Space Daily articles from June 2009

Space Daily archives from June 2009

Actel Announces Winners Of 2009 Actel Cup China Students FPGA Design Competition.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Shanghai, China (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Actel has announced the winners of its 2009 Actel Cup China Students FPGA design competition. Chosen from more than 300 submissions by students from 190 universities, designs...

Alternative Positioning Technologies Key To Unlocking The Handset.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 While GPS has become a standard feature in smartphones driven by the popularity of mapping, navigation and LBS applications, GPS penetration in feature phones remains low outside...

Argon ST Upgrades Navy Surface Ship Torpedo Defense Program.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Fairfax VA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Argon ST has announced that it has received a $6.2 million award for engineering development in support of the U.S. Navy's Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) program. The...

Danotek Motion Technologies Brings Green Jobs To Michigan.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Canton MI (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 On the outskirts of the automotive capital of the world, high-efficiency wind turbine generator manufacturer Danotek Motion Technologies on Friday will open a world-class...

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Test Team Wins Award.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bethpage NY (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Test Team (ITT) - composed of military, civil service and industry personnel from Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, prime contractor...

Endless Original, Copyright-Free Music.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 UGR researchers Miguel Delgado, Waldo Fajardo and Miguel Molina decided to design a software programme that would enable a person who knew nothing about composition to create...

ESA Extends Envisat Satellite Mission.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013. Envisat - the world's largest and most sophisticated satellite ever built - has been...

Freedman, Kennicutt And Mould Share Gruber Cosmology Prize.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers St. Thomas, VI (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The 10th anniversary of the Gruber International Prize Program, which began with the Cosmology Prize in 2000, will be celebrated in July. This year the Cosmology Prize will be...

GD To Boost MilSatComms Capacity With WIN-T Satellite Terminal Award.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Newton NC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has received a $119 million modification to an existing delivery order to provide additional satellite communications earth terminals and support...

Golden Eagle Insurance Offers Onboard Advisor For Commercial Fleets.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Golden Eagle Insurance is offering California commercial fleets Onboard Advisor, a first-of-its-kind fleet management solution that helps companies increase fleet safety and...

Green Star Completes Final Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Tests.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Frankfort KY (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Green Star Products has announced that it has successfully completed its full series of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) testing protocols. Global Green Cars, Inc., a...

iPhone Culture Takes Couch-Kids Gaming Outdoors.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The battle to get kids off the couch and playing outside just reached a truce. The Hidden Park, an ingenious iPhone app developed by an Australian studio, takes the fun of...

Life Support Pilot Plant Paves The Way To Moon And Beyond.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water...

LockMart Provide Enhanced Biological Aerosol Warning Systems For Japan.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The Japan Ground Self Defense Force recently exercised an option on an existing contract with Lockheed Martin and its trading partner Itochu, of Tokyo, for the delivery of...

Marine Harvest Called On To Reform Environmental Performance.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Members of the Pure Salmon Campaign coalition, a diverse group of stakeholders from key farmed salmon production and consumption nations including Canada, Chile, Scotland, Ireland...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter In Safe Mode After Reboot.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer Wednesday evening, June 3. The spontaneous...

MERIDIAN In-Line Diffusion System Wins Award.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers North Billerica MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 BTU International has been awarded the 'Industry Choice' International Solar Technology Award. The award was presented during a ceremony at the Intersolar Munich show in...

NASA Research Reveals Scale Of Ozone Soybean Damage.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Rising surface ozone concentrations are damaging nearly $2 billion in annual U.S. soybean crops, a NASA study of satellite measurements indicates. The study, headed by NASA...

Nuclear Reactor Shutdown Vote 20 Years Ago Reverberates today.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Sacramento CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Ahead of the 20th anniversary on Saturday of Sacramento voters going to the polls to shut down Rancho Seco, a nuclear reactor operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility...

Planck Satellite Manoeuvre Aims At L2 Arrival.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 ESA's Planck satellite has caried out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that placed the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the...

Premier Power Acquires Leading Italian Solar Company.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Rome, Italy (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Premier Power Renewable Energy has announced its entry into Italy, the hottest solar market in Europe, with the acquisition of Arco Energy, a privately held solar project...

QinetiQ Readies Aberporth UAV Centre For Watchkeeper.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 A key milestone in the GBP899m MOD project to develop the Watchkeeper Unmanned Air System has been reached on schedule. QinetiQ, working closely with other stakeholders, has...

Raytheon Hyperspectral Imaging Sensor Activated For Year-Long Mission.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Raytheon has received confirmation from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory that its hyperspectral imaging sensor known as ARTEMIS has been activated aboard the TacSat-3...

REDCO Chooses IAUS Solar.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Renewable Energy Development has announced that it has chosen to use the IAUS solar thermal technology on all of the solar developments in its pipeline. REDCO and...

Rural Populations Recquire Different Strategies To Rein In Epidemics.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Manhattan KS (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario - millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one...

