Space Daily articles from February 2007

Space Daily archives from February 2007

A NASA Space Sleuth Hunts For The Waters Of Earth.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, CO, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- For the first time, NASA scientists have used a shrewd spaceborne detective to track the origin and movement of water vapor throughout Earth's atmosphere. This perspective is vital to...

AMC-18 Ready For Commercial Services.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- SES AMERICOM has announced that the AMERICOM-18 (AMC-18) satellite that was launched on December 8, 2006, has successfully completed a full battery of in-orbit-tests and is now...

Astronauts For Shuttle Japanese Experiment Module Kibo Mission Assigned.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the selection of the following astronauts as crew members for the Space Shuttle mission to assemble the Japanese Experiment...

Cassini Images Mammoth Cloud Engulfing Titan's North Pole.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered...

Congressional Appropriators Cut NASA Funding; Moon Program, New Launch Vehicle, and Science All Cut.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- The House Appropriations Committee has passed its version of the 2007 federal government budget. In it, funding for NASA was cut by $550 million (approximately 3.2%) from the amount...

Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to...

First LISA Pathfinder Flight Unit Ready For Delivery On 8 February.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- The first flight units for the LISA Pathfinder program are imminently nearing completion. All three Digital Sun Sensor's (DSS) have now completed manufacture and are currently undergoing final...

Floods! Fire! SERVIR.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Bart Leahy for Science@NASA HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Heavy rain from a thunderstorm can be a nuisance. Heavy rain lasting several days can be downright 1deadly. This past November, a stationary front got stuck over northern...

GMV Signs Galileo Contracts Worth Over 40 Million Euros.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADRID, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- The recent signing of 5 new Galileo contracts worth over 40 million euros serves as further confirmation of GMV's leading role in the implementation of Europe's satellite navigation strategy....

Harris Successfully Demonstrates Super HF Antenna Control Unit in Extremely Adverse Sea Conditions.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- Harris has successfully demonstrated that its advanced Antenna Control Unit (ACU) can help track a satellite and maintain a communications link in extremely adverse sea conditions, including...

How Does Your Brain Tell The Time.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- "Time" is the most popular noun in the English language, yet how would we tell time if we didn't have access to the plethora of watches, clocks and cell phones at our disposal? For...

How SMART-1 Has Made European Space Exploration Smarter.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- A unique way to travel to the Moon, new technologies successfully tested and brand-new science: a few months after the end of the SMART-1 mission scientists and engineers gathered to recap on...

Hubble Probes Layer-Cake Structure Of Extra Solar Gas Giant Atmosphere.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble...

Huddling And A Drop In Metabolism Allow Penguins To Survive The South Pole Cold.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- March of the Penguins, the Oscar winning documentary, showed how the emperor penguins endure their incubation and fast for four dark and bitterly cold months each year. The tight...

Investigating The Invisible Life In Our Environment.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- Microorganisms make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass. They are found in water, on land and even in our bodies, recycling nutrients, influencing the planet's climate or...

Jointness Key To Future Of Military Medicine.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Sgt. Sara Wood, USA WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- As the military health care system transforms its governance structure, the services must work together to sustain the high quality of care servicemembers and their families receive,...

Latest Revision Signed To Space Operations Doctrine.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Lt. Col. Mary-Claire McCarthyHeadquarters Air Force Doctrine Center MAXWELL AFB, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- The Air Force chief of staff has approved the latest revision to Air Force Doctrine Document 2-2, Space Operations, outlining the...

Mechanism Of Hallucinogens Effects Discovered.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- The brain mechanism underlying the mind-bending effects of hallucinogens such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin has been discovered by neuroscientists. They said their discoveries not only...

Modeling Other Earths.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFET FIELD, Calif., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- More than 200 extrasolar planets have been found so far, but our knowledge about those distant worlds is very limited. In most cases we haven't seen the...

Navy Takes Delivery of Airborne Laser Mine Detection System.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Landon HutchensNaval Sea Systems Command Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- Navy officials observed the roll-out of the first low-rate initial production unit of the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) in an...

Northrop Grumman Delivers First Navy Mine Detection Pod.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman delivered the first production Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) pod to the U.S. Navy in ceremonies here last week. The ALMDS system is designed to operate...

