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Gilat To Takeover Raysat Antenna Systems McLean, VA (SPX) Mar 19, 2010 
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Raysat Antenna Systems, (RAS), a leading provider of Satcom On The Move antenna solutions. The consideration for the acquisition is $25 million in cash and is expected to be completed within four to six months.
Upon completion of the acquisition, RAS's U.S. operation will operate under Spacenet Integrated Gover ... read moreIntegration Of VIIRS With NPP Complete 
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Ball Aerospace and Technologies reports that the fourth of five weather instruments that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has been successfully integrated. Ball Aerospace concluded integration of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on March 5. Instruments integrated earlier include the ... more
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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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Google, Intel, Sony team up on Google TV platform: NY Times
Washington (AFP) March 17, 2010Google and Intel have teamed up with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Internet to a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes, The New York Times said Wednesday. The newspaper said that Google has built a prototype TV set-top box, but the Web-enabling technology may be incorporated directly into TVs or other devices like Blu-ray players. It said the TV techn ... more Spider Silk Reveals A Paradox Of Super-Strength 
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and medical sutures. Now, National Science Foundation-supported researchers are untangling some of its most closely guarded secrets, and explaining why silk is so super strong. Researchers at the Massachusetts Insti ... more Turning Proteins Into Glass 
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Duke University researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology. They are exploring whether their glassification technique could bring about protein-based drugs that are cheaper to make and easier to deliver than current techniques which render proteins into freeze dried powders to p ... more Nasty Google-Viacom billion-dollar battle goes public 
New York (AFP) March 18, 2010Court documents made public Thursday in a billion-dollar copyright battle between Viacom and Google accuse YouTube executives of posting stolen videos to rocket the startup to stardom. Viacom was also a target in filings with Google countering that the US entertainment giant foisted some of its own content onto YouTube's online stage and even wanted to buy the firm. "Viacom's efforts to ... more |
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Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2010The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI, these instruments recently passed a series of important final tests to prove their readiness for spaceflight. These instruments were conceived and buil ... more First Station Materials Science Rack Being Processed 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 15, 2010On Feb. 2, the first materials science sample supporting an U.S. investigator was processed in NASA's Materials Science Research Rack aboard the International Space Station. The rack allows for the in-orbit study of a variety of materials - including metals, ceramics, semi-conductor crystals and glasses. The first sample was a small, solid rod of composite aluminum and silicon processed at ... more Turning Polyethylene Into A Heat-Conducting Material 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010Most polymers - materials made of long, chain-like molecules - are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator. The new process causes the polymer to conduct heat very efficiently in just one dir ... more COMS Flies To Kourou 
Toulouse, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2010It is the "Swiss Army Knife" of satellites. COMS (Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite) is the first European 3-axis stabilised geostationary observation satellite to carry three payloads dedicated to meteorology applications, ocean observation and telecommunications. COMS carries a meteorology imager, an "ocean colour" payload and a Ka-band telecommunications payload. ... more |
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