Space Daily articles from June 2005

Space Daily archives from June 2005

Getting Ready For Comet Tempel To Be "Bombed".
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 1 (SPX) -- On July 4, 2005, the NASA Deep Impact spacecraft will visit Comet 9P/Tempel 1. It will launch a 360 kilogram (kg) impactor that should produce a crater on the surface of the comet and a plume of...

ESA - The First 30 Years.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NOORDWIJK, The Netherlands, June 1 (SPX) -- Of the 1454 people working at ESA when it began on 31 May 1975, 206 are still working for the Agency. Recently the ESA Portal spoke to two of them to hear about life at ESA...

Observations Reveal Aspherical Supernova Explosion As Possible Source Of GRB.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MAUNA KEA, Hawaii, June 1 (SPX) -- An international collaboration of researchers with participation of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics has confirmed their prediction that massive stars can explode highly...

Garmin Introduces The GPSMAP 3005C.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers OLATHE, Kan., May 25 (SPX) -- Garmin International, a unit of Garmin introduced last Tuesday the GPSMAP 3005C, a value-priced multifunction display (MFD) for use within the powerful Garmin Marine Network. ...

GPS Tracks Lost Pets; GlobalPetFinder Provides Security to Pet Owners.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers JERICHO, N.Y., June 1 (SPX) -- GPS Tracks announced Monday the availability of the first patented GPS location device for pets, GlobalPetFinder. The device provides pet owners with the security of always knowing the...

New Globalstar Solution Helps Speed Up Internet Connection.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MILPITAS, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Globalstar announced Monday the release of its Express Data service. Express Data is a subscription-based service that allows users to send email, transfer files and browse the...

ISS Crew Practice Shuttle Photography And Fluid Experiments.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, May 30 (SPX) -- The Expedition 11 crew entered its seventh week in space last Friday. The crew wrapped up a week highlighted by research, maintenance and training for photography tasks. Commander Sergei...

A Vacuous Bluster Keeps Mars Finely Dusted.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 31 (SPX) -- A dust devil spins across the surface of Gusev Crater just before noon on Mars. NASA's Spirit rover took the series of images in this 21-frame animation with its navigation camera on...

Messenger Takes A Peek At Earth.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., June 1 (SPX) -- NASA's Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft - less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system - successfully tested its main camera by...

SSC's Telescience Communication System Supports Experiments On Foton-M2.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ESRANGE, Sweden, June 1 (SPX) -- The Russian spacecraft Foton-M2 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Tuesday at 12.00 UTC. The spacecraft carries a communication system, called Telescience...

King Controls Sues KVH for Patent Infringement.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, June 1 (SPX) -- King Controls, a manufacturer of mobile satellite antennae systems for land and marine markets, filed a patent suit, Monday, against KVH Industries in Minnesota Federal District Court for...

Spacehab Announces Gain from Sale Leaseback Transaction.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, May 27 (SPX) -- Spacehab announced last Thursday that it has successfully completed a sale-leaseback transaction for its Houston-based headquarters building resulting in a gain of more than $1.0 million. ...

Carina Nebula Dust Pillars Harbor Embedded Stars.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., May 31 (SPX) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust...

World's Largest Solar Electric Power Plant.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- SunPower has announced that SOLON has opened Phase One of the world's largest solar electric plant in Bavaria near Arnstein, Germany. Solarpark Gut Erlasse is a 12 MW solar electric...

$2bn In Renewable Energy Exports For Green Energy Resources.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTINGTON, N.Y., June 2 (SPX) -- Green Energy Resources is poised for a $2 billion dollar, 40 million ton, 10 year, 3 stage phase in deal in Europe. The contract begins in 2006 and escalates in volumes as 3 biomass...

Difficult Beginnings: Europe, Quo Vadis?
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 1 (SPX) -- Europe's successes in space are all the more remarkable in that they have been achieved against a background of diverging interests, with scientific, political and economic considerations on the...

