Space Daily articles from April 2009

Space Daily archives from April 2009

Team California Begins Construction On 2009 Solar Decathlon House.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Santa Clara CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Tool belts and hard hats have replaced the backpacks and the laptops of some students at Santa Clara University and California College of Arts in San Francisco. While thousands of...

Spreading Antibiotics In The Soil Affects Microbial Ecosystems.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Antibiotics used extensively in intensive livestock production may be having an adverse effect on agricultural soil ecosystems. In a presentation to the Society for General...

SES ASTRA Enters Croatian Market.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 SES ASTRA has announced that it has signed an agreement with CME group for the launch of the first Croatian channel on ASTRA. With the new long-term agreement, SES ASTRA will provide...

SELEX Galileo Receives Radar Contract For US Customs.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 SELEX Galileo is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $9.2M contract from TKC Aerospace to upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with its...

Scientists Cable Seafloor Seismometer Into State Earthquake Network.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Robert Sanders Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 A newly laid, 32-mile underwater cable finally links the state's only seafloor seismic station with the University of California, Berkeley's seismic network, merging real-time data from...

Raytheon Standard Missile-2 Destroys Target.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Point Mugu CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 A Raytheon Company Standard Missile-2 Block IV missile intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. The SM-2 Block IV...

Raytheon Awarded Contract For Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Production.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon Company a $106 million contract for production of the Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. "With this contract award, the first network-enabled weapons in the...

Northrop Grumman-Built Cryocooler Operational On Ibuki.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 A high-reliability heritage flight cryocooler built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is now operational, following its launch aboard Japan's Ibuki, also known as the...

New Green Pesticides First To Exploit Plant Defenses In Battle Of Fungi.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Exploiting a little-known punch/counterpunch strategy in the ongoing battle between disease-causing fungi and crop plants, scientists in Canada are reporting development of a new...

NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Starts Move To Launch Pad.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Space shuttle Atlantis' rollout to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been rescheduled to begin at 4 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 31, as preparations for...

NASA Awards $10 Million Cooperative Agreement To Maryland Firm.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 NASA Ames Research Center has selected the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Columbia, Md., for award of a new five-year cooperative agreement valued at $9,873,524 to...

Manufacturing Inefficiency.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of 20 major manufacturing processes....

LockMart GPS III Team Maintains Schedule In Preliminary Design Review.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Newtown PA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, continues to meet or exceed key milestones on...

LockMart Establishes New Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Denver CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Lockheed Martin has announced that it has established a new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) to enable a more efficient and reliable process for space vehicle component and...

Ice Storms Devastating To Pecan Orchards.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Stillwater OK (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 Ice storms and other severe weather can have devastating impacts on agricultural crops, including perennial tree crops. Major ice storms occur at least once a decade, with truly...

High Growth Forecasted For US Solar Thermal Power Market.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 The report provides detailed analysis and forecasts of the global solar thermal power market and the US solar thermal power market in particular. It also helps in analyzing and...

Goodrich Celebrates 50 Years In Space.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Charlotte NC (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Goodrich is celebrating its 50th year of working in advanced space programs, and continues its pioneering role and contributions to the nation's defense and the furthering of mankind's...

Fish Oils Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Flatulent Cows.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented - helping the heart and circulatory system, improving meat quality and reducing methane emissions....

Fighting Global Warming Offers Growth And Development Opportunities.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Combating climate change may not be a question of who will carry the burden but could instead be a rush for the benefits, according to new economic modeling presented at "Climate...

ESO Takes You On An Astronomical Journey With <Q>Around The World In 80 Telescopes</Q>.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 A live 24-hour free public video webcast, "Around the World in 80 Telescopes", will take place from 3 April 09:00 UT/GMT to 4 April 09:00 UT/GMT, chasing day and night around the globe...

Entech Solar Announces Change In Strategic Direction.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Fort Worth TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Entech Solar has announced that it has suspended its manufacturing operations for its current generation of concentrating solar systems to enable the company to focus all of its...

