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Rocket rolled out for Korean astronaut's launch
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 6, 2008The Soyuz rocket due to take South Korea's first astronaut into space was rolled out of its hangar on Sunday as dawn broke over the steppes surrounding Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome. A locomotive dragged the 50-metre (160-foot) rocket bearing the South Korean and Russian flags to the same launch pad from which Soviet icon Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, blasted off on his historic mission ... more No Speed Limit On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008It's a good thing there's no speed limit on Mars, because the next parachute to fly to the red planet will deploy faster than you can legally drive on a California freeway! The chute is designed to slow the Mars Science Laboratory as it rockets through the Martian atmosphere at more than twice the speed of sound and places a car-size rover on the surface. At its carefully selected landing ... more Mars Rover Opportunity Completes Dental Checkup At Victoria Crater's Duck Bay 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2008Opportunity is wrapping up its scientific investigation of the outcrop exposure known as "Gilbert_A" at the bottom of the alcove known as "Duck Bay," the lowest traversable portion of the crater's interior. Duck Bay is a recess in the walls of "Victoria Crater." Opportunity performed a dental self-examination of teeth in the rover's rock abrasion tool on Sol 1482 (March 25, 2008). Images ... more Delving Into The Fine Structure Constant 
Manchester, UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Researchers at The University of Manchester have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant - and glimpse the foundations of the universe. The researchers from The School of Physics and Astronomy, led by Professor Andre Geim, have found that the world's thinnest material absorbs a well-defined fraction of visible light, which allows the direct determination of the ... more India to launch remote sensing satellite this month 
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 4, 2008India will later this month launch a remote sensing satellite equipped with high-resolution cameras and advanced scientific instruments, space agency officials said here Friday. Cartosat-2A, as the all-weather, reconnaissance satellite is called, will be used to plan urban and rural development projects. It can also be used for intelligence gathering, the officials said. "The tentative ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2008Spirit is feeling the strain of juggling activities on Mars in the face of declining power levels as the winter Sun sinks lower on the horizon. After acquiring compositional data from a rock target informally named "Wendell Pruitt," Spirit had to wait a few sols (Martian days) to have enough energy to conduct atmospheric studies and move the robotic arm out of the way for a panoramic-camera ... more Final LockMart GPS Satellite Is Readied For Shipment To Cape Canaveral 
King Of Prussia PA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008In a ceremony heralding the success of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System Block IIR modernization effort (GPS IIR-M), Lockheed Martin has announced it has completed work on the last satellite in the program constellation, which features a demonstration payload that will transmit the new civil signal, known as L5. Preparations are now underway to ship the satellite to Cape Canaveral ... more Budget Truck Rental To Offer GPS Navigation System 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Apr 07, 2008where2 Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices with guidance by Garmin are now available at Budget Truck Rental locations throughout the United States, making it the first consumer truck rental company to offer GPS devices. where2 is fully portable and can be used in any Budget truck, from cargo vans to 24' trucks, and with any type of rental, including one-way, local and ... more Free Apps Driving Mobile Content Use And Product Development 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Sophisticated free mobile applications including social networking, video and messaging products have firmly established themselves as mass market leaders, according to data from GetJar. With over 200 million applications downloaded from GetJar in the last two years alone, trends show that free application content is driving both product development and user activity across the mobile landscape. ... more Russia's Satellite Navigation System Delayed Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 07, 2008The council of chief designers responsible for commissioning Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) has said it will only become operational in late 2008, whereas the previous deadline was December 31, 2007. Something is obviously amiss in this ambitious project, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS). According to the Russian Space Agency ... more |
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Bucharest (AFP) April 4, 2008US President George W. Bush goes into summit talks this weekend with Russian leader Vladimir Putin armed with NATO's ringing endorsement of a Europe-based missile defense system that will be at the heart of their talks by the Black Sea. It remains to be seen if NATO's backing for the project -- vigorously opposed by Moscow -- will lead Putin to be more conciliatory at what will be his last ... more Analysis: China's nuke warhead stockpile 
Hong Kong (UPI) Apr 04, 2008 China's stockpile of nuclear warheads has increased sharply, with more DF-31A and JL-2 long-range strategic ballistic missiles entering service, giving it preliminary capability to engage in three-dimensional nuclear strikes upon opponent targets. The changes in the Chinese nuclear capability started in 1995, before which the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Force was often ... more Israel seeks to reassure neighbours over missile drill 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 6, 2008Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon on Sunday that Israel did not want a major missile attack drill to worsen tensions along its northern border. "The goal of the exercise is to check the authorities' ability to carry out their duties in times of emergency and for preparing the home front for different scenarios," Olmert told a weekly cabinet meeting. "There ... more Bush Scores Victory In BMD Plans For Europe Part One 
Washington (UPI) Apr 04, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush won big at the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, this week over his plan to build anti-ballistic missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. The plan has infuriated Russia, which claims that both the 10 Ground-Based Mid-course Interceptors to be deployed at a base in Poland and the advanced radar system to guide them from the neighboring ... more Solar Science Research Contradicts Climate Change Sceptics 
London UK (SPX) April 6, 2008 A British study casts doubt on the theory that global warming is caused by cosmic rays rather than human activity. Climate change skeptics argue that cutting carbon emissions is futile because they believe climate change is caused not by burning fossil fuels but by changes in cosmic rays that determine cloudiness and temperature. Physicist Terry Sloan of Lancaster University and ... more
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