Space Daily articles from November 2008

Space Daily archives from November 2008

1000 Tags Reveal Mysteries Of Giant Bluefin Tuna.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Port Hood, Canada (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna weighing more than half a ton had the honor of being fitted with the 1000th electronic tracking tag placed on this threatened species when it was...

China's Three Gorges Dam Providing New Opportunities.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 China's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges...

Cub Foods Opens State-Of-The-Art Green Grocery Store.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Stillwater MN (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Cub Foods has announced the grand opening of a one-of-a-kind store. Upon approval, the store will become Minnesota's first, and one of the nation's few, new grocery stores to...

Cyberlux And Sacred Power Deliver Solar Powered Lighting To DoD.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Cyberlux has announced that the company has entered into a product development, business development and product sales relationship with Sacred Power. Sacred Power...

Garmin GPSMAP 696: A Big Screen Portable Aviation Navigator.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Olathe KS (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Garmin International has announced the GPSMAP 695 and GPSMAP 696, a new series of portable aviation navigation devices. As Garmin's new flagship portable aviation product, the GPSMAP 696...

Ghost Of Mirach Materializes.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies. The eerie...

Horizon Navigation Integrates Clear Channel Total Traffic Network.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Cupertino CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Horizon Navigation has announced that it will incorporate real-time traffic data from Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network (CCTTN) into its NavMate software. "Clear Channel...

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Searches Dark Hearts Of Bright Galaxies.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), astronomers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany have obtained important information on some of the most spectacular...

Magellan Brings New Level Of Ease To Auto Navigation.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Santa Clara CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Magellan is introducing the industry's first vehicle navigation device with a OneTouch user interface. The new Magellan Maestro 4350 series, featuring an evolutionary new interface...

Major Changes In US Energy Policy After 2008 Election.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers New York NY (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 The 2008 presidential election will mean major changes in United States energy policy. William F. Weld, partner advising on government strategies and energy policy for the law firm of...

Marlink Purchases WaveCall.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Marlink has agreed to purchase the WaveCall brand from Sea Tel. Marlink will package its maritime VSAT solution and full-service support network with the Sea Tel 4006 Ku-band...

Molten Magnetic Meteorites.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Meteorites that are among the oldest rocks ever found have provided new clues about the conditions that existed at the beginning of the solar system, solving a longstanding mystery...

New ESRI ArcGIS API For Flex Enhances Web Mapping.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Redlands CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Web geographic information system (GIS) technology takes a forward leap with the release of ESRI's ArcGIS API for Flex. With the Flex API, developers can combine GIS-based Web services...

Satellite Capacity Shortages Confirmed In Middle East And North Africa.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Toulouse, France (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Euroconsult and The London Satellite Exchange have announce that fill rates remain extremely high, providing a degree of protection from the economic downturn, in particular in the...

Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers For Sea Level Clues.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Austin TX (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in...

SolarCraft Helps Trione Vineyards Switch To Solar.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Novato CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 Novato-based SolarCraft has announced it has completed the design and installation of a 39.2 kW solar electric system for Trione Vineyards and Winery in Geyserville, CA. The winery's new...

Technical Issues, More Tests Delay Tactical Satellite-3's Liftoff.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Michael Kleiman - 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 The timeless saying every gray cloud has a silver lining aptly fits the Tactical Satellite-3 program during the past 60 days. Initially...

Africa Command Headquarters To Remain In Stuttgart.
November 4, 2008... Byline: John J. Kruzel for American Forces Press Service Washington DC (AFNS) Nov 04, 2008 U.S. Africa Command's headquarters will remain in its current location in Stuttgart, Germany, for the foreseeable future, a Pentagon spokesman said...

Cliffbot Goes Climbing.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Henry Bortman for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 Some of the most scientifically interesting sites on Mars are also some of the hardest to get to. Layered terrain exposed on the cliff faces of deep...