EnerChip EH Module For Zero Power Solar Energy Harvesting Devices.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Cymbet has announced that it has introduced the EnerChip EH CBC5300 Energy Harvesting Module. This module is used with small photo voltaic cells to power devices using ambient solar...

Climate Warming Affects Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 A five-nation scientific team has published new evidence that even a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, one of the gases that drives global warming, affects...

Call For Payload Study Consortia For Cosmic Vision L-class Mission EJSM/Laplace.(Clinical report)
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 On 26 March ESA issued a "Call for Declarations of Interest in Science Instrumentation" for the L-class Cosmic Vision mission study EJSM/Laplace. Prospective Instrument Study Teams are...

ATSB's RazakSAT Takes Punt With Test Rocket.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Hawthorne CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that the launch window for ATSB's RazakSAT on Falcon 1 Flight 5 is currently scheduled to open Monday, April 20th at 4:00 p.m....

AsiaSat Voted 'Best Asian Satellite Carrier' For The Third Time.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Hong Kong (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) was again voted the "Best Asian Satellite Carrier" in the 2009 Telecom Asia Awards. This is the third time in four years AsiaSat...

Alien Safari Part Six: Generations.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 Q: We believe life on Earth spontaneously arose in a liquid environment. If we find subsurface alien life in a more or less solid environment, does that...

AHRI Announces Implementation Schedule For Transitioning To New Mark.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute has announced it will begin using a new unified mark to identify heating, ventilation, air conditioning and commercial...

AE Biofuels Announces Strategic Agreement With Merrick And Company.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cupertino CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 AE Biofuels has announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Merrick and Company to commercially implement AE Biofuels' patent-pending enzyme based technology for the...

100 Hours Of Astronomy: Worldwide Astronomy Marathon Set To Break Records.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2009 The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, is on track to be the largest single science public outreach event ever. More than 1500 events...

40th Spacecraft In Global SES Fleet Enters Commercial Service.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced that the NSS-9 satellite today entered commercial service at the orbital location of 183 degrees East. The NSS-9 spacecraft replaces...

Advanced Biofuel Companies Ask Congress For Comprehensive Biofuels Policy.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Biofuel producers and biotechnology companies have asked Congressional leaders to help them overcome economic obstacles to obtaining financial backing and bring commercially ready...

Atlantis At Launch Pad For Hubble Mission.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis now awaits liftoff for its target May 12 STS-125 mission to the Hubble...

Atlas V/WGS-2 Launch Set For April 3.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global Communications satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 here April 3. The...

Bright Soil Churned By Spirit's Sol 1861 Drive.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove 22.7 meters (74 feet) toward the southwest on the 1,861st Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (March 28, 2009). After the...

Celevoke And National Equipment Combat Equipment Theft.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Current Technology is pleased to report its Texas-based subsidiary Celevoke has entered into an alliance with the National Equipment Register to enhance the theft recovery...

Census Workers To Verify Addresses In The US.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The Census Bureau will launch a massive operation on March 30 to verify and update more than 145 million addresses as it prepares to conduct the 2010 Census. Nationwide, more than...

DNA Duplication: A Mechanism For 'Survival Of The Fittest'.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Flanders, Begium (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The end of an era. Some 65 million years ago, the earth's most recent 'mass extinction' took place. One or more catastrophic events - such as a comet strike or increased volcanic...

GPS IC Shipments Growth Slowing To 15 Percent In 2009.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers New York NY (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15 percent on a unit basis in 2009 compared to the previous year, according to a new analysis by ABI Research. This growth rate is lower...

High Growth Forecasted For US Solar Thermal Power Market.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The report provides detailed analysis and forecasts of the global solar thermal power market and the US solar thermal power market in particular. It also helps in analyzing and...

Keystone Symposia To Hold First Conference On 'The Future Of Biofuels'.(Conference news)
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Silverthorne CO (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology will convene its first conference on the "The Future of Biofuels" in Snowbird, Utah, April 4-8, 2009. The Colorado-based...