SkyVision Concludes Contract With Eutelsat For Capacity On W2A Satellite.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 SkyVision and Eutelsat Communications have announced that SkyVision has signed a multi-year contract for one transponder on the newly-launched W2A satellite. The new capacity...

Soy Industry Adopts Environmental Standards.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Elements of the soy industry have agreed to take a milestone step toward improving their production practices, which have led to widespread deforestation, displacement of...

Space Traffic Management In The Earth 21st Century.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Launchspace Staff Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The spacefaring nations of the world are coming to the conclusion that the space debris issue has evolved from a minor nuisance to a full-blown imperative. Hundreds, if not...

Spire To Use Rudolph's Process Control Software.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bedford MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Spire and Rudolph Technologies have announced they have reached an agreement to include Rudolph's Discover Solar Yield Analysis and Process Management Software as part of Spire's...

Spring Agricultural Fires Have Large Impact On Melting Arctic.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Durham NH (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Scientists from around the world will convene at the University of New Hampshire to discuss key findings from the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure "short-lived"...

Stellar Family Proves To Be Surprisingly Normal.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have obtained one of the sharpest views ever of the Arches Cluster - an extraordinary dense cluster of young stars near the...

TechnoCom Launches SpotOn GPS.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Encino CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 TechnoCom announces SpotOn GPS, a mobile advertising and marketing content delivery platform that provides comprehensive turn-by-turn navigation, search and mapping. SpotOn GPS...

Telefonica Expands Service Delivery Across Peru.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Delivering on the regional and global ambitions of its business, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced at the ITW conference in Washington, D.C. that Telefonica del Peru has...

To The Moon, By Way Of MIT.
June 8, 2009... Byline: David Chandler MIT News Office, 2009 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009 Many people consider the Apollo lunar landings one of the crowning achievements of human ingenuity. But not so many people realize that the epochal first steps...

Unexpected Bacterial Diversity On Human Skin.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The health of our skin - one of the body's first lines of defense against illness and injury - depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions of...

US Farm-Raised Catfish Featured At Sustainable Seafood Event.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Monterey CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish was recently featured at The Monterey Bay Aquarium's annual Cooking for Solutions, an event that celebrates sustainable, earth-friendly seafood products....

USAF Awards LockMart Contract For SBIRS Follow-On Spacecraft.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.5-billion contract for the third highly elliptical orbit (HEO-3) payload, the third geosynchronous orbit (GEO-3) satellite and...

Wasting Money At The Solar Factory.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Beringe, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 It seems like an open door, checking the quality of incoming wafers and cells before they go into the production process. But this it is still not common in cell and...

Who Will Pay For Ocean Acidification.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009, 2009 Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in...

1st Detect Awarded SBIR From Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Austin TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 1st Detect Corporation has announced it is the recipient of a Phase I award from the U.S. Army's Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...

A New Way To Measure Cosmic Distances.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common...

All The Carbon Counts.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers College Park MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Cutting down forests for agriculture vents excess carbon dioxide into the air just as industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels do. But whether policies to...

Big Growth In The World Satellite Market Over The Next Ten Years.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Euroconsult has announced that an estimated 1,185 satellites will be built and launched for the period 2009-2018, an increase of about 50% compared to the previous decade...

Bluetooth Signals Show Airport Security-Line Waiting Times.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Researchers have used Bluetooth signals from cell phones and other wireless devices to track how long it takes travelers to get through security lines at the Indianapolis...

Challenging Simple Concepts Can Help Save The Planet.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Author and democracy activist Frances Moore Lappe says we already know how to solve the pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and world hunger. But she says...

Coral Reefs Tough It Out Against Seaweed.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 There's little doubt that coral reefs the world over face threats on many fronts: pollution, diseases, destructive fishing practices and warming oceans. But reefs appear to be...

Dow Captures Solar Power With Fluid Technology.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Midland MI (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Dow Chemical is shedding light on Concentrating Solar Power systems (CSP) with DOWTHERM A heat transfer fluids which can collect, transport and store solar generated heat. CSP...

Fog Lifted On Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Robert Sanders Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Gamma-ray bursts, with their ability to pierce through gas and dust to shine brightly across the universe, are revealing areas of intense star formation and stellar death where...

Gas Explosions: A New Way To Study Phantom Traffic Jams.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 A University of Alberta researcher has devised a new theoretical approach to studying phantom traffic jams. Normally a traffic tie-up happens when vehicles reach a bottleneck...

Georgia Power Launches Solar Research Project.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Georgia Power's corporate headquarters will begin harnessing the sun in 2009 as the company partners with Southern Company to launch a rooftop solar demonstration program aimed at...

Giant Telescope SUNRISE Successfully Launched.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Esrange Space Center, Sweden (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The largest balloon born telescope ever has taken off from Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) launch facility at Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. The...

Greening Arctic Not Likely To Offset Permafrost Carbon Release.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Gainesville FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 As the frozen soil in the Arctic thaws, bacteria will break down organic matter, releasing long-stored carbon into the warming atmosphere. At the same time, plants will...

Improved Climate Change Projections For SE Asia.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Detailed climate change projections for Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines are being developed at a workshop in Melbourne this week involving climate scientists from...

