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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2009 
A nondescript sign along an anonymous road east of Dallas announces the location of bustling and urbane Caddo Mills Municipal Airport (former home of Southwest Soaring, phone number now obscured by time or paint). A passing traveler might overlook the large white hangar with the doors wide enough to admit the reaching wings of delicate glider planes. Parked among the slumbering agricultura ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2009Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL-24) and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA-44) have sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama signed by 81 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from across the country calling for additional funding for NASA's human spaceflight program. The large number of cosigners is an indication of the strong national support for human spaceflight and its many benefits ... more
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 20, 2009The maiden launch of Russia's new Angara carrier rocket could be postponed for at least one year due to shortage of funds from the Defense Ministry, the top Russian space official said Wednesday. The Angara rocket, currently under development by the Khrunichev center, is designed to put heavy payloads into orbit. The launch facilities were expected to be finished by 2010, and the first lau ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2009NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. This spinning antenna had been providing near-real-time ocean- surface wind speed and direction data over 90 percent of the global ocean every day. In recent months, the QuikScat project team has been ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2009The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Aerospace Center intend to carry out health research together. On 23 November 2009, both partners signed a cooperation agreement to conduct bio-medical studies at Neumayer-Station III in Antarctica. In two projects, scientists will monitor the health of the station crew and study the physical and psychological effect ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 25, 2009A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers. The researchers have developed a technique that uses interference patterns created when GPS signals ... more  
Tofte, Norway (UPI) Nov 24, 2009 A Norwegian power company announced Tuesday Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit will head the opening of the world's first osmotic power plant. Statkraft, Europe's largest renewable energy company, said the plant at Tofte, outside Oslo, will generate power by using the energy produced when fresh water and seawater are mixed, the Norway Post reported. Osmotic power is an emissions ... more  
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2009 Reputable financial houses, as they are described online, are telling their clients how to prepare for potential "global collapse" over the next two years. France's Societe Generale, according to the London Daily Telegraph's chief investigative reporter, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, is such a house that is now "mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction." ... more |
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