Northrop Grumman, EADS Joint Venture To Develop German Euro Hawk.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- The German Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a $559 million (Euro 430 million) contract to EuroHawk GmbH, a joint-venture company formed by Northrop Grumman Corporation and...

Northrop Grumman Names Teri Marconi VP Of Combat Avionics For Electronic Systems.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LINTHICUM, Md., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has appointed Teri G. Marconi vice president of the combat avionics business unit for the company's Electronic Systems sector. Marconi will have all executive...

Novel Ames Lab Composite May Replace Depleted Uranium.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers AMES, IO, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Armor-piercing projectiles made of depleted uranium have caused concern among soldiers storing and using them. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are close to...

Planck Satellite On View.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- ESA's Planck satellite, due to study relic radiation from the Big Bang, is on display for the media tomorrow in Cannes. Images of the spacecraft in all its glory will be published on the web at...

Port Of Rotterdam To Use SAVI Networks Savitrak For Cargo Security And Management Service.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Savi Networks today announced that it has extended the SaviTrak real-time information service to key terminal locations at the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest port and a...

Raytheon to Demonstrate Global Joint Interoperability Solutions During US-Japan Joint Exercise.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEWKSBURY, Mass., Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon will conduct the second in a series of global command and control integrated battle management demonstrations for U.S. Forces Japan during KEEN EDGE 2007, a U.S-Japan joint...

Research Reveals Limitations Of Seismic Data For Mapping Rock Units In Young Oceanic Crust.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Researchers report that an approach used for years to understand the structure of Earth's oceanic crust is flawed and geoscientists will have reconsider the correspondence between...

Satellite Data Vital To UN Climate Findings.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- The most authoritative report on climate change to date will be released tomorrow in Paris, France, and is expected to warn of rising global sea levels and temperatures. Earth observation from...

Sky-Map Site To Show The Beauty Of The Universe To Everybody.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- Technological progress has altered many of the ways in which humans live, but has done little to change human beings themselves. Man has been trying to find his place in the world for...

Something New Under The Sun.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WAGENINGEN, Holland, Feb. 1 (SPX) -- That plants grow better if grown in a greenhouse in the correct climate is nothing new. Dutch researcher Rachel van Ooteghem has designed a control system for an improved solar...

Space Technology Benefits Medical Community.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- A small group of APL researchers, in collaboration with physicians from the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center in Baltimore, developed and recently completed initial trials for a miniature...

SpaceDev Conducts Hot-Fire Test Of Hybrid Upper Stage Rocket Motor.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers POWAY, Calif., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- SpaceDev has announced that it has completed a series of three hot-fire tests of its hybrid upper stage motor, part of the SpaceDev Streaker Small Launch Vehicle development program. The...

Spirit Studies Layered Rocks And Wind-Blown Drifts.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- With the rover's third Martian spring just around the corner, Spirit is healthy and has started acquiring movies with the navigation camera in search of dust devils wheeling across...

Storage Of Greenhouse Gasses In Siberian Peat Moor.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UTRECHT, Holland, Feb. 2 (SPX) -- Wet peat moorlands form a sustainable storage place for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide but are also a source of the much stronger greenhouse gas methane. According to Dutch...

Theory Stretches The Limits Of Composite Materials.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., Feb. 2 (SPX) -- In an advance that could lead to composite materials with virtually limitless performance capabilities, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist has dispelled a 50-year-old...

181 Things To Do On The Moon.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Patrick L. Barry for Science@NASA HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas. Ever since the end of the Apollo...

Future Combat Systems Completes Experiment and Soldier-testing Of Key Technologies.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Boeing and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, have successfully...

In Search Of Hot Stuff Like Saturn.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- UCL researchers have reported findings in the journal 'Nature' that rule out a long-held theory about why the gas giants like Saturn have such hot outer atmospheres. Along with colleagues from...

KVH Receives 5-year Sole-source Contract From US Military.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- KVH Industries, has received a sole-source contract from the U.S. Army Tank and Automotive Command (TACOM) for the purchase of KVH's TACNAV vehicle navigation systems for use on U.S....

