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NASA Partners With Orbital Sciences For Space Transport Services Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008 
NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to develop and demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services that could open new markets and pave the way for contracts to launch and deliver crew and cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Orbital Sciences signed a funded Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, known a ... read more |
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NASA Extends Mission For Ball Aerospace-Built ICESat
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The Ice, Cloud and Land Satellite (ICESat) built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. will continue operations until at least 2010 following a NASA mission extension contract. ICESat, designed for a three-year lifetime with a five-year goal, was launched Jan. 12, 2003. The Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 2000 employed for ICESat was built under contract to NASA's Rapid Space Development Offic ... more Arianespace Mission Update: The ATV Has Been Integrated On Its Ariane 5 Launcher 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Ariane 5's largest payload ever has been integrated on the launch vehicle, taking Arianespace's upcoming historic mission with the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) one step closer to its March 8 liftoff. The integration process at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana began late last week, and was concluded with the spacecraft's power-up this weekend atop the launcher. The European-built ... more It's Raining Satellites 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2008H-hour - the time American spy satellite USA-193/NROL-21 must fall - is not far off. American scientists calculate that it will occur on March 6. Where the crash takes place will be unknown until the last moment. A more or less accurate site can be established only an hour or two before the satellite enters the denser atmosphere. In an attempt to control the process, the U.S. has decided ... more Roper Mobile Technology Unveils Duros Rugged Tablet PC 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Roper Mobile Technology has announced the debut of the Duros Rugged Tablet PC. The Duros is a fourth generation, powerful Windows XP-based tablet PC that is sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water ingress and manufactured to MILSPEC 810F. The Duros is built for "anywhere" use. Equipped with an 8.4-inch brilliant sunlight viewable, SVGA resistive touch screen and an AMD Geode LX 800 ... more RF NEULINK Receives Contract To Support US Marine's IGRS Program 
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008RF INDUSTRIES' RF Neulink Telemetry Division today announced it has been awarded an initial $335,000 Contract to support the United States' Marine Corps' Integrated GPS Radio System. Robert White, Neulink's Sales and Marketing Director, said, "The IGRS is an advanced personnel tracking system which will provide the USMC with GPS-based real-time tracking, position and status information ... more |
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West Sale, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2008BAE Systems' developments in the area of unmanned ground vehicles have taken a step forward with the integration of autonomous technologies onto a Supacat vehicle. The autonomous technology at the heart of the BAE Systems Supacat-based unmanned ground vehicle was originally developed by BAE Systems Australia as the Vehicle Management System and ground mission systems for the ... more Assembly Starts Of Taranis Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle 
Warton, UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2008BAE Systems has begun assembly of the first major components of Taranis, the GBP124M Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle that will help inform the UK MoD on the balance and capability of its 'future force mix'. Specialist jigs have now been set up in a dedicated assembly hangar at BAE Systems which will be home to Taranis until it prepares for its first test flights in 2010. Chris ... more Successful Fuel Testing Of F-35 Lightning II STOVL 
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Feb 21, 2008BAE Systems has completed critical fuel testing on the first F-35 Lightning II short take off and vertical landing variant five days ahead of its schedule proving the maturity of both the aircraft and programme. The important fuel checks of the design and build of the aircraft was led by BAE Systems and involved constant testing, 24 hours a day for 13 days, which checked the ... more New Aluminum-Rich Alloy Produces Hydrogen On-Demand For Large-Scale Uses 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Purdue University engineers have developed a new aluminum-rich alloy that produces hydrogen by splitting water and is economically competitive with conventional fuels for transportation and power generation. "We now have an economically viable process for producing hydrogen on-demand for vehicles, electrical generating stations and other applications," said Jerry Woodall, a distinguished ... more |
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Montpellier, France (AFP) Feb 20, 2008The first cargo of wine shipped from France by sail since the late 1800's will arrive in Ireland from the southern Languedoc region next month, saving an estimated 140 grams (4.9 ounces) of carbon per bottle, compared to a regular shipment "My idea at the beginning was to do something for the planet and something for the wines of Languedoc," said Frederic Albert, founder of the shipping ... more Drilling For Science And Exploration 
Liepzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2008On 19th February 2008 the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam officially commenced the operation of the new drill rig InnovaRig at the geothermal drill site at Durrnhaar (Bavaria). With this event, one of the most modern drill rigs worldwide, with a drilling capacity to a depth of 5000 metres becomes available. "Drilling is an essential tool in Geosciences", says Professor Reinhard Huttl ... more A Greener Way To Power Cars 
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2008Cardiff University researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles. Professor Mike Rowe's long term research interest at the Cardiff School of Engineering has been in thermoelectric generation - employing thermocouples to convert heat into electricity. The conversion technology is used in everyday applications such as control ... more Iran gives details on controversial space launch 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 19, 2008Iran said on Tuesday a probe it sent into space on the back of rocket had reached an altitude of 200 kilometres (125 miles) and returned to earth after minutes, the student news agency ISNA reported. Kavoshgar (Explorer) was launched earlier this month on what Iran touted as its first rocket to be sent into space on a mission to prepare for the launch of its first home-produced satellite ... more
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