Space Daily articles from October 2007

Space Daily archives from October 2007

A New Lunar Impact Observatory.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Dauna Coulter for NASA Science News HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- NASA scientists are proving that you can go home again - if you bring a telescope with you. "Home" is north Georgia's Walker County, where astronomers Bill Cooke...

A New Reduction Of The Hipparcos Catalogues.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- ESA's Hipparcos mission provided astrometric data on thousands of stars. Thanks to advances in computational processing power it has been possible to revisit the original data and improve the...

Air Force Energy Initiatives Focus On Fuel.
October 3, 2007... Byline: 1st Lt. Amanda Ferrell Global Air Chiefs Conference Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Leaders of Air Force energy policy and programs convened here Sept. 25 to discuss the Air Force's direction and initiatives in the realm...

All Planets Possible.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an...

Business Ideas For Space Technology.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- ESA is calling for proposals from entrepreneurs with new ideas on how space technology can be turned into business opportunities in non-space sectors. The deadline for the last round of...

Chance Encounter With Comet Nets Surprising Results.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Comets are made of the most primitive stuff in the solar system. As hunks of rock and ice that never coalesced into more planets, they give researchers clues to the evolution of...

Colors Of Alien Plants.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Vikki Meadows for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science...

Cyberspace Expert Briefs AFA Conference Attendees.(Conference news)
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Sgt. J.G. Buzanowski WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- "The first battle in the wars of the future will be over the control of cyberspace," said Dr. Lani Kass at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology...

Dawn Of A Long Voyage To The Beginning Of Sol And Beyond.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Dr. Marc D. Rayman Project System Engineer, JPL PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- The Dawn project welcomes you to deep space! Dawn is operating smoothly on the fourth day of its 8-year adventure. Like new parents, its extremely...

Engineered Eggshells To Help Make Hydrogen Fuel.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to turn discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy resource. The patented process uses eggshells to soak up carbon...

Expedition 16 Crew To Launch From Baikonur.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Commander Peggy Whitson and Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the 16th International Space Station crew are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at about...

Feeding The World Without Genetic Engineering.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- The work of a Kansas State University professor is challenging the assumption that genetically engineered plants are the great scientific and technological revolution in agriculture...

Into The Chrysalis.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer and its razor-sharp eyes to discover a reservoir of dust trapped in a disc that surrounds an elderly star. The...

Israel Air Force to Be Equipped With Elbit Systems Lizard Laser-Guided Bombs.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HAIFA, Israel, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Elbit Systems Ltd. has been selected to equip the Israel Air Force (IAF) with its Lizard laser-guided bombs. Contract value is several $Millions and the initial supply of the systems to...

J-2X Powerpack Test Article Installed On Test Stand.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Core components of the J-2X engine being designed for NASA's Constellation Program recently were installed on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis,...

Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3a Satellite Begins Service For B-SAT Customers.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWTOWN, Pa., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- The BSAT-3a broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], is now operational for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) following successful...

Lockheed Martin Completes Proof Testing Of RATTLRS Vehicle.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PALMDALE, Calif., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has completed proof pressure testing of the Revolutionary Approach To Time-critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS) vehicle. This testing validates the vehicle's...

Lunar Outpost Plans Taking Shape.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- NASA's blueprints for an outpost on the moon are shaping up. The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has been hard at work, looking at concepts for habitation, rovers, and space suits. NASA will...

Microbes Gain Strength In Space.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero-gravity environments. Now, a new study led by researchers from ASU's Biodesign...

NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading To Record Low In 2007.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of perennial winter sea...

NASA, IMAX Team Up On Hubble Servicing Mission.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Thanks to cooperation between NASA, IMAX Corporation, and Warner Bros. Pictures, the IMAX 3D camera is scheduled for a journey to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008. The camera will...

NASA Restarts Telescope Mission To Detect Black Holes.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. The Nuclear...