Navman Wireless Helps Optimize Operations of Large Fleets.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Glenview IL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Navman Wireless North America has announced an upgrade to its OnlineAVL2 vehicle tracking and logistics system that aids managers of larger service fleets in cutting costs and increasing...

New Generation Biofuels Signs Sales Contract With Catoctin Mountain Growers.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Lake Mary FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced that it is has signed a sales contract with Catoctin Mountain Growers of Keymar, Maryland to supply up to 370,000...

'Out Of This World - Wonders Of The Solar System' Opens.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Oberhausen, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 From Thursday, 2 April 2009 the new exhibition 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' will be open to visitors at the Oberhausen Gasometer. It shows our Solar System...

Permian Polluters.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Did volatile halogenated gases from giant salt lakes at the end of the Permian Age lead to a mass extinction of species? The largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth...

Raytheon Standard Missile-2 Destroys Target.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Point Mugu CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 During the same test, a Raytheon SM-2 Block IIIA missile intercepted and destroyed a low-altitude, anti-ship cruise missile target. The first-of-its-kind test simultaneously...

Rocket Launches May Need Regulation To Prevent Ozone Depletion.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according...

Russian-European Crew Starts Mars Mission.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Earlier today, a crew of six, including two ESA-selected participants and four Russians, embarked on a simulated mission to Mars. Although they will not leave the confines of a...

Sirona Fuels' B100 Jatropha Oil Among Highest Quality Ever Tested.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Sirona Fuels has announced that a Sirona batch of B100 fuel refined from jatropha oil has tested among the very highest quality biodiesel fuels in the nation and set numerous...

Station Crews Proceed With Handover Activities.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The Expedition 18 crew and the recently arrived Expedition 19 crew were busy working with various handover activities aboard the International Space Station Wednesday. Commander Mike...

Sun Plunges Into The Quietest Solar Minimum In A Century.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Tony Phillips Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of...

Symmetricom Awarded Contract On Next Gen GPS.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 Symmetricom has announced the company has been awarded a contract from ITT Corporation Space Systems Division valued at a minimum of $4 million, part of the building of GPS IIIA, the...

The Debut Of <Q>Space As A Contested Environment</Q>.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Capt. Ben Sakrisson Air University Public Affairs, 2009 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 A new special area of emphasis, or SAE, titled "Space as a Contested Environment," was introduced by U.S. military officials here...

The New Oil - National Algae Association Conference.(Conference news)
April 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers The Woodlands TX (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 The National Algae Association is pleased to announce that its fifth quarterly conference for commercialization of "Algae: The New Oil" will be held on April 30 - May 1, 2009, at...

Arctic Could Lose Most Ice In 30 Years.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists had previously estimated. A new analysis of computer models coupled with the most recent...

Astronauts May Need More Intense Workouts.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Muncie IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 A new study in the The Journal of Applied Physiology, suggests that astronauts need to modify their workouts to avoid extensive muscle loss during missions onboard the International Space...

Big Fish Are Toast.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings...

Brown-Led Team Offers First Look At How Bats Land.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Providence RI (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 People have always been fascinated by bats, but the scope of that interest generally is limited to how bats fly and their bizarre habit of sleeping upside down. Until now, no one had...

First High-Res Image of Binary Star In Heart Of Orion Nebula.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 The new image clearly separates the two young, massive stars of this system. The observations have a spatial resolution of about 2 milliarcseconds, corresponding to the apparent size...

Green-e Energy Certifies TXU Energy's Texas Wind Commercial Renewable Product.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 The Center for Resource Solutions has announced that TXU Energy's commercial renewable product, Texas Wind, is now Green-e Energy certified. Texas Wind comes from 100% wind...

Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet In Archival Data.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope...

Indiana Firm Lands Wind Farm Contract.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Indianapolis IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Horizon Wind Energy has selected Bowen Engineering as the balance of plant contractor for the Meadow Lake wind farm in White County, Indiana. This 200 megawatt facility is the...