Astronomers Hot On The Trail Of Nature's Exotic Flashers.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, June 1 (SPX) -- Astronomers have uncovered tantalizing insights into the origin of short gamma-ray bursts - mysterious, split-second high-energy flashes that have eluded detailed study until now. ...

Leading Theories Of Cosmic Explosions Contradicted In A Flash.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, June 1 (SPX) -- Observations of a cosmic explosion detected on Feb. 15 by two NASA satellites have thrown into doubt one popular explanation for such explosions, and have also seriously weakened the argument...

Dmatek GPS Tracking System Piloted in Australia.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, June 1 (SPX) -- Dmatek announced Tuesday a new pilot of its real-time GPS offender tracking system, STaR, in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. The STaR system is developed and manufactured by Elmo-Tech, a...

Inmarsat To Seek Listing On The London Stock Exchage With IPO Of Shares.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, June 2 (SPX) -- Inmarsat has announced its intention to proceed with an initial public offering of shares and to seek a full listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. JP Morgan Cazenove and...

GAO Report Criticizes NASA For ISS Resupply Studies.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 2 (SPX) -- The NASA's space shuttle fleet has been key to International Space Station operations. Since the grounding of the fleet in February 2003, Russia has provided logistics support. However,...

Icy Jupiter Moon Throws A Curve Ball At Formation Theories.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter's moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water. Scientists expected moons closer to the...

NASA Selects New Frontiers Mission Concept Study.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- NASA announced Wednesday that a mission to fly to Jupiter will proceed to a preliminary design phase. The mission is called Juno, and it is the second in NASA's New Frontiers Program....

Ancient Floods On Mars: Where Iani Chaos Opens Into Ares Vallis.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 2 (SPX) -- These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show a large depression called Iani Chaos and the upper reaches of a large outflow channel...

Scientists Monitor Largest Red Tide Outbreak in 12 Years in Massachusetts Bay.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MIAMI, June 2 (SPX) -- With shellfish beds from Maine to the Cape Cod coast closed from the largest outbreak of red tide in 12 years in Massachusetts Bay, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...

LockMart And Aerojet Complete Atlas V Block B Solid Rocket Booster Test.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SACRAMENTO, June 2 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and Aerojet have successfully conducted the second test firing of the Atlas V upgraded Block B Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). The test firing was performed May 24 at Edwards...

Researchers See Upwellings That Could Be Root Of Volcanic Islands.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TEMPE, Ariz., June 2 (SPX) -- Deep within Earth, researchers are finding hints of exotic materials and behaviors unrivaled anywhere else on the planet. Now a team of researchers is making connections between the...

MathWorks Tools Helps Design UAV Testbed.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NATICK, Mass., June 1 (SPX) -- MathWorks reports that its aerospace software has enabled Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems Sector to develop the Northrop Grumman Trajectory Generation (NGTG) software package of...

Sanswire Networks Moves To Palmdale Ahead Of High Altitude Airship Launch.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 1 (SPX) -- GlobeTel Communication's wholly owned subsidiary, Sanswire Networks, announced Wednesday that it has finished its planned move from San Bernandino to Palmdale, California, in...

Rapid-Scanning Doppler On Wheels Keeps Pace With Twisters.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., June 2 (SPX) -- A multibeam Doppler radar that can scan tornadic storms every 5 to 10 seconds is prowling the Great Plains through June 30 in search of its first close-up tornado. Engineers at the...

Spitzer And Hubble Spy Deep Impact Target.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 3 (SPX) -- On July 4, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will attempt an extraordinarily daring encounter with the far-flung comet Tempel 1, which is hurtling through space at tens of thousands of...

Green Diesel: New Process Makes Liquid Transportation Fuel From Plants.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., June 3 (SPX) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering researchers have discovered a new way to make a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. Reporting...

Inventory Established For European Space Test Facilities.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 2 (SPX) -- The ESTEC Test Centre is one of the four major test centres in Europe for the verification of spacecraft at system level, the others being Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft (IABG), INTESPACE...

