Space Daily articles from January 2008

Space Daily archives from January 2008

100 Years Of German Aerospace.(Interview)
January 1, 2008... Byline: AN INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOHANN-DIETRICH WORNER BONN, Germany, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- Professor Worner, this year the German Aerospace Center has been celebrating 100 years of German aerospace research. What have been DLR's main...

ESA Training Team ATV.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers TOULOUSE, France, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- A multinational team of ground controllers are undergoing intense training for the launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), one of the most complex spacecraft ever built...

Hubble To Get Custom-Made Blankets.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- The Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, scheduled for August 2008, aims to complete multiple upgrades and repairs, many of which are crucial for prolonging the...

NASA Glast Satellite Gets Unwrapped For The Holidays.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- Everyone likes getting high-tech presents for Christmas and Hanukkah, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington received a wonderful present this year - NASA's Gamma-ray Large...

NASA J-2X Powerpack Testing Commences At Stennis Space Center.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers BAY ST. LOUIS, MS, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- On Dec. 18, NASA began testing core components of a rocket engine from the Apollo era on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss....

Polarization Technique Focuses Limelight On Exo Planet Atmospheres.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Svetlana Berdyugina of ETH Zurich's Institute of Astronomy, has for the first time ever been able to detect and...

Progress M-62 docks Space Station.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, Dec. 31, 2007 (SPX) -- Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-62, after three days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Proximity operations, final approach maneuvers and docking...

2009 To Be The International Year Of Astronomy.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Yesterday, the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy, with the aim of increasing awareness among the public of the importance of...

A Mimas Of A View Out Saturn Way.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The Cassini spacecraft peers through the fine, smoke-sized ice particles of Saturn's F ring toward the cratered face of Mimas. The F ring's core, which contains significantly larger...

A Young Extrasolar Planet In Its Cosmic Nursery.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers HEIDELBERG, Germany, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have discovered the youngest known extrasolar planet. Its host star is still surrounded by the disk of gas and...

Australia Plans For New Defence Materials Technology Centre.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel and Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, announced the establishment of an $82...

BAE Systems Completes Two Test Firings Of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Two BAE Systems-built Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guided rockets were successfully test-fired from a U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior helicopter on Dec. 13. These...

Boeing Submits Final KC-767 Advanced Tanker Proposal To USAF.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Boeing submitted its final KC-767 Advanced Tanker (AT) proposal for the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 Tanker Replacement Program. "We have completed this KC-X process the way we began it -- by...

Boeing To Build A Sixth Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Boeing has announced that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option for a sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite and has authorized Boeing to begin construction. The Commonwealth of...

Carbon Sink Capacity In Northern Forests Reduced By Global Warming.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- An international study investigating the carbon sink capacity of northern terrestrial ecosystems discovered that the duration of the net carbon uptake period (CUP) has on average decreased...

Clark School Researchers Develop Two-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an...

Deep Impact Zooms By Earth On Route To Comet Hartley 2.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers COLLEGE PARK, MD, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- This New Year's Eve the University of Maryland-led Deep Impact team will again celebrate a holiday in a way that few can match, when their Deep Impact spacecraft "buzzes" the Earth on...

Deep-Sea Species' Loss Could Lead To Oceans' Collapse.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers MARCHE, Italy, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current...

Earthquake Memory Could Spur Aftershocks.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves-the sounds radiated from...

Eco-Tec's Biogas Purification Technology Part Of RGMRM's Innovative Greenhouse Gas-to-Energy Project.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers PICKERING, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Eco-Tec is proud to announce that it has recently been awarded the contract for a biogas purification system by Regie de gestion des matieres residuelles de la Mauricie (RGMRM) of Quebec....

Energy Bill Biofuels Mandates Will Be Achievable With Biotechnology Advances.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The new renewable fuel standard (RFS) calling for production of 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022 will help accelerate development of advanced industrial biotechnology applications...