Integral Systems To Provide KOREASAT-6 Satellite Command And Control.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Integral Systems has announced a contract signing with Orbital Sciences (Orbital) to provide the KT Corporation with primary and backup satellite command and control systems for...

Life Support Pilot Plant Paves The Way To Moon And Beyond.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water...

LockMart And USAF Mark Successful Sniper ATP Site Activations.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have successfully completed Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) A-10C site activations at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ, and...

LockMart Receives Contract For Third Lot Of F-35s.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Fort Worth TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The United States Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.1 billion contract modification to produce 17 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters in the third lot of...

Manipulating Light On A Chip For Quantum Technologies.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bristol, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance...

Microbat Debuts In Paris As An Integrated System On Micro Falcon UAV.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Bental Industries will integrate its proven MicroBat-275 on Innocon's Micro Falcon UAVs. Bental's Starter Generator systems have already been integrated on Innocon's Mini...

Mosquito Evolution Spells Trouble For Galapagos Wildlife.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Leeds, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood. Scientists from...

NASA Announces Winners In Lunar Art Contest.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The results of the second annual NASA Lunar Art Contest are out-of-this-world productions from high school and college students from around the globe. "Crater Core Sample," a...

Nature Parks Can Save Species As Climate Changes.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists. ...

New Cleaning Protocol For Future Search For Life Missions.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Leeds, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future "Search for Life" missions on other planets....

New Formula Uncovers Our Planet's Past And Helps Predict Future.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought...

New Technique Improves Estimates Of Pulsar Ages.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a new technique to determine the ages of millisecond pulsars, the fastest-spinning stars in the universe....

New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Troy NY (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape,...

Northrop Grumman Submits Bid For US Navy CANES.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The team led by Northrop Grumman has submitted its bid for the U.S. Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services, or CANES. CANES will streamline and update...

Radio Telescopes Extend Astronomy's Best <Q>Yardstick</Q>.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Radio astronomers have directly measured the distance to a faraway galaxy, providing a valuable "yardstick" for calibrating large astronomical distances and demonstrating a vital...

Scientists Use High-Energy Particles From Space To Probe Thunderstorms.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Melbourne FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big...

SG Biofuels Advances Efforts To Develop Cold-Tolerant Jatropha.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 SG Biofuels has announced it has identified several strains of cold tolerant Jatropha capable of thriving in climates previously thought to be outside of the crop's preferred...

Solar Power Partners Helps LA Go Green.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Mill Valley CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Solar Power Partners has officially announced that several of its solar energy facilities in the Los Angeles area are in full commercial operation and generating electricity....

Stat X Fire Suppression System Selected For Giant Crawlers.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Minnetonka MN (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 When NASA Kennedy Space Centers fire safety experts decided to replace the fire suppression system in the giant twin crawler transporters, they turned to the next generation...

SunLight Eagle Soars.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 The Physical Science Laboratory of New Mexico State University announced that its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center successfully hosted the first flight last month of...

SunPods Predicts Bright Future For Power-on-Demand Solar Platforms.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 SunPods has unveiled its revolutionary photovoltaic array system. According to Dan Jaeger, President of SunPods, "We are proud to be participating in this prestigious launch, and...

Texas-Size Computer Finds Most Massive Black Hole In Galaxy M87.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Astronomers Karl Gebhardt (The University of Texas at Austin) and Jens Thomas (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) have used new computer modeling techniques to...

Thinnest Superconducting Metal Created.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Austin TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin....

Will Lisa Find Gravitational Waves And Prove Einstein Right.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2009, 2009 Space and time are no longer what they used to be - absolute dimensions of the universe without regard to anything external. That is how Isaac Newton described them in the...

Aerospace Assurance From Earth To The Moon.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Madison WI (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 Aerospace hardware, whether for jet engines, space station payloads or lunar surface components, has some of the most demanding requirements of any design application. To ensure...

Bacteria From The Deep Can Clean Up Heavy Metals.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 A species of bacteria, isolated from sediments deep under the Pacific Ocean, could provide a powerful clean-up tool for heavy metal pollution. Writing in the current issue of...

Base10 Selects RTI's Real-Time Middleware For UGV Project.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced that Base Ten Systems Electronics GmbH (Base10) has selected RTI Data Distribution Service for their unmanned ground-based vehicle (UGV)...

Bilayer Graphene Gets A Bandgap.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and...

Bone Bed Tells Of Life Along California's Ancient Coastline.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Robert Sanders Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and...

CapRock Government Solutions Receives Satellite Industry Leadership Award.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Staff Writers Fairfax VA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 CapRock Government Solutions has announced that it received the Satellite Industry Leadership Award last Wednesday at the 2009 International Satellite and Communications exchange...

Changing Climate May Make Super Weed Even More Powerful.
June 12, 2009... Byline: Tracey Bryant Newark DE (SPX) Jun 12, 2009, 2009 Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered a new reason why the tall, tasseled reed Phragmites australis is one of the most invasive plants in the United States....