Space Daily articles from June 2007

Space Daily archives from June 2007

A Green Light For Atlantis To Launch June 8.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 1 (SPX) -- Following the Flight Readiness Review meetings on May 30 and 31 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's senior managers have signed the Certification of Flight Readiness...

A Neonic Saturn Glows.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUSCON, Ariz., June 1 (SPX) -- Flying over the unlit side of Saturn's rings, the Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's glow, represented in brilliant shades of electric blue, sapphire and mint green, while the planet's...

China Launches Communications Satellite SinoSat-3.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers XICHANG, China, June 1 (SPX) -- China on early Friday morning launched "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of...

Duke Energy Acquires Tierra Wind Business.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 1 (SPX) -- Duke Energy announced that it has acquired the wind power development business of Tierra Energy, a leading wind power development company located in Austin, Texas, from Energy...

Eating Ammonia.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ATLANTA, May 31 (SPX) -- A new study led by University of Georgia researchers finds that crenarchaeota, one of the most common groups of archaea and a group that includes members that live in hot springs, use ammonia...

European Meeting In Athens Fuels Future Space Exploration Missions To Mars And Moon.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ATHENS, Greece, June 1 (SPX) -- A European Science Foundation (ESF)-led workshop sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) has enabled 88 scientists from 11 European countries to agree on science goals for future...

GE And BP Form Alliance To Develop And Deploy Hydrogen Power Technologies.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- GE and BP have formed a global alliance to jointly develop and deploy technology for at least five power plants that could dramatically reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas...

Huge Waves From One Storm Slam Coasts Some 6000 Km Apart.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 1 (SPX) -- Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked...

MQ-8B Fire Scout To Enter Production.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, June 1 (SPX) -- The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical takeoff and landing Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (VTUAV) has reached Milestone C, signifying...

NASA Pondering A Future Grapple On The James Webb Space Telescope.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., June 1 (SPX) -- When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any...

NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA CA (JPL) JUN, 01, 2007, June 3 (SPX) -- Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. By taking advantage of the unique...

Raytheon Delivers First Joint Standoff Weapon Block II.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, June 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon has delivered its first Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) Block II -- a new variant offering significantly lower unit costs and an additional payload option. "This delivery is the...

Research Finds Evidence Tropical Cyclones Have Climate-Control Role.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth Gardner for Purdue News WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 1 (SPX) -- These findings support a 2001 theory by Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and suggest that there is an...

Satellites Track Human Exposure To Fine Particle Pollution.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 1 (SPX) -- When it comes to air pollution, the smallest size can do the most harm. More than a decade ago, a pioneering study by Harvard's School of Public Health showed that one of the most dangerous...

Single Spinning Nuclei In Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, June 1 (SPX) -- Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists at Harvard University have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary...

Space-Inspired Garden Takes Top Prize At UK's Chelsea Garden Show.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, June 1 (SPX) -- Sarah Eberle, designer of "600 Days with Bradstone," consulted with ESA human spaceflight experts to perfect her award-winning garden. Her garden, intended to realistically model what might...

Space Systems/Loral Awarded NASA Contract For Landsat Data Continuity Mission Accommodation Study.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PALO ALTO, Calif., June 1 (SPX) -- Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) recently awarded SS/L a delivery order for a Landsat Data...

Spacewalkers Install Debris Panels.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 1 (SPX) -- Two International Space Station cosmonauts successfully completed a 5-hour, 25-minute spacewalk from the Pirs docking compartment airlock Wednesday, installing Service Module Debris Protection...

Spectacular Growth Of The Green Energy Market.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, June 1 (SPX) -- The Green Energy sector is growing at breathtaking speed, driven by the challenges of climate change, surely unprecedented in our time. Globally, it has already become a multi-billion dollar...

The Spirit Of Mars Continues To Astonish.
June 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA CA (JPL) JUN, 01, 2007, June 3 (SPX) -- Spirit is still making new discoveries despite dragging its feet, so to speak, after losing use of the right front wheel 426 sols, or Martian days, ago. In the process...

Boeing Wins Next Phase Of US Air Force Missile Technology Program.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 4 (SPX) -- Boeing has been awarded a $4.2 million U.S. Air Force contract for the next phase of the Dual Role Air Dominance Missile -- Technology (DRADM-T) program, one of several efforts to develop...

Building A Habitable Earth.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Simon Mitton LYON, France, June 4 (SPX) -- Astrobiologists have a strong interest in understanding the conditions that prevailed on the early Earth, but the record for the first 650 million years of Earth history is gone. The...

Centex Homes Offers Sharp Solar Electricity Systems In New Home Development.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NAPLES, Fla., June 4 (SPX) -- Centex Homes will offer solar electricity systems from Sharp, the world's leading provider of solar cells, on 89 homes in The Quarry, a new community north of Naples, Florida. Sharp solar...

