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DLR And EADS To Collaborate On New Eo Bird
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2006The German Space Agency DLR and EADS Astrium announced Wednesday at the ILA-Airshow their intention to build a new radar satellite called TanDEM-X. TanDEM-X, scheduled for launch in 2009, along with the almost identical radar satellite TerraSAR-X, to be launched in autumn this year, will form a high-precision interferometer. GLAST Team Working Toward 2007 Launch 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 18, 2006NASA scientists and engineers have completed assembly of the primary instrument for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, an orbiting observatory scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in the fall of 2007. Ariane Satellite Payloads Receive Propellants 
Kourou, French Guyana (SPX) May 18, 2006Arianespace has announced the two satellite payloads to be orbited aboard the Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket have been filled with their onboard propellants. The fueling took place in the S5 satellite preparation facility, where both spacecraft are continuing their final check-outs for the scheduled May 26 liftoff. |
Russia To Double Soyuz Rocket Output And Boost Glonass GPS Constellation
Berlin (RIAN) May 17, 2006Russia's leading spacecraft corporation intends to double the production of piloted Soyuz spacecraft with the help of foreign investors, the company's head said Wednesday. Kourou Pad Supplier To Be Chosen In Late May 
Berlin (RIAN) May 18, 2006The winner of a tender for the delivery of launch-pad elements to a launch site in French Guiana will be announced later this month, the head of a leading Russian space company Wednesday. Three Russian companies are bidding in the tender - one state-owned and two private - for the contract for the Kourou launch site on the northern coast of South America. Trio Of Neptunes And Their Belt 
La Silla, Chile (SPX) May 18, 2006Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first known Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone. |
LM Picks Ambrose For Surveillance And Navigation
Denver CO (SPX) May 18, 2006Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday it has named Richard F. Ambrose to be the lead executive of its newly formed Surveillance and Navigation Systems line of business within its Space Systems Company. Northern Chile Site Selected For Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 18, 2006Cerro Pachon, an 8,800-foot (2,682-meter) mountain peak in northern Chile, has been selected as the site for the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. |
NASA Finalizes Crews For 2007 Missions
Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2006NASA announced Wednesday it has finalized crew assignments for two space shuttle missions scheduled for launch in 2007. The missions are planned to continue the assembly of the International Space Station. New Concept For Ultra-Precise Satellite Formations 
Tustin CA (SPX) May 17, 2006A California researcher has developed a new concept that could enable fleets of small spacecraft to fly in ultra-precise formations using a combination of laser-guided positioning and physical tethers. |
Blair signals new generation of British nuclear power stations
London (AFP) May 16, 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair's push for new nuclear power plants has raised concerns about how to finance them, amid predictions of "eye-wateringly large" costs, newspapers reported Thursday. Anxious Wait For Feared Volcano Eruption 
Mount Merapi (AFP) May 17, 2006 Searing heat clouds belched from Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano Wednesday as scientists waited anxiously for a feared eruption that has forced thousands of villagers from their homes. Japan invites Asia to join "Cool Biz" drive 
Tokyo (AFP) May 17, 2006 Japan on Wednesday encouraged the rest of Asia to join its anti-global warming "Cool Biz" campaign, a government-led drive to dress casually to reduce the use of air-conditioners in the summer. Primate Genomes Reveal New Twist In Origins 
Cambridge MA (SPX) May 18, 2006The evolutionary split between human and chimpanzee is much more recent -- and more complicated -- than previously thought finds a new study published May 17 in Nature. CONTENT PARTNERS
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LM To Upgrade ICBM Reentry System Upgrade
Valley Forge PA (SPX) May 17, 2006Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday it has received a $28 million contract modification from Northrop Grumman to provide hardware components for the full-rate production phase of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile's Safety Enhanced Reentry Vehicle program. Taiwan Plans Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiless 
Taipei (AFP) May 17, 2006 Taiwan plans to make 130 supersonic anti-ship missiles beginning next year to counter rival China's continued naval buildup, a newspaper and military expert said Wednesday. Bush administration to meet lawmakers to push Indian nuclear deal 
Washington (AFP) May 16, 2006 US President George W. Bush's administration will lobby lawmakers to push through a civilian nuclear deal with India which lacks crucial support in Congress, a senior official said Tuesday. Photosynthetic Trends In High Latitudes 
Falmouth MA (SPX) May 18, 2006Using time series analyses of a 22-year record of satellite observations across the northern circumpolar high latitudes, scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center are assessing trends in vegetation photosynthetic activity. |
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