NASA Satellite Sees Solar Hurricane Tear Comet Tail Off.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Andy Freeberg WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete...

Northrop Grumman And SAIC Pursue MASINT/AGI Contract.(Company overview)
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Defense industry leaders Northrop Grumman Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation announced the formation of an industry-wide team to bid on the Measurement and...

Ocean Oxidation Preceded First Great Rise In Atmospheric Oxygen.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- The history of life on Earth is closely linked to the appearance of oxygen in the atmosphere, which scientists think first occurred in significant amounts during a "Great Oxidation...

Physicists Establish Spooky Quantum Communication.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 3 (SPX) -- Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the...

Raytheon Milestone Keeps Dual Band Radar On Track.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Raytheon has achieved a significant milestone in advancing the final development of the company's Dual Band Radar (DBR) for the U.S. Navy's Zumwalt Class destroyer. Raytheon...

Reflections On Space Progress In The 50 Years Since Sputnik.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Mike O'Sullivan LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at...

Rolls-Royce Announce Biofuel Flight Demo With Air New Zealand And Boeing.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Boeing, Air New Zealand and Rolls-Royce have announced a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight designed to help accelerate the development of viable and...

Spaceflight Shown To Alter Ability Of Bacteria To Cause Disease.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Now, a new study led by researchers from the Biodesign Institute...

Successful Image Taking By The High Definition Television.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully taken high definition moving images through the KAGUYA (SELENE) for the first time. The...

Successful Test Of Jules Verne ATV Software.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Oct. 2 (SPX) -- For the first time, the compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle flight software has been successfully tested this month with the rest of the vast ISS flight software...

The Dark Matter Of The Universe Has A Long Lifetime.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 3 (SPX) -- New research from the Niels Bohr Institute presents new information that adds another piece of knowledge to the jigsaw puzzle of the dark mystery of the universe - dark matter. The...

The Threat Of Small Rocks.
October 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFET FIELD, Calif., Oct. 2 (SPX) -- Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media - sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of...

2007 Ozone Hole Smaller Than Usual.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk 30 percent as compared to last year's record size. According to measurements made by ESA's Envisat satellite, this year's ozone loss peaked at 27.7...

Arctic Sea Ice Shatters Record Low: Diminished Ice Leads To Northwest Passage Opening.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's...

Ariane 5 Cleared For Intelsat 11 And Optus D2 Mission.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guiana, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Ariane 5 mission is cleared for an October 5 liftoff with Intelsat 11 and Optus D2 Arianespace's fourth mission of 2007 is set for Friday, October 5, with the green light given...

Astronauts To Ride Rails In Emergency.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Steven Siceloff CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- As NASA revamps Launch Complex 39B to host the new Orion spacecraft and Ares I rocket of the Constellation Program, engineers are preparing to install a new kind of departure...

Australia To Join With United States In Defence Global Satellite Communications Capability.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- The Australian Government will enter into a $927 million partnership with the United States to access a world-leading communications capability provided by the new Wideband Global...

Bosch Introduces Solar Thermal Water Heating Solutions To US Market.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Bosch Thermotechnology division announced the addition of Bosch and Buderus solar thermal water heating systems and components for both residential and commercial customers in the U.S....

Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records. "There has been this continual reference to the...

Clemson Physicist Addresses International Forum On Thermoelectric Energy.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEMSON, S.C., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Energy lost from hot engines could save billions of dollars if it could be captured and converted into electricity via thermoelectric devices, Clemson University physicist Terry Tritt...

Earthquake Experts At Tel Aviv University Turn To History For Guidance.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- The best seismologists in the world don't know when the next big earthquake will hit. But a Tel Aviv University geologist suggests that earthquake patterns recorded in historical...

ESA Pays Tribute To 50 Years Of Space.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Fifty years ago today, on the night of 4 October, the first 'beep-beep' from Sputnik fell from the heavens and marked the beginning of a new era for the human race. Satellites and space probes...

