Space Daily articles from June 2006

Space Daily archives from June 2006

AGS To Supply Services For FTI-SAT Program.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, May 29 (SPX) -- Americom Government Services announced Monday it is partnering with prime contractor Harris Corp. to support the FTI Satellite program on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration. AGS...

Asteroid Provides Pristine Record Of Solar Systems History.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, MH, June 2 (SPX) -- A small, near-Earth asteroid named Itokawa is just a pile of floating rubble, probably created from the breakup of an ancient planet, according to a University of Michigan researcher was...

Australians Learn From US C-17 Mission.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers 17 GLOBEMASTER III AT HONIARA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Solomon Islands, June 1 (SPX) -- by Tech. Sgt. Chris VadnaisAir Force Print News Townsville, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2006 Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs from...

BAE Systems Delivers Initial F-35 JSF Electronic Warfare System.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NASHUA, N.H., June 1 (SPX) -- BAE Systems has delivered the first electronic warfare system for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, Texas. The EW suite,...

BAE Systems To Provide Enhanced Vision For US Army Combat Vehicles.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NASHUA, N.H., June 2 (SPX) -- BAE Systems will develop a situational awareness capability for U.S. Army combat vehicles. BAE Systems' Distributed Aperture System (DAS) will enable the vehicle driver, crew members, and...

Biodiversity Key To Sustainable Biofuel.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers TWIN CITIES, Minn., June 2 (SPX) -- Ecosystems containing many different plant species are not only more productive, they are also better able to withstand and recover from climate extremes, pests and disease over...

BlastGard Introduces New Aviation Product Line.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CLEARWATER, Fla., June 2 (SPX) -- BlastGard International, a designer and provider of blast mitigation products and services, has introduced a new line of aviation products. In accordance with an agreement with...

Boeing Completes Environmental Tests For Wideband Gapfiller Satellite.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., June 2 (SPX) -- The first of Boeing's three Wideband Gapfiller Satellites has successfully completed key dynamic environmental tests, confirming the spacecraft's structural design and mechanical...

Boeing To Develop New Electronic Circuits For Extreme Space Environments.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 1 (SPX) -- Boeing announced Wednesday it has joined a university-industry team working to develop a reliable, cost-effective electronic technology that helps robotic and human space missions operate in...

Columbus Arrives At Kennedy.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 1 (SPX) -- After a journey that started at the weekend, the European Columbus laboratory arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday afternoon. Europe's largest single...

Comtech Wins $1.9M From U.S. Government For Satcom Products.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELVILLE, N.Y., May 29 (SPX) -- Comtech Telecommunications announced Monday that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., was awarded $1.9 million in orders for satellite communications equipment....

Dawn Team Looking Good For Launch Next Year.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Dawn is making good progress preparing for its 2007 launch. Let's look forward to some of what must happen during the next year on the most visible part of the project - the...

Delivery Of The First Contractual Step Of The nEUROn Program.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, May 30 (SPX) -- Dassault Aviation and its partners Alenia, SAAB, EADS CASA, HAI and RUAG have delivered yesterday - ahead of the contractual timetable - the first nEUROn study to the Delegation Generale pour...

Digital Globe and Getty Images To Supply Satellite Images To News Media.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LONGMONT, Colo., May 29 (SPX) -- DigitalGlobe announced Monday its collection of high- resolution satellite imagery depicting newsworthy events and locations from around the world is now available to editorial...

Discovery Still On Track For July Launch.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., June 1 (SPX) -- NASA officials said Wednesday they remain determined to keep to the current space shuttle launch schedule and to continue to examine possible safety hazards as closely as...

DSTO Centre of Expertise in Photonics to Boost Defence Research.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, June 1 (SPX) -- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, Senator Sandy Macdonald, has announced the formation of an Australian Centre of Expertise in Photonics, a joint venture between...

ESOC Goes To SpaceOps 2006.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 2 (SPX) -- Engineers and scientists from ESA's Space Operations Centre, as well as other ESA organisations, will participate in this month's SpaceOps 2006 conference, one of the spacecraft operations...

GD To Procide RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicles For Canadian Military.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, June 2 (SPX) -- The Government of Canada has awarded a CAD $31 million (US $28 million) contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to provide 25 additional RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicles. General Dynamics...

Gilat Provides Cellular Backhaul Infrastructure for Angola Telecom.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PETAH TIKVA, Israel, June 1 (SPX) -- Jun 01, 2006--Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has announced that it will provide communications equipment and services to Angola Telecom, one of the largest operators in Sub-Saharan...

Hebrew University Researchers Uncover Eight Previously Unknown Species.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RAMLE, Israel, June 2 (SPX) -- Discovery of eight previously unknown, ancient animal species within "a new and unique underground ecosystem" in Israel was revealed today by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers....

