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 June 18, 2007 |
| ROCKET SCIENCE + Success At Woomera With Scramjet Reaching Mach 10  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has today launched one of the world's fastest air-breathing engine experiments, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, Mr Peter Lindsay announced. The scramjet engine experiment reached speeds of up to Mach 10, approximately 11,000 km per hour, or ten times the speed of sound. Scramjets are air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet engines that could make it possible for a two hour flight from Sydney to London. ... moreMARSDAILY + An Opportunity To Take A Captain Cook At Duck Bay  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2007 - Right now, Opportunity is safely perched on "Cape Verde" and is observing "Duck Bay" from above. The rover drove four out of the last five sols, covering 196.44 meters (644 feet). The fifth and final D-star (drive software) checkout step ran successfully on Opportunity on sol 1200. The dynamic path planner added in the latest flight software version is now ready for use. ... moreMARSDAILY + Euopean Rover ExoMars On Target For 2013 Launch  London UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - UK expertise and ongoing commitment to space exploration and Earth observation was showcased last week at an event in central London featuring Astrium's ExoMars rover prototype Bridget, new funding for UK ExoMars instruments and technology development and a UK centre to coordinate Earth observation. The event highlighted the leading scientific and industrial role the UK is playing in Europe ... moreLAUNCH PAD + ILS Wins Arabsat-5A Contract To Launch On Proton Breeze M  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - International Launch Services (ILS) announced today it has been selected to launch a satellite for Arabsat. ILS will launch the satellite, either Arabsat-5A or BADR-5, in the 2009-2010 timeframe on a Proton Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ILS partner Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center builds the Proton in Russia. ... moreROCKET SCIENCE + First ATV Leaves Europe To Prepare For Launch From Kourou Spaceport In French Guiana  Noordwijk, Holland (ESA) Jun 18, 2007 - Time to bid farewell to the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built in Europe. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will leave ESA's ESTEC establishment in the Netherlands in mid-July and be shipped to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. There, it will start its launch preparation campaign which will last several months, before being launched by Ariane 5 not earlier than mid-January ... more | GPS NEWS:  STATION NEWS:  SPACE TRAVEL:  TECH SPACE:  |
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| SPACEWAR + China Committed To Peaceful Use Of Outer Space  Vienna (XNA) Jun 18, 2007 - China will as always continue to make its contributions to the peaceful uses of outer space, said Tang Guoqiang, head of the Chinese Delegation at the 50th Session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) hel during early June in Vienna. China will support and participate in the work of the committee under various items, said Tang, who is also the Chinese permanent ... moreNUKEWARS + US Pushed Hard Against Taiwan Nuclear Effort In 1970s  Washington (AFP) June 15, 2007 - The United States pushed aggressively to discourage suspicious nuclear research in Taiwan in the 1970s, though Taipei is an ally, newly declassified documents show. The documents, published Friday by the independent National Security Archive, "shed new light on the challenges of persuading a government, in this instance a dependent ally, to abandon suspect nuclear activities even in their early ... moreNUKEWARS + North Korean Funds Transfer Delayed In Moscow Due To Technical Issues  Tokyo (AFP) Jun 18, 2007 - Technical problems in Russia are holding up the transfer of North Korean funds linked to a nuclear disarmament deal, top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said Saturday. Hill, currently in Mongolia, told reporters that the technical problems occurred as the funds were sent to a Russian bank, Japan's Kyodo News reported. However Hill said he believed that the problems would be ... moreSUPERPOWERS + Former Cold War Foes Fail To Agree On Arms Treaty Review  by Jean-Michel Stoullig - Vienna (AFP) June 15, 2007 NATO member states and countries from the former Soviet bloc wrapped up Friday a four-day review of a key arms control pact without a final agreement. Both sides said however that they would maintain a dialogue. Anatoly Antonov, head of the Russian delegation, reflected growing tensions between Russia and the United States when he accused NATO countries of continuing ... moreMILITARY COMMUNICATIONS + Boeing-Led Team Responding To TSAT Space Segment Request For Proposals  St. Louis MO June 14, 2007 - Boeing and its best-of-industry TEAM TSAT are preparing a response to a U.S. Air Force Request for Proposals issued for the development and production of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment. "As the only member of industry who has designed and delivered an operational space-based network, SPACEWAY, we stand ready to deliver a compliant, low-risk approach to ... more | SPACEWAR:  MISSILE DEFENSE:  NUKEWARS:  NUKEWARS:  |
