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Mystery glow traced to 91 space bodies
Paris (UPI) March 17, 2004The European Space Agency's Integral orbiting observatory has traced a mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy to at least 91 heavenly bodies. Sundials On Earth And Mars Mark The Spring Equinox 
Los Angeles - Mar 16, 2004An unexpected spinoff from the high-technology, high-precision Mars Exploration Rover mission is an Earthly educational project - EarthDials around the world. Record Breaking Experiment on ISS 
Huntsville - Mar 16, 2004Scientists have seen the completion of a record-breaking 31-day experiment on the International Space Station, called PromISS-3. It is the longest duration experiment ever conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox. |
Northrop Grumman Bids For UK Watchkeeper Battlefield Program
London - Mar 18, 2004Northrop Grumman, has submitted its proposal for the Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper battlefield imagery and intelligence program. Northrop Grumman's proposed Watchkeeper system offers a combination of UAVs. The fixed-wing Ranger UAV, currently in service with the Swiss and Finnish defence forces, has completed more than 3000 successful missions. GuideStar Flight Control Selected for Finmeccanica's Sky-X UAV 
Warrenton - Mar 17, 2004Athena Technologies announced today the selection of its GuideStar control unit by Alenia Aeronautica for its Sky-X UAV. Alenia Aeronautica S.P.A, a Finmeccanica company, of Turin, Italy, has selected the GuideStar GS311 as the Flight Control System (FCS) for its Sky-X UAV. |
US Calls Pakistan A Major Non-NATO Ally
Islamabad (AFP) Mar 18, 2004The United States will designate Pakistan a "major non-NATO ally" in a move that will significantly enhance military cooperation between the two countries, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said here Thursday. News outlets: sparser staff, fat profits 
Washington (UPI) March 17, 2004With fewer journalists and smaller audiences, is the news business on the verge of collapse? Not at all, but a study released this week does show it's going through a major transformation. |
Sensor Technologies Enhance Factory Operations
Palo Alto - Mar 17, 2004A new-age simulation engine that remotely controls factory processes in real time using data from sensors is likely to be the next big thing in assembly line operation management. The engine's unique visualization tool helps cut out interferences from human errors, inadequate materials, or logistic planning gone awry by virtually representing the manufacturing facility for itemized monitoring. |
Hacker Turf War Raging Online
Chicago (UPI) March 17, 2004A battle for the control of cyberspace by computer criminals -- similar in intensity to a turf war between rival mob families -- is underway on the Internet. Computer security experts question how prepared the United States is to stop the conflict online, and wonder if nefarious criminal and Islamic terrorist elements are covertly involved in the battle. TSA Gets Privacy Watchdog 
Washington (UPI) March 17, 2004Acting chief of the Transportation Security Administration David M. Stone told lawmakers Wednesday that he would shortly appoint a special privacy officer and an external privacy oversight board to calm public fears and answer congressional criticism about the "Big Brother" character of the agency's computerized passenger threat profiling system, known as CAPPS II. |
Eutelsat Buys Lifetime Lease For 12 Transponders On Russia's AM22 Bird
Paris - Mar 18, 2004Eutelsat has signed a contract with the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) for the lifetime lease of 12 Ku-band transponders on the RSCC's Express AM22 satellite. The contract was signed Tuesday in Moscow by Giuliano Berretta, Eutelsat CEO, and Yuri Ismaylov, Acting Director General of the RSCC. Spain's Telefonica Expands Direcway Broadband Satellite Network 
Germantown - Mar 17, 2004Hughes Network Systems Europe has signed a contract with Telefonica de Espana, a leading Spanish telecommunications services provider, to further expand its Direcway satellite services. |
Iraqi People Glad Saddam Is Gone
Baghdad (UPI) March 16, 2004The Bush administration and supporters of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq were heartened by new polling figures conducted by several major media organizations in Iraq that show 70 percent of Iraqis saying their life is good under occupation. Conducted by ABC News, BBC and two other international networks surveryed 2,500 Iraqis over the course of three weeks in February. The survey found that 54.6 percent said they were better off with the removal of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party regime. |
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