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Delta 2 Launch To Launch COSMO-SkyMed Satellite
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2007Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite, Thursday at 7:21 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 on north Vandenberg. The launch has a 13-minute window of opportunity. Col. Stephen Tanous, 30th Space Wing commander, will be the spacelift commander for this mission. The Delta II will be launched in the 7420-10 configuration. ... more US War Czar Admits To Doubts Over Iraq Surge 
Washington (SPX) Jun 08, 2007President George W. Bush's new "war czar" admitted Thursday to past misgivings about Bush's surge of US troops into Iraq, as Democrats lacerated White House policy on the blood-soaked country. Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, who was nominated by Bush last month to oversee the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Iraqi authorities and other US agencies needed to step up alongside the US milit ... more Boeing Demonstrates Integrated Voice, Data And Video Services With TSAT Tests 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 08, 2007Boeing has further demonstrated that its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) can provide warfighters with rapid access to integrated voice, data and video services. Recent tests of the TSAT Next-Generation Processor Router (NGPR) measured data transmission and lag time from a user perspective, showed a high level of service quality and demonstrated the dynamic bandwidth reso ... more Lockheed Team Delivers Software For Ground Component Of Space-Based Missile Warning System 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 08, 2007The Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered key ground segment software to support the launch of the program's first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite. SBIRS will provide the nation with greatly enhanced missile warning capabilities and support other vital mission areas simultaneously including missile defense, technical intelligence and ... more North Korea Test-Fires Short-Range Missiles 
Seoul (AFP) Jun 07, 2007North Korea on Thursday test-fired two short-range missiles, less than two weeks after its previous launch, the South Korean military said. The communist state fired two missiles into the Yellow Sea, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP. They are believed to be ground-to-ship or ship-to-ship missiles with a range of some 100 kilometres ( ... more |
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Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 07, 2007President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered to set up a joint Russian-US anti-missile base to end a crisis between the two countries as Group of Eight leaders agreed a face-saving compromise on climate change. Putin made the startling proposal for a joint base in Azerbaijan during talks with US President George W. Bush aimed at rescuing bilateral relations from a post-Cold War low. The tw ... more Envisat Captures First Image Of Sargassum From Space 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2007Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite, Envisat. The ability to monitor Sargassum globally will allow researchers to understand better the primary productivity of the ocean and better predict climate change. Using optical ra ... more Calpine Geysers Announce Five-Year Geothermal Energy Deal 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2007Calpine Corporation, the nation's largest renewable, geothermal power provider, has announced the launch of a five-year, multi-million dollar green power program designed to increase power production by up to 80 megawatts at the company's Geysers geothermal operations in northern California. The program includes a new, two-year multi-rig drilling program to expand steam production and iden ... more Robot Joins Nursing School Faculty 
Dayton, OH (SPX) Jun 08, 2007A robot is being employed at the Nursing Institute of West Central Ohio to allow faculty members in remote locations to interact with students in class. Developed by InTouch Health of Santa Barbara, Calif., the Remote Presence Robotic System - called RP-7 - makes the institute at Wright State University the first nurse education center in the nation to use the robot for educational purposes. ... more Researchers Eye Wireless Power Invention 
Chicago (AFP) Jun 07, 2007Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers said Thursday they have developed a wireless energy transfer technology that could ensure wireless devices are always charged up and ready to go. The team at MIT, one of the top US academic "laboratories" for new inventions, has roadtested the fledgling technology and shown that it can power a 60 watt bulb from a power source two meters (7 ... more |
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Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Jun 07, 2007A robot is to be deployed as a security guard at a South Korean school in what its creators claim is a world first, the Korea Times reported Thursday. The robot, dubbed OFRO, will be posted at a Seoul middle school to test its potential before going on sale. Makers DU Robo said it could be used to alert staff to attempts by outsiders to seduce students. "One possible scenario is that OFRO ... more EU To Back Galileo Bailout And But Faces Tough Talks On New Funds 
Brussels (AFP) Jun 06, 2007The EU will try on Friday to save its Galileo satellite project by opting to inject huge sums of taxpayers' money, although member countries face tough talks afterwards on how to pay for the bailout. What was once supposed to be a showcase of Europe's technological prowess has recently become an embarrassment as delays and cost overruns pile up amid bickering within the private consortium that w ... more Russia Plans Totally Effective Response To US Missile Plan 
Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 06, 2007Russia plans a "totally effective" response to any deployment of a US anti-missile system, but will not necessarily aim weapons at European cities, the Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday. "It will be totally effective from the point of view of ensuring our security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at the Group of Eight summit in Germany. The targeting of Europe, referred to ... more Putin's State Of Mind 
Washington DC (UPI) June 06, 2007The reasons behind Vladimir Putin's increasingly hostile attitude toward the Bush administration are becoming clearer. To understand them in their proper context, imagine the United States and its allies had lost the Cold War. NATO has collapsed. Next thing we know capitalism collapses, along with America's two political parties. In their place springs a one-party system, known as USA ... more US Mulls Lifting Macau Bank Sanctions 
Seoul (AFP) June 06, 2007The United States is proposing a conditional lifting of its sanctions on a Macau bank in the latest attempt to settle a financial dispute blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament, a report said Wednesday. The North refuses to honour a six-nation February disarmament pact until it receives 25 million dollars which had been frozen in Banco Delta Asia (BDA) since 2005 following the US blacklist. ... more
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