Space Daily articles from April 2007

Space Daily archives from April 2007

A Piggyback Solution For Science Versus Exploration.
April 2, 2007... Byline: David Tenenbaum for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 2 (SPX) -- As the drive to explore and colonize the moon switches into high gear, some scientists worry that funding exploration could drain resources away from...

Big Auroras On Jupiter.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Tony Phillips for NASA Science News HUNSTVILLE, Ala., April 2 (SPX) -- So you thought Northern Lights were big in Alaska? "That's nothing," says Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. ...

Case Western Team Call For Better Global Warming Forecasting.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEVELAND, April 2 (SPX) -- Case Western Reserve University faculty member Matthew Sobel has joined a team of international scientists calling for better forecasting methods in predicting how climate changes will...

Chandra Sheds Light On Galaxy Collision.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, April 2 (SPX) -- Astronomers think that there are enormous black holes at the centers of most, if not all, galaxies. These black holes, which can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the...

China Spacecom To Activate Iridium Satellite Gateway This Year.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., April 2 (SPX) -- China Space Mobile Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (China Spacecom) has announced that it is planning to open an Iridium gateway earth station in 2007. Iridium Satellite LLC and...

Crew Moves Soyuz To Prep For New Arrivals.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, April 2 (SPX) -- The Expedition 14 crew aboard the International Space Station welcomed an off-duty day Friday after a busy week of preparations for the arrival of the next crew in April. Commander Mike...

Debating The Impact Of GM Crops 10 Years On.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, April 2 (SPX) -- Is the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops still seen as risky or will it in fact help with the doubling of the food supply required as Earth's population hits nine...

ESA Open-Source Software Supports TerraSAR-X.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DARMSTADT, Germany, April 2 (SPX) -- Germany's next-generation TerraSAR-X uses sophisticated ground infrastructure to deliver Earth observation data to scientists and commercial customers. Open-source software...

ESA Signs Arrangement With New Zealand On Tracking Station.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 2 (SPX) -- Today ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Her Excellency Ms Sarah Dennis, New Zealand's Ambassador to France, signed an arrangement on the installation of a transportable telemetry...

Future Combat Systems Team Selects Centralized Controller Provider.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, April 2 (SPX) -- Boeing and partner Science Applications International, acting as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, have announced the selection of...

GE Delivers One Of World's Largest Solar Power Plants Using PowerLight's Technology.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SERPA, Portugal, March 30 (SPX) -- Spread across a hillside pasture amid olive trees, 52,000 shimmering photovoltaic modules in one of the world's largest solar power plants have begun generating enough electricity...

Giants And PG And E Bring Solar Power To AT And T Park.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (SPX) -- The San Francisco Giants and Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced a joint partnership to install a solar system at AT and T Park. AT and T Park, the first ballpark in...

Giving Platinum Catalysts A Golden Boost For Fuel Cells.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, March 30 (SPX) -- Platinum might outweigh gold in the jewelry market, but as part of an ongoing effort to produce efficient and affordable fuel cells, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)...

Golden State Heating Up.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 30 (SPX) -- Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th century, with urban areas blazing the way to...

Harnessing New Frequencies.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALT LAKE CITY, March 30 (SPX) -- Modern technology uses many frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for communication, including radio waves, TV signals, microwaves and visible light. Now, a University of Utah...

Hybrid Electric Future Heavy Truck Begins UQM Propulsion System Testing.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FREDERICK, Colo., March 30 (SPX) -- UQM Technologies has announced that two hybrid electric future heavy truck demonstrators developed by Armor Holdings for the U.S. Army that are powered by UQM electric propulsion...

ISRO To Scale Up Outsourcing To Private Sector.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BANGALORE, India, April 2 (SPX) -- India's space agency ISRO will step up outsourcing of works related to satellite and rocket building to the private sector, which in the long run could churn out overall systems as...

It's Never Too Late To Interrupt The Aging Process.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, April 2 (SPX) -- Much research has shown that reduced calorie intake can increase health and longevity. Professor Stephen Spindler (University of California) and his collaborators have discovered that...

Keeping The Cost Of Mid Weight Missions Under Control.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw CAMERON PARK, March 30 (SPX) -- The same problem that is afflicting America's smaller, cheaper space science missions -- the fact that they consistently end up costing a lot more than they were originally supposed to,...

London Asthma Sufferers Get Space-Based Help.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, March 30 (SPX) -- The city of London has launched an innovative service, funded by ESA, which delivers air pollution alerts and health advice via SMS text messages to those who suffer from asthma and other...

Magnetic Fields Get Reconnected In Turbulent Plasma Too Cluster Reveals.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 30 (SPX) -- Using measurements of the four ESA's Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent...

