Space Daily articles from January 2006

Space Daily archives from January 2006

Bird's Eye View Of Opportunity At Erebus.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- This view combines frames taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the rover's 652nd through 663rd Martian days, or sols (Nov. 23 to Dec....

First F35 Nears Completion At Lockheed Martin.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- With the installation of horizontal tails on the first F-35, the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team has completed assembly of the aircraft's major structural...

HDLT Inventors Get Their Thruster Off The Ground With New ESA Study.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Nick Merrett CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 5, 2005 (SPX) -- The significance of ESA's announcement last Tuesday confirming their validation of the plasma double layer thruster was, in fact, predated by a more auspicious event- the...

Indian Remote Sensing Sat Completes Ten Years.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DELHI, India, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- The Indian Remote Sensing satellite, IRS-1C, which was launched on December 28, 1995, has completed ten years of operation. IRS-1C carried a unique combination of three state-of-the-art...

Intersat Introduces Virtual Reality Flight Simulator.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LONGMONT, Colo., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- DigitalGlobe has announced that its Brazil-based partner Intersat has introduced a new product, Virtual Reality Simulator. Designed to train airplane pilots, this flight simulator...

ISRO and Kerala M&M Sign MOU On Titanium Sponge Plant.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KERALA, India, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- As part of efforts to indigenously produce strategic materials for its space programme, ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, has signed a Memorandum of...

Looking Down The Mouth Of An Interstellar Cavern.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (SPX) -- A storm of billowing clouds blown by the winds from massive stars, and set aglow by their light, is the focus of a striking image released today by Gemini Observatory. Known as the N44...

Microbes Survive Firey Plunge By Columbia.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, CA, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- On board the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107, researchers were studying the growth and reproductive behavior of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, but the mission ended...

Mission To Mars Via Antarctica.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- A few weeks before leaving for the Antarctic Concordia Station, the Italian-French crew that will spend over one year in one of the harshest, isolated environments on Earth, attended two days of...

NG Ships First Advanced Tech Microwave Sounder Flight Instrument To NASA.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers AZUSA, Calif., Jan. 6 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has delivered the first Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for early integration into a new...

On2 Tech And XM Partner Up For Sat Video Delivery.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LAS VEGAS, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- On2 Technologies has announced that advanced concept satellite video receivers, resulting from its partnership with XM Satellite Radio, are being shown at the 2006 Consumer...

'Quiet' Mach 6 Wind Tunnel At Purdue Helps Shape Future Aircraft.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 6 (SPX) -- Purdue University engineers have developed a wind tunnel that is the only one of its kind in the world capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, helping researchers to...

Scientists Show Pluto To Be Colder Than It Should Be.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Mercury is boiling. Mars is freezing. The Earth is just right. When it comes to the temperatures of the planets, it makes sense that they should get colder the farther away they...

SiRFstarIII Featured in TomToms Innovative Portable Navigation Product.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Continuing to drive GPS further into the mainstream market, SiRF Technology Holdings has revealed that its flagship SiRFstarIII GPS technology is at the heart of TomTom's RIDER, a...

SkyTerra Gets Rest Of HNS For $100 million.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- SkyTerra Communications announced January 3 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hughes Communications (Hughes), completed the previously announced purchase of the remaining 50 percent of Hughes...

Spicing Up Space Meals.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Since its launch a year and half ago, Minimus.biz has quickly become the place to go for individual and travel size items. Last week, NASA came to Minimus.biz and purchased several...

Spirit's Neighborhood In Columbia Hills.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Two Earth years ago, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit touched down in Gusev Crater. The rover marked its first Mars-year (687 Earth days) anniversary in November 2005. On Nov. 2,...

Spirit's Solar Panels Still Shiny After All This Time.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- The most recent self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the solar panels still gleaming in the martian sunlight and carrying only a thin veneer of dust two years...

Stardust Mission To Rendezvous January 15.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Ten days before its historic return to Earth with the first-ever samples from a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully performed its 18th flight path adjustment. This...

Stardust Nears End Of Epic Journey.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Donald Brownlee's heart skipped a beat six years ago when the launch of the Stardust spacecraft didn't happen as planned. The University of Washington astronomy professor has experienced many...

