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Solid Progress Continues With GPS Modernization Effort
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2006The fleet of Global Positioning System Block IIR satellites designed and built by Lockheed Martin to significantly enhance the overall performance of the GPS constellation has now accumulated 50 years of successful in-orbit operations. GPS provides such essential services as situational awareness and precision weapon guidance for the military. It is also an information resource supporting a wide range of civil, scientific and commercial functions. Total Solar Eclipse To Be Webcast Live 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2006The Exploratorium said Monday it will produce a live telecast March 29 of a solar eclipse from several locations along the path of totality. The first darkening will occur on the western shore of Brazil, and then will move across the Atlantic Ocean to make landfall in Ghana. It will continue northeast through Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya, Egypt, across the Mediterranean and into Turkey. Quantum Technique Can Foil Hackers 
Toronto ON (SPX) Feb 27, 2006Canadian researchers said they have developed a technique that protect sensitive data transmitted via fiber-optic cables. Researchers at the University of Toronto developed the technique for governments and corporations in the business of transmitting sensitive data such as banking records or personal information, and they said it offers the protective equivalent of a fire-breathing dragon. |
Noah's Ark On The Moon
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 28, 2006With this essay by Bernard Foing, Astrobiology Magazine presents the second in our series of 'Gedanken,' or thought experiments - musings by scientists on various "what if" scenarios. Gedanken experiments, which have been used for hundreds of years by scientists and philosophers to ponder thorny problems, rely on the power of the imagination to project these scenarios to logical conclusions. Mars Rovers Robotics Planetary Exploration Atacama Xenobiology 
Atacama Desert, Chile (SPX) Feb 28, 2006In the March 2006 issue of IEEE Spectrum, staff editor Jean Kumagai reports on what she saw and heard while observing the field team last fall. The researchers come to the Atacama because, more than any other on Earth, it approximates the barren, arid rockiness of Mars. Their robot, dubbed Zoe, is far more sophisticated than the current crop of rovers. For one thing, it can run autonomously, without having a human driver constantly feeding it instructions. Mars Rover Update: Preparing For Another Winter 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2006In a race to collect as much scientific data as possible before the onset of the Martian winter, Spirit climbed to the top of the formation in Gusev Crater called Home Plate and acquired images of the surrounding terrain. Each day, Spirit's instruments log a reduction in solar energy collected as the Sun sinks lower on the planet's northern horizon. |
SpaceX Sets New Launch Date For Falcon
El Segundo, Calif. (SPX) Feb 26, 2006SpaceX has reset the tentative launch window for the maiden flight of Falcon 1 to March 20 through 25. "The gating items are receiving a shipment of liquid oxygen from Hawaii and switching out the 2nd stage tank," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk told SpaceDaily.com in an e-mail. "Obviously, long term operations on (Kwajalein Atoll) will require that we install a state-of-the-art, high reliability LOX plant on island." New Horizons Update: 'Boulder' and 'Baltimore' 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2006Last week, we published details of the discoveries and early interpretation of Pluto's two small moons, formally called S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, in a pair of papers (Weaver et al. 2006 and Stern et al. 2006) in the British journal Nature. Nature is very much the Rolling Stone of the scientific community, and the discovery and interpretation of P1 and P2 won the journal's cover. ISS Crew Sends Congratulatory Olympic Message 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 27, 2006International Space Station crew members William McArthur and Valery Tokarev sent congratulations Sunday to the athletes gathered in Turin, Italy, for the closing ceremony of the 20th Olympic Winter Games. In a video message sent to athletes and spectators gathered in the Stadio Olimpico, McArthur from the United States and Tokarev from Russia said they applauded the accomplishments of the world's athletes who competed in the 2006 winter games. |
NASA Awards Ocean Color Research Support Services Contract
Beltsville MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2006NASA said Monday it has selected Science Applications International to provide support for Goddard Space Flight Center's Ocean Color research programs. SAIC will receive a five-year cost-plus award fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity task order contract with a maximum value of $30 million. NASA Laser Camera Device Can Assess Shuttle Damage 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 27, 2006A new NASA-developed camera accessory uses twin lasers to shoot photos that can precisely measure damage to the space shuttle. The device also has applications in crime-scene investigations and other areas. Kim Ballard, an electrical design engineer at Kennedy Space Center developed the Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images. VLT Captures Supernova In Messier 100 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) Feb 27, 2006Thought to be similar to what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers call Messier 100 a grand design spiral galaxy that presents an intricate structure, with a bright core and two prominent arms, showing numerous young and hot massive stars, as well as extremely hot knots. |
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