First Class Of Airmen Train For Wideband Global SATCOM.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Sgt. Don Branum SCHRIEVER AFB, Colo., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Five Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron here were the first to finish training recently for the Wideband Global SATCOM system, which is scheduled to launch Oct....

First Test: Main Parachute For Ares I Rocket.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first drop test of the main parachute that will help recover the first stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Ares I will carry the...

Geologists Recover Rocks Yielding Unprecedented Insights Into San Andreas Fault.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers STANFORD, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- For the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length...

Goddard Lunar Science On A Roll.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Rob Gutro and Bill Steigerwald GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Pack your bags because Goddard's "suitcase science" is taking off. Coming on the heels of two Lunar Sortie Science Opportunities (LSSO) awards for Goddard are two more,...

High-Performance Motorised Wheelchairs.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADRID, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Tekniker-Ik4, with the help of the Benevolent Fund of the Kutxa Bank, has created the NOA prototype of a wheelchair with state-of-the-art specifications. From the very, first special emphasis...

How Emotionally Charged Events Leave Their Mark On Memory.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Researchers have uncovered new evidence in mice that may explain how emotionally charged situations can leave such a powerful mark on our memories. Surges of the stress...

ING To Power All US Operations With Wind Power.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HARTFORD, CN, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- ING announced the next phase of its worldwide sustainability commitment by agreeing to purchase clean, emission-free wind energy credits for its U.S. operations. The purchase is equal to...

Integral Team Keeps Vital MRAPs Up And Running.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Cpl. Wayne Edmiston AL TAQADDUM, Iraq, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- In some places in the United States, boys spend a good amount of their youth taking apart and toying with the mechanical parts of an engine. For many of these hobbyists, oil...

International Space University To Establish Scholarship Commemorating Space Industry's Golden Jubilee.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- On October 4, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the International Space University (ISU) will be conducting a 10-day auction on eBay of unusual and interesting...

Iowa State Engineer Develops Technology To Quickly Find Leaks In Spacecraft.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers AMES, IO, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Tiny meteors flash through space. There's spacecraft debris flying around, too. And so there's a risk that objects just a few millimeters across could pierce the thin aluminum skin of...

Living Fossils Heat Up For Reproduction.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out...

Lockheed Martin Paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb Fully Qualified For US Navy.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ARCHBALD, Pa., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin successfully completed the paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb (DMLGB) First Article Test program and is now the only qualified source for delivery of DMLGB kits to...

MU Physicist Defends Einstein's Theory And Speed Of Gravity Measurement.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Scientists have attempted to disprove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity for the better part of a century. After testing and confirming Einstein's prediction in 2002 that...

New PowerSecure Subsidiary Helps Grocery Chains Reduce Energy Consumption.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WAKE FOREST, N.C., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- PowerSecure International has launched a new subsidiary, EfficientLights, that will design and manufacture lighting solutions specifically aimed at substantially reducing the energy...

Northrop Grumman's KC-30 Tanker Completes First Flight.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- The first KC-30 Tanker aircraft completed its maiden flight today, underscoring the production strategy selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) KC-30 industry team for...

ORNL Resilience Plan To Help Tennessee, Mississippi And South Carolina Communities Beat Disaster.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new...

Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAJOLLA, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research initiated by an undergraduate student at the...

Questioning Habitable Planets.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science...

Rare Albino Ratfish Has Eerie Silvery Sheen.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen...

Running Shipwreck Simulations Backwards Helps Identify Dangerous Waves.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Big waves in fierce storms have long been the focus of ship designers in simulations testing new vessels. But a new computer program and method of analysis by University of Michigan...

Salmonid Hatcheries Cause Stunning Loss Of Reproduction.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- The rearing of steelhead trout in hatcheries causes a dramatic and unexpectedly fast drop in their ability to reproduce in the wild, a new Oregon State University study shows, and...

