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Scientists Ecstatic At Result Of Titan ProbeDarmstadt, Germany (AFP) Jan 16, 2005 
"The gods smiled on us," said ESA's space science director David Southwood, one of about 250 scientists and technicians who were blissfully happy to be out of a job Sunday following the successful conclusion of the Huygens-Cassini mission to Titan. |
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Hovering Near Heat Shield And A Holey Rock
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 17, 2005Opportunity is healthy. It acquired microscopic images of the fractured edge of the heat-shield wreckage and began a detailed investigation of an intriguing, pitted rock a few meters to the north, called "Heat Shield Rock." Russia To Launch German Satellites 
Moscow, (UPI) Jan 14, 2005Russia will launch five German military satellites from its northern spaceport in 2005, a local news agency reported Thursday. |
India To Launch Two Satellites
New Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 17, 2005India will put into space two satellites- one for mapping and other with multiple uses- by May-June, the chief of the country's space agency said in Bangalore last Friday, according to Indo-Asian News Service. Tsunami Satellite Image Analysis Reveals Dramatic Water Quality Changes 
Billerica MA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Specialized analysis of recent satellite imagery of a tsunami-ravaged section of Porto Nova, India, near Sri Lanka, has revealed a devastating impact to local water quality. |
Spectrum Delivers SDR-3000 MRDP MILCOM Rapid-Prototyping Development Platforms
Burnaby BC (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Spectrum Signal Processing announced last Wednesday that an unnamed US defense contractor has purchased two SDR-3000 MRDP platforms for use in its internal military communications research and development programs. General Dynamics Demos First Wideband, Vehicle-Mounted SATCOM Unit For Army 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Jan 17, 2005General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has successfully demonstrated its SATCOM-On-The-Move (SOTM) terminal, the military's first vehicle- mounted terminal for satellite communications using the Ku-band, during field trials for the U.S. Army. |
Sardines May Prevent Toxic Gas Eruptions Off California And African Coasts
Miami FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Milky, turquoise-colored "dead zones," some as large as the U.S. State of New Jersey, that are appearing repeatedly off the coast of southwest Africa, may be a sign of things to come for other areas of the coastlines of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Kearny County Kansas Uses Satellite Imagery to Map Invasive Plants 
Longmont CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2005DigitalGlobe announced last week that Kearny County, Kan. retained the Native Communities Development Corp. (NCDC) to use DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite image products for mapping Tamarisk, an invasive plant species that has infested the banks of the Arkansas River. |
MTC Awarded Five-Year Contract to Provide Nuclear Treaties Monitoring
Dayton OH (SPX) Jan 17, 2005MTC Technologies announced last week the award of a five-year contract to provide Sustainment System Engineering and Acquisition Management Support Services for the Nuclear Treaty Monitoring Directorate of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. Measurements At CERN Help To Re-Evaluate The Element Of Life 
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Results from experiments at CERN* and the Jyvaskyla Accelerator Laboratory in Finland, reported in Nature** last Thursday, cast new light on the primary reaction that creates carbon in stars. |
Thales GPS Sensor Provides Solution for Bluefin's Ocean Robots
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005For Bluefin Robotics' autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and the scientific precision they provide, there's a critical component built into every unit: a Thales DG14 GPS sensor that assures precise navigation at relatively low cost. Consolidated Utility To Use GPS Vehicle Tracking To Improve Fleet Operations 
Torrance CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Radio Satellite Integrators announced last Thursday that it has been contracted by the Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County to supply a turn-key Automatic Vehicle Location system for their vehicle fleet. |
Dalhousie Chooses SGI For Atmospheric And Quantum Nano-Electronics Studies
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Silicon Graphics announced at last week's 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting that SGI Altix systems and SGI InfiniteStorage solutions are assisting two assistant professors in two very diverse fields of research in the Physics and Atmospheric Science Department at Dalhousie University. Stratos Acquires Plenexis to Enhance Global Satellite Service Offerings 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Stratos Global Corporation and Plenexis Group has announced the execution of a definitive agreement designed to better serve their combined global customer base. |
Samsung Introduces World's First 3-Dimensional Movement Recognition Phone
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Samsung Electronics has unveiled the world's first "3D movement recognition" mobile phone (model: SCH-S310). 'Accelerometer' is built in to accurately calculate and ascertain movement in three dimensional space and then carry out commands according to those calculations. RaySat Introduces Antenna For In-Motion High Speed Digital Access 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 17, 2005RaySat last Thursday introduced the world's first vehicle-based satellite antenna providing in-motion, high-speed Internet access to motorists, including emergency personnel, riding in cars, trucks, or motor homes. |
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