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ISRO Planning To Launch Satellite To Study The Sun
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2008In the midst of the buzz about Chandrayaan, the moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite to study the sun. 'Aditya' should be up in space by 2012 to study the dynamic solar corona, the outermost region of the sun. This fiery region has temperatures of over one million degrees, with raging solar winds that reach a velocity of up to 1000 km a se ... more SPACEHAB Subsidiary Wins NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Contract 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 18, 2008SPACEHAB has announced that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has won an additional fully funded task order under the recently awarded Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The Company will provide facilities and payload processing services, from its VAFB location, in support of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission, schedul ... more Russia To Launch Two Telecom Satellites On Jan 28 And Feb 10 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2008Russia is to launch two communication satellites in the coming weeks from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a leading Russian space company said on Thursday. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said the Proton-M rocket, carrying an Express-AM33 satellite, was on schedule for take-off on January 28. The Express-AM33 was designed by the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Scie ... more Classroom Scientists Shoot For Space 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 18, 2008British space engineering trailblazer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) are challenging teams of 14-18 year olds to fly a lunch-box-sized experiment on a future space mission, supported by expert scientists and engineers. SSTL builds small but powerful satellites using component technologies found in laptops, digital cameras and mobile ... more Radical New Lab Fights Disease Using Satellites 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2008A group of atmospheric research scientists at NASA's National Space Science and Technology Center felt a little like they were in a foreign country when they first met with University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Public Health representatives to discuss an unusual partnership. "When we first got together, it was as if we were speaking entirely different languages," says NASA's Dale Quatt ... more |
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Warsaw (AFP) Jan 17, 2008Poland is waiting for the United States to respond to its request for extra security guarantees should it agree to host a controversial US missile shield, the Polish defence minister said Thursday. "The Americans know our expectations. We are waiting for a response," Bogdan Klich told reporters in Warsaw. Klich described as "promising" his recent talks in Washington with State Department ... more US, Iran vie for Chinese support on nuclear issue 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2008A top US diplomat urged China on Thursday to back a new UN resolution against Iran over its nuclear programme, as Tehran's top atomic negotiator arrived in Beijing to lobby against such a move. Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte told reporters in Beijing he would raise the issue in a high-level meeting in southwest China's Guizhou province, which began late Thursday. T ... more General Kehler Says AFSPC Has Been Entrusted With A National Mission 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008For the first time in his short tenure as commander of Air Force Space Command, Gen. Robert Kehler walked off a plane Jan. 8 on the Vandenberg flight line and took a stroll down memory lane. The former 30th Space Wing commander was back at Vandenberg to hold a commander's call as well as participate in the promotion ceremony of Lt. Gen. William Shelton, commander of the Joint Functional Componen ... more Israel test-fires ballistic missile after Iran warning 
Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 17, 2008Israel successfully test-fired a long-range ballistic missile on Thursday, a senior official told AFP, days after warning "all options" were open to prevent archfoe Iran from obtaining atomic weapons. "We successfully test-fired a two-staged ballistic missile system today," a senior defence ministry official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This was a very important achieve ... more BAE Systems Delivers UAV Target Detection Systems To US Army 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2008BAE Systems has delivered five target detection systems to the U.S. Army for use on Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The AURORA Generation IV remote sensing system will provide U.S. forces with precise detection and identification of potential threats, increasing mission capability and survivability. AURORA is an ultra-lightweight, compact, wide-area surveillance system. It combines ... more |
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Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go. The ... more Dallas Judge Reverses Jury Verdict, Awards TXU Nothing In Dispute Over Wind Energy 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 18, 2008In a court battle closely watched by the growing wind energy industry, a Dallas judge has reversed an earlier jury verdict and ruled that Dallas-based TXU Corp. is not entitled to any damages in a contract dispute with major wind farm operator FPL Energy. The dispute centered on claims that Florida-based FPL Energy had not supplied levels of wind energy from three West Texas wind farms as agreed ... more Babcock And Brown Acquires Seven US Wind Farms Under Development 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008International investment and specialized fund and asset management group Babcock and Brown, a leading wind energy developer and operator, announced it has acquired seven Midwestern wind energy projects, under various stages of development, from Gamesa Energy USA and Navitas Energy, a subsidiary of Gamesa. The seven wind energy projects, totaling more than 750 megawatts (MW), enough to powe ... more GE Unit Boosts 2010 Renewable Energy Investing Target, Announces Its Largest Wind Deal 
Stamford CT (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Reinforcing GE's ecomagination program, GE Energy Financial Services announced that it has raised its 2010 renewable energy investing target by 50 percent to $6 billion, and has just topped $3 billion. GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, crossed the $3 billion mark with its single highest-value wind deal, a $300 million investment in wind projects spanning four states. GE Energy Fi ... more Unconventional Natural Gas Reservoir In Pennsylvania Poised To Dramatically Increase US Production 
Union Town PA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal drilling techniques, according to a Penn State and State University of New York, Fredonia, team. "The value of this science could increment the net worth of U.S. energy resources by a tri ... more
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