International Planetary Probe Meeting Set.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- Robotic exploration of planets with atmospheres is the topic of NASA's Fourth International Planetary Probe Workshop this month in Pasadena, Calif. Attendees will assess the use...

It Takes Energy To Make A Species.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 2 (SPX) -- Comfortable living is not why so many different life forms seem to converge at the warmer areas of the planet. Writing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Like Planet Like Sun.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers COTE D'AZUR, France, June 1 (SPX) -- A team of European astronomers, led by T. Guillot (CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France), will publish a new study of the physics of Pegasids (also known as hot Jupiters)...

LM Tracking Antenna Supports Minuteman III Flight Test.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- A U.S. Navy missile telemetry tracking antenna developed by Lockheed Martin supported the U.S. Air Force's recent extended-range flight test of a Minuteman III...

Mobile Satellite Ventures Awarded Two New US Patents.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., June 1 (SPX) -- Mobile Satellite Ventures, LP (MSV) has announced that the United States Patent Office has awarded the company two more patents to bolster its extensive ancillary terrestrial component...

New Cruise Missile Successful In First Flight Test.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EGLIN AFB, Fla., June 2 (SPX) -- The Air Force's newest cruise missile was successfully launched for the first time May 18. The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range was released from a B-1B Lancer...

New Horizons Crosses The Asteroid Belt.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., June 2 (SPX) -- New Horizons has entered the main asteroid belt and will be traversing this part of our solar system through August. May, like April, was a busy month for New Horizons' instrument...

Orbital To Supply Six Satellite Payloads For ORBCOMM.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., June 2 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences announced Thursday it has received a $17 million contract from its subsidiary ORBCOMM Inc. to supply six data communications satellite payloads. The contract also includes...

Physicists Persevere In Quest For Inexhaustible Energy Source.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., June 2 (SPX) -- As gas prices soar and greenhouse gases continue to blanket the atmosphere, the need for a clean, safe and cheap source of energy has never seemed more pressing. Scientists have long...

QinetiQ Joins Galileo Development.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers FARNBOROUGH, England, June 1 (SPX) -- QinetiQ announced Wednesday it has signed a contract to join the European consortium conducting Phase CDE1 of development of the Galileo satellite constellation. ESA has...

Quintessence Photonics Wins US DoD Subcontract.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SYLMAR, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Quintessence Photonics has announced that it has received a subcontract for the development of high power, high brightness semiconductor lasers as part of the Defense Advanced Research...

Saturn Moon Enceladus Rolled Over.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Saturn's moon Enceladus - an active, icy world with an unusually warm south pole - may have performed an unusual trick for a planetary body: It may have rolled over. Enceladus...

SMART-1 Captures Central Peaks Of Zucchius Crater.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 2 (SPX) -- This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the central peaks of the lunar crater Zucchius. AMIE obtained the image last Jan. 14 from a...

SPACEHAB Satisfies One Dollar Nasdaq Minimum Bid Price.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 2 (SPX) -- SPACEHAB announced Thursday it has received notice from Nasdaq that it has regained compliance with Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(5), which requires a minimum $1.00 bid price for its shares to...

Spacewalk To Focus On Station Repairs And Experiments.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 1 (SPX) -- International Space Station crew members Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams will embark on a spacewalk Thursday to attempt three repair operations on the orbiting facility and retrieve two...

SpaceX Achieves Key Milestone of Tenth Launch Agreement.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- SpaceX announced that the number of launches on manifest has now reached double digits. The ninth launch, already announced, is with MDA Corporation of Canada and will carry the...

Sprint Nextel Network Strengthened As Hurricane Season Looms.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., June 1 (SPX) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. has announced that it is dedicating $100 million for hurricane preparations in storm-prone coastal communities. This investment includes the installation of permanent...

Supercomputers Reproduce Fluid Motions Of Galactic Cosmic Duet.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, June 2 (SPX) -- A wispy collection of atoms and molecules fuels the vast cosmic maelstroms produced by colliding galaxies and merging supermassive black holes, according to some of the most advanced...

Test Demonstrates Total Force Concept.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EDWARDS AFB, Calif., June 2 (SPX) -- While many airmen were demonstrating their ability to survive and operate in a hostile environment at Camp Corum during the recent operational readiness exercise, a group of...

Voyager Data May Reveal Trajectory Of Solar System.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Nearly 30 years after launch, the two Voyager spacecraft are still operational and returning useful data. In their early years they produced some of the first close up images of...

AFSO 21 Crucial To Achieving New Vision.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SCHRIEVER AFB, Colo., June 5 (SPX) -- Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century will be crucial to achieving the 50th Space Wing's new vision, said Col. John Hyten, wing commander. "If someone asks you how we...

