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 May 28, 2007 |
| MARSDAILY + Opportunity Turns Up The Amps  Pasadena CA (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Opportunity's electrical supply returned to levels not seen since the rover first arrived on Mars. Peak electrical current from the rover's solar arrays climbed above 4.0 amps and remained there for most of the week as a result of three recent dust-cleaning events. The last time electrical current reached similar levels was on sol 18 (Feb. 10, 2004)! Meanwhile, Opportunity is healthy an ... moreROCKET SCIENCE + ATK Conducts Successful Test Firing Of Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor  Promontory UT (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Alliant Techsystems conducted Thursday May 24, a successful test firing of NASA's Reusable Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM) as part of continuous testing to improve performance and ensure safety of the Space Shuttle, which also transfers improvements into the shuttle-derived first-stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The Reusable Solid Rocket Motor generated 2.6 million pounds of average thru ... moreLAUNCH PAD + Arianespace Maintains Launch Campaign Pace As Another Ariane 5 GEO Truck Takes Form  Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Another Ariane 5 has started the assembly process at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana as Arianespace moves ahead with plans to conduct a total of six missions during 2007 with the workhorse launch vehicle. To meet the goal of performing its next two flights in an interval of less than one month, the vehicle now taking shape in the Launcher Integration Building is an Ariane 5 GS version, which ... moreSTATION NEWS + Expedition 15 Prepares For Upcoming Spacewalks  Houston TX (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Two International Space Station cosmonauts will begin an almost six-hour spacewalk from the Pirs docking compartment airlock about 2:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday to install Service Module Debris Protection (SMDP) panels on Zvezda and reroute a Global Positioning System antenna cable. Additional SMDP panels will be installed on a second spacewalk by station by the cosmonauts, Commander Fyodor ... moreCONSTELLATIONS + ICO Signs Launch Services And Dual Launch Study Agreement With ILS  Reston VA (SPX) May 28, 2007 - ICO Global Communications has signed a Launch Services and Dual Launch Study Agreement with ILS International Launch Services (ILS). With this contract, ICO has established a Proton launch services agreement for up to five launches in the 2009 through 2011 timeframe. In addition, ILS will design and propose a dual launch capability for ICO's Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites. Bob Day ... more | LAUNCH PAD:  MOON DAILY:  ROCKET SCIENCE:  SOLAR SCIENCE:  |
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| SPACEWAR + Pentagon Reaffirms Right Of US To Deny Adversaries Use Of Space  Washington (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2007 - The United States has the inherent right of self-defense to protect its national interests in space and can deny its adversaries the use of hostile space capabilities, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday. "The United States views purposeful interference with its space systems as an infringement on its rights and will take actions necessary to preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom ... moreMISSILE DEFENSE + A Weekend Of Missile Tests And Deployments Across The Pacific  Washington (AFP) May 25, 2007 - The US was Friday forced to abort a bid to shoot down a long-range missile over the Pacific in a blow to its controversial anti-missile defense shield which it wants to extend over eastern Europe. "The target did not reach sufficient altitude to be deemed a threat and so the Ballistic Missile Defense System did not engage it, as designed," said Air Force Lieutenant General Henry Obering. ... moreMISSILE DEFENSE + As Czechs Protest At ABM Govt Threatens Return To Conscription  Prague (AFP) May 27, 2007 - The Czech Republic might have to reintroduce compulsory military service if it refuses to host a controversial US tracking radar system, European Affairs Minister Alexandr Vondra warned on Sunday. "Of course we can say no right now, but such a decision would have consequences," Vondra said on Czech Television."Among them in future it cannot be ruled out that we will have to renew compulsory ... moreMISSILE NEWS + Gripen Conducts High Altitude Firing With Meteor  London UK (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Yet another important milestone was reached today when Gripen successfully conducted the first Meteor firing in the UK and continued the testing of the six-nation Meteor air dominance missile. "Gripen is the first and so far only fighter aircraft that has launched Meteor. With today's firing Gripen once again proves to be a reliable platform for the integration and testing of complex future ... moreSUPERPOWERS + Is China A Military Threat Or Another Paper Tiger  Washington (UPI) May 24, 2007 - How much of a threat is China's growing military to the security of the United States? China's investment in its military, from conventional weapons to cybersystems, along with its lack of openness regarding its intent, raises the possibility of a miscalculation that could spark a conflict with the United States, according to U.S. security policy experts. So too could the perennial increase ... more | IRAQ WARS:  MISSILE NEWS:  UAV NEWS:  NUKEWARS:  |