Evolution Of Animal Personalities.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA FE, N.M., June 4 (SPX) -- Animals differ strikingly in character and temperament. Yet only recently has it become evident that personalities are a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Animals as diverse...

GE's Jenbacher Engine Powers Commercial Landfill Gas Conversion Plant Supplying Fuel For Public Vehicles.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ATLANTA, June 4 (SPX) -- A GE Energy ecomagination-certified Jenbacher landfill gas engine is powering the world's first commercial landfill gas (LFG)-to-liquid natural gas (LNG) conversion facility designed to create...

GE Unit To Double Renewable Energy Investing And Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., June 4 (SPX) -- GE Energy Financial Services has announced that it would double its renewable energy investments by 2010, and has become one of the first financial institutions to disclose the...

INSAT-4CR To Be Launched In September.
June 4, 2007... Byline: K G Vasuki BANGALORE, India, June 4 (SPX) -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its...

Fourteen Space Agencies Sign Joint Exploration Agreement.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, June 4 (SPX) -- The document outlines the rationale for society to explore space, defines the current focus and process of space exploration, the current interest in returning to the Moon and exploring...

QinetiQ's Polarisation Technology Results In GBP800K Contract For Further Research Into Tripwire Detection.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, June 4 (SPX) -- QinetiQ has won an 18 month contract worth over pound800,000 from the Mobility IPT, under the FATS framework, to undertake further research into polarisation technology, particularly for...

Quasicrystals: Somewhere Between Order And Disorder.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 4 (SPX) -- Professionally speaking, things in David Damanik's world don't line up - and he can prove it. In new research that's available online and slated for publication in July's issue of the Journal...

Successful Design Review And Engine Test Bring Boeing X-51A Closer To Flight.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 4 (SPX) -- Boeing's X-51A WaveRider Scramjet Engine Demonstrator recently completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) and fired its engine for the first time -- two major program milestones necessary for...

The Mysterious Radio Waves Of Titan.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 4 (SPX) -- Huygens scored a first in 2005 by measuring the electrical conductivity of Titan's atmosphere. The results hint at a new way to investigate the subsurface layers of Titan and could provide...

University Of Michigan Astronomers Capture The First Image Of Surface Features On A Sun-Like Star.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 4 (SPX) -- University of Michigan astronomers combined light from four widely separated telescopes to produce the first picture showing surface details on a sun-like star beyond our solar...

Upright Walking May Have Begun In The Trees.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 4 (SPX) -- By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking on two legs may have arisen in relatively ancient, tree-dwelling apes, rather than in more recent human ancestors that...

Using Light To Remotely Operate Micromachines.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RIVERSIDE, CA, June 4 (SPX) -- A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force - the small attractive force that...

With A Big Assist From NASA, UW-Madison Launches Astrobiology Push.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Terry Devitt MADISON, Wis., June 4 (SPX) -- With the help of a $6.5 million grant from NASA, Wisconsin researchers will join the hunt for extraterrestrial life and early life on Earth by developing techniques and instruments to...

A New Look At Abandoned Math Model May Help Search For Gravitational Waves.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 6 (SPX) -- A new way of looking at a previously abandoned mathematical model might help astronomers study and accurately identify an exotic clan of gravitational waves. The waves in question...

A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALT LAKE CITY, June 5 (SPX) -- Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for...

AeroAstro Completes Preliminary Design Review For STP-SIV Spacecraft.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ASHBURN, Va., June 5 (SPX) -- AeroAstro, along with prime contractor Ball Aerospace and Technologies, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the DoD Space Test Program Standard Interface...

Agent Slows Aging In Mice.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 6 (SPX) -- Aspirin didn't pan out. Neither did two other potential anti-aging agents. But a synthetic derivative of a pungent desert shrub is now a front-runner in ongoing animal experiments to...

Boeing Completes Critical Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Tests.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 6 (SPX) -- Boeing has successfully completed end-to-end testing of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) payload command and control system, paving the way for the launch of the first WGS satellite this...

Building Our New View Of Titan.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 5 (SPX) -- Today, two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA's Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn's largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of...

Canadian Solar and City Solar Partner For Big Solar Farms In Germany And Spain.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers JIANGSU, China, June 6 (SPX) -- Canadian Solar has commenced delivery of solar modules to City Solar AG, Germany for a series of large-scale, ground-mounted solar farm projects. The deliveries are part of an annual...

Cells Re-Energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MEMPHIS, June 5 (SPX) -- The discovery of how some abnormal cells can avoid a biochemical program of self-destruction by increasing their energy level and repairing the damage, is giving investigators at St. Jude...

Cosmonauts To Install More Debris Panels On Wednesday Spacewalk.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, June 6 (SPX) -- Two International Space Station cosmonauts will begin a spacewalk of a little over five hours from the Pirs docking compartment airlock about 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday. They will install a...