Boeing-Led Industry Team To Pursue Secure Border Initiative Effort.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS MO SPX) JUN, 05, 2006, June 5 (SPX) -- Boeing officials have announced that its best-of-industry team is pursuing the SBInet program. The Boeing-led team submitted its proposal to the U.S. government and is...

Canada Mints Space Collector Coins For Canadarm2.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers OTTAWA, Ontario, June 5 (SPX) -- On April 22, 2001, Colonel Chris Hadfield made space exploration history as the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk when he installed Canadarm2 on the International Space Station....

CapRock Appoints Britt Carina Horncastle as VP of Corporate Development.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 5 (SPX) -- CapRock Communications, a leading global satellite communications provider to remote locations, has appointed Britt Carina Horncastle as vice president of corporate development. Horncastle...

CENTAF Releases Airpower Summary.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SOUTHWEST ASIA, June 5 (SPX) -- In Afghanistan, Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, a B-1B Lancer and a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle responded to coalition forces taking small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades...

Comtech Receives 9M Dollar Blue Force Tracking Order.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELVILLE, N.Y., June 5 (SPX) -- Comtech Telecommunications announced Sunday it has received orders totaling $9.2 million for its mobile satellite data communications transceivers. The orders are for the supply of...

FMS Pakistan HARPOON Block II Anti-ship Missiles.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 1 (SPX) -- The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of HARPOON Block II Anti-ship Missiles as well as associated equipment and...

Free as a Bird Or Under Surveillance.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ROME, June 5 (SPX) -- Flying backpackers, communications satellites and a network of computers would monitor the movements of wild birds on their annual migrations under a plan proposed by the United Nations Food and...

Giant NASA Balloon Lifts Of From Esrange Space Center.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ESRANGE, Sweden, June 5 (SPX) -- Scientists successfully launched a giant balloon with the scientific instrument AESOP aboard last week from the SSC launch facility at Esrange Space Center. The 300-meter-long balloon...

Inmarsat and Assemble Launch BGAN Hurricane Communications Kit.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 5 (SPX) -- Inmarsat announced Sunday that Assemble Communications, a provider of voice and data services to residential and small business customers, will incorporate its new BGAN high speed mobile...

Lockheed Martin And EADS To Cooperate On Satellite Navigation Standards.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and EADS Astrium announced Sunday they have signed a teaming agreement to ensure interoperability of the Global Positioning System III and the European Galileo...

NASA Awards Mars Science Lab Launch Contract.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 5 (SPX) -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. to deliver an Atlas V rocket for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which aims to land...

Opportunity Digging Out Of Dune One Klick From Victoria.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 5 (SPX) -- Opportunity is less than 1 kilometer (just over half a mile) from reaching Victoria Crater - its destination for several months. During the last planned drive on May 28, on sol, or...

Possible Extinction Crater Found Under Antarctica.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 3 (SPX) -- Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one thought to have killed the dinosaurs - an impact they think caused the biggest mass...

Raytheon SBInet Proposal Reflects Extensive Border Security Experience.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon has submitted its proposal to use its border security experience and systems management expertise to help the Department of Homeland Security secure America's borders by...

Station Crew Completes Six-Hour Spacewalk.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 3 (SPX) -- The International Space Station crew comprising Expedition 13 successfully completed their first spacewalk together Friday, working outside the orbiting facility for a total of six hours and...

The Sky Is Falling.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 5 (SPX) -- Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment...

Turning Corn Fiber Into Ethanol.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers AMES, IO, June 5 (SPX) -- Tony Pometto held up a laboratory flask swimming with little balls of mold. This, said the Iowa State University professor of food science and human nutrition, is the kind of fungus that Iowa...

Ultrasonics Boosts Release Rates Of Corn Sugars For Ethanol Production.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers AMES, IO, June 5 (SPX) -- David Grewell flipped a switch and one of the ultrasonic machines in his Iowa State University laboratory pumped out high-frequency sound waves. Those 20 kilohertz waves were too high for...

US Army Shifts Training Focus To Stryker Teams.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii, June 5 (SPX) -- The U.S. Army 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team continues to transform with five new units and a fleet of new, highly mobile, survivable and lethal Stryker vehicles....

666 On A Fake Calendar Causes Confusion Across Datelines.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BUFFALO, N.Y., June 6 (SPX) -- The number 666 -- the "number of the beast," according to the Book of Revelation -- conjures devilish images for many, so forecasts of evil, even doom, are rampant regarding dates or...

A Better Wetware Interface.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MARTINSRIED, Germany, June 6 (SPX) -- For the first time, scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich coupled living brain tissue to a chip equivalent to the chips that run...

Astronomers Find Startling Absence Of Hot Gas In Galaxy NGC 1068.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CALGARY, Alberta, June 6 (SPX) -- Spiral galaxies are the glitter of the universe. These systems of stars, dust, gas and plasma are held together by gravity, but seem to pinwheel across the darkness of space. They...