Iridescent Ice Clouds From Aircraft Wings.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Not all condensation trails are the same. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center have, for the first time, been able to describe how condensation trails are created not only from...

Little Rock Wind Announces Plans To Develop Community-Based Wind Farms.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Ortonville MN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 National Wind has announced the formation of Little Rock Wind, its 7th Minnesota-based, community-owned wind energy company. The Company has been formed in partnership with several...

Massachusetts Energy Board Votes To Approve Cape Wind 'Composite Certificate'.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 In a unanimous vote, the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board (Siting Board), the agency created by the Legislature to ensure the siting of needed and least environmental impact...

Nanoscopic Probes Can Track Down And Attack Cancer Cells.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Joseph Irudayaraj, a Purdue University associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, developed the nanoscale, multifunctional probes, which have antibodies on...

NASA Continues To Advance International Polar Year Science.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Although the International Polar Year officially came to a close in February, NASA is continuing to push the frontiers of polar science from space, the air and the surface of ice. ...

New Storage System Design Brings Hydrogen Cars Closer To Reality.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to...

Niche Provider Relies On Caribbean Footprint Of AMC-3 satellite.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 With its footprint in the sand on virtually every Caribbean island, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced Gulfcom has signed a five-year distribution agreement to meet the niche...

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Thruster System Tested.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Elkton MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Alliant Techsystems, NASA, and industry partners Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences have successfully performed a ground test firing of a sub-scale attitude control motor thruster system...

Premiere Increases HD Capacity On ASTRA.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Luxembourg (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 SES ASTRA has announced that the German pay-TV channel Premiere has contracted one and a half additional transponders on ASTRA`s prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East. With the...

Raytheon Introduces Rapidly Deployable Space Payload Design.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 Raytheon has unveiled Responder, an innovative payload design concept featuring a suite of interchangeable mission-specific sensors that could be deployed rapidly to meet...

Research Links Evolution Of Fins And Limbs With That Of Gills.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to research to...

Rewriting The DNA Alphabet.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 In a dramatic rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists from Florida described the design of a new type of DNA with 12 chemical letters instead of the...

Solar Sail Update: New Opportunities.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 The Planetary Society remains committed to flying the first solar sail. Specifically, we aim to fly the first controlled flight of a spacecraft using light pressure to increase the orbit...

Telltale heat.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 At first glance, the rotor blade appears to be flawless, but the expert knows that outward appearances cannot be trusted. He taps the surface and listens. A full, deep sound tells him...

Why Does Fargo Flood.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Fargo ND (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 The Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota, has a long history of severe floods. Major floods include those of 1826, 1897, 1950, 1997, and now...

3.5MW Solar Power Installation Dedicated.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Chino CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), a municipal water agency, and SunPower have announced the completion of a 3.5-megawatt solar power installation at four IEUA facilities in Chino,...

A Close Neighbor Reveals Its True Size And Splendor.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 One of our closest galactic neighbors shows its awesome beauty in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a member of what's...

Ball Aerospace Wins Ares Flight Computer Contract.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has been selected by The Boeing Company as the contractor for the Ares I Instrument Unit Assembly (IUA) Flight Computer (FC) and Command Telemetry...

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant Unit 2 Returns To Full Power.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 in Lusby, Md., returned to full power after completing a scheduled refueling outage in 22 days and four hours. "The...

Crews Wrap Up Busy Week.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 The Expedition 18 and 19 crews wrapped up a busy week of joint operations aboard the International Space Station Friday. Throughout the week, the newly-arrived Expedition 19 crew...

Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washongton DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on...

EMCOR Group Subsidiary Awarded Contracts For Bruce Nuclear Generator Station.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Norwalk CT (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 EMCOR Group has reported that as previously noted on its 2/26/09 Fourth Quarter Earnings Call, its Comstock Canada subsidiary has received contracts from Bruce Power in connection with a...