DRI Energy And Fat Spaniel Technologies Partner To Deliver Integrated Solar Solution.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (SPX) -- DRI Energy, a leading California provider of roof integrated solar energy installation services, and Fat Spaniel Technologies, the premier provider of critical information services for...

Florida Rejects Clean Coal Bid As Public Ignores Cost Of National Self Sufficiency.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers JUNO BEACH, Fla., June 6 (SPX) -- Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) said that it is deeply disappointed in the Florida Public Service Commission's (PSC) ruling that failed to recognize the utility's need to build...

Full Set Of Jupiter Close-Approach Data Reaches Home.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., June 5 (SPX) -- Like countless others before it, the data packet rode a radio signal more than 500 million miles from the New Horizons spacecraft to Earth, filtering through NASA's largest antennas...

GE Investing To Expland Wind Energy Portfolio.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SWEETWATER, Texas, June 5 (SPX) -- Sweetwater TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, has agreed to invest in its biggest wind farm, the 241-megawatt Sweetwater 4 facility,...

General Dynamics Gets Tactical Satellite Communications Terminals Contact Extension.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWTON, N.C., June 6 (SPX) -- General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been awarded a $30.5 million follow-on order for satellite communications terminals that will be used in the U.S. Marine Corps Support Wide Area...

Global Warming House Committee Visits Greenland.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland, June 5 (SPX) -- While most Americans are enjoying the beach or barbeque at this time of year, Chairman Edward Markey of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming...

HiRISE Releases Thouands Of New Images Of Mars Via New Website Viewer.(Website overview)
June 7, 2007... Byline: Lori Stiles TUCSON, June 5 (SPX) -- Anyone connected by Internet can now see planet Mars better than at any time in history, through the eye of HiRISE, the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet. A University of...

How To Rip And Tear A Fluid.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 5 (SPX) -- University Park PA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 In a simple experiment on a mixture of water, surfactant (soap), and an organic salt, two researchers working in the Pritchard Fluid...

Hybrid Solar Lighting Earns National Technology Transfer Award.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers OAK RIDGE, TN, June 5 (SPX) -- Oak Ridge, TN (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed technology collecting sunlight connected to special indoor light fixtures has earned an Excellence in...

In Search Of A Martian Future.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Bruce Moomaw CAMERON PARK, Calif., June 6 (SPX) -- The latest in a whole series of reports by NASA's scientific advisory groups on how to explore Mars has just been released ("An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars",...

It Takes A Rocket Scientist.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 5 (SPX) -- A graduate of Saint Louis University will serve as the flight director for NASA's first space shuttle mission of 2007. Kelly Beck, a native of Cahokia, Ill., and a 1988 graduate of SLU's...

Lockheed Martin Completes Significant System Design Milestone On TMOS Program.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN JOSE, Calif., June 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has completed a successful System Design Review (SDR) of the TSAT Mission Operations System (TMOS) with the U.S. Air Force. The two-day event concluded the system...

Long-Distance Record As Quantum Keys Sent 200 Kilometers.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6 (SPX) -- Particles of light serving as "quantum keys"-the latest in encryption technology-have been sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link by researchers from the National...

LPP Combustion Technology Proves That Renewable Soy-Based Biodiesel Can Burn as Cleanly as Natural Gas.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, Md., June 5 (SPX) -- Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 LPP Combustion has demonstrated that the patented LPP Combustion System will allow soybean oil-based biodiesel to burn as cleanly as natural gas, with...

NASA Cutting Crew Holds It Together For Safe Delivery To Station.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 6 (SPX) -- Greg Dorsey and Steve Page stood behind a panel of glass looking over a computer readout. In the next room, a router carved a perfect channel just like the one the one the...

NASA Spacecraft Ready For Science-Rich Encounter With Venus.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 5 (SPX) -- NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will make its closest pass to Venus on Tuesday, June 5. This will place the spacecraft on target...

New Method For Making Improved Radiation Detectors.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UPTON, N.Y., June 6 (SPX) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, with funding from DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration*, have devised ways to improve the...

Northrop Grumman Wins Multi Billion Contract To Build New Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 6.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 5 (SPX) -- The U.S. Navy today awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.4 billion fixed-price incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the amphibious assault ship, LHA 6. Work will be...

Raytheon And UAE Sign Rolling Airframe Missile Contract.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 6 (SPX) -- Raytheon and Abu Dhabi Ship Building of the United Arab Emirates have signed a contract for the sale of seven Rolling Airframe Missile Guided Missile Weapon Systems. The direct...

Raytheon-Led Warrior Training Alliance Wins US Army Warfighter FOCUS Program.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., June 6 (SPX) -- The Warrior Training Alliance (WTA), led by prime contractor Raytheon Technical Services Company in collaboration with Computer Sciences Corporation, has been selected to oversee the...

