Space Daily articles from August 2006

Space Daily archives from August 2006

AirLaunch Breaks Another Drop Record.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KIRKLAND, Wash., July 31 (SPX) -- AirLaunch announced Friday that its industry-government team has dropped successfully a 36-ton rocket from a C-17 cargo aircraft. The rocket, a full-scale simulated AirLaunch...

Arkansas Planetary Science Center To Study Martian Water Chemistry.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- A recent grant from NASA will enable the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas to continue its work creating missions to asteroids and...

Atlantis Awaits Rollout While Crew Awaits Launch Drill.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Due to weather conditions, NASA delayed the scheduled rollout of Atlantis to Launch Pad 39B until late Monday evening. The launch window for the next shuttle mission,...

Black Hole Spills Kaleidoscope Of Color.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., July 31 (SPX) -- Shoes may not come in every color, but space objects do. All objects in space, everything from dust to distant galaxies, give off a rainbow of light -- including light our eyes can't...

Boeing Announces C-130 Total Life Extension Program.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FARNBOROUGH, England, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- The Boeing Company today announced a new program that will extend the service life of C-130 aircraft up to 30 years. The C-130 Total Life Extension (TLE) program addresses...

British Physics Labs To Merge.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SWINDON, England, July 31 (SPX) -- The Department of Trade and Industry announced Tuesday that the U.K. government has decided to create a new Large Facilities Council merging the Council for the Central Laboratory of...

Center Performs Mission Critical Tests on F-35.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ARNOLD, Tenn., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Arnold Engineering Development Center recently conducted successful aerodynamic loads testing on a 12-percent scale model of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in the...

Crash Landing On The Moon.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 31 (SPX) -- In 1959, a spaceship fell out of the lunar sky and hit the ground near the Sea of Serenity. The ship itself was shattered, but its mission was a success. Luna 2 from the Soviet Union...

DARPA Seeks to Develop Military Aviation Biofuel.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a solicitation calling for the exploration of energy alternatives and fuel efficiency efforts in a bid to reduce the...

DTN Acquires Surface Systems To Inhance Weather Forecasting Services.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers OMAHA, July 31 (SPX) -- DTN, the world leader in weather forecasting, display and decision support technology, has announced the acquisition of Surface Systems, Incorporated (SSI) weather forecasting customers. DTN...

Envisat Images A cloudless UK.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- This rare cloud-free image of the UK was acquired during a heat wave on 18 July with the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) sensor onboard ESA's Envisat satellite. According to...

Eutelsat HOT BIRD 8 Ready For Liftoff.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- EADS Space announced Monday that Eutelsat's HOT BIRD 8 broadcast satellite has been prepared for a launch from Baikonur currently scheduled for Aug. 5 at 3:48 a.m. local time....

Harris Network Management Supporting FAA Telecomsat Network.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., July 31 (SPX) -- Harris announced Friday its NetBoss network management system is providing all command and control services for the nationwide FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure satellite...

Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEVADA, Iowa, July 31 (SPX) -- Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same. It wasn't that bad. That...

iRobot To Deliver 30 Packbot Robots To UK Ministry Of Defence.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BURLINGTON, Mass., July 31 (SPX) -- iRobot has announced it has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom's (U.K.) Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) to supply 30 iRobot PackBot EOD robots,...

Island Universes with a Twist.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ATACAMA, Chile, July 31 (SPX) -- If life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you will get - the Universe, with its immensely large variety of galaxies, must be a real candy store! ESO's Very Large...

It's All In The Genes.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- It's common knowledge that genes control traits such as eye and hair color. But a large group of scientists from two continents has found that the genes of one organism not only...

JSAT-10 Now Fueled And Ready For Launch.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guyana, July 31 (SPX) -- Arianespace announced Friday its technicians have completed the fueling process for the JCSAT-10 satellite, marking another step in the spacecraft's pre-launch checkout for its...

Junior Spot Zips Past Great Red Spot On Jupiter.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KAMUELA, Hawaii, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Astronomers have snapped high-resolution near-infrared images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a persistent, high-pressure storm, as a smaller storm, called Red Spot Jr., breezed by it on...

Living With Climate Variability And Change.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ESPOO, Finland, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- As the world continues to experience extreme weather events, including recent heat waves in the United States and Europe as well as drought in Africa and severe monsoons in Asia, the...

Marines Eye Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capabilities.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Marines serving with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), trained with the X-63 "Dragon-Eye" unmanned aerial...

