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NASA To Go Ahead With Friday Shuttle Launch
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Sep 07, 2006NASA decided Thursday to go ahead with the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis on Friday despite technical problems with a fuel cell. NASA officials gave the green light to the lift-off for 11:40 am (1540 GMT) Friday after managers held a meeting to weigh their options and review engineering analysis. Model Rocket Contest Opens Registration 
Arlington VA (SPX) Sep 08, 2006Students across America can now compete in the 2007 Team America Rocketry Challenge. Registration for the world's largest rocket contest began Sept. 6. Applications for the fifth-annual challenge are now available online, and are due by Nov. 15. Ex-Microsoft Billionaire Starts Space Tourism Training In Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2006An American software billionaire has become the latest potential space tourist to start training outside Moscow, the Space Training Center said Thursday. Charles Simonyi, 58, a U.S. citizen of Hungarian descent and a key figure in developing Microsoft's Word and Excel applications, has signed a contract with Virginia-based orbital tourism firm Space Adventures this year for a 10-day science mission to the International Space Station in 2007. |
Call For Fair Pricing Policies In The Commercial Launch Services Industry
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 08, 2006Arianespace had a major impact at the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris, where CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall called on the launcher industry to apply fair pricing policies for its commercial launch services. LM Announces Sale Of Its Interests In International Launch Services And LKEI 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 08, 2006Lockheed Martin has proposed sale of its ownership interests in Lockheed Khrunichev Energia International and ILS International Launch Services to Space Transport. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Unabashedly Onward to the Ninth Planet 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 08, 2006New Horizons continues on course and in good health. In a couple of weeks, I'll update you on a wide range of mission news items. But I want to devote this "PI Perspective" to a different topic: Pluto's planethood. Last month, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) held its first general assembly since 2003. The meeting was in Prague, and about a quarter of the IAU's 10,000 members attended. At the end of the meeting, on Aug. 24, a session was held to vote on proposals to define the word "planet." |
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Smart-1 Impact Flash And Debris: Crash Scene Investigation
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 08, 2006Timing, location, detection of a flash and of ejected material, and a firework generated by the lunar impact of ESA's SMART-1, are the latest results gathered thanks to the ground observation campaign of this historical event. After The Flash Came The Dust 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 08, 2006Through infrared observations with its newly installed infra-red mosaic camera WIRCam, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope offered a stunning image of the crash of the European spacecraft Smart-1, a very bright flash on the low-contrast landscape lit by earthshine, an image that was made available to the European Space Agency moments after Smart-1 radio-silence had made clear that the mission had ended. ESA Steps Towards A Great Black Hole Census 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 08, 2006Astronomers using ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral, have taken an important step towards estimating how many black holes there are in the Universe. |
Earth-Like Planets May Be More Common Than Once Thought
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 08, 2006More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth's solar system may harbor Earth-like planets, many covered in deep oceans with potential for life, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Pennsylvania State University. Planet Or Failed Star 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 08, 2006Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small enough to be a planet. The conundrum is that it's also large enough to be a brown dwarf, a failed star. Live Internet For A380 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 08, 2006TriaGnoSys, a leading provider of remote communications using satellite technology, has announced today the successful testing of TriaComMa, its internet access software for the Airbus A380. |
Iran Claims To Have Developed A 2,000 Pound Guided Bomb
Tehran (AFP) Sep 06, 2006Iran on Wednesday announced it has developed a 2,000 pound guided bomb named Ghased, or "Messenger," aimed at enhancing its defensive capabilities. Israeli Defense Chiefs Upgrade BMD Plans 
Washington (UPI) Sep 07, 2006Alarmed by the scale of Katyusha rocket battery attacks on northern Israel in its recent conflict with Hezbollah, the Israeli government is dramatically boosting the scale of its short-range anti-ballistic missile programs. Teal Group Predicts World UAV Market Will Top $54 Billion Over Next Decade 
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 07, 2006Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will continue to be the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry. Iran Sanctions Essential Says US 
Washington (AFP) Sep 06, 2006The United States on Wednesday said it was "essential" for the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran, saying the prospect of Tehran with a nuclear arsenal was "intolerable." Taiwan Official Reminds US About Growing Military Buildup Of China 
Washington (AFP) Sep 06, 2006Taiwan's top China policy chief urged the United States to strongly remind Beijing against using any military force on Taiwan, saying China's defense buildup was casting a huge shadow on the island. |
How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work
Nijmegen, Holland (SPX) Sep 07, 2006How did our evolutionary ancestors make sense of their world? What strategies did they use, for example, to find food? Fossils do not preserve thoughts, so we have so far been unable to glean any insights into the cognitive structure of our ancestors. The Subtleties Of Tropical Forest Demise 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2006"It's not just that tropical forests are being rapidly destroyed, but also that most of the remaining forests and nature reserves are being severely degraded," said William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Moscow Mayor Says Winter Energy Deficit Could Reach 20 Percent 
Moscow, Russia (RIAN) Sep 05, 2006Moscow's mayor warned Tuesday that the capital could face an energy deficit of 20% this winter, sparking concerns that temporary business closures seen in January could be repeated. Russia To Sell Nuke Fuel To South Africa 
Johannesburg, South Africa (XNA) Sep 07, 2006Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia will supply South Africa with nuclear fuel up to 2010. Greenhouse Gas Bubbling From Melting Permafrost Feeds Climate Warming 
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Sep 07, 2006A new study has found that as the permafrost melts in North Siberia due to climate change, carbon sequestered and buried there since the Pleistocene era is bubbling up to the surface of Siberian thaw lakes and into the atmosphere as methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. CONTENT PARTNERS
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