Canadian Arrow Has Received Permission To Launch From Cape Rich.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Ontario, June 3 (SPX) -- Canadian Arrow has been granted permission to use Cape Rich located on the tip of Canadian Forces Meaford Range and Training Area for rocket test flights. Cape Rich is an ideal...

Dinosaur Fossil Bone Leads To Gender, Age Determinations.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers RALEIGH, N.C., June 3 (SPX) -- It's a girl... and she's pregnant! Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young...

Gram-Negative Bacteria Shoot Their Way Into Cells.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 2 (SPX) -- The bacteria that cause food poisoning, bubonic plague, and whooping cough all deploy the same weapon to infect the body. A molecular "syringe" sticks out of the bacteria, pokes a...

Drugs From The Deep Blue.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DAVIS, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- For Tadeusz Molinski, the sea is full of riches - and he does not mean oil fields or fisheries. Molinski, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Davis, is searching...

Midday Sun Holds The Key To Good Health.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, June 2 (SPX) -- British scientists at The University of Manchester have unveiled new research which claims that going out in the midday sun, without sunscreen, is good for you. The research, led by...

Spirit, The Problem Child.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- "Spirit is the problem child, so to speak. It took us a lot longer to reach our science objectives with Spirit, but it's really coming into its own right now. In the first...

Northrop Grumman Electronic Warfare Upgrade For Ships Gets Go-Ahead.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOLLYWOOD, Md., June 3 (SPX) -- The U.S. Navy has approved Northrop Grumman's AN/SLQ-32(V) Electronic Surveillance Enhancement (ESE) for low-rate initial production. John Young, assistant secretary of the Navy for...

SpaceX and NASA Sign Cooperative Agreement on Human Spaceflight Development.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 3 (SPX) -- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announced Thursday the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA regarding development of human spaceflight hardware. SpaceX and Johnson...

G2 Satellite Solutions Launches Global iDirect Network.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 2 (SPX) -- G2 Satellite Solutions G2, PanAmSat's wholly owned subsidiary focused on providing communications solutions to the US government, announced Wednesday the launch of a new global managed...

Northrop Grumman Starts Construction Of Its X-47B J-UCAS UAV.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, June 3 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has started construction of its X-47B Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) aircraft, the world's first unmanned surveillance attack aircraft that can operate from both...

Harris Team Awarded $6.6 Million Airborne Laser Radar R&D Contract.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., June 3 (SPX) -- Harris Corporation announced Thursday that it has been awarded a $6.6 million research and development contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to develop...

Towards A Small Aircraft Transportation System For The 21st Century.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 6 (SPX) -- Imagine taking a safe, fast, small airplane from a neighborhood airport to visit your family 600 miles away. Imagine almost door-to-door, on-demand service that means you may never see a...

Arctic Sentinels Help Monitor Polar Changes.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 5 (SPX) -- It is bitterly cold and the wind seems to sear through one's duffle coat. EuroNews has brought its cameras into the Arctic wilderness of the Svalbard archipelago. The North Pole is barely 1000...

Dissapearing Arctic Lakes Linked To Climate Change.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 5 (SPX) -- Continued arctic warming may be causing a decrease in the number and size of Arctic lakes. The issue is the subject of a paper published in the June 3 issue of the journal "Science."...

Researchers Develop New Concept For Single Molecule Transistor.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EDMONTON, Alberta, June 2 (SPX) -- Molecular electronics - using molecules in the construction of electronic circuitry - just took a significant step closer to reality. Principal investigator Dr. Robert Wolkow,...

Space Telescopes Sharpen View Of Deep Impact Target.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- On July 4th, the University of Maryland-led NASA mission known as Deep Impact will get its one and only shot at its target, comet Tempel 1. Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn and...

The Largest Ever Model Of The Universe Created.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, June 6 (SPX) -- The Virgo consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and the USA released June 2nd, the first results from the largest and most realistic...