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| CLIMATE SCIENCE + World Desertification Day Puts Spotlight On Neglected Crisis  Paris (AFP) June 15, 2007 - The United Nations on Sunday sounds a loud alarm about desertification, warning that global warming is helping to drive the onward march of parched land and, in years to come, millions of people could be driven from their homes. Of six billion humans, nearly a fifth are threatened directly or indirectly by desertification, experts warn ahead of the UN's annual World Day to Combat ... moreFLORA AND FAUNA + Ancient DNA Traces The Woolly Mammoth Disappearance  London UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a June 7th report published online in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. DNA lifted from the bones, teeth, and tusks of the extinct mammoths revealed a "genetic signature" of a range expansion after the last ... moreCLIMATE SCIENCE + UN Secretary General Points To Climate Change As Partly Behind Darfur Disaster  Washington (AFP) June 16, 2007 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. "The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 ... moreFARM NEWS + Down On The Virtual Farm With GrassGro 3  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - Graziers will have improved access to decades of CSIRO grazing research with the release of GrassGro 3, the latest version of the high-powered grazing management software. Launched at the Grasslands Society of Southern Australia's annual conference today by Tim Prance, Senior Consultant in Pastures and Grazing Systems with Rural Solutions South Australia, GrassGro version 3 includes a new ... moreFLORA AND FAUNA + Book Makes Case For Using Evolution In Everyday Life  Binghamton, NY (SPX) Jun 18, 2007 - Evolution is not just about human origins, dinosaurs and fossils, says Binghamton University evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. It can also be applied to almost every aspect of human life, as he demonstrates in his first book for a general audience, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (Bantam Press 2007). Using witty, straightforward ... more | ABOUT US:  WATER WORLD:  WATER WORLD:  DISASTER MANAGEMENT:  |
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| CIVIL NUCLEAR + Indian Villagers Oppose Uranium Mines  Shillong (AFP) India, June 17, 2007 - Villagers are fighting back against plans to mine uranium in northeast India, saying it will put their health at risk and destroy the environment. Residents voiced opposition at this week's hearing into the state-run Uranium Corporation of India Ltd's plan to mine in hilly, tribal-run areas. News of the hearing by Meghalaya state's pollution control board, held in a remote village north ... moreENERGY TECH + Call For Spain To Switch Fully To Renewables  Madrid (AFP) June 16, 2007 - Some 4,000 environmental campaigners gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to press the government to commit Spain to switch fully to renewable energy sources by 2050, Greenpeace said. Greenpeace in February began a campaign to urge Spain to boost use of renewables, although the country is already a European leader in the field. Eva Salana, spokeswoman for the environmental pressure group ... moreCIVIL NUCLEAR + Canada Okays Plan For Nuclear Waste Depot  Ottawa (AFP) June 15, 2007 - The Canadian government has approved a plan for a below-ground nuclear waste depot that is backed by the nuclear power industry but branded by environmentalists as dangerous. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Thursday that the government had accepted a plan to bury radioactive waste from nuclear plants in deep subterranean storage depots after first temporarily storing it in shallower ... moreCAR TECH + Debate Heats Up In US Over Coal Fuel For Cars  Washington (AFP) June 17, 2007 - A fiery debate has been rekindled in Washington as US lawmakers mull proposed incentives to produce diesel fuel from coal. Backers of coal-based liquid fuels say they can help reduce US dependence on imported oil. Critics contend the use of coal in any form would lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful environmental effects. Synthetic motor fuel from coal has been ... moreENERGY TECH + Russia Needs 92 Billion Dollars To Develop Eastern Gas Deposits By 2030  Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 18, 2007 - A program to develop gas deposits in East Siberia and the Far East will require 2,400 billion rubles (about $92 billion) in investment by 2030, an official of Russia's industry and energy ministry said Friday. At its meeting June 15, the government commission for the fuel and energy complex discussed a program to create a single system of gas production, transportation, and supply in East ... more | ENERGY TECH:  TECH SPACE:  FROTH AND BUBBLE:  ENERGY TECH:  |
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