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| CLIMATE SCIENCE + Yangtze Flood Alert As Tibetan Glaciers Melt  Beijing (AFP) May 24, 2007 - Melting Tibetan glaciers could cause the worst flooding on the Yangtze since 1998, when more than 3,000 people were killed as China's longest river overflowed, state media said Thursday. "Meteorological and hydrological features in the Yangtze River valley this year are similar to those in 1998," said Cai Qihua, deputy chief of the Yangtze River Flood Control Headquarters, according to the China ... moreWOOD PILE + Uganda Shelves Plan To Convert Rainforest  Kampala (AFP) May 26, 2007 - Government plans to convert thousands of hectares of rainforest on an island on Uganda's Lake Victoria into a palm oil plantation have been shelved, officials said on Saturday. Environment Minister Mary Mutagamba said the government abandoned the idea after the Kenyan company Bidco that applied for the licence backed off fearing negative publicity about the project would harm its efforts to ... moreEARLY EARTH + Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur  Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2007 - An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track site in Spain's Cameros Basin, contains the first long and continuous record of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. ... moreSHAKE AND BLOW + Hurricane Risks Higher Than Usual For Most Of US Coasts  Orlando FL (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Much of the nation's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a University of Central Florida researcher and his Georgia colleague. Nationally, Carteret County on the North Carolina coastline has the highest probability of hurricane-force winds in 2007 at 22.4 percent, according to the analysis by UCF ... moreDISASTER MANAGEMENT + Chinese Space Agency Joins The International Charter Space And Major Disasters  Paris (ESA) May 28, 2007 - The China National Space Administration has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative that works to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquar ... more | WHALES AHOY:  ICE WORLD:  FLORA AND FAUNA:  WHALES AHOY:  |
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| ENERGY TECH + Japan Proposes Halving Emissions By 2050  Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2007 - Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the proposal ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, pledged to bring all nations onboard in the fight against global warming by making the post-Kyoto framework ... moreENERGY TECH + Indian Businessman Capitalizes On Global Warming Concerns  Bangalore (AFP) India, May 27, 2007 - Indian businessman Tulsi Tanti, who has just bought German turbine maker REpower, stumbled into wind energy almost by accident when he was calculating the cost of power for his textile plant. More than a decade on, he believes increasing concern about global warming means the wind energy business will only turn in yet more profits. Tanti, 49, found that he was paying 25 percent of his ... moreTIME AND SPACE + NIST Atom Interferometry Displays New Quantum Tricks  Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while also making the atoms do things that light just won't do. Their experiments showcase some of the extraordinary behavior taken for granted in the quantum world-atoms acting like waves and ... moreCLIMATE SCIENCE + US Clash With G8 Partners Looms Over Climate Issues  Paris (AFP) May 27, 2007 - The prospect looms of a major clash between the United States and its G8 partners over global warming, with Washington's view threatening to block agreement at next month's summit of the leading industrial nations. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel Saturday criticised the US climate policy in a newspaper interview, saying it "was going to be difficult to achieve success" at the June 6-8 ... moreENERGY TECH + New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs  Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. As described in a recent paper, the fabricated LEDs emit ultraviolet light-a key wavelength range required for many light-based ... more | CIVIL NUCLEAR:  ENERGY TECH:  FAST TRACK:  TECH SPACE:  |
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