Solar Energy System For Denver International Airport.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- MMA Renewable Ventures and WorldWater and Solar Technologies have announced plans to construct a two-megawatt (MW) solar energy system at Denver International Airport (DIA). Upon its completion...

Star System Just Right For Building An Earth.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists have discovered a huge...

Stopping Atoms.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 4 (SPX) -- With atoms and molecules in a gas moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, physicists have long sought a way to slow them down to a few kilometres per hour to trap them. A paper,...

SunPower Builds 2-Megawatt Solar Power Plant On Korean Landfill.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SEOUL, Oct. 5 (SPX) -- SunPower has announced that it will work with Korean energy company EnE System to build a 2-megawatt solar electric power plant in Jeonju, a city in the Jeolla province of Korea. The plant,...

Suntech Targets 100MW Of Sales To The US In 2008 Due To Robust Demand.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Suntech Power Holdings welcomed over 200 customers, partners and industry colleagues to a celebration of Moon Festival Night on Tuesday, September 25 at the Solar Power 2007...

Technology Could Enable Computers To Read The Minds Of Users.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SOMERVILLE, Mass., Oct. 4 (SPX) -- Tufts University researchers are developing techniques that could allow computers to respond to users' thoughts of frustration - too much work - or boredom-too little work. Applying...

UF Researchers Devise Way To Calculate Rates Of Evolution.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- "Survival of the fittest" has popularly described evolution for more than a century, but a new study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters provides further evidence...

USAF Increases Funding Of Ascent Solar Technologies' High Efficiency Solar Cell Program.
October 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LITTLETON, Colo., Oct. 5 (SPX) -- Ascent Solar Technologies has announced that the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted to increase funding of Ascent Solar's development of high-performance thin-film...

Arianespace Boosts Intelsat 11 And Optus D2 Into Orbit.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guiana, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Arianespace successfully orbited two communications satellites today (October 5) from the Spaceport in French Guiana: Intelsat 11 for the international operator Intelsat, and...

Billion Dollar Australian Air Warfare Destroyer Program Begins Construction.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Representatives of the AWD Alliance (the Commonwealth of Australia, Raytheon Australia and ASC Shipbuilding) have signed Australia's Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD) Phase III contract...

Boeing To Develop Advanced Sensor For Next-Gen Munition.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Boeing has been awarded a $600,000 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to develop the Seeker Integrated Target Endgame Sensor (SITES) to help advance Joint Dual Role Air...

Canadian Solar And Luoyang Polysilicon Complete First BIPV Solar Glass Roof System.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers JIANGSU, China, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Canadian Solar has completed the first BIPV solar glass roof system, with glass-on-glass solar modules, in Henan Province in collaboration with China's Luoyang Polysilicon Company. CSI...

Fair Play In Chimpanzees.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- New research from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany shows that unlike humans, chimpanzees conform to traditional economic models. The research,...

Google Earth Worries ISRO Chief.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BANGALORE, India, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief has expressed concern at high-resolution satellite images offered by Google and said authorities should hold a dialogue with it...

LDK Solar Signs Wafers Supply Agreement With Solartech Energy Corp.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers XINYU CITY, China, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Solartech Energy...

MBDA Director Takes Up Business Management Assignment On The MEADS Program.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ROME, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Marco Pistoni has been named Business Management Director for MEADS International and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. He joins the program management team in Orlando on...

New Transparent Plastic Strong As Steel.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 8 (SPX) -- By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and...

Northrop Grumman Celebrates 10th Year As Prime Integrating Contractor US Land-Based ICBM Force.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEARFIELD, Utah, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman celebrates 10 years as the U.S. Air Force's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Prime Integrating Contractor, a highly successful effort led by the company to...

Satellite Methods For Monitoring Volcanic Activity In The Andes Cordillera.
October 8, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Oct. 8 (SPX) -- The central part of the Andes situated between southern Peru and Chile bears 50 active or potentially volcanoes, spread along a 1500 km-long arc. These volcanic structures mostly rise to between...