First-Ever Study To Link Increased Mortality Specifically To CO2 Emissions.
January 4, 2008... Byline: STANFORD CA (SPX) JAN 04, 2008 A STANFORD SCIENTIST HAS SPELLED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME THE DIRECT LINKS BETWEEN INCREASED LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND INCREASES IN HUMAN MORTALITY, Using a state-of-the-art computer...

First US Commercial Wave Energy Power Purchase Agreement.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has entered into a long-term, two megawatt (MW) commercial wave energy power purchasing agreement (PPA) with Finavera Renewables....

Fisheries Should Be Regarded As A Part Of The Maritime Environment.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment. On the other hand, changes in the environment, e.g. the increase of fish-eating...

Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- In America, helium is running out of gas. The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world's largest reserve, outside of...

Hybrid Semiconductors Show Zero Thermal Expansion.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ARGONNE, Ill., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The fan in your computer is there to keep the microprocessor chip from heating to the point where its component materials start to expand, inducing cracks that interrupt the flow of...

Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may...

Insects' Giant Leap Reconstructed By Founder Of Sociobiology.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes an article by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for a new perspective on the evolution of advanced social organization in some ants, bees,...

ITT Delivers New GPS Payload To Lockheed Martin For Satellite Integration.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- GPS navigation payload provider, ITT Corporation, has delivered a new demonstration payload for a modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to Lockheed...

Latvia Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For Two Long-Range Air Surveillance Radars.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers SYRACUSE, NY, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin received a contract valued at $44 million from the Latvian National Armed Forces for two long-range AN/TPS-77 transportable air surveillance radar systems, as well as...

LIGO Sheds Light On Cosmic Event.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of...

Lockheed Martin Advances Biometrics Portfolio Through Cooperation Agreement With Cognitec.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has further advanced its capabilities and offerings in biometrics solutions through a cooperation agreement with Cognitec Systems, a leader in facial recognition...

Looking Back And Looking Forward.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- 2007 has been another year of scientific discovery. Every one of the science missions in operation has produced new results in many fields of astronomy. The International Heliophysical Year has...

MRAP Vehicle Orders Soar.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The Department of Defense has announced contracts for an additional 3,126 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles to be manufactured and completed by end of July 2008. Four...

New Observations Slightly Decrease Mars Impact Probability.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Don Yeomans, Paul Chodas and Steve Chesley PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Additional position observations for asteroid 2007 WD5 taken on December 29 through January 2 have been used to improve the accuracy of the asteroid's...

North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability; But Global Warming May Be At Play Elsewhere.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In...

Northrop Grumman Awarded Billion Dollar Contract To Build Ninth San Antonio-Class Ship.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers PASCAGOULA, Mich., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has received a $1 billion U.S. Navy shipbuilding contract to build a ninth San Antonio (LPD 17)-class ship. This 47-month, fixed-price incentive contract...

Northrop Grumman To Repair Damaged Sentry E-3D Aircraft.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract from the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Sentry Integrated Project Team (IPT) for the repair of a Sentry E-3D aircraft, which suffered significant...

Orbital-Built Horizons-2 Communications Satellite Launched.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, VA, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences reports that the Horizons-2 satellite was successfully launched into orbit during a mission that took place December 21, 2007. The Horizons-2 spacecraft was delivered into...

Pioneering Galileo Satellite Begins Third Year In Orbit.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers GUILDFORD, England, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The first satellite in Europe's Galileo satellite navigation programme has achieved two years of highly successful in-orbit operation. GIOVE-A secured a crucial Galileo frequency...

Plate Tectonics May Take A Break.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that...

Radar Equipment From EADS To Be Deployed On TanDEM-X Satellite.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers NEWPORT, Wales, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- EADS Defence and Security (DS) will equip the Earth observation satellite TanDEM-X with a special sophisticated radar system. The corresponding contract worth 26 million euros was...