MIT Ocean Model Precisely Mimics Microbial Life Cycles.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, March 30 (SPX) -- Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their...

NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, March 30 (SPX) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems - dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets - are at least as abundant in twin-star systems...

NAU Researchers Find Possible Caves On Mars.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., April 2 (SPX) -- Applying techniques used to scope out caves on Earth to probe the possibility of caves on Mars is paying off. NAU researchers Glen Cushing and J. Judson Wynne, working at the U.S....

New Biofuel Cell Produces Electricity From Hydrogen In Plain Air.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, March 30 (SPX) -- A pioneering "biofuel cell" that produces electricity from ordinary air spiked with small amounts of hydrogen offers significant potential as an inexpensive and renewable alternative to the...

No Food Versus Fuel Debate With Cellulosic Ethanol.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, March 30 (SPX) -- As more and more corn grain is diverted to make ethanol, there have been public concerns about food shortages. However, ethanol made from cellulosic materials instead of corn grain, renders...

Opportunity Begins Imaging Of Cape Of Good Hope.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 30 (SPX) -- Opportunity is healthy and making progress on the imaging campaign of "Cape St. Vincent." On Sol 1116, Opportunity experienced a fault due to a known but rare race condition in the...

Orbital Awarded Contract For A Third Communications Satellite By Optus Of Australia.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., March 30 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences Corporation has announced that one of its current satellite customers, Australia's Optus Networks, has placed a firm order for its third STAR communications satellite as...

Orbital Launches Minotaur II Target Vehicle In ABM Sensor Test.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., March 30 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences reports that its Minotaur II rocket was successfully launched for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in support of advanced sensor testing by the...

Prototype For Long Wavelength Array Sees First Light.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 2 (SPX) -- Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky from a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be...

Rosetta And New Horizons Watch Jupiter In Joint Campaign.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 2 (SPX) -- ESA's Rosetta and NASA's New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta's Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates...

Scientists Unlock Physical And Chemical Secrets Of Plutonium.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 30 (SPX) -- Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have unlocked some of the physical and chemical secrets of plutonium, an element known for its use in atomic weapons...

Spaceport Welcomes ASTRA 1L For Ariane 5 Launch In Early May.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guiana, April 2 (SPX) -- The first of two satellite payloads for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission is undergoing pre-launch preparations after arriving at the Spaceport in French Guiana late last...

Spirit Studies Rocks in Vicinity Of Home Plate.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 2 (SPX) -- Spirit remains healthy and spent much of the week studying a new rock target on "Mitcheltree Ridge" called "Torquas." Scientists are trying to understand what relationship...

Technique Creates Metal Memory And Could Lead To Vanishing Dents.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHAMPAIGN, IL, March 30 (SPX) -- Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats...

UF Launches Project To Bridge The Regeneration Gap.
April 2, 2007... Byline: John Pastor MIAMI, April 2 (SPX) -- Researchers at the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida have initiated a project to treat human brain and other diseases by plundering the secrets of regeneration from creatures...

Unnatural Warming And Drying To Be Investigated In Australian West.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PERTH, Australia, April 2 (SPX) -- Research will be stepped up into the causes and magnitude of climate change in Western Australia following the release of a report showing that observed temperature increase and...

US Air Force To Develop Revolutionary Engine.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Larine Barr WRIGHT-PATTERSON, Ohio, April 2 (SPX) -- Air Force Research Laboratory engineers have outlined a five-year timeline for a new, adaptive engine that will enable pilots to switch from high speed combat maneuvers to...

Warm Winter Also In The Arctic.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 30 (SPX) -- Central Europe is not the only place where the past, warm winter has caused record temperatures. Unusually mild temperatures also prevented ice formation in the Arctic, specifically in the...

William Shernit Joins Intelsat General As President and CEO.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., March 30 (SPX) -- William Shernit has been named President and CEO of Intelsat General Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., with the aim of leveraging the world's largest satellite fleet...

ATK Highlights Progress On Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, April 3 (SPX) -- Alliant Techsystems has reported significant progress in developing hardware and materials in support of NASA's new Ares I crew launch vehicle. The Ares I is designed to carry crews to...

ATK To Acquire Swales Aerospace.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, Mich., April 4 (SPX) -- Alliant Techsystems has announced that it intends to acquire Swales Aerospace, a premier provider of satellite components and subsystems, small spacecraft and engineering services...

Aurora Space Exploration Program Could See Take Off In May.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 5 (SPX) -- Scientists working with the European Science Foundation (ESF) are putting the finishing touches to an ambitious programme of research for the exploration of the Moon and Mars. They expect to...