Language Learning Via Video Gaming.
February 5, 2007... Byline: J.D. Leipold VINCENZA, Italy, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- By the time Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and other units of the Southern European Task Force here have stepped foot in Iraq, they've already spoken Arabic face-to-face with...

Nanoengineered Concrete Could Cut CO2 Emissions.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Denise BrehmMIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are...

New World Record In Solar Cell Efficiency Achieved Using A Veeco MOCVD System.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WOODBURY, N.Y., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Veeco Instruments has announced that its Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) technology enabled an important recent advancement in solar cell efficiency. On December 5,...

Northrop Grumman To Test Fire Kinetic Energy Interceptor Booster In 2008.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FAIRLAKES, Va., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- The Kinetic Energy Interceptor program, under development by prime contractor Northrop Grumman, is on schedule to meet the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) objective of a 2008 booster...

Opportunity Making Its Way To Final Position On Cape Desire.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Opportunity spent the last week moving around the end of "Cape Desire" to three different imaging locations, each about 2 to 3 meters (6.6 to 9.8 feet) apart. Right now, Opportunity...

Planck Satellite Shows Its Beauty.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANNES, France, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Today, ESA's Planck satellite was on display for media gathered in Cannes. The press event took place by the facility of Alcatel Alenia Space, Prime Contractor for building the...

Research Team Use Satellite To Track Earth's Water.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- For the first time, scientists have used a spaceborne instrument to track the origin and movements of water vapor throughout Earth's atmosphere, providing a new perspective on the...

Saturn and Its Complex Family Of Moons and Rings Unveiled.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Cassini is now two and half years through its official "primary tour" of the Saturn system - and which is scheduled to last another 17 months before ending on June 30, 2008. During this...

Silicon Valley Solar To Produce Sol-XTM Flat-Plate Concentrator Modules In Eastern Germany.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Silicon Valley Solar announced that they have finalized an agreement with GSS that will accelerate the market introduction of the company's Sol-X2 internal concentrator solar...

Sophisticated ESA Space Weather Tool Under Development.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other 'space weather' phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments...

Tour de Saturn Set For Extended Play.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- While Saturn lacks the savagely intense radiation belts around Jupiter that gradually fried Galileo's electronics, there are some limits on Cassini's lifetime. In particular, it is...

Using Pond Scum To Fuel Our Future.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOGAN, UT, Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Utah State University researchers are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel. USU is currently conducting research on algae and plans to...

A Day In The Life Of Mercury's Orbit.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- MESSENGER isn't due to begin its orbit of Mercury until March 2011, but engineers and scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., are already...

Activity Filled Schedule Keeps Astronauts Busy On Space Station.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- For the second time in four days, two residents of the International Space Station stepped outside for a spacewalk to complete connecting cooling loops from a temporary to a permanent system....

Ancient Genes Used To Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety have led to a major advance in breeding new salt-tolerant varieties. In a recent set of papers published in the journal...

Ancient Rocks Show How Earth May Have Dodged Frozen Fate Of Mars.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed...

Big Budgets Make For Big Debates In Washington.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw SACRAMENTO, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Whatever science and technology experiments the US finally does conduct on the Station will then be run for only six years before the US abandons the Station completely to whatever Russia,...

Boeing To Refurbish And Test Unmanned Undersea Vehicle For US Navy.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- The Boeing Company has signed an $11 million sole-source contract with U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command for the refurbishment of the AN/BLQ-11 Long-term Mine Reconnaissance System and further...

Climate Change Only One Symptom Of A Stressed Planet Earth.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- In releasing its latest comprehensive report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses an important spotlight on the current state of the Earth's climate....

Defense Support Program Flight 23 Sees Integration Of Satellite And Launch Vehicle Payload Adapter.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Launch processing of the 23rd and final Northrop Grumman Corporation-built Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite took a major step forward with the mating of the satellite and...

GeoEye Makes Final Debt Payment For The Purchase Of Space Imaging.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- GeoEye has announced the final payment on the $50 million credit facility that it drew down in January 2006 to fund the acquisition of the assets of Colorado-based Space Imaging. While the...

'Good Vibrations' From Deep-Sea Smokers May Keep Fish Out Of Hot Water.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- So you're a fish. Right now some tubeworm tartare and clams on the half shell would really hit the spot, so you're headed for the all-night cafe. "All-night" being the operative word...