Conclusive Proof That Polar Warming Is Being Caused By Humans.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Norwich, UK (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 New research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has demonstrated for the first time that human activity is responsible for significant warming in both polar regions. The findings...

Conclusive Vote on Cause of Indonesian Mud Volcano.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 A resounding vote of international petroleum geologists from around the globe concluded that the mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas exploration well. This may have...

Confirming Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers La Jolla CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending...

Contrasting Hurricane Theories Heat Up.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Virginia Key FL (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 In a paper published in the journal Science, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NoAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee...

Economic Impact Of Arms Race In Space.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Superior CO (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 The present U.S. policy of space dominance could transform outer space into a military battleground points out a just-issued report from Economists for Peace and Security. The report,...

Eurofighter Air-to-Air Refuelling From Airbus A310 MRTT.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Manching, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 The test flight series to obtain certification of the single-seater and twin-seater Eurofighter aircraft for air-to-air refuelling from the Airbus A310 MRTT tanker have begun at...

Helping Wean The Chemicals Industry Off Crude Oil.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 CSIRO scientists have joined one of the world's largest biotechnology consortia to help develop crops which produce oils to be used by the chemicals industry as sustainable...

Inner-City College Solar Project Major Step Toward Energy Independence.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 As we find ourselves faced with escalating fuel costs and depleting natural resources, the clamor for answers is growing every day. With its latest inner-city solar project at L.A....

Innovation Valley Builds First-of-its-Kind Biofuels Facility.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Knoxville TN (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 Construction started this week in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley of East Tennessee on a biofuel refinery that will use switchgrass, a perennial crop, as a feedstock to...

Intelsat Retires The Oldest Commercial CommSat.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 After 32 years of serving ships at sea and scientists at the South Pole, an aging communications satellite owned by Intelsat has been retired. The Marisat-F2 satellite, manufactured...

Living fossil Helps Predict Rainforest Future.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming...

Lockheed Martin Delivers 500th Arrowhead System To US Army.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 Lockheed Martin marked the delivery of the 500th Arrowhead system to the U.S. Army at a celebration held at its Ocala and Orlando, FL, facilities. Arrowhead is the U.S. Army's Modernized...

Microspace Contracts Additional NSS-7 Satellite Capacity.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 SES NEW SKIES announces that Microspace has contracted an additional 5.5 Mbps of capacity on the NSS-7 satellite at the orbital location of 338 degrees East. Microspace...

More Jets On Enceladus.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Carolyn Porco for Cassini Imaging Team Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 I'm very happy to report that we've just put one more major milestone in this remarkable adventure successfully behind us. Another bold dip over the south...

Neil Armstrong Gives Papers To Purdue Libraries.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 The personal story of the first person to land a craft on the moon and to step on its surface will live forever - in the Purdue University Libraries. Astronaut Neil A....

SolFocus And EMPE Solar Sign Deal For 10MW Project.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 SolFocus has announced the signing of a US$103 million (euro 80M) agreement with EMPE Solar to install over 10 megawatts (MW) of CPV solar energy projects in several sites across...

STS-126 Focuses On ISS Crew Expansion Preparations.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Cape Canveral FL (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 For years, STS-126 has been planned as the mission that will give the International Space Station the ability to support twice the crew currently living there. But since the most...

Student Experiments On Board REXUS 4 Launched.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 The technicians and engineers of the German Aerospace Center announce the successful launch of the REXUS 4 sounding rocket (Rocket-borne EXperiments for University Students). After a...

Sunlight Solar Energy Wins SunPower Award.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers San Jose CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 SunPower has announced that Sunlight Solar Energy has won the SunPower 'Intelegant Award for Excellence' in residential solar-electric power system installation. Sunlight Solar received...

Technical Issues, More Tests Delay Tactical Satellite-3's Liftoff.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Michael Kleiman for 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 03, 2008 The timeless saying every gray cloud has a silver lining aptly fits the Tactical Satellite-3 program during the past 60 days. Initially...

