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Andrews Space Awarded Contract To Develop Spacecraft Demonstrator
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Andrews Space has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued at more than $1.5M to develop plug and play spacecraft subsystems and demonstrate integrated spacecraft capability. Under the contract Andrews will add the functionality to support plug and play interfaces into its existing line of spacecraft subsystem elements; which includes flight computers, power distribution units ... more AMERICOM Government Services Signs Agreement To Acquire AOS 
Mclean VA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AOS, engineers of secure telecommunications technologies and global network mobility. Upon completing this transaction, AOS, Inc. will be integrated as a division of AGS. Founded in Dallas, Texas in 1988, AOS, Inc. is a leading provider of highly secure, customized, turn ... more Iridium Announces Q2 2008 Results 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Iridium Satellite has announced financial results for the second quarter which ended June 30, 2008. "Our strong second quarter solidifies our position as the fastest-growing voice and data mobile satellite services (MSS) company," said Matt Desch, Iridium chairman and CEO. "For our fifth consecutive quarter, we posted double-digit increases for all the important metrics -- revenue, earning ... more Perchlorate salts: a major find on Mars 
Tucson (UPI) Aug 6, 2008 U.S. space agency scientists say the discovery of perchlorate salts on Mars makes them reassess how they think about possible Martian life. Scientists involved with the Phoenix Mars Lander mission met Tuesday in an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory. The discovery of Martian perchlorates is exciting ... more LockMart Announces Workforce Reductions On Shuttle External Tank Program 
New Orleans LA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Lockheed Martin has informed its Michoud Operations workforce that employee reductions would begin in the fall of 2008 and continue through September 2010 as a result of the build-out of External Tanks to support the planned fly-out of the Space Shuttle program. Reductions will impact operations in Huntsville, AL, the Kennedy Space Center, FL, and New Orleans, LA where the External Tank is ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2008The launch of a converted RS-20 Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile to put a Thai earth observation satellite in orbit has been postponed, a spokesman for the launch company said Wednesday. The launch, from a silo in the southern Urals, had been scheduled for August 6 under a contract with Kosmotras, a Russian-Ukrainian joint venture that acquires RS-20 (SS-18 Satan) intercontinent ... more Rocket Racing League Conducts Rocket Racer Flights 
New York NY (SPX) Aug 07, 2008The Rocket Racing League has celebrated the historic inaugural flights of the Rocket Racer, which captivated the hundreds of thousands of people on-hand at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI. Beginning with the first public demonstration flight of the Rocket Racer on Tuesday, July 29th and followed by additional flights on August 1st and 2nd, the Rocket Racing League showed the world what the ... more Internet flaw a boon to hackers 
Las Vegas (AFP) Aug 6, 2008Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web. "There is bunch of weird (stuff) going on out there right now," expert Dan Kaminsky told AFP, confirming that attacks are being launched online despite efforts to conceal and patch the vulnerability in the ... more Boeing Awarded Contract For GPS Enhancement Demonstration 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 06, 2008Boeing has been awarded a $153.5 million U.S. Naval Research Laboratory contract to demonstrate High Integrity Global Positioning System (GPS) technology concepts. The contract is expected to run through 2010. The High Integrity GPS effort combines satellite signals from the Iridium Low Earth Orbit telecommunications system and GPS Mid Earth Orbit navigational satellites to enhance ... more Zoombak Introduces Mobile Location Requests 
New York NY (SPX) Aug 06, 2008Furthering its mission to keep people connected to the things that matter most, Zoombak has launched Mobile Location Request functionality for the company's full range of advanced A-GPS locators. With Mobile Location Requests, Zoombak users now have the freedom to find their Zoombak in real-time from any cell phone virtually anytime, anywhere. Users simply text "FIND" to ZMBAK (96225) and ... more |
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Hiroshima, Japan (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack. Some 45,000 people, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, gathered at a memorial to the dead within sight of the A-bomb dome, a former exhibition hall burned to a skeleton by the bomb's incinerating heat. ... more EU and UN to link carbon trading registers by December: Brussels 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The European Commission on Wednesday said the EU will link its carbon trading market to the United Nations' scheme by December at the latest. The joined-up schemes should give Europe's biggest polluters -- such as the steel, construction and energy firms -- more leeway to subsidise CO2 reduction projections worldwide in return for credits in the EU's trading system. The linking of the ... more Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete 
The Hague (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Experts from the University of Twente developed and tested the concrete paving stones which contain a titanium dioxide-based additive. In laboratory conditions, the additive -- under the ... more Tracking Down Abrupt Climate Changes 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Aug 04, 2008In an article in the scientific magazine Nature - Geosciences, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jorg Negendank, (emeritus Professor) from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Gerald Haug from the DFG-Leibniz Center for Surface Processes and Climate Studies at the University of Potsdam and the ETH in Zurich, and Daniel Sigman from the Princeton University prove, for the ... more NASA Data Show African Droughts Linked To Warmer Indian Ocean 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2008A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models and observations show a decline in rainfall, with implications for the region's food security. Rainfall in eastern Africa during the rainy season, which runs from March through May, has declined about 15 percent since the 1980s, according to ... more
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