Army Astronaut To Man Space Station.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- NASA and its international partners have selected U.S. Army astronaut Col. Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as the next crew for the International Space Station...

Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser Tests Well.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Jan. 6 (SPX) -- Laser systems built by Northrop Grumman for the Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) continue to post solid progress with the completion of power and duration testing of...

EGNOS Demonstration In South Africa.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- A demonstration of the use of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) for advanced railway traffic management and control recently took place near Johannesburg, South...

Expedition 12 Reach Halfway Point Of Their Station Mission.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- It was back to work last week for the Expedition 12 crew after a long New Year's weekend that marked the halfway point in their six-month stay aboard the station. Sunday was the crew's 100th...

Experiments Help Explain Mysterious Floppy Space Molecule.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- A laboratory method developed for making and analyzing cold, concentrated samples of a mysterious "floppy" molecule thought to be abundant only in outer space has revealed new data...

Global Hawk UAV Surpasses 5,000 Combat Flight Hours.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6 (SPX) -- The U.S. Air Force's RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system, built by Northrop Grumman, recently passed the 5,000 combat flight-hours mark while on a mission supporting the...

Indian Small EO Satellites To Study Atmosphere.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BANGALORE, India, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- The Indian Space Research Organisation is planning a series of dedicated small satellite missions to study the earth's atmosphere using space borne instruments to help find solutions...

MachineTalker Mesh Networks In Flight Collecting Wireless Sensor Data On-Board NASA UAVs.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- MachineTalker has completed flight tests of its intelligent mesh network, collecting wireless sensor data from on-board sensors, processing and passing results to Talkers on the...

Matchbox-Size Nano-Projector Engine For Mobile Apps.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers TAUNTON, Mass., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Kopin and ExPlay have announced that they are in development of an ultra-small nano projector based on an ultra-high-efficiency version of Kopin's microdisplay, which is being...

NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an...

New Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building. The...

New Horizons Remains On Course For January 17 Launch To Pluto.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- The past two weeks have been pretty quite for our intrepid spacecraft. For the most part, she has slept, un-powered, while launch vehicle and ground system preparations have continued....

Opportunity Puts The Arm On Ted.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- The rover team has kept Opportunity productive while engineers continue to evaluate the best posture for carrying the robotic arm when the rover resumes driving. The arm's...

Opportunity Snaps A Fine Example Of A 'Festoon' Pattern In Meridiani Outcrop.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- This image (shown) from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the best examples yet seen in Meridiani Planum outcrop rocks of well-preserved,...

Polish Defense Ministry Procures Elisra's EJAB For Its Forces In Iraq.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BENE-BERAK, Israel, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- Elisra Electronic Systems, a member of The Elisra Group, has received an order estimated at $3 million from the Polish Ministry of Defense for its unique EJAB system. Designed...

Portable Fuel Cell-Based Power Pack For The Battlefield.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers APOPKA, Fla., Jan. 6 (SPX) -- The team of Northrop Grumman and Protonex Technology has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to design and develop a new energy-efficient, lightweight fuel-cell system to power various...

Radar Sat Service Checks Stability Of Africa's Largest Artificial Hole.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- International engineering firm AMEC is working with ESA to improve monitoring of ground subsidence linked to mining activity. Radar satellites in orbit 800 kilometres away can reveal...

Space Imaging Awarded Additional $24 Mln From Pentagon's NGA.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Friday awarded a $24-million satellite imagery contract extension to Space Imaging. This ClearView contract option enables the NGA to acquire...

Spirit Heading To 'Home Plate'.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- Last week Spirit completed robotic-arm work on "El Dorado." The rover used all three of its spectrometers plus the microscopic imager for readings over the New Year's weekend. ...

Tiny Crystals Promise Big Benefits For Solar Technologies.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called carrier multiplication, in which semiconductor nanocrystals respond to photons by producing multiple...

Boeing GMD Team Places 10th Interceptor.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- A Boeing-led industry team and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have installed the 10th operational interceptor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, completing the...

CAGW Criticizes Subsidies For ULA Satellite Launches.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) have criticized the Air Force's plan to grant a multimillion annual subsidy through sole-source contracts for heavy satellite launches to United...

