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Korean space launch inspires ethnic kin in Central Asia
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008As South Korea's first astronaut roars into space on Tuesday one group of overlooked fans will be staring up from this remote ex-Soviet territory with special enthusiasm: ethnic Koreans. If Yi So-Yeon represents everything that is youthful and optimistic about her homeland, the ethnic Koreans resident around Baikonur cosmodrome are testimony to a painful period of uprooting and hardship unde ... more Visting Mars, Again And Again 
Mpffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008Mars is preparing for an invasion from Earth. The rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still traveling across the surface of the Red Planet, but NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to send more missions over the next few years. First up is the Mars Phoenix lander. Launched last year, this mission is due to arrive near the Martian north pole on May 25. The lander won't be able to ... more TDRS-1 Satellite Reaches 25 Years Of Age 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The first of six Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman completed 25 years of successful on-orbit operations on April 4, setting a new standard for long life and reliability. Enhancing earth-to-space communications for a quarter of a century, the TDRS-1 satellite tracks and communicates with low-Earth-orbiting satellites. Altogether, TDRS-1 ... more Progress M-63 Successfully Buried In South Pacific 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008Russia's Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully 'buried' on Monday at a spaceship cemetery in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman said. "Having partly burned up in the Earth's dense atmosphere, Progress ended its existence in the designated area in the southern Pacific," the spokesman said. In February, Progress M-63 delivered 2.5 metric tons of cargo, including food ... more IU Asteroid Program Records Final Chapter 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever seen. The program -- launched in 1949 by Hoosier astronomy legend Frank Edmondson -- aimed to ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Apr 08, 2008XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes shaping galaxies during their formation and evolution. Scientists working with XMM-Newton were looking into the furthest reaches of the universe, at celestial objects called quasars. These are vast ... more Aerojet And Orbital Test Next Gen Safety System For NASA's Orion Program 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008Aerojet and Orbital Sciences have announced that together the two companies successfully conducted a static firing of the jettison motor, a key component of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA's Orion next generation human spaceflight program. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the Orion project, which is part of NASA's Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon ... more Alanco/TSI PRISM And NEC Australia Partner For Inmate Tracking System 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Alanco Technologies has announced that NEC Australia has commenced installation of a Wi-Fi compatible TSI PRISM RFID inmate tracking system at the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison in Canberra, Australia. NEC secured its first sale of TSI PRISM technology pursuant to a multi-year exclusive agreement between Alanco/TSI PRISM and NEC. Under the terms of the agreement, NEC has incorporated ... more GPS Technology Helps Cut Down Fuel Costs And Pollution 
Plano TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2008According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), motor vehicles are responsible for nearly one half of smog-forming volatile organic compounds, more than half of the nitrogen oxide emissions, and about half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the United States. Motor vehicles, including non-road vehicles, now account for 75% of carbon monoxide emissions nationwide. While ... more Russia's Satellite Navigation Market May Be Worth 6 billion Dollars By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008Russia's satellite navigation services market will be worth 160 billion rubles ($6.6 billion) by 2015, the general director of the Russian Institute of Radio Navigation said on Monday. Sergei Pisarev said Glonass users would make up around 7% of Russia's population. Glonass is the acronym for the Global Navigation Satellite System, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System ... more |
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Washington, April 7, 2008 The prospects for building the Bush administration's planned ballistic-missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic now look much brighter because of dramatic and unanticipated domestic political developments within the United States. As we have documented in previous BMD Focus columns, the Democrat-controlled 110th Congress has forged an unexpectedly robust coalition to ... more Saab Signs GIRAFFE AMB Multi Mission Radar Contract 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Saab has signed a contract for delivery of five GIRAFFE systems to prime contractor Lockheed Martin UK - INSYS, for the United Kingdom. The contract value for Saab is in the region of GBP 30 million. "We are pleased to be awarded this contract after a very thorough evaluation process. This contract shows the strong position of the GIRAFFE AMB system on the world market" says Lennart Joelss ... more Walker's World: Bush's last summit 
Washington, April 7, 2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a man to wear his heart on his sleeve. He is matter of fact and businesslike, adept at concealing his emotions and sticking to the point. So the occasional touches of a rare warmth on display in his farewell news conference Sunday with his American counterpart, the man he calls "George," were noteworthy. It is not as though this meeting was farewell ... more US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration 
Sochi, Russia (SPX) Apr 07, 2008The United States and Russia, in their Joint Declaration of May 24, 2002, have reaffirmed that the era in which the United States and Russia considered one another an enemy or strategic threat has ended. We reject the zero-sum thinking of the Cold War when "what was good for Russia was bad for America" and vice versa. Rather, we are dedicated to working together and with other nations to a ... more Possible Link Found Between Earthquakes Along The Cascadia And San Andreas Faults 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Seismic activity on the southern Cascadia Subduction fault may have triggered major earthquakes along the northern San Andreas Fault, according to new research published by the Bulletin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA). The research refines the recurrence rate for the southern portion of the Cascadia fault to approximately every 220 years for the last 3000 years. Chris Goldfinger ... more
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