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space applications today |
 Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2009 
Every entrepreneur pursuing the space debris opportunity seems to have the single answer to removing space debris. It is cost-effective, simple, quick, safe, reliable, user-friendly, non-polluting, non-interfering and almost ready to go. There is simply nothing like it and it is wonderful. Why doesn't the government grab it up and make the entrepreneur rich? In fact, why doesn't the govern ... read more 
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2009Astronauts who have no history of bad headaches can be prone to disabling attacks while in space, a phenomenon that suggests "space headaches" deserve a medical category all of their own, neurologists said on Tuesday. Contrary to prevailing theories, headaches in space are not caused by motion sickness, they said. Instead, the problem could lie in an increase in blood flow to the head ... more
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Seoul (AFP) March 12, 2009South Korea's government said Tuesday it had approved plans to launch the country's first rocket into space in late July. The National Space Committee gave the green light to the planned launch, tentatively scheduled for July 30 at Naro Space Centre in Goheung, about 475km (297 miles) south of Seoul, a government statement said. Construction of the rocket is in effect complete and work ... more  
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (UPI) Jun 1, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it is making the final preparations for its 2009 Power Beaming Challenge, part of the fourth annual Space Elevator Games. The event, part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Centennial Challenges Program, will be held at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., July 14. The first competition required tea ... more 
Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2009 The U.S. space agency announced the selection of four research proposals to study space radiation's affects on human living in space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it selected proposals from the New York University School of Medicine, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Loma Linda University and Georgetown University. The schools will work with collaborating ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jun 2, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it has switched Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the space shuttle program to its Constellation program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Sunday transfer represents the next step in preparing for the first flight test of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch system. "The Constellation Prog ... more |
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Istanbul, Turkey (SPX) Jun 02, 2009AdaCore has announced that Astrium in the UK dedicated to providing civil and defense space systems and services, has selected the Ada programming language and AdaCore's GNAT Pro development environment for use on the new Sentinel-1 environmental monitoring satellite. Sentinel-1 is the first of five families of satellites being developed for the Global Monitoring for Environment and ... more  
London (AFP) June 2, 2009Scientists have tracked down previously undiscovered colonies of Antarctic emperor penguins after spotting trails of their droppings on satellite pictures, a study said Tuesday. Zooming in on individual penguins is beyond current satellite imagery, but the tell-tale reddish-brown stains on the polar ice helped hone in on large groups of the black and white flightless birds. Mapping exper ... more 
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 2, 2009 U.S. space agency says it will provide satellite data for storm forecasts during the 2009 Atlantic and eastern Pacific hurricane seasons. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center is responsible for forecasting eastern Pacific and Atlantic tropical cyclones - the generic name for hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and tropical depressions. ... more  
Seoul (AFP) June 3, 2009US forces in South Korea will deploy unmanned spy planes to keep closer watch over nuclear-armed North Korea amid mounting tensions on the peninsula, the deputy head of US forces in the South has said Lieutenant General Jeffrey Remington said the US Air Force in the South would retire decades-old U-2 spy planes and replace them with Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance planes. Remington's ... more |
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