Congress Passes Bill For Hybrid Electric Military Vehicle.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PROVO, Utah, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Raser Technologies has welcomed the passage of HR2863 on December 21. With this final bill approved by Congress, it is anticipated that the President will sign it into law. Included in...

Delphi Provides Sat Radio Receivers For Canada.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Delphi has begun producing satellite radios for the Canadian market, supplying receivers to automakers that offer satellite radio as a vehicle option, as well as through retail channels. ...

Galileo GIOVEA Using Marotta Equipment For Its Propulsion Systems.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CHELTENHAM, England, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- Marotta UK is pleased to announce that it designed, developed and qualified equipment for the cold gas propulsion systems on board the Galileo GIOVE-A, part of Europe's Galileo...

Gilat Provides 2,400 Site VSAT Network For Major Brazilian Cosmetics Chain.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Gilat Satellite Networks has announced the implementation of an agreement with its long time customer Embratel, and its satellite subsidiary StarOne, to deploy a 2,400 site...

HE Space Operations To Market Spacehab Services Throughout Europe.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KATWIJK, The Netherlands, Jan. 9 (SPX) -- HE Space Operations have announced that they have signed an agreement with the USA-based Spacehab to market Spacehab's commercial space services throughout Europe. In the...

Hubble Shows More To North Star Than Meets The Eye.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10 (SPX) -- By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion to Polaris, known also as the North Star, for the...

Integral Identifies Supernova Rate For Milky Way.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GARCHING, Germany, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Using ESA's Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the production of radioactive aluminium (Al 26) in massive stars and supernovae...

ITT To Support DoD Missile Defense Agency.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- ITT Industries has announced it has received a contract from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command for lethality testing and criteria development in support of the...

L-3 Appoints Dr. William Johnson Pres Of ABS.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (SPX) -- L-3 Communications recently announced that Dr. William Johnson has been promoted to president of its Advanced Systems division. He will succeed Robert J. Whalen, who has retired from this...

Large Survey Of Galaxies Yields New Findings On Star Formation.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Jan. 10 (SPX) -- New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden...

LockMart/Netfires Tests Loitering Attack Missile Warhead.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DALLAS, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin, part of the NetFires with Raytheon, recently performed eight successful tests of the Non-Line-of-Sight - Launch System's Loitering Attack Missile Multiple Explosively Formed...

NanoViricides And Vietnamese Govt To Develop Bird Flu Virus Drug.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WEST HAVEN, CN, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- NanoViricides company officials recently met with senior officials in the Vietnam Government's Ministry of Health. These meetings resulted in the signing of Memoranda of Understanding...

New Legislation Considered To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing...

Orbcomm's Equity Financings Complete.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BREMEN, Germany, Jan. 6 (SPX) -- OHB Technology affiliated company Orbcomm has announced that it has completed equity financings totaling over $110 million led by Pacific Corporate Group (PCG), which committed $60...

Research Tracks Whales By Listening To Sounds.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 9 (SPX) -- Researchers have developed a new tool to help them study endangered whales - autonomous hydrophones that can be deployed in the ocean to record the unique clicks, pulses and calls of...

Rewriting Glacial History In Pacific North America.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Although the story on glacier fluctuations in northwestern North America over the last 10,000 years has remained largely unchanged for decades, new evidence discovered by a...

Scientists Probe Black Hole's Inner Sanctum.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CERRO PACHON, Chile, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- How does matter spiral its way to the center of a galaxy and into the mouth of a supermassive black hole? A new study provides the best glimpse yet at the death spiral of material...

Stratos Steps Closer To Xantic Acquisition.
January 10, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 5 (SPX) -- Stratos Global recently announced it had taken a step closer toward the completion of the acquisition of Xantic, having received positive advice from the Works' Council in the...

ASC Supplies Tsunami Warning System For Thailand.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MILWAUKEE, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- American Signal Corporation (ASC) has been invited to present and activate Thailand's first Tsunami Warning System during Thailand's Tsunami Commemorative Ceremony being held on the...

