Space Daily articles from August 2008

Space Daily archives from August 2008

A Brief History Of Solar Sails.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon suffused softly with ocean mist, musing "I wonder,...

Acidification Of The Sea Hampers Reproduction Of Marine Species.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Stickholm, Sweden (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 By absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and from the human use of fossil fuels, the world's seas function as a giant buffer for the Earth's life support system. The...

BAE Recognized With Two Top Ten Greatest Inventions Awards.(Awards list)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 BAE Systems was recognized for its contributions to the Objective Gunner Protection Kit (O-GPK) and its role on the Raytheon / BAE Systems Excalibur team at the 6th Annual U.S. Army Top...

Capturing And Storing CO2 Deep Underground.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Canbera, Australia (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 CSIRO and the CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) hosted a seminar on the latest research and technology underpinning carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). The...

China's Export Trade Impacts Climate.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University's Christopher L. Weber argues that China's new title as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter is at least partly due to consumption of Chinese goods in...

City Tour For Solar Will Educate Leaders And Communities.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Beltsville MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 A solar tour will bring interactive educational exhibits to 50 cities in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota and Colorado beginning Friday,...

Clear Channel Real-Time Traffic Provider Of Choice.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network (CCTTN) has announced that ASUS, an international digital innovator whose technology was behind motherboards that powered one in three...

Clear Skies Solar To Install PV System On McGowan Builders' Headquarters.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers New York NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Clear Skies Solar has announced a contract with McGowan Builders to install a solar energy system at the company's new headquarters in East Rutherford, NJ. Under the contract, Clear...

Day4 Energy's Solar Technology Reduces Solar Electricity Costs.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Burnaby, Canada (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Day4 Energy has announced that it has achieved a major breakthrough in its R and D program focused on the design and development of high performance solar cells. After months of...

Disease-Fighting Nanoparticles Look Like Miniature Pastries.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Ultra-miniature bialy-shaped particles - called nanobialys because they resemble tiny versions of the flat, onion-topped rolls popular in New York City - could soon be carrying medicinal...

EADS Results Reflect Continuing Strong Underlying Performance.(Company overview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 EADS (stock exchange symbol: EAD) continued its robust underlying performance in the first half of 2008 and achieved significant efficiency improvements across all Divisions despite...

ESA Prepares For November's Ministerial Meeting.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 In November 2008, the ministers responsible for space activities in ESA's member states and Canada will gather in The Hague to set the course of Europe's space programme over the...

European Birds Flock To Warming Britain.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in...

First B-52H Reaches Retirement.
August 1, 2008... Byline: by Airman 1st Class Benjamin Stratton Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs, 2008 Minot AFB ND (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 The first B-52H Stratofortress reaches retirement after more than 45 years of dedicated service to the country July...

Gaining Advantages From Childhood Experience.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 It often seems that certain aspects of our personalities are influenced by events that occurred in our childhoods. A recent study by Dr. Akaysha Tang's research team from the...

Garmin Reports Record Second Quarter Revenues.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Cayman Islands (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Garmin has announced a record quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Executive overview from Dr. Min Kao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer includes the opening statement "Despite the...

Isthmus Of Panama Formed As Result Of Plate Tectonics.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Gainesville FL (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Contrary to previous evidence, a new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by a Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South...

Local Officials Move Toward Monitoring Nanotechnologies.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 State and local officials have taken steps to begin monitoring the manufacture and storage of nanomaterials, a major step for a cutting-edge technology that has yet to be regulated by...

Louisiana Enacts Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to...

Mission Extended As Phoenix Confirms Martian Water.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors...

Mud Pots Signal Possible Extension Of San Andreas Fault.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 A linear string of mud pots and mud volcanoes suggest surface evidence for a southern extension of the San Andreas Fault that runs through the Salton Sea, according to a paper...

Nanoparticle Research Points To Energy Savings.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals,...

NASA Confirms Liquid Lake On Saturn Moon.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane....

NASA Hosts International Meeting For Lunar Science Discussions.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NASA hosted a meeting of space agencies from nine countries last week to discuss the next steps in the ongoing scientific exploration of the moon. The meeting laid the groundwork...

NASA Lunar Science Institute Names First International Partner.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NASA's Lunar Science Institute at Moffett Field, Calif., has announced its first international affiliate partner for conducting lunar science activities. Canada's University of...

NASA Nanosatellites Catch Ride On Rocket.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NASA will fly two nanosatellites as secondary payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket planned for launch in August or September. Spaceflight engineers and project managers at...

NASA Tests Moon Imaging Spacecraft.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These tests ensure...

NAVTEQ Map For Mexico Automotive Grade Quality Enhances GPS.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 NAVTEQ has announced increased coverage and content in the NAVTEQ map for Mexico that enables improvements to the region's navigation systems functionality. The current map release...

Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean...