Raytheon Completes Testing Of US Navy's New Ship Control Segment For The MQ-8B Fire Scout.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Raytheon recently completed initial testing of the Tactical Control System's (TCS) command and control capabilities for the U.S. Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. The...

Raytheon Launches 360-Degree Sensor To Enhance Border Security Capabilities.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Raytheon has launched the first wide-area, long-range sensor that provides an unblinking 360-degree view of target areas. The Eagle-300(TM) sensor, which Raytheon is manufacturing for...

Raytheon Wins Army Precision-Guided Projectile Development Contract.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Raytheon, teamed with General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, has been selected by the U.S. Army to develop the XM 1111 Mid-Range Munition for the Future Combat Systems' Mounted Combat...

Red Dust In Planet-Forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old...

Researchers Investigate Supercritical Method Of Converting Chicken Fat And Tall Oil Fatty Acid Into Biodiesel.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have investigated supercritical methanol as a method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel fuel. The new study also...

Resilience Concepts Poised To Aid Management Of Coastal Marine Ecosystems.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled "Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems." The four articles in the section highlight different aspects...

SAAB's 9LV Combat Management System Operational In Lockheed Martin Canada's Navy Combat System Integration Lab.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers MONTREAL, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and Saab Systems announced that Saab's 9LV Combat Management System is operational in Lockheed Martin Canada's Combat System Integration Lab in Montreal. The 9LV provides a...

Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From the Ocean Floor Near Santa Barbara.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara. About half of these bubbles dissolve into the ocean,...

Scientists Find Missing Evolutionary Link Using Tiny Fungus Crystal.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. By...

Sea Launch Continues Thuraya-3 Mission.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port, for the rescheduled Thuraya-3 mission. Liftoff is now planned for January 15, in a...

Shuttle Managers To Discuss STS-122 Mission.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Space shuttle managers will meet Thursday to evaluate test results to date from analysis of the electrical connector suspected of causing issues in space shuttle Atlantis' fuel sensor...

Spirit's West Valley Panorama.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007. After several months near the base of the...

Stanford's Nanowire Battery Holds 10 Times The Charge Of Existing Ones.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless...

Stardust Formed Close To Sun.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LIVERMORE, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Samples of the material picked up during the NASA Stardust mission indicate that parts of the comet Wild 2 actually formed in an area close to the sun. New research by an...

Study Says 2000 Tigers Possible In Thailand.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Thailand's Western Forest Complex - a 6,900 square mile (18,000 square kilometers) network of parks and wildlife reserves - can potentially support some 2,000 tigers, making it one of the...

Third Instrument For NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Arrives At Goddard.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Rani Gran GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- The third and final instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has joined the other two at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly...

Top 10 Advances In Materials Science In The Last 50 Years.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers OXFORD, England, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- What are the defining discoveries and great developments that are shaping the way we use materials and technologies today? Elsevier's Materials today magazine has compiled a list of...

Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellular Life.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that...

Two Milestones Reached For Integration Of High-Energy Laser With MDA's Airborne Laser Aircraft.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has achieved two milestones that helped prepare the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft for integration of the Northrop...

UCLA Scientists Working To Create Smaller, Faster Integrated Circuits.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- Integrated circuits are the "brain" in computers, cell phones, DVD players, iPhones, personal digital assistants, automobiles' navigation systems and anti-lock brakes, and many other...

UK And France Launch New Partnership On Future Guided Weapons Technology.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, Jan. 4 (SPX) -- Britain and France announced a new multi-million pound initiative in European defence research collaboration, with the formation of an Innovation and Technology Partnership (ITP) focused on...

ViaSat Signs Distribution Agreements With Rockwell Collins And ARINC.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 4 (SPX) -- ViaSat has signed new distribution agreements with Rockwell Collins and ARINC to supply business jets with ViaSat airborne broadband terminals and satellite services. The agreements...

