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GPS Systems Getting Smaller
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2005It used to be that in order to have a GPS system, you had to shell out big dollars on luxury vehicles. Thanks to improvements in technology, feature-rich navigation systems have become smaller, more portable, and most importantly more cost effective. Russia, Indonesia Sign Satellite Launch Memorandum 
Kuala Lumpur (SPX) Dec 15, 2005Russia and Indonesia signed a memorandum Wednesday on the launch of a communications satellite at the end of the Russia Hi-Tech 2005 exposition in Malaysia's capital, reports RIA Novosti. Microbes Under Greenland Ice Give Hints To Martian Life Potentials 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2005A University of California, Berkeley, study of methane-producing bacteria frozen at the bottom of Greenland's two-mile thick ice sheet could help guide scientists searching for similar bacterial life on Mars. Descent From The Summit Of Husband Hill 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2005In late November 2005 while descending "Husband Hill," NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the most detailed panorama so far of the "Inner Basin," the rover's next target destination. |
Satellite Operator SES Global To Take Over Rival New Skies
Luxembourg (AFP) Dec 14, 2005Luxembourg satellite operator SES Global said Wednesday it planned to take over Netherlands-based rival New Skies Satellites in a deal worth 1.16 billion dollars in cash and debt. Meteosat Second Generation Satellite Due For Launch December 21 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 15, 2005The second satellite in the Meteosat Second Generation family is due to be launched on 21 December at 23:33 CET onboard an Ariane 5 (generic version) from Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The launch window will last 28 minutes. ESA Signs Herschel And Planck Launch Contract 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 15, 2005The European Space Agency and the French company Arianespace signed a contract yesterday for the provision of an Ariane 5 ECA launcher for the Herschel and Planck spacecraft. Black Hole Sucks In Neutron Star 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) Dec 15, 2005An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a third short gamma-ray burst, associated with a nearby elliptical galaxy. |
Chicago (UPI) Dec 14, 2005The Federal Trade Commission is expected shortly to issue a report on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, passed by Congress to combat unsolicited junk e-mail, but experts tell United Press International's The Web ahead of the report that spam continues to rapidly proliferate. Astronomers Link Old Stars And Mysterious Cosmic Explosions 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2005Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, have the extreme brilliance of a billion billion Suns and occur several times a day. But they are not all created equal. Highest Energy Photons Ever Detected As Emanating From Milky Way Equator 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 15, 2005Physicists at nearly a dozen research institutions, including New York University, have discovered evidence for very high energy gamma rays emitting from the Milky Way, marking the highest energies ever detected from the galactic equator. |
Tracking Santa Has Never Been So High-Tech
Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2005It's a Christmas tradition that many parents of inquisitive children have come to appreciate immensely, and an opportunity for the U.S. military to show its softer side to the public. Best of all for taxpayers, though, is that corporate tie-ups and volunteering efforts make tracking down Santa relatively cost-free for the government's coffers. Clear Hard Nano Based Coatings 
New York (UPI) Dec 13, 2005A transparent coating loaded with particles only nanometers or billionths of a meter in diameter is far harder than other conventional organic coatings on the market, for potential use in everything from iPods and cell phones to car windows and flexible video displays, experts told UPI's Nano World. Armored Bubbles Can Exist In Stable Non Spherical Shapes 
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 15, 2005Researchers at Harvard University have demonstrated that gas bubbles can exist in stable non-spherical shapes without the application of external force. |
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