NASA Scientists Confirm Liquid Water On Early Earth.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 6 (SPX) -- Research funded partly by NASA has confirmed the existence of liquid water on the Earth's surface more than 4 billion years ago. Scientists have found that the Earth had formed...

India, Ukraine To Sign Pact In Outer Space.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine, June 4 (SPX) -- India and Ukraine will soon sign an agreement for cooperation in research of the outer space for peaceful purposes. This was decided when President A P J Abdul Kalam, also...

Lapan Launches Rockets In Garut, W Java.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BANDUNG, Indonesia, June 3 (SPX) -- The Space and Aviation Institute (LAPAN) on Wednesday successfully launched a rocket in a try-out of series of nine it had built at a sea-side village in Garut district, West Java....

Canada Puts The Strong Arm On The International Space Station.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 6 (SPX) -- A new capability is being added to the operation of the International Space Station. A final round of tests to commission remote control of the Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm from the ground...

Rebuilt "Mars Polar Lander" Cleared For 2007 Launch As Phoenix.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 3 (SPX) -- NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander on to the icy ground of the far-northern Martian plains. NASA's Phoenix lander is designed to examine the site...

Opportunity Crawls Its Way Free Of Sand Dune.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 4 (SPX) -- The Mars rover Opportunity has successfully escaped from a sand trap. JPL engineers cheered when images returned from Mars showed the rover's wheels were free. Engineers worked for...

Spirit Hits The 500-Sol Mark.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 3 (SPX) -- Spirit has been working on Mars for more than 500 sols! This week the rover completed its close-up observations of "Larry's Outcrop" and drove back toward "Methuselah," looking for a...

L-3 Announces Agreement To Buy Titan Corp For $2.6 Billion.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, June 6 (SPX) -- L-3 Communications announced Friday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Titan Corporation ("Titan") under which Titan's shareholders would receive $23.10 in cash per...

NASA Spacecraft Measures Unusual Arctic Ozone Conditions.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, MD, June 5 (SPX) -- Despite near-record levels of chemical ozone destruction in the Arctic this winter, observations from NASA's Aura spacecraft showed that other atmospheric processes restored ozone...

Aerojet Wins NASA Contract For Electric Propulsion Demonstrator.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SACRAMENTO, June 6 (SPX) -- Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, has received a two-phase contract from NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate to design, build, test and deliver a sub-scale electric propulsion...

Russia, Kazakhstan To Cooperate On Space Science.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, June 5 (SPX) -- Russia will enhance mutually beneficial cooperation with Kazakhstan in the space industry, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Baikonur...

Atlas V Team Perform First Propellant Loading And Simulated Countdown On West Coast.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG, Calif., June 6 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin's new West Coast Atlas V facility passed its first major operational event with a successful propellant loading test June 2. During this final test of the...

DigitalGlobe Goes Online Harris Control Center Upgrade.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., June 6 (SPX) -- Harris Corporation has announced that its OS/COMET-based Satellite Control Center is being used to operate DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite. DigitialGlobe operates a commercial...

ESA's Proba Captutures Spectacular View Of Indonesia's Bromo Volcano.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 6 (SPX) -- ESA's micro-satellite Proba observes the active Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction of East Java in Indonesia. Indonesia is located within the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' volcano belt...

ESA And ECMWF Sign Agreement To Exchange Information And Expertise.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 7 (SPX) -- An agreement signed at ESA Headquarters in Paris May 31 by Director-General, Jean Jacques Dordain, of ESA, and Director Dominique Marbouty, of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather...

EU And Ukraine Seal Galileo And Aviation Agreement.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BRUSSELS, June 7 (SPX) -- Negotiations on Ukraine's participation in Europe's satellite radionavigation programme finally have reached approval. The agreement was initialled in Kiev by Francois Lamoureux,...

