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Opportunity On The Road Again
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2006NASA's Opportunity rover remains healthy, and the mission team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully extracted the rover from the Martian dune they have called Jammerbugt. The rover first backed into the dune on Martian day, or sol, 830 (May 24) to increase its northerly tilt. Stationary Spirit Progressing On Long-Term Experiments 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2006Closing in on two-and-a-half years of operations in the hostile Martian environment and suffering from a stuck right-front wheel, NASA's Spirit rover nevertheless remains otherwise healthy and continues to make progress on the rover's winter science experiments. Aeroflex Awarded Mars Science Lab Contracts 
Plainview NY (SPX) Jun 12, 2006Aeroflex Incorporated announced Friday that its Motion Control Division has been awarded a contract for Mars Science Laboratory high-torque actuators from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. In addition, Aeroflex has been awarded a contract for a series of gearheads for the MSL low- and medium-torque actuators. |
Sea Launch To Orbit Telecom Satellite June 17Washington DC (RIAN) June 12, 2006 Sea Launch, the world's sole company to orbit satellites from a pad in equatorial waters, will send an American satellite into space on June 17, the international consortium said Friday. Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne J-2X Engine To Power CLV Upper Stage 
Canoga Park CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2006Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne announced Monday it has been selected by NASA to provide a new version of its Apollo-era J-2 as the propulsion system for the agency's Crew Launch Vehicle upper stage in the next decade. JAXA And DLR Conduct Orbit To Ground Optical Communication Experiment 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2006JAXA announced Monday it has successfully completed an optical communications experiment using laser beams between Kirari, its Optical Inter-orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite, and a mobile ground station operated by DLR, the German space agency. |
Two Great Jovian Storms Converging
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2006The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to bump into each other in plain view of backyard telescopes. Storm 1 is the well-known Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing at 350 miles per hour - faster than a Category 5 tornado. Corkscrew Asteroid About To Leave The Local Earth Neighborhood 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 12, 2006News flash: Earth has a "second moon." Asteroid 2003 YN107 is looping around our planet once a year. Measuring only 20 meters across, the asteroid is too small to see with the unaided eye - but it is there. Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2006The Hubble Space Telescope captured this unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to Earth's line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. |
An Ancient Martian Caldera In Apollinaris Patera
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2006Apollinaris Patera is an ancient shield volcano measuring approximately 180 by 280 kilometers at its base and rising to a maximum of 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) above the surrounding terrain. Shield volcanoes are large volcanic structures with gently sloping flanks. Venus Express Commissioning Phase Completed 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 12, 2006After 207 days of flight, 43 orbits around Venus and many test activities, Venus Express formally completed its commissioning phase June 3 and entered the routine science phase, ESA announced last week. Ultraviolet Stripping Creates Super Earth Sized Planets 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2006A new explanation for forming super-Earths suggests that they are more likely to be found orbiting red dwarf stars - the most abundant type of star - than gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. |
Early Life Was Abundant
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 12, 2006Life on Earth may well have flourished on Earth 3.43 billion years ago in an environment not too different to the warm little pond that Darwin imagined: a quiet shallow marine environment sandwiched in time between two active volcanic periods. In the June 8 edition of the journal Nature, Australian Centre for Astrobiology doctoral student Abigail Allwood reveals her discovery of a ten kilometer section of an ancient microbial reef system. Merapi Spews Lava As Authorities Remain On Alert 
Mount Merapi, Indonesia (AFP) Jun 12, 2006Indonesia's Mount Merapi continued to spew lava and searing clouds of gas and ash Sunday as geologists maintained the top danger alert on the smoldering volcano. Questions Unanswered On US Weather Satellites 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2006The House Science Committee has heard from agencies involved in the construction of a vital U.S. weather forecasting satellite that has fallen severely behind schedule and is vastly over budget. Japan To Give Asia Coal Liquefaction Technology 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 12, 2006Japan plans to provide Asian nations, particularly China, with the technology to liquefy coal as part of a broader effort to reduce global dependence on crude oil, a report said Saturday. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Land-Based ABM Market Continues As Most Profitable Sector
London UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2006The total missile market is expected to be worth more than $100 billion by 2015, according to a new visiongain report. Missiles for land-based AD systems will make up the largest share of this market, accounting for approximately 25 per cent of its total value. Iran Strike Easier Than Iraq Mission In 1981 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 12, 2006A retired Israeli general who planned the demolition of Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 said this week that it would now be technically "easier" to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities in a pre-emptive air strike. Successful Test Flights Of New Armed UAV 
Dahlgren VA (AFNS) Jun 12, 2006May test flights of the Navy-built Guardian Griffin UAV demonstrated a new capability to support U.S. joint forces with missions ranging from convoy escort and port security to combat patrol. Can Russia Respond To US Space Development. 
Moscow (RIAN) Jun 12, 2006This summer the United States plans to publish its new space doctrine stipulating the deployment of weapons in circumterrestrial space. The head of the U.S. Strategic Command's space division, said the new policy would remove any ambiguity about official responsibility for figuring out who was behind any attack on U.S.-owned commercial satellites. |
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