Space Daily articles from July 2009

Space Daily archives from July 2009

Thuraya's Advanced Network Provides Edge To Its Satellite Broadband Users.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jul 02, 2009, 2009 In the true global village that we live in today, hundreds of millions of emails and messages are exchanged over telecom networks, which sometimes leads to network congestion....

SES ASTRA Signs Long-Term Contract With BSkyB.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 01, 2009, 2009 SES ASTRA has announced that it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on ASTRA's 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using...

Largest Map Of Cold Dust Released.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 02, 2009, 2009 Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of...

Largest-Ever Telecommunications Satellite Launched.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 02, 2009, 2009 The Ariane 5's 31st consecutive mission success was another record-setting flight for this workhorse Arianespace launcher - lofting the world's largest commercial satellite,...

Intense Heat Killed The Universe's Would-Be Galaxies.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2009, 2009 Our Milky Way galaxy only survived because it was already immersed in a large clump of dark matter which trapped gases inside it, scientists led by Durham University's Institute for...

ILS Proton Launches SIRIUS FM-5 Satellite.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 02, 2009, 2009 ILS International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton. This was the third commercial mission of the year for...

DMCii Provides Researchers With Free Satellite Imagery.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Guildford, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2009, 2009 DMCii has announced the selection of 5 science projects that will receive free satellite imagery from the DMC satellite constellation. Satellite imaging is a powerful tool for...

Agroforestry Comes Of Age.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Madison WI (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Creating consumer markets for forest-grown products, reducing nonpoint source pollution, protecting waterfowl habitat, diversifying farm operations-these are just a few of the ways...

Ambassador Energy Introduces <Q>Business In A Box</Q>.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Murrieta CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Ambassador Energy is pleased to launch its proprietary sales and training program, the Ambassador Energy "Business in a Box." Recent advances in renewable energy technologies have...

Boeing Team To Develop Revolutionary Spacecraft Power System.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 An industry team led by Boeing has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for work on Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed...

Canada's Space Telescope Celebrates Birthday Number Six.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations...

City Information Directly On Your Mobile.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 This month, a start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre launched a new mobile phone service which provides, with the help of satellite and telecommunication...

Composites For Energy.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bristol, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Advanced composite materials are playing a vital role in improved design and reduced operating costs for renewable energy technologies. New research will highlight how wind, marine...

Dewey Completes Successful Super Trial.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pascagoula MS (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Northrop Grumman's Aegis guided missile destroyer Dewey (DDG 105) successfully completed her combined super trial last week in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful sea trial paved...

Festive Ceremony Inaugurates University Programs At NASA Ames.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain...

First Flight Of Land-Based MQ-8B Fire Scout.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 A Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS), designated P7, has successfully completed first flight operations at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz....

GOES-O Satellite Launched With e2v Image Sensors.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Essex, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 e2v has supplied image sensors for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, which launched on 26 June 2009. GOES-0 is the latest in a series of satellites that...

Guidepoint Launches New Services For Dealerships.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pontiac MI (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 GuidePoint Systems has announced the launch of two new GPS-based products aimed at helping car dealerships protect their loaner cars and unsold vehicle inventory - but also increase...

Hertz Ensures Its Customers Are NeverLost.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Hertz vehicle rental customers across Europe will soon benefit from a new version of the unique satellite navigation system Hertz NeverLost (Version 3), with 4,000 new units...

ISS Appearing Nationwide Over July 4 Weekend.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 As America celebrates its 233rd birthday this holiday weekend, there will be an extra light in the sky along with the fireworks. Across the country, Americans will be treated to...

IXYS Announces Taking Delivery Of Tesla Electric Car.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Biel, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 IXYS has announced that it has taken delivery of a Tesla electric vehicle. As part of IXYS's global initiative to support the "Cleantech" industry and reduce its CO2...

IYA2009 Raises Millions Of Eyes To The Skies.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) reaches its six-month milestone, over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for the first...

Largest Ever Survey Of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the...

Linking Climate And Habitability.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Anuradha K. Herath for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 From the streets of New York City to the rivers in India to the glaciers in South America, humans are warming the planet by emitting more and...

LockMart Awarded Concept Development Contract For USAF Space Fence.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations...

LockMart Awarded Contract For Paveway II E-LGTRs.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Archbald PA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $16.5 million order to deliver paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (E-LGTR) to the U.S. Navy. This award represents the fourth...

LRO Sends First Lunar Images To Earth.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras - a low resolution Wide Angle...