Martian Surface Probably Cannot Support Life.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- The question of whether the planet Mars can support life has tantalized scientists for years, but research now suggests that Martian dust devils and storms produce oxidants that...

Members Of The Public Can Spot Stardust At Home.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Think you have the right stuff to spot interstellar dust? The Planetary Society, in conjunction with the University of California, Berkeley, is looking for good dust-spotters to...

Mercury Atomic Clock Keeps Time With Record Accuracy.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, MD, July 31 (SPX) -- An experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than the national standard clock based on a "fountain" of cesium atoms, according...

Mission Accomplished.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Independence Day fireworks started a little early on July 4, 2006, with the spectacular launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The changeable Florida weather...

MIT Researchers Watch Animal Brains In Action.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 31 (SPX) -- For the first time, scientists have been able to watch neurons within the brain of a living animal change in response to experience. Thanks to a new imaging system, researchers at...

More efficient and ecological system for electricity, cold and heat production.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GIPUZKOA, Spain, July 31 (SPX) -- IKERLAN-IK4 is taking part in a European project the aim of which is to design a single installation that will, at the same time, produce electricity, cold and heat for domestic use,...

NASA Chooses LM For LRO Launch Services.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, July 31 (SPX) -- NASA announced Friday it is awarding a $136.2-million launch-services contract for its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. The contract cost...

NASA Selects Teams For Space Weather Mission And Studies.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- NASA said Monday it will award $100 million to four university teams to provide experiments and supporting hardware for a future NASA mission to study near-Earth space radiation. This...

Northrop Grumman Delivers Network-Centric Technology for US Army SATCOM On-the-Move.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has delivered an advanced and compact power amplifier for the U.S. Army that is capable of enabling the transformation of battlefield communications for its network-centric...

Reiter Prepares For Next ISS Spacewalk.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- During this time, he and fellow NASA crew member Jeff Williams will install items of hardware in preparation for future ISS assembly work and also will set up for deployment a number of...

Russian Rocket Crash Destroys Montana EaRth Orbiting Pico-Explorer Satellite.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOZEMAN, Mont., July 31 (SPX) -- The first satellite built in Montana was destroyed July 26 when the Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile it was riding on crashed shortly after liftoff in Kazakhstan. At...

Seeing The Serpent.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 1 (SPX) -- The ability to spot venomous snakes may have played a major role in the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans, according to a new hypothesis by Lynne Isbell, professor of anthropology...

Shoot Up And Cool Down.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NORWELL, Mass., July 31 (SPX) -- Injecting sulfur into the atmosphere to slow down global warming is worthy of serious consideration, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for...

Slippery Stretching Explains Ocean Floor Formation.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LEEDS, England, July 31 (SPX) -- For the first time, scientists have found regions of the earth's crust which are stretching apart to form new sea floor; their findings are published in Nature today (27 July). Most...

Spirit Endures Record Cold On Mars.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., July 31 (SPX) -- Spirit remains healthy and continues to make progress on computer upgrades and scientific research, despite winter temperatures colder than any yet experienced during the rover's two...

Syracuse 3B Fueled And Ready For Launch.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guyana, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- Arianespace announced Monday its technicians now have completed the fueling process for the French Syracuse 3B military satellite. Its companion in the Ariane 5 ECA payload bay,...

Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EDMONTON, Aug. 1 (SPX) -- A massive dinosaur death bed in Alberta has helped map out the animal's life span and thrown doubt on long-held theories about how one species lived, says new research conducted in part at...

Unmanned Aerial System A Step Closer.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, July 31 (SPX) -- I am pleased to announce that the Government has moved a step closer to a $1b to $1.5b project for Defence to obtain a Multi-mission Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS). First pass...

A Titanic Methane Cycle Drives Distant World.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- The detailed exploration of Titan with space missions began a couple of years ago and the presence of bright polar clouds and dry riverbeds on this satellite of Saturn has...

At An Underwater Volcano, Evidence Of Man's Environmental Impact.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GAINSEVILLE, Fla., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Scientists studying hydrothermal vents, those underwater geysers that are home to bizarre geological structures and unique marine species, have discovered something all too...

Aurora Flight Sciences Dedicates New Product Development Facility.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MANASSAS, Va., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Aurora Flight Sciences dedicated its new Product Development Facility during a ceremony Monday at the Manassas Regional Airport. The 50,000 square foot facility almost doubles Aurora's...

