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UMaine Engineering Team To Test Inflatable Habitats For NASA Moon Mission
Orono ME (SPX) Apr 04, 2008NASA faces many challenges in its quest to establish a colony on the moon by 2020, and providing suitable shelter for the next generation of space explorers is at the top of the list. An inflatable lunar habitat, one of several concepts now on the drawing boards, must be lightweight and flexible enough to minimize packaging size and transportation costs. Once deployed, the expanded structure ... more Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 04, 2008Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behind omega Centauri's peculiarities may be a black hole hidden in its centre. One implication of the discovery is that it is very likely that omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but ... more CUSat - Student-Built, Identical-Twin Satellite System Ready For Launch 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Cornell University's CUSat - a student-built, identical-twin satellite system designed to separate so that one twin can obtain three-dimensional images of the other - is one of the three finalists for a June launch from the SpaceX launch complex in the Central Pacific Marshall Islands. Cornell has built the pair of satellites with funding from the Air Force's University Nanosatellite ... more Northrop Grumman Awarded Five Study Contracts For NextGen Astronomy Missions 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Northrop Grumman is a partner on five contracts awarded by NASA to investigate concepts for next-generation space telescopes. The concepts include a powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, three planet finding missions, and a futuristic x-ray space telescope. The study results will be submitted for consideration to the scientific community during the upcoming National Academy of ... more Boeing And Orion Propulsion Sign NASA Mentor-Protege Agreement 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Boeing and Orion Propulsion have signed a government-sponsored Mentor-Protege agreement to work together on NASA's Ares I rocket, which will transport astronauts into space after the space shuttle retires. The one-year agreement was signed today at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and marks the first Mentor-Protege agreement in 2008 in support of a major NASA contract. The ... more |
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Thalwil, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 04, 2008u-blox has introduced the LEA-5T, a high performance, precision timing GPS module capable of a (compensated) time pulse accuracy of up to 15 ns. Needing just one satellite to operate, the LEA-5T is a cost-efficient, compact and easy-to-integrate solution ideally suited for telecom network synchronization such as UMTS, CDMA or the Chinese TD-CDMA, as well as for applications that need time-accurate ... more Socialight Partners With Organic To Launch Urban Mixtape Project 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Organic and Socialight have announced a partnership to create "The Urban Mixtape", helping people explore their cities in an entirely new way. The initiative, which leverages Socialight's open platform that brings together user-generated and editorial information about places, is another small step in the evolution of the geospatial web, allowing people to access information and content when and ... more Garmin Mobile To Offer New Features On BlackBerry, Symbian And Windows Mobile Smartphones 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Garmin International has announced upgrades to Garmin Mobile that include a new user-friendly interface and Google Local search. These upgrades will be available on a variety of handsets and platforms including BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. These new features are in addition to a long list of rich features and real-time content included with Garmin Mobile's current subscription ... more AT And T Navigator Helps You Find Your Way 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 04, 2008For any one who is constantly on the go but sometimes not quite sure where to go or how to get there, AT and T Navigator is here to pave the way. AT and T has announced the immediate availability of its company-branded GPS-enabled navigation service, AT and T Navigator. AT and T Navigator is designed to provide you with clear and precise audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions ... more NATO orders missile study, urges Russia to link up defences 
Bucharest (AFP) April 3, 2008NATO leaders ordered experts Thursday to draw up options for a missile system that would complement the US anti-missile shield and provide cover to some allies left out in the cold, a statement said. They also urged Russia to consider linking up its missile defences to the US shield -- despite Moscow's hostility towards it -- and to the system the alliance plans to develop. The leaders ... more |
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Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Apr 04, 2008The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on the part of the Y chromosome that does not undergo recombination to significantly update and refine the Y chromosome haplogroup tree. The print version of this work will ... more Fight against global warming need not dent growth: IMF 
Washington (AFP) April 3, 2008The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was possible to fight global warming without negatively impacting economic growth. "Climate change is a potentially catastrophic global externality and one of the world's greatest collective action problems," the IMF said in releasing analytical chapters of its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook. To curb global warming, the IMF suggest ... more Extreme weather starving Uganda's pastoralists 
Lokupoi, Uganda (AFP) April 3, 2008John Lochaon does not just survive on less than one dollar a day. He has streched out 15 dollars for nine months in a part of Uganda that climate change is plunging into famine. Lochaon has been unable to make a living because he lives in Karamoja, one of the driest and least developed areas in this east African country and one with a lack of infrastructure and basic services. Drought ... more Scientists Learn Barrier To Earthquakes Weaker Than Expected 
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2008On the one year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands that killed 52 people and displaced more than 6,000, scientists are revising their understanding of the potential for similar giant earthquakes in other parts of the globe. Geoscientists from The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and their colleagues report this week that ... more Researchers Perform Multi-Century High-Resolution Climate Simulations 
Livermore CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Using state-of-the-art supercomputers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientists have performed a 400-year high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere simulation with results that are more similar to actual observations of surface winds and sea surface temperatures. The research, led by LLNL atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala, appears in the April 1 edition of the Journal ... more
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