Mangrove-Dependent Animals Globally Threatened.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction, according to an...

NACEL Energy Announces Fifth Texas Wind Power Project.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Denver CO (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 NACEL Energy has confirmed it has entered into four long term wind development rights agreements covering 1025 acres in Donley County, Texas. Leila Lakes is the Company's fifth Texas...

New Heat Transfer Appliance For Commercial Solar Hot Water Projects.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Richmond CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 California based solar hot water manufacturer Heliodyne has introduced its newest line of Plug and Play heat transfer appliances, the Commercial Solar Station (HCOM). The HCOM is a...

Perpetual Power Completes Solar-Powered Water Pumping Systems.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cypress CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics USA and Perpetual Power (P2) have announced the completion of four solar-powered deep water wells at Limoneira Company's Ducor Ranch. The four...

Plants Put Limit On Ice Ages.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists...

QuantaSol Unveils 28.3% Efficient Single-Junction Solar Cell.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Kingston-Upon-Thames, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 QuantaSol has developed what it believes to be the most efficient single junction solar cell ever manufactured. Developed in just two years, QuantaSol's...

Raytheon AIM-9X Block I And II Contract Gives Warfighters Edge.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $166.9 million contract for Lot 9 production and delivery of the AIM-9X infrared-guided air-to-air missile. The firm-fixed-price contract will...

Rocket Launch Helps Prepare MSU Faculty For Training Students.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Three Montana State University instructors who want to help future scientists and engineers develop experiments for space recently launched experiments of their own. During a...

Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers. The world's largest commercial...

Seasonal Hunger Devastating And Under-Recognized.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week...

Sprint Is Exclusive Wireless Data Provider For 2010 Census.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Overland Park KS (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Every ten years, the U.S. Census is required by law to collect and count data in an accurate, timely and efficient manner. To further boost accuracy and efficiency, Harris...

Super-Size Deposits Of Frozen Carbon Threat To Climate Change.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The vast amount of carbon stored in the arctic and boreal regions of the world is more than double that previously estimated, according to a study published this week. The...

The 90-Year Evolution Of Swine Flu.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The current H1N1 swine flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa, report infectious disease experts at the...

The Least Sea Ice In 800 Years.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so...

Trimble Offers Affordable Outdoor GPS Lifestyle Apps.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Offering adventure seekers and fitness enthusiasts another reason to love the great outdoors, Trimble has announced that its Trimble Outdoors family of lifestyle applications are...

Tunnel Vision.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Criminals of all kinds are digging tunnels along the U.S. border at a fast and furious pace. Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, 60 percent have been...

Ulysses Provides 12 Extra Months Of Valuable Science.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 In 2008, Ulysses was expected to cease functioning due to weakening power. But solid engineering know-how and on-the-fly innovation have eked out an additional year of important...

Underwater Robots Identify Potential Threats In Murky Waters.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Novel underwater laser networking and imaging technologies being developed by scientists at the Ocean Visibility and Optics Laboratory at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at...

World's Largest LNG/CNG Truck Fueling Station Opens.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Seal Beach CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 The world's largest natural gas truck fueling station, designed and built by Clean Energy Fuels is now open for business on a 2.9-acre site adjacent to the Ports of Long Beach...

World's Largest Solar Power Station Officially Inaugurated.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 On 1 July 2009 the solar-thermal power station Andasol 1, located in the Spanish province of Granada in Andalusia, was officially inaugurated. At the present time, Andasol 1 is...

XMM-Newton Discovers A New Class Of Black Holes.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses, a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier...

Zooming In To Catch The Bad Guys.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jul 03, 2009, 2009 It's a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist....

A Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Manoa HI (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Two University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a...

Ambassador Energy Introduces <Q>Business In A Box</Q>.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Murrieta CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Ambassador Energy is pleased to launch its proprietary sales and training program, the Ambassador Energy "Business in a Box." Recent advances in renewable energy technologies have...

Cooking Up Creation In A Computer.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Leslie Mullen for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 The power of computer processing could one day solve the riddle of life's origin. Scientists think life appeared about 4 billion years ago, and...

Coolest Spacecraft Ever In Orbit Around L2.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05 degrees C, making them the coldest known objects in...

Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300...

Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens Of Pulsars.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies published in the July...

NASA Phoenix Results Point To Martian Climate Cycles.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last...

