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Canada rejects sale of space firm to US defense firm
Ottawa (AFP) April 10, 2008Canada's industry minister on Thursday blocked the sale of leading space firm MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to a US defense contractor, as some feared a major setback in Canada's space capabilities. A spokeswoman for Industry Minister Jim Prentice said in an email, the minister "is not satisfied that the proposed sale of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. to ATK is likely to be of ... more SES Americom Orders Additional Spacecraft From Orbital Sciences 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Apr 10, 2008SES Americom and Orbital Sciences have announced the order of a third spacecraft under the multi-satellite contract both companies announced in May 2007. Under this contract, the first and second satellites ordered were AMC-5R and a ground spare. That ground spare will now become AMC-1R, and a new ground spare will be produced for a future use. Planned for launch in the second half of 2009 ... more US Senator Calls For Space-Based Interceptor Missiles 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2008United States Senator Wayne Allard has called for interceptor missiles to be deployed on satellites in permanent orbit, so that the U.S. can rapidly respond to threats anywhere on Earth. Washington has not given serious consideration to deploying weapons in space since the Strategic Defense Initiative proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, nicknamed Star Wars. The idea was finally scrapped ... more Ball Aerospace GFO Satellite Begins Eleventh Year On Orbit 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The Ball Aerospace and Technologies operational altimeter satellite, GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO), has achieved 10 years of successful on orbit operation, providing continuous worldwide oceanographic data for ships at sea and the Navy's shore-based facilities. GFO, launched in February 1998, was the first real-time, radar altimeter satellite built for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems ... more Boeing And TEAM TSAT Confirm Readiness Of Advanced Satellite Electronics 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Boeing and its TEAM TSAT industry partners have successfully demonstrated the readiness of the advanced electronics that will be used in the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT). Tests of the TSAT Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) demonstrated the microchip's functionality, speed and suitability for spaceflight. The tests, completed in late 2007 at Texas A ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Spanish and UCL (University College London) scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation of Leo. The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, has a mass five times that of our planet but is the smallest found to date. One full day on the new planet would be equivalent to three weeks on Earth. The team of as ... more Russia To Conduct 28 Space Launches From Baikonur In 2008 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2008The number of spacecraft to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will increase 33%, year-on-year, in 2008 to a total of 28, the local mayor said on Tuesday. Baikonur, built in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, was first leased by Russia from Kazakhstan under an agreement signed in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian officials have repeatedly said Russia will continue ... more NASA Awards Contract For Engine Technology Development 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 10, 2008NASA has awarded a contract to Aerojet-General of Sacramento, Calif., to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate a workhorse rocket engine using liquid oxygen and liquid methane as propellants. Aerojet will work for 21 months from the effective date of the contract to complete an evaluation of the rocket engine assembly, a 5,500 pound constant-thrust, pressure-fed rocket engine. This ... more RIT Team Simulates First Merger Of Three Black Holes On A Supercomputer 
Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision. Manuela Campanelli, Carlos Lousto and Yosef Zlochower-scientists in Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation-simulated triplet black holes to test their break ... more Cargo Container Security: According to ABI Research, Its Not One Size Fits All 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 11, 2008Tracking of cargo containers and their contents from departure to delivery has clear benefits for the industrial and transportation sectors: increased visibility and security of goods in transit. A further potential benefit - greater public safety and security - is a subject of debate. But it is frequently true that combinations of the three available tracking technologies, rather than any one i ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 10, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart General Liang Guanglie used a new telephone hotline Thursday between the US and Chinese defense ministries for the first time, the Pentagon said. Gates and Liang spoke to each other for about 30 minutes over the direct telephone link, said Major Stuart Upton, a Pentagon spokesman. Upton said Gates used the call to urge China ... more Raytheon Wins Contract For Radar-Jamming Variant Of It's Miniature Air Launched Decoy 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 11, 2008Raytheon was awarded an $80 million U.S. Air Force contract March 31 for Phase II risk reduction of a radar-jamming variant of its Miniature Air Launched Decoy. MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost flight vehicle that is modular, air-launched and programmable. It weighs fewer than 300 pounds and has a range of approximately 500 nautical miles (about 575 statute miles). The new variant ... more Thompson Files: Seeing JSTARS 
Arlington, Va., April 8, 2008 What's wrong with this picture? The U.S. Air Force plans to spend more than $100 billion to buy 2,000 new fighters, but it can't find the money to upgrade a handful of radar planes with better technology for tracking insurgents -- even though it has already spent $1 billion to develop the new technology it now says it can't afford to install. And even though warfighters in Iraq have identified ... more Reservoir flooding starts at largest Lao dam 
Hanoi (AFP) April 10, 2008Dam builders in Laos on Thursday started flooding the 450-square kilometre (175 square mile) reservoir for what will be the country's largest infrastructure project, Lao officials said. The World Bank-backed Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydropower project, which displaces 6,200 villagers, is set to start operation in December 2009 with a generating capacity of 1,070 megawatts, 95 percent of it for ... more Low-Carbon Living Takes Off In The US 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Cohousing offers a low-carbon lifestyle, and developers are poised for a market that could soon burgeon in the US, according to a new study. Until now, cohousing has occupied a niche market in the US, but the paper by Dr Jo Williams at UCL (University College London) suggests the situation is changing. Cohousing not only helps to halve energy use, it offers health and social benefits for families ... more
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