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Globalstar Takeover Completed by Thermo Capital Partners New Orleans - Dec 09, 2003 
Globalstar and Thermo Capital Partners said Monday that they have finalized their previously-announced acquisition plan. As a result, a new Globalstar company, controlled by Thermo, has been established, and Thermo will now begin providing working capitial for the new company's on going operations of the 24-satellite communications network that operates from Low Earth Orbit. |
Africa Must Log On To Bridge Yawning Digital Divide
Johannesburg (AFP) - Dec 08, 2003Africa needs to log on immediately if it wants to connect to the rest of the world -- a formidable task in a region where vast areas do not have electricity, telephones or computers. Interstellar Hydrogen Shadow Seen 
San Francisco - Dec 09, 2003More than a year before the Cassini spacecraft arrives at Saturn, the probe's Plasma Spectrometer has made the first in situ observations of interstellar pickup ions beyond the orbit of Jupiter. |
The Big Crunch
Moffett Field - Dec 09, 2003Cosmologists model the end of the universe as The Big Crunch-they roughly reverse the simulations of how the expansive Big Bang might have spawned all the stars and planets. But for those interested in what is happening between the bang and the crunch on those uncountable number of planets, the big crunch can mean something different. There's a Hole in My Philosophy 
Moffett Field - Dec 08, 2003I grew up hearing a lot about UFOs from my parents and their friends, and from reading Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke . Yet the dominant view was that UFO believers were generally quite deluded, writes David Grinspoon. |
Internet Dissident Sentenced To Two Years In Prison In North China
Beijing (AFP) - Dec 09, 2003Internet dissident Yan Jun, 32, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a subversion charge for posting essays online calling for change, including a free press and free expression, his family said Monday. Harris Follows Up With New MIDS LVT Digital Tactical Comms Contract 
Melbourne, Fla - Dec 09, 2003Harris Corporation has received a two-year, $24 million follow-on contract from ViaSat, Inc., for Lot 4 production of Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Low Volume Terminals (LVTs). |
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Eagle Broadband Completes $10.6 Million Bond Offering
League City - Dec 08, 2003Eagle Broadband, Inc said Friday that the company has successfully completed a $10.6 million Q-series bond offering. The net proceeds from the private convertible offering totaled $10.6 million, approximately $7 million of which has been raised in the last 120 days. Aeroflex Signs Licensing Agreement with Navigation Laboratories 
Plainview - Dec 08, 2003Aeroflex Incorporated announced Friday that it has signed an exclusive technology license and master distribution agreement with Navigation Laboratories (NavLabs) for the development and sale of GPS test equipment, simulators and GPS software applications. |
Metrologic To Provide Optical System James Webb Space Telescope 
Blackwood - Dec 08, 2003Metrologic Instruments, Inc. has been awarded a four-year incrementally funded contract worth a potential of $1 million from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to provide an electro-optic alignment subsystem for the James Webb Space Telescope ("JWST"). Kingdom Holding Company Selects Connexion by Boeing for In-flight Connectivity 
Dubai - Dec 09, 2003Kingdom Holding Company said Monday that it has selected Connexion by Boeing as its provider of connectivity and direct broadcast television (DBS) services in flight. |
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Columbus - Dec 09, 2003New insight into the molecular-level interactions between bacteria and minerals may some day help scientists design bacteria with the express purpose of cleaning up toxic waste. Weather Report Gives Forecasters Bright Outlook 
Sunderland - Dec 08, 2003For the past three years a team of international experts, led by the University of Sunderland, have been examining a vast array of ships' logs -- from 1750 to 1850 -- which has given one of the most accurate pictures yet of daily weather over the oceans. Plate Boundary Observatory Will Map Seismic Processes Across North America 
Stanford - Dec 09, 2003To some, the $100 million, five-year effort to sprinkle seismic sensors in Alaska and throughout the western United States is known as the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO). But to geophysicist Paul Segall it is something more. Greenland Glacier, Once Stable, Now Shrinking Dramatically 
Iowa City - Dec 09, 2003One of the world's fastest-moving glaciers is speeding up and retreating rapidly, a recent study has revealed. Earth Radiation Belts Spectacular Following Halloween Solar Storm 
Boulder - Dec 09, 2003The belt of high-energy electrons that normally cradles Earth from afar was greatly enhanced and pushed unusually close to our atmosphere during the violent solar activity that occurred in late October, University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say. |
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