Boeing Laser Communications Demonstration Validates Critical Element Of TSAT Network.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Boeing announced Tuesday it has demonstrated the ability of the Transformational Satellite Communications System to link from one satellite to another using a laser beam in a simulated...

Cleaning Event Boosts Power On Opportunity.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- With only eight Martian days to go before Opportunity joins its twin Spirit in 900-sol territory, the rover has spent its last five sols at a target called Joseph McCoy. At this...

CSIRO Reveals How Continents Can Break Apart.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PERTH, Australia, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Continents drift on the surface of the Earth in response to a recycling of oceanic plates, with new plates formed at rifts which are mostly located as sea-floor spreading centres in...

Debate Continues On Post-Wildfire Logging, Forest Regeneration.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- In separate comments to be published Friday in the journal Science, two groups of researchers from Oregon State University and the USDA Forest Service will exchange perspectives on...

Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- In terms of their telomeres, mice are more complicated than humans. That's the finding from a recent Rockefeller University study, which shows that mice have two proteins working together to...

Hamming It Up Aboard Space Station Earns Ransom Top Astronaut Award.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- In the world of ham radio, just making contact with someone from each of the 50 states is an award-worthy feat. NASA engineer Kenneth G. Ransom helped the International Space Station crew...

Human Tampering Threatens Planet's Life-Sustaining Surface.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEWARK, Del., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- In a report released today, scientists call for a new systematic study of the Earth's "critical zone"--the life-sustaining outermost surface of the planet, from the vegetation canopy to...

Lowell Observatory And UA To Complete Discovery Telescope Primary Mirror.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Lowell Observatory and the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences have finalized a $3 million, three-year contract to complete the Discovery Channel Telescope primary...

Material To Aid US Military in Next Generation Radar Systems Developed.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a magnetic material that will enable radar technology used by the U.S. military to be smaller, lighter, and cheaper without compromising...

NASA Selects ADEPT Space Mission To Probe Dark Energy.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- NASA has named a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist the principal investigator of a proposal, accepted Tuesday, to design a space mission to determine the properties of the mysterious...

NASA Uses WSI InFlight For T-38 Trainer Aircraft.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- WSI Corp. announced Monday that NASA has ordered 18 WSI InFlight AV300 next-generation systems to equip a portion of the Johnson Space Center T-38N astronaut trainer/proficiency...

New Radar Technique Locates Storm-Fueling Moisture.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- People planning ball games, picnics, and other outdoor events may soon have more precise short-term forecasts of rainfall, thanks to an observing strategy now being tested by the...

Ocean Microbe Census Discovers Diverse World of Rare Bacteria.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WOODS HOLE, Mass., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions about microbial life and evolution in the oceans. In a...

Second Ariane 5 ECA Launch Campaign Is Underway At The Spaceport.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guyana, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Arianespace is carrying out parallel launch campaigns at Europe's Spaceport with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA, demonstrating the company's flexibility to launch customer payloads...

UAV Used For High Altitude Platform In Mobile Robotic Telesurgery Test.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MONROVIA, Calif., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- AeroVironment announced Tuesday that a team of military and surgical experts successfully completed the first High Altitude Platforms for Mobile Robotic Telesurgery test last month....

UCSD's Supercomputers Cast Light On Cloudy Puzzle of Global Weather.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Record heat waves, exceptionally powerful hurricanes, destructive tsunamis, and melting icecaps have many discussing the weather, but can anybody do anything about it? The first step...

Underwater Robots Work Together Without Human Input.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the aid of humans to make detailed and efficient observations of...

ATK Receives $90M To Supply Motors For Missile Defense And Satellite Launch Vehicles.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Alliant Techsystems announced Wednesday it has received a $90 million contract to provide first-, second- and third-stage Orion solid rocket motors to Orbital Sciences Corp. for use in a...

Atlantis Moved To Launch Pad.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- After two weather-related delays, NASA technicians moved space shuttle Atlantis 4.2 miles early Wednesday morning from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B at Kennedy...

Boeing Laser Communications Demonstrates Critical Element Of TSAT Network.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Boeing has demonstrated the ability of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) to link from one satellite to another using a laser beam in a simulated space environment....

Brown Dwarf Survives Jonah Episode With Red Giant.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a binary system in which a Jupiter-sized brown dwarf is orbiting an Earth-sized white dwarf. What's unusual about the...