India Opens Major Naval Base at Karwar.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KARWAR, India, June 7 (SPX) -- The SiteDefense Minister Pranab Mukherjee opened the first phase of India's giant western naval base INS Kadamba in Karwar, Karnataka state, on May 31, saying it would protect the...

iDirect Launches Global Edge Connect Wi-Fi Over Satellite Solution.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, June 7 (SPX) -- iDirect Technologies has announced the launch of their new Global Edge Connect solution to deliver last mile, wireless connectivity via satellite. Global Edge Connect is a complete...

World-First Technology Enables Study Of Ancient Bacteria.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BRISTOL, England, June 7 (SPX) -- Experts at Cardiff University, UK, have designed world-first technology to investigate sustainable energy sources from the ocean bed by isolating ancient high-pressure bacteria from...

Reservoirs May Accelerate Spread Of Invasive Aquatic Species.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SPRINGFIELD, Mich., June 6 (SPX) -- Just as disturbance makes a landscape susceptible to invasion by alien plant species, the construction of reservoirs around the globe could be contributing to the accelerating...

Plant DNA Libraries Provides Massive Boost to World's Researchers.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WARWICK, England, June 6 (SPX) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick's horticultural research arm Warwick HRI have created an extensive new range of libraries of plant DNA that will provide a massive boost to...

Researchers Report Breakthrough Against World's Deadliest Viruses.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers FREDERICK, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- Scientists from the Public Health Agency of Canada - with assistance from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases - have developed vaccines against the Ebola and...

Shadow Technique Improves Measurement Of Micro Holes.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- A new method developed by NIST that uses the shadow cast by a small glass probe to infer the dimensions of tiny, microscale holes may provide an improved quality control method for...

NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of Standard...

Self-cleaning "Smart" Fabrics Capable of Environmental Toxin Remediation.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 7 (SPX) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory's Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (CBMSE) have developed a new cost-effective, self-decontaminating ultrathin materials coating...

BAE SYSTEMS To Provide Geopositioning Software for DoD Applications.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, June 7 (SPX) -- BAE Systems will provide precision geopositioning software for Department of Defense applications under the U.S. Navy's Common Geopositioning Services Project (CGSP). The contract, awarded...

Pentagon Focuses On Ground Radio.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PALO ALTO, Calif., June 7 (SPX) -- Current military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the transformation of the force structure to adopt the Network Centric Warfare (NCW) doctrine is driving the U.S. to spend...

Soil Emissions Are Much-Bigger-Than-Expected Component Of Air Pollution.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, June 7 (SPX) -- Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution. They are the primary ingredients in ground-level ozone, a pollutant harmful to human...

Integral To Build Satellite Control System For BSAT-3a.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LANHAM, Md., June 7 (SPX) -- Integral Systems has received a contract from B-SAT Corporation to provide a state-of-the-art satellite control system for their new BSAT-3a satellite based on Integral's EPOCH IPS...

Scientists Help Develop First Single Molecule Transistor.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LIVERPOOL, UK, June 8 (SPX) -- Dr Werner Hofer, from the University of Liverpool's Surface Science Research Centre, is one of an international team of scientists who have created a prototype that demonstrates a single...

Pollution-Eating Bacteria Produce Electricity.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ATLANTA, June 8 (SPX) -- Microbiologists seeking ways to eliminate pollution from waterways with microbes instead discovered that some pollution-eating bacteria commonly found in freshwater ponds can generate...

Further Steps Towards A European Space Policy.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LUXEMBOURG, June 8 (SPX) -- The second meeting of the Space Council - concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council - was held at the Kiem Conference...

University Of Chicago Study Overturns Conventional Theory In Evolution.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, June 8 (SPX) -- New data suggest that the accumulation of genetic changes is not solely determined by natural selection. A study by University of Chicago researchers contradicts conventional theory by showing...

NASA's Astrobiology Roadmap Spelled Out.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 7 (SPX) -- The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap provides guidance for research and technology development across the NASA enterprises that encompass the space, Earth, and biological sciences. ...