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French Media Groups Eye Satellite TV Venture
Paris (AFP) Dec 12, 2005French media groups Vivendi Universal, TF1 and M6 announced talks to link up their satellite television operations to compete with Internet and mobile telecom services, driving up their shares on Monday. Encouraging Results From Shoulder-Motor Testing 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2005Opportunity is currently parked at "Erebus Crater," where it has continued remote-sensing science while the team made progress in diagnosing why a motor in the robotic arm stalled on sol 654. Orbital Eyes Picked Mars Rover Opportunity's Landing Site 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 13, 2005On January 24, 2004 - one Mars year ago - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity arrived at Mars. After a tense, high-speed entry and descent, the rover, tightly cocooned in airbags, bounced and rolled to a stop inside tiny Eagle Crater on Mars' Meridiani Planum. The landing, which made an interplanetary hole-in-one, was flawless. |
FAA, LockMart Complete National Rollout Of New Radar Data Communications Gateway
Rockville MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2005The national rollout of the En Route Communications Gateway, designed by Lockheed Martin, was recently completed on schedule when the Federal Aviation Administration declared operational use of the system at its Air Route Traffic Control Center in Miami. Earth-Space-Agency.org Challenges Scientists To Step Into Space Industry 
Riga, Latvia (SPX) Dec 13, 2005Earth-Space-Agency.org, a recently established space society website, has published freely accessible tools for scientists to make easier start in private space business in any country. Iridium Signs Service Provider Agreement With China Spacecom 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2005Iridium Satellite has signed an agreement with China Space Mobile Satellite Telecommunications (China Spacecom) to provide Iridium services and products. |
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2005At 6:30 a.m. (EST) Monday NASA's Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft successfully fired its large bipropellant thruster for the first time since launch, completing the first of several critical deep space maneuvers that will help the spacecraft reach Mercury orbit. SpaceDev Announces Microsatellite Bus And Launch Package 
Poway CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2005SpaceDev has made commercial launches of microsatellites and nanosatellites available for less than $20 million in less than 20 months with the introduction of the SpaceDev Mission Xcelerator Solution Program. Cell-Based Nano Machine Breaks Nano-Record 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Dec 13, 2005Researchers have known for some time that a long, fibrous coil grown by a single-cell protozoan is, gram for gram, more powerful than a car engine. Now, researchers at Whitehead Institute�together with colleagues at MIT, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, and University of Illinois, Chicago - have found that this coil is far stronger than previously thought. In addition, the researchers have discovered clues into the mechanism behind this microscopic powerhouse. |
Spider Robots And The Space Web
Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Dec 13, 2005Robotic 'spiders' could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric in space performing small tasks or lining up to create an antenna or some other structure. Swarming For Success 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2005Someone has to invent the future. And NASA wants a piece of the action. The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was created to encourage scientists and engineers to think outside the box, to come up with ideas just this side of science fiction. Robbie The Robot Works At Purdue 
West Lafayette IN (UPI) Dec 12, 2005Purdue University scientists now have a $1 million robot system at its Math Sciences Building with the capacity to store up to 1 petabyte of data. FCC Assigns 20 MHz Of Spectrum To ICO 
Kirkland WA (SPX) Dec 13, 2005ICO Global Communications praised Monday's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to assign a total of 20 MHz of spectrum to ICO Satellite Services, G.P., a subsidiary of ICO North America. |
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