Astronomers Detect Largest Cluster Of Red Supergiants.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Astronomers said Monday they have discovered "an extraordinarily massive young stellar cluster" within the Milky Way containing at least 14 red supergiants - fast-living, quick dying stars...

Boeing Sea-Based X-Band Radar Arrives In Pearl Harbor.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Boeing has announced the arrival in Hawaii of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) built for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. This marks an interim stop in the vessel's transport operation,...

New Book Reveals How Engineers Saved Hughes Satellite On Christmas Day 1997.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- A former Hughes Spacecraft Company engineer, and part of a team which rescued a satellite - that went astray on Christmas Day, 1997 - with a daring maneuver that sent it to the moon and...

Comtech Receives Contract for Satellite Communications And Network Services.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a letter contract with a not-to-exceed ceiling value of $22.6...

Electric Hurricanes Get Weather Scientists Crackling.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in...

Falcon 1 To Launch February 8.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- The new launch time for Space X's maiden launch of its Falcon 1 rocket is February 8, at 4:30 p.m. California time, with Feb. 9 as a backup day. We will actually be...

Florida Tech, FSRI Receive $1.3 Million Federal Grant For Space Research.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- NASA's FY-2006 budget includes a $1.3 million grant, at Florida Congressman Dave Weldon's request, for a life sciences research collaboration between the Florida Institute of...

Future Combat Program Office Opening In El Paso.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Boeing and partner Science Applications International, functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, have announced the...

Globalstar Buys Central American Satellite Gateway Operator.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Globalstar recently announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Globalstar Americas Telecommunications, Globalstar Americas Holdings, and...

Intelsat Announces Appointments To Executive Team.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PEMBROKE, Bermuda, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Intelsat has announced key executive appointments that will be effective following the closing of Intelsat's planned acquisition of PanAmSat Holding Corporation. At the time...

Intricate Dance Of The Atmosphere And Oceans.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- New scientific findings are strengthening the case that the oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance, and that rapid climate change may be related to how vigorously...

LIGO Up And Running, But Gravity Waves Remain Elusive.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Scientists working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory said Monday the facility has reached its target detection sensitivity, but the goal of finding the elusive...

Magellanic Clouds And Dark Matter Warping The Milky Way.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- After nearly 50 years, astronomers have figured out what causes the mysterious and periodic warping of the structure of the Milky Way galaxy: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are...

New Legislation Initiated To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing...

Public To Look For Dust Grains In Stardust Detectors.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search...

Sloan Survey Identifies New Dwarf Galaxy Inside Milky Way.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (SPX) -- Astronomers using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have discovered a previously unknown cluster of stars within the Milky Way that appears to be a separate dwarf galaxy being consumed by its...

Soyuz To Launch Radarsat-2.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EVRY, France, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Starsem announced Monday the signing of a contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) for the launch of MDA's RADARSAT-2 Earth observation satellite by a Soyuz launch...

Researchers Confirm Role Of Massive Flood In Climate Change.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that...

USAF UAV Battlelab Sponsors Demo Of Proxy Aviation's SkyForce.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, Md., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Proxy Aviation Systems recently announced the United States Air Force (USAF) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab (UAVB) sponsored and cooperated in a demonstration of SkyForce, Proxy...

Boeing Announces Largest Satellite Contract In Nine Years With MSV.
January 13, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 12 (SPX) -- Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and Boeing announced Wednesday a major commercial contract award for three satellites and associated ground systems. Financial details of the award were...

Brewster Shaw Named As Boeing NASA Systems Leader.
January 13, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 12 (SPX) -- Brewster Shaw has been selected as vice president and general manager of the Boeing NASA Systems business unit. Shaw replaces Mike Mott who passed away in November 2005. Jim...

Cartwheel Galaxy Makes Waves In New NASA Image.
January 13, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 12 (SPX) -- A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer completes a multi-wavelength, neon-colored portrait of the enormous Cartwheel galaxy after a smaller galaxy plunged through it,...

'Darwinian Debt' May Explain Lack Of Fish Stock Recovery.
January 13, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers STONY BROOK, N.Y., Jan. 11 (SPX) -- Why does it take so long for fish stocks to recover from over-fishing? This problem has been worrying both scientists and fishery managers who expect stocks to quickly rebound when...