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First Female Space Tourist Longs To Head Back To Space Star City (AFP) Oct 02, 2006 
After fulfilling a childhood dream -- for a 25-million-dollar pricetag -- the world's first female space tourist said Monday she would seize any chance to one day return to the stars. "I enjoyed this trip so much that I will grab any chance I get to do the flight again, whether it is to the ISS (International Space Station) or flying to space through other means," Anousheh Ansari, 40, told a press conference at Star City, the Russian cosmonaut training center outside Moscow. The Iranian-born US telecoms billionaire touched down Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan with two male crew members, following a 11-day journey into space including eight on board the ISS. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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MetOp Launch Postponed
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 03, 2006EUMETSAT has announced that on Saturday 30 September the upper composite (comprising the MetOp spacecraft, the Fregat upper stage and the Soyuz fairing) experienced a slight mechanical shock. It was then decided to interrupt the launch campaign and return the upper composite to the clean room for inspection. RSC Energia Extraordinary Stockholders Meeting 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 03, 2006As per the Articles of Association of Public Corporation RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev and the Law on Public Joint Stock Companies, the Corporation hosted extraordinary stockholders' meeting. The meeting was opened by the Corporation's Chairman of the Board of Directors N.F. Moiseev, the Head of High Technologies Department at the RF Government. Opportunity's View At The Rim Of Victoria: 'Just Breathtaking' 
Cornell NY (SPX) Oct 03, 2006NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has rolled up to the rim of Victoria crater after a 21-month trek across the vast expanse known as Meridiani Planum. And 250 million miles away on Earth, the view -- according to astronomer, geologist and mission principal investigator Steve Squyres -- is "just breathtaking ... the most spectacular thing we've seen." From the rover's perch, the crater offers a visual timeline of Martian history in the layers upon layers of exposed rock. |
CPI International Provides Solid-state Power Amplifier to Swedish Sat Systems
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2006CPI International, Inc., the parent company of Communications and Power Industries, Inc., a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications, has recently enjoyed excellent success providing a solid-state power amplifier to SWE-DISH Satellite Systems for use in the SWE-DISH(r) IPT Suitcase. Spirent Communications Selected By DLR To Provide Advanced Galileo Test 
London, UK (SPX) Oct 03, 2006Spirent Communications has been selected by DLR (German Aerospace Centre) for delivery of advanced GPS (Global Positioning System)/Galileo test systems. DLR will be using Spirent solutions in the context of the EU and FP6 funded project "Airborne New and Advanced Satellite Techniques and Technologies in a System Integrated Approach" (ANASTASIA). Dualog Supplies Iridium Satellite Terminals To Wilson Ship Management Fleet 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2006Wilson Ship Management has decided to fit its fleet of more than 45 ships with Iridium satellite terminals in a move to provide a cost-effective integrated Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) and e-mail solution. |
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Virgin Galactic Reveals Spacecraft Design
New York (UPI) Sep 30, 2006Virgin Galactic, at New York's Wired Magazine NextFest Forum, revealed designs for its eight-person craft designed to travel 60 miles above the Earth. The Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal said the company has offered attendees of the technology showcase, which runs through Sunday, a glimpse of the spacecraft it plans for 2008. "This is the first opportunity for the public to get a sneak preview of the sheer scale of what is under construction here," Britain's Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, said of the event. From Shuttle To Orion At Stennis 
Stennis MS (SPX) Oct 03, 2006NASA is marking a historic moment in the life of the nation's largest rocket engine test complex. The Stennis Space Center conducted the final space shuttle main engine test on its A-1 Test Stand on Friday, Sept. 29. Although this ends the stand's work on the Space Shuttle Program, it will soon be used for the rocket that will carry America's next generation human spacecraft, Orion. The A-1 Test Stand was the site of the first test on a shuttle main engine in 1975. Alcatel Alenia Space To Build SIRAL-2 Radar Altimeter For CryoSat-2 
