 billion years ago might ... more Northrop Grumman Starts Integration And Test On LCROSS Spacecraft 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2007The satellite that will impact the Moon in 2009 in a search for water has started to come together in a manufacturing high bay at Northrop Grumman's Space Technology sector. The company is building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) under contract to NASA Ames Research Center. Integration and test (I and T) on LCROSS started with preparations for installation of el ... more MU Engineers Develop Software Solution For Complex Space Missions 
Columbia MO (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of the solar system requires extensive planning. At the University of Missouri, engineers have developed an efficient and highly sophisticated mathematical algorithm (implemented as software) that determines the most efficient path for a spacecraft's journey from point A to point B - no matter how many worlds or years away. In testing and ... more Spirit Breaks Free In Race For Survival 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2007In typical unflagging fashion, Spirit has managed to break free of piles of soil built up around the wheels in a low, sandy area that the rover's handlers have nicknamed "Tartarus," after a deep, underworld dungeon in Greek mythology. Team members are pulling out all the stops to get Spirit to a winter location where, based on solar power projections, the rover has a chance at survival. As ... more |
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New Delhi (PTI) Dec 04, 2007The launch of Israel's spy satellite by the Indian Space Resource Organisation (ISRO) is facing "technical difficulties" and will be rescheduled for launch once these are overcome, agency officials have reporterd. "We are facing some technical difficulties. Once we overcome these, the launch will be scheduled," ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. TechSAR, Israel's first synthetic aperture ... more NGA And Lockheed Martin Work To Improve Delivery Of Geospatial Data To Users 
Herndon VA (SPX) Dec 04, 2007The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Lockheed Martin are working to streamline and speed the delivery of critical maps, imagery and other geospatial data to users worldwide. The Demand-Based Geospatial Intelligence (DBGI) program is an automated supply chain management system that allows users to request and access geospatial data in the format and delivery method of their choos ... more Boeing Submits Proposal To USAF For Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Boeing has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the development of a next-generation Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) that will help improve the accuracy and realism of joint service test and training activities. CRIIS sets a new standard for time-space-position information, or TSPI, replacing the Advanced Range Data System developed in the 1980s. Through CR ... more Behind the Kitty Hawk spat 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 3, 2007 Ever since former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui put forward his two-state theory in 1996 -- implying that Taiwan and China were separate states -- the U.S. aircraft carrier battle group has quickly made an appearance in Hong Kong whenever tensions arose in the Taiwan Strait. The appearance of the USS Kitty Hawk has marked particularly significant occasions, compared with visits by other ... more India nuclear submarine ready by 2009: navy chief 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 3, 2007An Indian-built nuclear-powered submarine will be ready for sea trials in two years, and the navy has ordered 32 new warships, naval chief Sureesh Mehta said. India, which carried out a string of nuclear tests in 1998, has already built ballistic missiles for its army and configured warjets to carry such weapons. "Our scientists have confirmed that they would have the advance technology ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2007About a decade ago, Johns Hopkins University geologist Bruce Marsh challenged the century-old concept that the Earth's outer layer formed when crystal-free molten rock called magma oozed to the surface from giant subterranean chambers hidden beneath volcanoes. Marsh's theory - that the deep-seated plumbing underneath volcanoes is actually made up of an extensive system of smaller sheet-lik ... more Special Research Methods Find Ancient Maya Marketplace 
Provo UT (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Coaxing answers from 1500-year-old clues hidden in soil clumps, a team of archaeologists and environmental scientists identified a marketplace in an ancient Maya city, calling into question archaeologists' widely held belief that people of the era relied on rulers to tax and re-distribute goods, rather than trading them with one another. As reported in the December issue of Latin American ... more Mapmaking For The Masses 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Websites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information while Google Earth is encouraging individuals to develop appplications using their own data. According to Michael Goodchild from the University of California in Santa Barbara, 'volunteered geographic information' has the potential to be a significant source of geographers ... more WHRC Releases 4 Key Reports 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Dec 04, 2007As UNFCCC negotiations move towards a powerful new mechanism for compensating tropical countries for their nation-wide reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), several important questions remain: How much will REDD cost? Will it benefit forest people? Is it possible to monitor forests when so many countries are chronically covered with clouds? ... more Asian meet looks to confront water crises 
Beppu, Japan (AFP) Dec 3, 2007Asian nations came together Monday for a first "water summit" to plan action amid warnings of a dire situation with water resources shrinking and natural disasters on the rise. The 49-nation conference in Beppu, a southern Japanese town famed for natural hot springs, comes amid growing concern that climate change is aggravating water-related incidents in Asia and elsewhere. Japan's Crown ... more
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