Chemists Forge A New Form Of Iron.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., June 6 (SPX) -- An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on...

Decades Of Acid Rain Is Causing Loss Of Valuable Northeast Sugar Maples.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ITHACA, N.Y., June 6 (SPX) -- Acid rain, the environmental consequence of burning fossil fuels, running factories and driving cars, has altered soils and reduced the number of sugar maple trees growing in the...

Global Clean Water Scarcity A Failure Of Public Policy.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 6 (SPX) -- Now is the time to address the devastating effects of increasing water scarcity and declining water quality around the world, according to a recently released white paper written...

Global Greenhouse Cooked Up A Hot Stew Of Life.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEWCASTLE, England, June 6 (SPX) -- New scientific results for the Late Cretaceous greenhouse indicate radically different climatic mechanisms operating about 75-90 million years ago compared to the ones that control...

Griffin Defends NASA Space Exploration Vision.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 6 (SPX) -- NASA's Michael Griffin presented an energetic defense Monday of his agency's ongoing restructuring to conform to the Bush administration's Vision for Space Exploration. Speaking to...

How Does A Lowly Member Of The Bacterium World Sense Its Environment.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ITHACA, N.Y., June 6 (SPX) -- When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling...

Hughes Delivers 12000 Broadband Satellite Terminals to GTECH.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- Hughes Network Systems said Monday it has completed delivery of an additional 12,000 broadband satellite terminals to GTECH Corporation, the world's leading provider of lottery, gaming...

IEDs Influencing Robotic Warfare Concepts.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 6 (SPX) -- Over the past three years, thousands of American soldiers in Iraq have been horribly injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The explosives, placed near or buried...

iRobot Awarded 64 Million Contract For PackBot Robots.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BURLINGTON, Mass., June 6 (SPX) -- iRobot has announced that it has been awarded a $64.3 million Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for iRobot PackBot EOD robots, spare parts, training and repair...

NGC Promotes International Cooperation On Key Missile Defense Programs In Seville.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., June 6 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman will promote international cooperation on key missile defense programs at the Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France (AAAF) International Conference on...

PanAmSat Holding Corporation Announces Proposed Offering.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WILTON, Conn., June 6 (SPX) -- PanAmSat Holding Corp. announced Monday it intends to offer approximately $725 million of senior notes due 2016, and PanAmSat intends to offer approximately $575 million of senior notes...

Raiders Of The Lost Dimension.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 6 (SPX) -- A team of scientists working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos has uncovered an intriguing phenomenon while studying magnetic waves...

Researcher Offers Insights On Development Of Arid Semiarid Landscapes.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LAS CRUCES, N.M., June 6 (SPX) -- A team of researchers has developed a multi-faceted process to study arid and semiarid landscapes that takes into account the wide range of factors influencing changes that can result...

Rock Carving Linked To 1000-Year-Old Supernova Sighting.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CALGARY, Alberta, June 6 (SPX) -- Astronomers announced Monday they have discovered a possible link between a symbol on an ancient rock carving and a supernova that occurred 1,000 years ago. Reporting at the 208th...

Small Flexible Computer Chip Produces Big Results.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., June 6 (SPX) -- About the size of a U.S. quarter, the field programmable gate array computer chip consists of 400 to 500 million transistors and two to three miles of wiring, but its flexible...

Spirit Sitting Pretty On A Martian Hillock.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., June 6 (SPX) -- Since arriving at the rover's current location April 10, on its 807th sol, or Martian day, of exploration, Spirit's knowledge of its attitude relative to the Sun has drifted. The...

Swales Aerospace Selected to Build Operationally Responsive Space Modular Bus.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BELTSVILLE, Md., June 6 (SPX) -- Swales Aerospace announced Monday it has been awarded a new Task Order under its existing Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract with the Air Force Material Command, Air...

A Tale Of Two Nebulae.
June 7, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CALGARY, Alberta, June 7 (SPX) -- Two new images from Gemini Observatory show a pair of beautiful nebulae created by two very different types of stars at what may be similar points in their evolutionary timelines. One...

AEGIS BMD Weapon System Tracks Advanced Separating Ballistic Missiles.
June 7, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KAUAI, Hawaii, June 7 (SPX) -- The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System with a prototype signal processor successfully tracked several advanced ballistic missile targets in separate tests off the coast...

Ancient DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertals Diversity.
June 7, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LYON, France, June 7 (SPX) -- By recovering and sequencing intact DNA from an especially ancient Neandertal specimen, researchers have found evidence suggesting that the genetic diversity among Neandertals was higher...

Andromeda Adrift In Sea Of Dust.
June 7, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CALGARY, Alberta, June 7 (SPX) -- The Andromeda galaxy appears tranquil in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The mesmerizing infrared mosaic shows red waves of dust over a blue sea of stars. The...