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Kelly Space And Technology Opens East Coast Operation In Rhode Island
San Bernardino CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Kelly Space and Technology has announced it is establishing an East Coast Operation in Rhode Island. To capitalize on the successful progress being made with its lightweight ballistic protection armor technology at its Aerospace Research and Development Center, Kelly Space is seeking to commercialize this technology for watercraft applications. "Rhode Island's great marine and defense ... more New Russian Telecoms Satellite Starts Work 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Russia's new Express-AM33 telecommunications satellite that was orbited in late January has started operations, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said on Tuesday. The satellite, designed by the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Science and Production Association to provide TV and satellite communications all over Russia, was launched on board a Proton-M carrier rocket from the ... more Russia To Build New Space Center In The Far East 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008In January, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that 2008 would be a "landmark year for Russian cosmonautics". Now the Russian Security Council, which met in Moscow under President Putin's chairmanship on April 11, ahead of Cosmonautics Day, has defined where that landmark will be. The Council said that the key program of Russia's space industry (at least as regards ground ... more C/NOFS Satellite Built By General Dynamics Successfully Launched From Reagan Test Site 
Gilbert AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. C/NOFS is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) mission that will ... more Russia Continues Flight Simulation Experiments For Mars-500 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Four volunteers will spend ten days in a compression chamber with a reduced oxygen level as preparation for Mars-500, a Russian ground-based experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. A spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Issues, which runs the project, said that four healthy men will be held in a chamber with the pressure equivalent to being five meters ... more |
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Boston, April 17, 2008 U.S. scientists say they've created a unique metamaterial that can be tuned over a range of frequencies in the so-called "terahertz gap." The team of researchers from Boston College, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University said they incorporated semiconducting materials in critical regions of tiny metallic split-ring resonators that interact with light in order to tune ... more Boeing Awarded Launch Services Contract For Second WorldView Satellite 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Boeing, through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe's second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle. DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products. Boeing successfully launched the first satellite in the series, WorldView ... more German whizzkid got it wrong: NASA 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday. The agency, sounding a bit like a weary math ... more B-SAT Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For BSAT-3b Satellite 
Newtown PA (SPX) Apr 16, 2008Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan to build its next geostationary telecommunications satellite. Designated BSAT-3b, the satellite will provide high-definition (HD) direct broadcast services throughout Japan following its scheduled launch the third quarter of 2010 aboard an Arianespace launch vehicle. BSAT-3b will ... more MyAthlete Successfully Tests GTX's gpVector Real-Time GPS Tracking Platform 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2008MyAthlete announces it has successfully tested beta production units from GTX on the Boston Marathon course. Please visit the web site for images of the test tracking results. The MyAthlete GPS platform gives the interested spectator a view of their favorite athlete every step of the way along the arduous marathon course. John Brennan, the president of MyAthlete, has also announced that T ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Raytheon is developing transmit-receive modules based on the advanced semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) for use in future radar upgrades. "This transmit-receive module demonstration and parallel reliability testing show that GaN will soon be ready to take over where increased power and advanced capabilities are needed," said Mark Russell, vice president of Engineering at Raytheon Integrated ... more Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal For GOES-R To NASA 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008As Northrop Grumman prepares to observe the sixth anniversary of excellent on-orbit performance of NASA's Aqua spacecraft, the company announced it has submitted a proposal to NASA to design and develop the next generation of satellites that will continuously monitor the earth and its environment from a geostationary orbit. Northrop Grumman's proposal for the Geostationary Environmental ... more More Power Means Better Warfighter Support 
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2008by Ed White br>Air Force Space Command Public Affairs A new satellite is circling the Earth. The Wideband Global SATCOM satellite is a reality. This is the most powerful communications satellite in the Department of Defense inventory. It is the first of six satellites that will take over long-haul communications from the legacy constellation, the Defense Satellite Communications System. WGS ... more LockMart Delivers Key Ground Software For Space-Based Missile Warning System 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2008The Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered two key blocks of ground software integral to supporting the program's geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and highly elliptical orbit (HEO) constellation. SBIRS is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other missions including missile defense, technical ... more Olmert says Iran will never be a nuclear power 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 17, 2008Iran will never become a nuclear power, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Thursday as saying, as Iran's president was proclaiming his country the "most powerful nation" on earth. "I can say... that, to my knowledge, and on the basis of what I know and read, I believe the efforts of the international community will succeed, and that Iran will not become a nuclear power," he ... more
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