Restricted Zone.(Interview)
June 7, 2007... Byline: Astrobiology Magazine An Interview with Cassie Conley - Part III MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 5 (SPX) -- NASA plans to send humans back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. But humans and the food they eat are chock full of...

Sandia And Boeing Collaborate To Develop Aircraft Fuel Cell Applications.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ALBUQUERQUE, NM, June 5 (SPX) -- Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing are collaborating on a project looking at the feasibility of using a hydrogen-powered fuel cell for...

Soils Offer New Hope As Carbon Sink.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WOLLONGBAR, Australia, June 5 (SPX) -- The huge potential of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gases and increase production at the same time has been reinforced by new research findings at NSW Department of...

Solar Energy Gets Funding At Distributed Energy Systems And SkyPower.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WALLINGFORD, Conn., June 6 (SPX) -- Distributed Energy Systems has completed the initial $12.5 million financing with an investment fund managed by Perseus. Perseus is a merchant bank and private equity fund...

Surrey Satellite Geostationary Mini-Satellite Platform Milestone Completed.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GUILFORD, UK, June 6 (SPX) -- World-leading small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully completed its Baseline Design Review for a Geostationary Mini-satellite Platform...

Testing Technique For Gravitomagnetic Field Is Ineffective.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, MO, June 6 (SPX) -- Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has fascinated physicists and generated debate about the origin of the universe and the structure of objects like black holes and complex...

Thales And Boeing Announce FRES Team.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, June 6 (SPX) -- Thales UK and Boeing have agreed to form an exclusive team, led by Thales UK, to jointly bid to deliver the System of Systems Integrator (SOSI) role for the planned Future Rapid Effect...

The Way The Wind Blows On Titan.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 6 (SPX) -- A simulation of the winds encountered by Huygens has lead planetary scientists to believe that it's entire atmosphere is circulating around on a conveyor belt. This huge system of moving gas...

Threats To Wild Tigers Growing.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, June 6 (SPX) -- The wild tiger now occupies a mere 7 percent of its historic range, and the area known to be inhabited by tigers has declined by 41 percent over the past decade, according to an article...

US Encourages Responsible Behavior In Space-Faring Nations.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Vince Crawley for USINFO Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 5 (SPX) -- U.S. officials say the National Space Policy, released in October 2006, is the natural evolution of a half-century of space-related policies, and that China's...

Venus Express And MESSENGER To Look At Venus In Tandem.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, June 5 (SPX) -- On 6 June this year, scientists all around the world will be watching with eager eyes as not one but two spacecraft observe Venus simultaneously. ESA's Venus Express, in orbit around Venus since...

Active Stellar Remnants Could Present Interesting Challenge For LISA.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KINGSTON, June 7 (SPX) -- A team of astronomers has found that a certain class of double white dwarf stars, millions of which populate the Milky Way Galaxy, are expected to be a prominent source of gravitational waves...

Astrium Wins Hispasat Contract To Build Amazonas-2 Satellite.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADRID, June 7 (SPX) -- Astrium has been awarded a contract by Hispasat to design and build Amazonas-2, a powerful satellite which will increase the capacity offered by Hispasat on their American position to meet...

Australia Begins Climate Project With China.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, June 7 (SPX) -- CSIRO and the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) have signed a two-year funding agreement for collaboration between CSIRO statisticians and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of...

Ball Aerospace Completes Schmidt Corrector Optic Bonding For Kepler.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., June 7 (SPX) -- Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed the critical milestone of bonding the Schmidt Corrector optic to its mounting ring for the Kepler Mission. Ball anticipates...

Boston Harbor Angels Invests In XCOR Aerospace.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOJAVE, Calif., June 7 (SPX) -- XCOR announced it has received investment from the Boston Harbor Angels. The funds will support development of XCOR's new suborbital vehicle. "This is our first angel group investment,"...

Castle And Cooke To Build Hawai'i Largest Solar Farm On Lana'i.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LANA'I CITY, Hawaii, June 7 (SPX) -- Castle and Cooke announced that it has signed a contract through its subsidiary, Lana'i Sustainability Research, LLC, to build the largest solar photovoltaic farm in Hawai'i and...

Cyclone Gonu Lashes Gulf Region.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Laith Abou-Ragheb MUSCAT (AFP) JUN, 07, 2007, June 7 (SPX) -- Cyclone Gonu lashed Oman with heavy rains and winds on Wednesday, as thousands of people were evacuated from low-lying areas in the Gulf state and neighbouring Iran for...

Delta 2 Launch To Launch COSMO-SkyMed Satellite.
June 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., June 7 (SPX) -- Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite, Thursday at 7:21 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 on north...