Biodiesel Study Targets Cleaner Air And Cleaner Engines.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GUELPH, April 5 (SPX) -- Cleaner engines, cleaner air and more uses for local farm products were the focus of a just-completed study of biodiesel as an alternative fuel source on selected Ontario farms. This...

Boeing And Sun Microsystems Federal Collaborate To Solve Extreme Data Computing.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, April 4 (SPX) -- Boeing and Sun Microsystems Federal have announced plans to launch an industry-leading, open architecture that will enable organizations to collect, process and store massive amounts of...

Boeing Logs Five Years Of On-Time ICBM Guidance Replacement Program Deliveries.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, April 5 (SPX) -- Boeing's delivery of the 513th Minuteman III Guidance Replacement Program (GRP) Missile Guidance Set (MGS) last month to the U.S. Air Force marks five years of consecutive on-time...

Boeing Submits Bid To Design AMF JTRS Radio System.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, April 4 (SPX) -- An industry team led by Boeing submitted its bid this week to design and develop the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) for the U.S. Department of...

Boeing Tests First SBInet Mobile Sensor Tower.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, April 5 (SPX) -- Boeing has successfully tested the first Secure Border Initiative (SBI) integrated mobile sensor tower, a key element of the SBInet system's mobile component. The tests validated the...

Call For Removal Of NASA Inspector General.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 4 (SPX) -- Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) today released a letter to the President calling for the removal of Robert Cobb as inspector general of the National...

Cassini Highlights The Enceladus Surprise Packet.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw CAMERON PARK, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- No sooner did NASA's Solar System Strategic Roadmap team tentatively decide, in 2005, on the desirable flight order of future really big Flagship-class Solar System missions than...

Cornell University Chosen To Build Nanosat-4 Flight Experiment.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., April 4 (SPX) -- The Cornell University student team and their CUSat nanosatellite design has won the University Nanosat Flight Competition Review (FCR). This win moves the Cornell team on to build the...

Discovery In Plants Suggests Entirely New Approach To Treating Human Cancers.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 5 (SPX) -- For the first time, scientists from the University of Washington School of Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Cambridge have determined how a plant...

Engineers Create Optical Cloaking Design For Invisibility.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Emil Venere WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 4 (SPX) -- Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside...

E'Prime Aerospace Announces Investigation.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TITUSVILLE, Fla., April 5 (SPX) -- The Board of Directors for E'Prime Aerospace Corporation voted on March 9, 2007 to authorize an extensive, internal investigation into the past actions of Bob G. Davis and Betty...

ESA Prepares For A Human Mission To Mars.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 3 (SPX) -- Starting in spring next year, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia. To investigate the...

Examination Of Radiation Left From Birth Of Universe Could Alter Theories.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHAMPAIGN, Ill., April 3 (SPX) -- Using relic radiation from the birth of the universe, astrophysicists at the University of Illinois have proposed a new way of measuring the fine-structure constant in the past, and...

Expedition 15 Crew To Launch From Baikonur.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, April 4 (SPX) -- Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and cosmonaut Oleg Kotov of the 15th International Space Station crew are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at about 1:30 p.m. EDT on...

Flexible Electronics Could Find Applications As Sensors And Artificial Muscles.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ARGONNE, Ill., April 5 (SPX) -- Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne...

Florida To Build Strongest Magnet Yet For Neutron Scattering Experiments.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Susan Ray TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 5 (SPX) -- The Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin has contracted with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University to build an $8.7-million hybrid magnet for "neutron...

Fort Lewis Soldiers Offer Feedback On New Vehicles.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Don Kramer FORT LEWIS, Wash., April 4 (SPX) -- No matter how useful it is to hear about the capabilities of new equipment from manufacturers, defense contractors know most honest appraisals come from Soldiers. Members of the...

Global Carbon Budgeting Requires Proper Accounting Of Inland Waters.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Life as we know it, from the most basic microbes to our human neighbors, is carbon based. By investigating how carbon cycles through ecosystems, scientists can learn valuable...

HerOrbit.com Cofounders Are Headed to Space.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ORANGE, Calif., April 3 (SPX) -- Internet entrepreneurs Jennifer Bellofatto, 33, and Cherry Mendoza, 32, plan on becoming the sixth and seventh space tourists ever. Following in the footsteps of five private...

How Arthropods Survive The Cold Using Natural Anti-Freeze.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GLASGOW, England, April 3 (SPX) -- Given the choice, many of us would opt for warmer climes during the bleak midwinter. However, most of us cannot afford to move abroad for a few months, so instead we pile on extra...

Hubble's View Of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, April 6 (SPX) -- NGC 1672, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is seen almost face on and shows regions of intense star formation. The greatest concentrations of star formation are found in the so-called...