The Future Of Wind Power.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 This Business Insights report analyses the future of wind generation - one of the fastest growing areas of the power market. It looks at how the wind power technologies are maturing...

United Space Alliance Awarded IMOC Contract.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Houston TX (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 NASA has awarded United Space Alliance the Integrated Mission Operations Contract (IMOC), signaling a continuing partnership between the agency and the space operations company. The...

US Navy, Raytheon Achieve Program Milestone On JSOW C-1.
November 4, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 The U.S. Navy and Raytheon have completed a critical design review of the Joint Standoff Weapon C-1, achieving a major program milestone. JSOW C-1 adds moving maritime target...

AeroScout Wins Contract For New Combined GPS And Wi-Fi Solution.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Redwood City CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 AeroScout has announced a new solution that combines GPS with Wi-Fi. The innovative solution enables accurate asset tracking and management in very large outdoor environments, and...

Asteroid 2008 TC3 Strikes Earth.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Tuscon AZ (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 A spectacular fireball lit up the predawn sky above Northern Sudan on October 7, 2008. This explosion was caused by the atmospheric entry of a small near-Earth asteroid, estimated to be no...

AT And T Launches New Energy-Saving Software.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Dallas TX (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 AT and T has announced it is launching the NightWatchman PC power management solution from 1E on 310,000 desktop computers across its domestic operations to help improve energy efficiency....

Blue Square Energy Announces 14 Percent Efficient Solar Cell.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers North East MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Blue Square Energy has announced that it has produced a 14.6 percent efficient solar cell with its patent-pending Bright Point technology. BSE's efficiency result is one of the highest...

Consumer Reports Test Latest GPS Navigators.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Yonkers NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Now is a great time to purchase GPS navigators, whether drivers need help crossing the country or getting across town in rush hour. With more models being introduced, buyers can get more...

CSIRO Strengthens Scientific Relationship With China.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 CSIRO Exploration and Mining has signed an historic Relationship Agreement with the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT). The signing follows years of close...

Eastern Pacific Tuna Hang In The Balance.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Next week marks a pivotal moment for Eastern Pacific tuna. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), the international body charged with the conservation and management of...

Extinct Sabertooth Cats Were Social.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 The sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis), one of the most iconic extinct mammal species, was likely to be a social animal, living and hunting like lions today, according to new...

Fingers, Loops And Bays In The Crab Nebula.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 This image gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. The nebula is powered by a rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron...

First Rocket Parts Of NASA's New Launch System Arrive In Florida.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 The first major flight hardware of the Ares I-X rocket has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for the inaugural test flight of the agency's next-generation launch system. The...

Germany's CESAR Crowned King Of Rovers In ESA's Robotics Challenge.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the...

Giant Simulation Could Solve Mystery Of Dark Matter.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research. Dark matter is believed to account for 85 per cent of the...

LockMart-Led Team Completes GPS III Integrated Baseline Review.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Newtown PA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 The Lockheed Martin team developing the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, has successfully completed on-schedule an Integrated Baseline Review...

NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters. Information received over the weekend indicates Phoenix is running out...

NASA Selects Astronomy Student Ambassadors.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Forty-six undergraduate and graduate students have been selected to represent NASA in their local communities as recipients of the agency's International Year of Astronomy, or IYA,...

Nations That Launch: Where New Technologies And Products Take-Off.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bethlehem PA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 A new study published in the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States...

Navy Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target In Fleet Exercise.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Kauai HI (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Vice Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, Commander, U.S. Third Fleet has announced the successful Navy intercept of a ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean during Fleet Exercise Pacific...

New App For AT And T GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 In time to work off the stress and creeping pounds that often come with the holidays, Trimble and AT and T have announced the availability of the AllSport GPS application that lets...

New Spaceship Force Field Makes Mars Trip Possible.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 According to the international space agencies, "Space Weather" is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and cosmic rays pose a deadly threat to...