Paris (SPX) Oct 03, 2006Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a contract with EADS SPACE, the satellite prime contractor, to manufacture the SIRAL-2 radar altimeter to be used on the ice sheet monitoring satellite CryoSat-2. As main instrument of the CryoSat mission, SIRAL-2 will be used to determine the thickness of ice sheets on both land and at sea with unprecedented precision. |
ATK Completes Milestone Test In Development Program For The Ares I CLV
Promontory UT (SPX) Oct 03, 2006NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle may be years away from flying its first astronauts to space, but Alliant Techsystems is already completing tests and building hardware to ensure that Ares I will fly on schedule. ATK -- the prime contractor for the first stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle, along with NASA, the US Army, and the United Space Alliance -- recently completed testing of a newly designed pilot parachute. Australia And Southern Africa Short-Listed For Giant Radio Telescope 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 27, 2006Australia and Southern Africa have been short-listed as the countries to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a giant next-generation radio telescope being developed by scientists in 17 countries. The decision was made by the International SKA Steering Committee, following advice from an external committee of 7 scientists from 5 countries that examined the four site bids. UK Is One Step Beyond In Space Medicine 
London (XNA) Oct 03, 2006The United Kingdom is one step beyond in space medicine, an organizer of the 3rd UK Space Medicine Conference said on Sunday. The UK is becoming isolated in this field and lacking behind its major partners such as the United States, France, German mainly because of lacking support by the UK government, Dr Kevin Fong, one of the organizers of the conference explained to Xinhua correspondent in an interview offside the conference which concluded here Sunday in Leicester, central England. |
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Intelligent Unmanned Aircraft Planned Cambridge MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2006 
U.S. researchers say they are creating an intelligent airborne fleet of small, unmanned vehicles for military use. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists and their colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Boeing Phantom Works in Seattle say such unmanned aerial vehicles would require little human supervision and could automatically monitor their own condition.Quantum's Half Billion Dollar Cosmic Contract 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 03, 2006Quantum Research International has been awarded the "Concepts and Operations for Space and Missile Defense Integration Capabilities (COSMIC)" contract to provide support to the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, Future Warfare Center, Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab (SMDBL). New Generation Homeland Security 
Washington (UPI) Oct 02, 2006Educators must equip the next generation with the skills to fight a long war against terrorism, say homeland security experts. "We need a new generation of strategists thinking about this struggle against al-Qaida," said Scott Bates, senior fellow for national security with the Center of National Policy. SK To Become Capable Of Deterring Peninsula War 
Gyeryongdae, South Korea (AFP) Oct 01, 2006South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun said Sunday his military would be capable of playing a leading role in deterring war on the Korean peninsula in the early part of the next decade. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Alaskan Storm Cracks Giant Iceberg To Pieces In Faraway Antarctica Chicago, IL (SPX) Oct 03, 2006 
A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away.Record Ozone Loss During 2006 Over South Pole 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 03, 2006Ozone measurements made by ESA's Envisat satellite have revealed the ozone loss of 40 million tonnes on 2 October 2006 has exceeded the record ozone loss of about 39 million tonnes for 2000. China To Relocate 300,000 More People For Three Gorges Dam 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 2, 2006China has announced it will relocate around 300,000 more people than planned to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, bringing the total number displaced for the giant project to over 1.4 million. Elephant Tramples Brittish Honeymooner To Death In Kenya 
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 2, 2006An elephant trampled upon and killed a British honeymooner during a weekend guided nature walk with his wife in Kenya's famed Maasai Mara National Reserve, officials said Monday. Identity Of Ancient Child Skeleton Challenged 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Oct 03, 2006According to University of Pittsburgh anthropology professor Jeffrey Schwartz, author of the four-volume The Human Fossil Record (Wiley-Liss, 2002-05), "the discovery of any largely complete skeleton of an ancient human relative would be unique. |
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