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 Huntsville AL (NASA) Aug 11, 2009 
Engawa is Japanese for "porch," and while that might seem like a strange thing for a space station to have, researchers have been looking forward to the addition for a long time. Space shuttle Endeavour delivered the Japanese-built platform to the ISS on July 22nd and astronauts attached it to Japan's Kibo1 science lab a day later. Now, when a science experiment requires a dose of hard vacuum or ... read more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. The rock, dubbed "Block Island," is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 11, 2009The U.S. space program needs a figurative "shot-in-the-arm," or maybe it is a "kick-in-the-butt." Whatever it is, it is time to wake up and smell the urgency of the situation. Last week Launchspace pointed out that America is building another Apollo-type capsule in order to return to the moon as part of a "ho-hum" and troubled Constellation Program. The objective of a leading space program ... more 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 11, 2009It's time to find out if humans can permanently live and work in space according to Mark Sykes. "This has never been a part of U.S. space policy, despite a long history of public relations implying the opposite," Sykes says. Sykes, CEO and director of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, has a poster hanging in his office that shows astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon next to an ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 6, 2009Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday. Two underwater robots tethered to a ship would explore the seabed for rare metals, said an official of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), which is set to start the project in ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2009At the most recent NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, a panel of scientists discussed different types of planets where we might find alien life. In the fifth segment of this series, the panelists address questions from the audience about the search for life on Mars and elsewhere. Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 29, 2009The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded DCNS, Thales and ECA a major study contract that is expected to lead, around 2011, to a demonstrator of a new mine countermeasures solution dubbed Espadon. Today, mine countermeasures (MCM) is typically performed by dedicated vessels known as minehunters. MCM operations expose minehunter crews to considerable danger due to the simple ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 27, 2009Two astronauts returned from open space Monday after installing cameras on the International Space Station's new Japanese laboratory during the final spacewalk of the space shuttle Endeavour mission. Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn floated out of the ISS for four hours and 54 minutes, returning to the decompression chamber at 1627 GMT, after completing several maintenance and research tasks ... more |
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