GPS Upgrade Will Require Complicated Choreography.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Sgt. Don Branum 50th Space Wing Public Affairs SCHRIEVER AFB, Colo., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Space professionals with the 2nd Space Operations Squadron have a daunting task ahead of them this summer: replacing the command-and-control...

ISS Crew Conduct Back To Back Spacewalks Over Several Days.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Following Sunday's second spacewalk of the series, Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, with eight spacewalks totaling 54 hours and 42 minutes, now ranks third on the all-time list behind Jerry Ross...

Looking For Microbial Martians.
February 6, 2007... Byline: David Tenenbaum for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- More than 30 years ago, when NASA's two Viking landers looked for signs of life on Mars, the results were ambiguous. Although no strong evidence has...

Mars Express Camera Now In Its Third Year.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BERLIN, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Exactly three years ago today, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the Mars Express probe captured its first image data of our neighbouring planet. After more than 3800 orbits of...

MU Researcher To Study Volcanism With Under-Ocean Sensors.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, Mo., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Earthquakes and volcanic activity occur when the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface move apart or converge. While this activity is relatively easy to observe on land, it's more...

NASA Moon-Impactor Mission Passes Major Review.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, CA, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- NASA's drive to return astronauts to the moon and later probe deeper into space achieved a key milestone recently when agency officials approved critical elements of a moon impact...

New Missile Warning Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Completes Key Environmental Test Phase.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has announced that the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft bus has successfully completed engineering thermal vacuum...

Researchers Find Substantial Wind Resource Off Mid-Atlantic Coast.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Tracey Bryant STANFORD, N.Y., Feb. 6 (SPX) -- The wind resource off the Mid-Atlantic coast could supply the energy needs of nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina, plus the District of Columbia--with enough left over to...

Spirit Examines Churned-Up Martian Soil.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 5 (SPX) -- Spirit is healthy and continues to scan the Martian terrain for the dust devils of spring. The rover has completed its scientific studies of a layered rock exposure known as...

A Spaceship For Sale On Ebay May Win Half A Million Dollars.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- A rocket competing in a NASA Lunar Lander competition has been named 'Lauryad,' after the spaceship from American novelist Vanna Bonta's quantum fiction FLIGHT trilogy, and is being...

Engineers Devise Method To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Ethanol Production.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Carnegie Mellon University Chemical Engineers have devised a new process that can improve the efficiency of ethanol production, a major component in making biofuels a significant part of...

HelioVolt And Exeltech Announce Collaboration For CIGS-Enabled Solar Energy Systems.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- HelioVolt and Exeltech have announced a joint development agreement to commercialize turnkey systems for cost-effective, reliable solar energy generation. The collaboration will draw...

High-Energy Relic Wind Reveals Past Behavior Of Dead Stars.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- A team of astronomers from France and South Africa, members of the H. E.S.S. (the High Energy Stereoscopic System) multi-national collaboration, has announced the first catalog of a...

Mikulski Disappointed With Lack Of Presidential Leadership On NASA.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA, released the following reaction today to the impact...

MIT Optics On A Chip Could Revolutionize Computing.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step...

NASA Can Fix Budget By Buying From Industry Instead Of Competing With It.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NYACK, N.Y., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- The White House has rolled out the 2008 NASA budget request of $17.3 Billion, which represents a huge 6.8% budget increase for NASA over the amount passed just last week by the House of...

NASA Loses Legal Battle Over Small Business Data.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PETALUMA, Calif., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost an 18-month legal battle with California-based American Small Business League, forcing NASA to provide detailed information...

Novel Computer Imaging Technique Uses Blurry Images To Enhance View.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp,...

Physicists Find Way To See Extra Dimensions.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate...

Prisma Satellite System Passed Major Milestone.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Recently, the Swedish-led Prisma satellite system successfully passed the Critical Design Review (CDR). The CDR was hosted at Swedish Space Corporation's Engineering center in...

Safeway Joins California Climate Action Registry.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- Safeway has joined the California Climate Action Registry (the Registry), California's only official registry for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction projects. Participation in...

Scientists Develop Portable Generator That Turns Trash Into Electricity.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 7 (SPX) -- A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would...