New Heat Transfer Appliance For Commercial Solar Hot Water Projects.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Richmond CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 California based solar hot water manufacturer Heliodyne has introduced its newest line of Plug and Play heat transfer appliances, the Commercial Solar Station (HCOM). The HCOM is a...

Perpetual Power Completes Solar-Powered Water Pumping Systems.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cypress CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics USA and Perpetual Power (P2) have announced the completion of four solar-powered deep water wells at Limoneira Company's Ducor Ranch. The four...

Pinpointing Origin Of Gamma Rays From Supermassive Black Hole.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Amado AZ (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 An international collaboration of 390 scientists reports the discovery of an outburst of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M87),...

QuantaSol Unveils 28.3% Efficient Single-Junction Solar Cell.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Kingston-Upon-Thames, UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 QuantaSol has developed what it believes to be the most efficient single junction solar cell ever manufactured. Developed in just two years, QuantaSol's...

Scientists Find A Biological Fountain Of Youth.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Antonio TX (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history - significantly longer lifespans. ...

Seeking Synergy To Return To The Moon.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Madhu Thangavelu Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009, 2009 At the start of the Obama administration, our young and energetic president made clear that NASA must shed its ennui and business as usual attitude and get back to executing...

Astronomers Unravel Stories Behind Three Munch Masterpieces.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Marcos TX (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has long been a favorite of Texas State University-San Marcos faculty members Don Olson and Russell Doescher. In 2003, the physics...

Astronomy Question Of The Week: How Long Will The Sun Continue To Shine.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 A shining and 'well functioning' Sun is critical for our survival on Earth. The Sun was formed almost five billion years ago. At that time, a gas and dust cloud became so...

ATCi's Warrior Satellite Surveillance And Monitoring System.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Antenna Technology Communications has announced the deployment of its Warrior Satellite Monitoring and Surveillance System specific for the law enforcement agency markets. The...

B And W Subsidiary Awarded Contract To Downblend Highly Enriched Uranium.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 McDermott International has announced that a subsidiary of The Babcock and Wilcox Company ("B and W") has been awarded a contract to downblend over 12 metric tons of highly enriched...

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Energy Facility Gets Final Approval.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued a key approval for a proposed new nuclear energy facility at Calvert Cliffs in southern Maryland, a project that would...

Climate Most Significant Factor In Fanning Wildfires' Flames.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Portland OR (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship...

CSIRO Astronomers Reveal A 'Blue Whale Of Space'.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon. The...

Excalibur Ib Demonstrates Accuracy During First Guided-Flight Tests.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Yuma Proving Ground AZ (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Raytheon fired two precision-guided projectiles from a Paladin gun system during the first guided flight test of the Raytheon Excalibur Ib program. The Excalibur Ib...

First Step To Converting Solar Energy Using 'Artificial Leaf'.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able...

GE Energy's Gas Engines Generating Electricity In California.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Half Moon Bay CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 One of California's most powerful landfill gas-to-energy projects to open in the last five years has started supplying renewable electricity to the San Francisco Bay region as...

Life Likes Nickel.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Nickel, an important trace nutrient for the single cell organisms that produce methane, may be a useful isotopic marker to pinpoint the past origins of these methanogenic...

Loss Of Coastal Seagrass Habitat Accelerating Globally.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cambridge MD (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 An international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems....

New 'Space Internet' Protocols On ISS Tested.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's...

New Unmanned Baby Sub To Protect Coastal Waters.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 In a move to help combat the growing threat of explosive mines hidden in shallow coastal waters such as ports and harbours and to increase the protection available to world...

Proba-2's Journey To Russia Marks Its First Step Towards Space.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland. Its development and testing complete, the satellite is being packed...

Successful Operational NATO Assessment Of Eurofighter Wing.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Grosseto, Italy (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Excellent results were achieved after the first operational evaluation made by NATO of a Eurofighter Typhoon Wing. A NATO evaluation team certified the Italian Air Force's 4th...

ThyssenKrupp Receives Major Submarine Order From Turkey.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 A contract has been signed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW) and MarineForce International for the delivery of six material packages for the construction of Class 214...

UA Scientists' Film Chronicles Minority Astronomers.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Jeff Harrison Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Two astronomers at The University of Arizona will screen their 45-minute documentary this week on the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA on the careers of one specific...

Venture Capital Investment In Green Technologies Rebounds.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 07, 2009, 2009 Greentech Media released the most recent quarterly data showing that venture capital investment in green technologies totaled $1.2 billion in 85 deals in the second quarter of...