Dawn Log - Keeping Busy.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Dawn continues to keep its human handlers very busy as preparations continue on schedule to meet the planned opening of the launch period on June 20, 2007. Much of June 2006 was...

Developing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new storage system to hold large quantities of hydrogen fuel that may one day power cars in a more cost-effective and...

ESA Releases Huygens Scientific Archive Data Set.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Since ESA's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and safely landed on its surface on Jan. 14, 2005, the data it collected have revealed...

Human Behavior Changes The Number Of Strains Of Infectious Diseases.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WARWICK, England, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Simple models predict that only one strain of an infectious disease can exist at one time, but observation suggests otherwise. In a study in the August issue of The American...

LM Awarded USAF Contract For Nanosatellites.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday that the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate has chosen the company to provide engineering design and development support for the...

LM Delivers Second Spacecraft Structure For Advanced Military Communications Program.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday the successful delivery of the flight structure for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft. The Advanced EHF system will...

LM Joins With NASA And USAD To Bring Space Conference To Silicon Valley.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin announced Monday it is partnering with NASA and the U.S. Air Force to bring the Space 2006 Conference and Exposition to Silicon Valley for the first time. Organized...

NASA Awards Engineering And Scientific Services Contract To ASRC Aerospace.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- ASRC Aerospace announced Thursday it has been awarded an engineering and scientific services contract by NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. ASRC Aerospace will...

NASA Selects Radiation Belt Mission Candidate For Further Study.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- An instrument developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute is part of a proposal selected as a candidate to study the Earth's space weather from a pair...

ROVER Adds Extra Set Of Eyes To Sky.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- A demonstration of the Remote Operated Video Enhanced Receiver during field training here on July 28 allowed basic cadets an opportunity to see how an extra set of eyes in the sky is a...

Solo Living Is A Potential Environmental Time Bomb.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- One-person households are the biggest consumers of land, energy and household appliances in England and Wales, with men between the ages of 35 and 45 being the worst offenders, according to...

Station Crew Prepares For Next Spacewalk.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Space station crew members Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter will work to avoid future shocks during a scheduled 6-hour-plus spacewalk on Wednesday. They also will have a third station crew...

Team Tests Next-Generation Global Hawk With Treatments.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EDWARDS, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Northrop-Grumman engineers, in conjunction with the 452nd Flight Test Squadron, recently teamed up with the 412th Electronics Warfare Group in the Benefield Anechoic Facility to...

Thieves Promote Stable Coexistence Among Desert Rodents.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- The warm deserts of North America are hopping with multiple species of kangaroo rats and pocket mice despite limited seed resources. Why doesn't one species win out in the rat race? ...

TPS Calls For Proposals To Save The World.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Attention Astronomers: Here's Your Chance to Save the World. The Planetary Society Calls for New Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant Proposals "Cataclysmic impacts are a fact of...

Trees Appear To Respond Slower To Climate Change Than Previously Thought.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Genetic analysis of living spruce trees provides strong evidence for the presence of a tree refuge in Alaska during the height of the last glacial period (17,000 to 25,000 years ago),...

AeroTelesis Signs Agreement With Mabuhay Satellite.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (SPX) -- AeroTelesis announced Thursday it has signed an agreement with one of its strategic partners, Mabuhay Satellite Corp., to become the first beta partner to utilize Ultra Spectral...

Astronomers Discover Twin Planemos.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LA SILLA, Chile, Aug. 4 (SPX) -- The cast of exoplanets has an extraordinary new member. Using the European Southern Observatory's telescopes, astronomers have discovered an approximately seven-Jupiter-mass companion...

Brownfields May Turn Green With Help From Michigan State Research.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EAST LANSING, Mich., Aug. 4 (SPX) -- Growing crops for biofuels summons images of fuel alternatives springing from the rural heartland. But a Michigan State University partnership with DaimlerChrysler is looking at...

Challenging Conventional Wisdom About High-Temperature Superconductivity.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ITHACA, N.Y., Aug. 4 (SPX) -- By observing events at the scale of single atoms, Cornell researchers have found evidence that the mechanism in high-temperature superconductors may be much more like that in...

Dawn Conducting The Comprehensive Performance Tests.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 4 (SPX) -- Dawn continues to keep its human handlers very busy as preparations continue on schedule to meet the planned opening of the launch period on June 20, 2007. Much of June 2006 was...