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SpaceX Conducts Full Thrust Firing Of Falcon 9 Rocket
Mcgregor TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Space Exploration Technologies has conducted the first nine engine firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on July 30th. A second firing on August 1st completed a major NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) milestone almost two months early. At full power, the nine engines consumed 3,200 lbs of fuel and liquid oxygen per second ... more Satgate Contracts Four Transponders At New SES ASTRA Orbital Position 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Aug 05, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that, via its Nordic affiliate SES SIRIUS, it has contracted four transponders on its new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to the Lithuanian satellite services provider SatGate. SatGate is using the capacity to provide broadband and internet connectivity to households and end customers in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and its neighbouring countries and the ... more Proton Launch With Inmarsat Satellite Delayed 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The launch of a Proton M Breeze M vehicle with the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite has been delayed to allow time to replace and retest a launcher electrical component. During prelaunch testing in Baikonur, a problem was discovered with the flight computer on the Breeze M upper stage. The vendor-supplied flight computer was replaced over the weekend. To ensure mission success, Khrunichev ... more NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy. Within the last month, two samples have been analyzed by the Wet Chemistry Lab of the spacecraft's Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer, or MECA, suggesting one of the soil ... more First Contact 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Astrobiology Magazine presents another 'Gedanken', or thought experiment - musings on scientific mysteries in a series of "what if" scenarios. Gedanken experiments, which have been used by scientists and philosophers to ponder thorny problems, rely on the power of one's imagination to project these scenarios to logical conclusions. They usually do not involve lab equipment or even experiment ... more |
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Durham NH (SPX) Aug 05, 2008University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks ever tagged in New England. The 700 - 800-pound leatherback turtles, an endangered species, were tagged July 17, 26 and 29 with GPS-linked satellite tags that transmit nearly real-time tracking data, allowing scientists to better ... more Mobile Social Networking Global Revenues Over 3 Billion Dollars By 2013 
London, UK (SPX) Aug 05, 2008London, UK (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings. ... more GyPSii Social Networking Goes Mobile In China On Ramar Phones 
Salo, Finland (SPX) Aug 05, 2008GeoSentric Oyj's has announced an agreement with Chinese mobile handset company Ramar International Co. Ltd. Launching into one of the world's fastest growing mobile marketplaces, Ramar will embed the GyPSii location and social networking application on the forthcoming range of "amsam" Windows Mobile devices, delivering a new range of location-based features and services to consumers. ... more ISRO And IIT Kanpur To Develop Micro Satellite 
Kanpur, India (PTI) Aug 05, 2008In an effort to enhance the flow of information pertaining to disaster management, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is all set to develop a micro satellite in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). ISRO has in principle given clearance to the project and IIT scientists will visit ISRO, Bangalore later this month for the final commitment. "We have ... more Hubble Space Telescope Passes 100 000 Orbits On August 11 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The odometer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is about to turn over 100,000. That's not 100,000 miles but the number of orbits it has made around Earth since it was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. To remain in orbit the spacecraft zooms along at nearly five miles per second. So Hubble's actual odometer mileage is approximately 2.72 billion miles ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008When high school and college students around the country are toiling back in the classroom over those "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essays in coming weeks, some will have unique stories to share. For instead of tanning at the beach or holding down traditional summer jobs, they've spent two months conducting cutting-edge research and working to send American astronauts to the moon and beyond. ... more Germany, Italy looking to buy armed drones: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2008Germany and Italy are seeking to buy MQ-9 Reapers, new armed drones that the United States recently began flying in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday. In notifications to Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Germany request a possible sale of five of the unmanned combat aircraft while Italy was seeking four. Both countries wanted the new drones "for the ... more Raytheon AMRAAM Contract Enables Warfighters To Maintain Air Superiority 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2008The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $412 million contract for Lot 22 production and delivery of the AIM-120C7 and AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles. The firm fixed price contract will provide the U.S. military with AIM-120D missiles. It will also provide Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers with AIM-120C7 missiles. Delivery is scheduled to begin in 2010 and continue ... more American in Hiroshima warns the world about nuclear weapons 
Hiroshima, Japan (AFP) Aug 4, 2008For years, Steven Leeper took the view of many fellow Americans about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima -- that it was an inevitable part of war. But after a lifetime of reflection, he is now the first foreigner to head an anti-nuclear foundation in the western Japanese city -- and has set his sights on persuading his country to agree with him. "When I first came here, I completely did ... more Protests as US nuclear submarine arrives in Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 4, 2008A US nuclear-powered submarine arrived Monday at a port in southern Japan amid protests over a radioactive leak by another vessel earlier this year. Dozens of atomic bomb survivors and peace activists gathered in Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombs in World War II, bearing banners reading: "Nuclear vessels are not welcome in Nagasaki prefecture." They urged ... more
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