White Dwarf Pulses Like A Pulsar.
January 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, MD, Jan. 3 (SPX) -- New observations from Suzaku, a joint Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA X-ray observatory, have challenged scientists' conventional understanding of white dwarfs....

Akeena Solar Licenses New Solar Panel Technology To Suntech.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- Akeena Solar announced that its state-of-the-art solar panel technology, Andalay, will be distributed in Europe, Japan and Australia under a license agreement with Suntech Power...

Babcock And Brown And BP Announce Full Commercial Operation Of One Of The Largest Wind Farms In The US.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers GROVER, Colo., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- Babcock and Brown and BP Alternative Energy announced full commercial operation of the Cedar Creek wind farm in Weld County, Colorado. The 300.5 megawatt (MW) wind-power facility has...

BAE Systems Awarded Contract To Evaluate Missile Defense System On US Passenger Aircraft.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- BAE Systems has received a $29 million award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to test an infrared aircraft missile defense system on passenger aircraft. The tests will...

China Solar Energy Industry Research And Forecast For 2008-2010.(Industry overview)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of China Solar Energy Industry Research and Forecast, 2008-2010 to their offering. Solar is one of the fastest growing energy...

Earth Biofuels Subsidiary Receives Renewable LNG Output From Landfill Project.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers DALLAS, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- Earth Biofuels announced that its subsidiary, Applied LNG Technologies, has begun receiving regular deliveries of the output of renewable liquefied natural gas ("LNG") produced from a landfill...

Evolution Education Is A Must Says Coalition Of Scientific And Teaching Organizations.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- A coalition of 17 organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, is calling on the scientific...

MIT Finds Key To Avian Flu In Humans.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu...

MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aircraft For UK.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- On December 19, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the United Kingdom of MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aircraft as well as...

New Sunspot Is Harbinger Of New Solar Cycle, Increasing Risk For Electrical Systems.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones...

NOAA To Ensure Global Navigation Satellite System Accuracy.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- NOAA will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 global positioning satellites in Earth orbit, which is vital to ensuring the accuracy of GPS data that...

Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have achieved a new milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, by launching and operating three long-duration flights...

SERVIR: NASA Lends A Hand In Central America.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Dauna Coulter GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 7 (SPX) -- Earlier this year, NASA researcher Dan Irwin stepped off a plane in Guatemala and found, to his surprise, that he was running for mayor. It seems the people of San Andres had put his...

TOW-2A/B Radio Frequency Missiles For Kuwait.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait of TOW-2A/B Radio Frequency Missiles as well as associated equipment and services....

Tri-State Biodiesel To Provide Biodiesel Fuel To NYC Mobile-Grocer FreshDirect.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- New York City's first biodiesel company, Tri-State Biodiesel, is proud to announce that it will be filling FreshDirect's delivery trucks with clean-burning biodiesel blended fuel. The...

Various Munitions And Weapon Systems For UAE.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (SPX) -- On December 19, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the United Arab Emirates of various munitions and weapon systems as well as...

Alternative Fuel Demand Boosts Prices Of Forest Products.
January 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 8 (SPX) -- Power companies in the South and Pacific Northwest will drive prices for wood fuels higher as new facilities are built to produce an energy alternative to fossil fuels, experts in the...

Boeing Responds To MDA's GMD Information Request.
January 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUISE, Mo., Jan. 8 (SPX) -- Boeing has responded to a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) request for industry feedback on the follow-on Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Boeing submitted its response to...

Ecology And Environment's Greenride Grows Bigger And More High-Tech.
January 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers LANCASTER, N.Y., Jan. 8 (SPX) -- Ecology and Environment (E and E) recently received several key contracts to develop customized versions of the company's commute management system, GreenRide. GreenRide provides users...

Electric Sand Findings Could Lead To Better Climate Models.
January 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 8 (SPX) -- Wind isn't acting alone in the geological process behind erosion, sand dunes and airborne dust particles called aerosols. The other culprit is electricity. By taking both factors into...