Nexant Sees Bright Future For African Petrochemical Sector.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers White Plains NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 As the petrochemical industry intensifies its global search for new chemical feedstock sources, a growing number of companies are looking closely at Africa's largely underdeveloped...

NOAA-N Prime Satellite Arrives At Vandenberg For Launch.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Rob Gutro Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived...

NYC Probation Department Operates More Effectively With ESRI GIS.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Redlands CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 New York City Department of Probation (NYCDOP) now deploys ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) software to more effectively manage caseloads, track high-risk probationers, and...

Oshkosh Defense Contract To Provide Next-Gen FHTV.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Oshkosh WI (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Oshkosh Defense will add more than 6,000 upgraded vehicles to the U.S. Army's Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicle (FHTV) fleet under a new three-year contract from the U.S. Army...

Raytheon Awarded Contract For Standard Missile-2 Production.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Raytheon a $422 million production contract for Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA and Block IIIB missiles. Raytheon will provide SM-2 missiles to the...

Remote-Controlled Weapon Stations Delivered to Bundeswehr on Time.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has carried out the first partial delivery of seven light FLW 100 weapon stations to the Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB). The...

Satellites Helping Aid Workers In Honduras.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following...

Second European CubeSat Workshop.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Paris, France (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Following on from the successful "Vega Maiden Flight CubeSat Workshop" held at ESA/ESTEC in January 2008, which was the first CubeSat workshop to be held at European-level, the ESA...

Simulated Seismic Signals Could Help Save Lives.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Imagine if a city could prepare its residents before a volcanic eruption, resulting in fewer fatalities and much less property damage. An international team working out of the...

Solar Power Game-Changer.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Troy NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective...

Spire Receives Develops Microcrack Detection Technique PV Cells And Wafers.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Bedford MA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Spire has announced that it has received a contract from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a microcrack detection technique for silicon solar cells and wafers. ...

Suniva Begins Production Of High Efficiency Solar Cells.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Suniva has announced that in less than 12 months after the initial planning it successfully began production of solar cells on its new 32MWp line in Norcross, Georgia. The company...

Suntech Maximizes Solar Energy At Caltech.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers San Francisco CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Suntech Power Holdings has announced the completion of the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech) 238 kWp solar array. The system was designed and installed by Suntech...

Survey Reveals Extent Of Hurricane Ike's Underwater Damage To Galveston.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Austin TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Conducting a rapid response research mission after Hurricane Ike, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin surveyed the inlet between Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico,...

Trimble Acquires Tru Count Assets To Expand Precision Agriculture Solutions.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Trimble has announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held Tru Count, Inc., of Ames, Iowa in an all cash transaction. Tru Count is a leading manufacturer of air and electric...

Very Cold Ice Films In Laboratory Reveal Mysteries Of Universe.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Granada, Spain (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 The universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but until recently little was known about the detailed small scale...

Virginia Tech Engineers Identify Conditions That Initiate Erosion.
November 6, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Blacksburg VA (SPX) Nov 05, 2008 Wind, water, and waves erode billions of tons of soil from the earth's surface. As a result, many rivers are plagued with excessive amounts of suspended sediment. According to the U.S....

2008 Ozone Hole Maximum Announced.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Kathryn Hansen Washington DC (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million kilometers, or 10.5 square miles. The area of the ozone hole is calculated as an...

82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions By 2013.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications...

Boeing Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of First Avenger Delivery To US Army.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 Boeing has announced that Nov. 1 marked the 20th anniversary of its first Avenger fire unit delivery to the U.S. Army. Developed and produced in Huntsville, Avenger is the Army's...

Death By Hyperdisease.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the...

Echelon Wins Smart Metering Project In France.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers San Jose CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 Echelon has announced that the Group of Electricity Distributors in France (GAELD), a consortium of electricity distributors, has chosen Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) System...

Engineering Meets Environment In Seventh Annual Solar Cup.
November 8, 2008... Byline: Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2008 Melding engineering and environmental lessons, the seventh annual Solar Cup has been launched by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California with 40 schools and about 800...