Improving Small Business Participation In European Space.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FRASCATI, Italy, April 5 (SPX) -- More than 100 professionals from European small- and medium-sized enterprises, research institutes and space industry organisations met in Italy last week at the 4th SineQuaNet...

Insitu Selects RTI For Unmanned Air-Vehicle Products.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN JOSE, Calif., April 4 (SPX) -- Real-Time Innovations has announced that its real-time messaging middleware has been selected for use by Insitu. RTI's technology will be used in Insitu's next generation of...

Joint Warfare Center Tests New Tools In Exercise.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Sgt. Leigh Bellinger RAMSTEIN, Germany, April 3 (SPX) -- The Joint Warfare Center in Stavanger, Norway, might be half a world away from Afghanistan, but it's where the journey begins for a NATO battle staff headed downrange...

Kathryn Kynard Plays Key Role In Ares I Upper Stage Engine Development.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 5 (SPX) -- NASA's Kathryn Henkel Kynard has spent a career working main propulsion systems, first for the space shuttle and now for Ares I, the crew launch vehicle that will carry the Orion...

LockMart And Gibbs Tech Develop High Speed Amphibious Military Vehicles.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 4 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and Gibbs Technologies have agreed to develop a family of high speed amphibious vehicles designed specifically for military operations. The militarized High Speed...

LockMart Team Completes Design Review Phase Of Mobile User Objective System For Navy.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin says it has successfully completed on-schedule the critical design review phase of the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and has made significant...

Long-Lasting Paper Documents.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LEIOA, Spain, April 3 (SPX) -- Although there be great historical, artistic or archaeological interest in preserving them, paper documents have a limited life. Prolonging this life is the goal of the European...

Machine Shop Keeps Robots Rolling.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEVELAND, April 3 (SPX) -- Rich Polak spends most of his days repairing and maintaining vacuum chambers used to test ion thrusters for NASA's deep space missions. Though his job is anything but routine, last week...

MARSIS Radar Estimates The Volume Of Water In The South Pole Of Mars.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 5 (SPX) -- By studying the South Polar region of Mars, the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) radar of the Mars Express space probe has enabled the structure of the...

Messenger Completes Forty Percent Of Cruise Phase.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., April 3 (SPX) -- On March 28, MESSENGER completed 40% of its five-year cruise phase, as measured by travel time. The probe has compLeted one-third of its flight distance on its trip to Mercury, and its...

NASA Contemplates Future Trips To Europa And Neptune.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw CAMERON PARK, Calif., April 4 (SPX) -- By early 2006, the scientific advisory group chosen by NASA to plan its newest "strategic roadmap" for exploring the non-Martian Solar System had pretty much reached a consensus...

NASA Finds Arctic Replenished Very Little Thick Sea Ice in 2005.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 4 (SPX) -- A new NASA study has found that in 2005 the Arctic replaced very little of the thick sea ice it normally loses and replenishes each year. Replenishment of this thick, perennial sea...

NASA Image Fusion Will Help Doctors Examine Astronauts' Hearts In Space.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALINAS, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Practicing medicine on trips to the moon will be harder than on Earth, because spaceships will be far away, and few doctors will be aboard. NASA scientists are studying ways to...

Nevada Scientists Improve Tsunami Warning Systems.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RENO, Nev., April 3 (SPX) -- Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are at the forefront on a number of seismological fields, including helping the world better determine whether an earthquake is big enough to...

New Adaptive Optics Technique Demonstrated.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 3 (SPX) -- On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit Telescope of the Very Large...

New FAA Oceanic Air Traffic System Designed By Lockheed Martin Fully Operational.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ROCKVILLE, Md., April 4 (SPX) -- The Federal Aviation Administration's Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) system, developed by Lockheed Martin, is now fully operational. The Anchorage Air Route...

New Homes Rise From Rubbish.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LEEDS, UK, April 3 (SPX) -- Imagine if you could turn old rubbish into new houses. That's exactly what civil engineer Dr John Forth from University of Leeds wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made...

Nondestructive Testing Keeps Bagram Aircraft Flying.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Sgt. Kevin Tomko 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 4 (SPX) -- They endure wide swings in temperature and dusty conditions, and they are constantly pushed to their limits. They are...

Northrop Grumman And US Joint Forces Command Assess Intel Surveillance And Recon Concepts.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Joint Forces Command have agreed to work together to improve how military forces conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions....

Northrop Grumman Provides 24/7 Service To Navy Unmanned Systems Customers.
April 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOLLYWOOD, Md., April 3 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman opened a new office here to provide dedicated programmatic, engineering and logistics support for Northrop Grumman-produced unmanned air systems (UAS) currently under...