Potential New Drug Target To Fight Tuberculosis Identified.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers New York NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 With antibiotic resistance on the rise, tuberculosis is emerging as a bigger global health threat than ever before. But now, innovative research at Weill Cornell Medical College suggests...

Quantum Ships Carbon Composite Hydrogen Storage To Japan.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide has announced that it has designed, developed and shipped a new generation of ultra light weight advanced composite hydrogen storage units for...

Royal Mail Selects Intermec CN3 Mobile Computer To Improve Services.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Everett WA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Intermec has announced that Royal Mail, the leading provider of mail and parcel delivery services in the United Kingdom, has awarded Intermec a contract to provide over 25,000 of its...

Scientists Demonstrate Highly Directional Semiconductor Lasers.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional...

SolFocus 3 MW Spanish CPV Solar Project.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Puertollano, Spain (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 SolFocus has announced the completion of its initial phase of the world's first full scale concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. This facility, owned by the...

Space Technology Offers Surprising Solution To Oil Spills.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 The Space Foundation is pleased to announce Universal Remediation Inc. (UniRem) as a new Certified Space Technology. The Space Certification program was created by the Space...

Spire Enters Multi-Year Contract With Trina Solar.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bedford MA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 Spire has announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to provide key module line equipment to Trina Solar of the People's Republic of China. Spire will...

The Glen Club Now Sports ProLink's ProStar GPS.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Chandler AZ (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 ProLink Solutions announces The Glen Club (Glenview, Ill.) is the latest property to feature the ProLink Solutions' ProStar GPS system used at many of the world's most famous golf...

US DoD Releases One Billion Dollars For Six F-35B STOVL Aircraft.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Fort Worth TX (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 The U.S. Department of Defense has released $1 billion of funding to acquire six Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft as part of the second...

US First Littoral Combat Ship Under Way.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Marinette WI (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 History has been made as the nation's first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), put to sea for the first time, marking the beginning of Builder's Sea Trials for the first-in-class...

Vaccine For Protection Against Black Plague Bioterror Attack.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Orlando FL (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 A University of Central Florida researcher may have found a defense against the Black Plague, a disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages and which...

W.M. Keck Foundation Awards Grant For Astrochemistry Research.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 01, 2008 "Very few educational institutions have such a close coupling between astronomy with telescopes and astrochemistry in the laboratory. The W. M. Keck Foundation award will allow us to tackle...

4Frontiers Awarded Grant To Investigate Mars Greenhouse Materials.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Tampa FL (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 4Frontiers Corporation, a NewSpace technology, entertainment and education company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $25,000 research grant from the Florida Space Grant...

Advances In High-Res Modeling Will Help Improve Storm Surge Forecasts.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Stony Brook NY (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by...

Akeena Solar Now Operating Across USA.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Los Gatos CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 Responding to consumer demand and a booming residential solar market in New England, Akeena Solar has announced it will expand its operations into Connecticut. The new location at 435...

Alternative Energy Project Under Way At Robins AFB.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Robins AFB GA (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 The Defense Logistics Agency kicked off its fuel cell forklift pilot project here July 24 at the Defense Depot Warner Robins. It is part of an effort to find alternative energy sources...

America's Deadliest Roads.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Twin Cities MN (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 Would you be surprised to learn that nine people died last year on the highway you take to work everyday? Or would you be shocked to see that six teenagers died within five miles of...

AMERICOM Government Services Signs Agreement To Acquire AOS.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Mclean VA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AOS, engineers of secure telecommunications technologies and global...

Ancient Footprints In The Salt.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Aaron L. Gronstal for Astrobiology Magazine Moffet Field CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 Scientists have long searched for traces of ancient life on Earth in order to understand the history of life on our planet. Fossilized bones have helped...

Andrews Space Awarded Contract To Develop Spacecraft Demonstrator.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 Andrews Space has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued at more than $1.5M to develop plug and play spacecraft subsystems and demonstrate integrated spacecraft capability....

APSCC Announces Speakers To APSCC 2008.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Seoul, Korea (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 The satellite industry in the Asia-Pacific region is "on the move" with the increasing demand for High Definition Television (HDTV) broadcast and turnaround services, the opening of...

Argonne Scientists Discover New Class Of Glassy Material.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Argonne IL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out. Dynamic frustration has...

ATA Calls For Staggered Release Of Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the U.S. airlines, has testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global...

ATK Receives US Army Tank Ammunition Contract.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Alliant Techsystems has announced that it has received a $7.6 million initial contract from the U.S. Army for the M1028 120mm Canister Cartridge. The contract also includes four...

Big Oil, Bigger Giveaways.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 , 2008 Federal dollars continue to flow toward oil companies that are earning record profits and fueling our oil addiction. This analysis of the tax code and federal budget...

BioSolar Will Unveil Breakthrough BioBacksheet Solar Tech.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 BioSolar reports that Chief Technology Officer Dr. Stanley Levy will deliver a key oral presentation at the SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy on August 12th in San Diego,...

BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment Of DOE Grant Funds.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC plant in Southern California....

Boeing Awarded Contract For GPS Enhancement Demonstration.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 Boeing has been awarded a $153.5 million U.S. Naval Research Laboratory contract to demonstrate High Integrity Global Positioning System (GPS) technology concepts. The contract is...

Boeing Awarded E-6B Upgrade Contract.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Boeing has been awarded a $28.8 million sole-source U.S. Navy contract to upgrade the service's fleet of 16 E-6B airborne command, control and communications aircraft. In support of...

New Boeing Mission Control Center Opens.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 The MCC replaces another Boeing facility in El Segundo that was smaller and had limited capacity. "The MCC is an integral part of our customer service and support operations," said...

Boeing Submits Combat Aircraft Industrial-Participation Proposal To Indian Government.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Boeing has submitted a comprehensive Industrial Participation (IP) proposal to the government of India in support of the company's Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) offer to...

Boeing Team Test Short-Wave Infrared Camera On ScanEagle.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 Boeing, Goodrich and Insitu have successfully flight-tested a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft equipped for the first time with a short-wave infrared (SWIR) camera. The camera, built by...

Boeing Team To Design New Spacecraft Power Generation System.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 A team led by Boeing Advanced Systems has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the first phase of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST)...

California Quake Should Serve As Reminder.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Robert Olshansky, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois, says yesterday's 5.4-magnitude earthquake that shook people up but caused relatively minor...

Carbon Capture Milestone For CSIRO In China.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 Just weeks out from the Olympics, the CSIRO and its Chinese partners have officially launched a post-combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant in Beijing that strips carbon dioxide...

Cassini Prepares To Swoop By Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11. Cassini will zoom...

CEA To Discuss Standards For Portable And Handheld Devices.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced the formation of a discussion group to weigh interest in establishing industry technical standards for portable and handheld...

CERN Announces Start-Up Date For LHC.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Gen CERN1 has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle...

Climate Change And Species Distributions.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Scientists have long pointed to physical changes in the Earth and its atmosphere, such as melting polar ice caps, sea level rise and violent storms, as indicators of global climate...

Clumps And Streams Of Dark Matter In Inner Regions Of The Milky Way.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious...

Cold, Ice, and Heat Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that...

Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-Year-Old Bone.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 A study reported in the August issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a...

Compressed Light Could Open Doors For Optical Communications.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Rachel Tompa Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in...

Contract Supports Development Of UAV Test Procedures.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Athens GA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has won a contract to support development of a roadmap designed to improve the testing and evaluation of unmanned and autonomous systems for the...

Cracking The Question Of Extraterrestrial Life.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Moscow ID (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment...

Crystal Rock Solar PV System Goes Live.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Watertown CT (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 Crystal Rock has announced that the 300kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system at the company's Watertown, Conn., bottling facility is now operational and generating electricity. ...

Defense Support Program Satellite Decommissioned.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 The United States Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) Flight 19 satellite, built by Northrop Grumman, was decommissioned following nine years of service. Northrop Grumman...

Dry Lake Wind Project Assessment Continues.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Safford AZ (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Safford Field Office is continuing to assess the Dry Lake Wind Project in Navajo County. The BLM issued its Environmental Assessment (EA) and unsigned...

Dual Electronics Selects Tele Atlas To Power Navigation.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Lebanon NH (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 Tele Atlas and Dual Electronics has announced that Tele Atlas' digital maps and content will power Dual's advanced in-vehicle navigation systems. Through the agreement, Dual's newest...

DuPont Microcircuit Materials Introduces New Solamet PV159 For PV Cells.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bristol UK (SPX) Aug 04, 2008 DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM), part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, has announced the introduction of DuPont Solamet PV159 thick-film metallization paste for frontside...

Edwin Miller Leads Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Edwin H. "Hank" Miller has been named booster deputy project manager in the Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ...

Elbit to Equip Australia With Additional Skylark I UAVs.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Haifa, Israel (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 Elbit Systems has announced that it was awarded yet another contract to supply the Australian Army with more Skylark I UAV systems for an estimated value of several million dollars....

EMCORE Signs Agreements For Concentrator Solar Cells And Receivers.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Albuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 EMCORE has announced that it entered into two new supply agreements for solar cells and receivers with a total value of over $40 million. The larger of the two purchase contracts is a...

Enable IPC To Develop Enhanced Clean Energy Ultracapacitors.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Valencia CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Marking a major milestone with the first commercial use of its breakthrough ultracapacitor nanotechnology, Enable IPC has announced that it has partnered with the Madrid, Spain-based...

Energy Innovations' Sunflower Achieves Coveted UL Listing.
August 9, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2008 Energy Innovations has announced that its flagship product, the Sunflower Solar Concentrator, has officially received certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and is authorized...