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The SuperWASP project finds 10 new extrasolar planets crossing the faces of their stars

A Perfect Pairing
A Raft of New Planets in Silhouette
This Week's Sky at a Glance
Tour April's Sky — By Ear and Eye!
Your Audio Sky Tour: April 2008

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First Korean astronaut blasts off
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008
The first South Korean astronaut blasted off on Tuesday aboard a Russian rocket bound for the International Space Station, in a historic first for her Asian homeland. Yi So-Yeon and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko roared into the sky on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, watched by relatives and well-wishers.

 

 

 

Korean space launch inspires ethnic kin in Central Asia
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008
As South Korea's first astronaut roars into space on Tuesday one group of overlooked fans will be staring up from this remote ex-Soviet territory with special enthusiasm: ethnic Koreans. If Yi So-Yeon represents everything that is youthful and optimistic about her homeland, the ethnic Koreans resident around Baikonur cosmodrome are testimony to a painful period of uprooting and hardship .

On Call Communications Debuts HD Satellite News Gathering At NAB 2008
Irvine CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
On Call Communications will debut its QuickSPOT High Definition IP Satellite News Gathering system at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, April 14 - 17. Featuring Envivio's new 4Caster HD30TM MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) high definition video encoder, the system will transmit high quality 720p and 1080i formatted video content in data streams as low as 5.25 Mb/s. On Call's in .

Hughes To Provide Distance Learning Network For The Government Education And Training Program
Germantown MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
Hughes Network Systems has announced it has been issued $2.6M in task orders by the Defense Information Systems Agency and other participating government agencies to provide Digital Compressed Satellite Services (DCSS) for the Government Education and Training Network (GETN). This effort is through the U.S. General Services Administration's SATCOM-II vehicle and is anticipated to be

 

Three Rocketeers For Shenzhou
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
In just a few months, China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft will lift off on a mission to perform China's first spacewalk. The mission is exciting, but the media silence is deafening. We know almost nothing about the spacesuit, or how the astronaut will be connected to his spacecraft. Trying to work out what's happening behind closed doors requires a bit of deductive reasoning. In my previous 2008 ..

Advanced Mobile Satellite Communications Network Being Rolled Out For Florida National Guard
Killeen TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
Proactive Communications and Digital Consulting Services (DCS) have announced the completion schedule for the final phase of the Florida National Guard's (FLNG) superior mobile Emergency Response Network. The advanced system will be operational by July for the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season. By adding four air-liftable vehicles to the system, the enhanced mobility of the Emerge

Outside View: Bush, Ukraine look westward
Moscow (UPI) Apr 08, 2008
Why are President Bush and his administration suddenly interested in Ukraine just nine months before the end of his term? Pushing Ukraine or Georgia into NATO in his remaining months in office is Bush's only chance at scoring a major success in Eastern Europe. This is why he was so determined to go there, ignoring Russia's objections and doubts of U.S. traditional European allies. .

Mobile Location Based Services Revenue To Reach 13 Billion Dollars Worldwide By 2013
London, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
After years of hype, mobile Location Based Services (LBS) are finally gaining traction among wireless subscribers. This growth is driven on the supply side by WCDMA and GSM handsets increasingly joining the many CDMA-based devices that incorporate GPS capabilities; and on the demand side by surging consumer interest in personal navigation functionality. According to a new report from ABI

The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2008
Not one of the participants in NASA's 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race was old enough to have seen the 1969 movie, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. Nevertheless, the racers all looked like stars of that film as they careened about the simulated lunar terrain race course in a motley variety of strange vehicles. These high school and college students, representing 20 states, Puerto

Nuance Mobile And TeleNav Deliver Speech-Enabled GPS Navigation To Mobile Phones
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
Nuance Communications has announced that TeleNav has selected Nuance Mobile to speech-enable its mobile device-based navigation service. Using the Nuance Mobile Speech Platform on select devices, TeleNav now provides the ability to enter destinations for driving directions and business category searches by voice, so that subscribers no longer need to use a telephone keypad.

Regional Nuclear Conflict Would Create Near-Global Ozone Hole
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 08, 2008
A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The computer-modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nu .

General Dynamics Awarded Army Contract For WIN-T Satellite Communications Terminals
Newton, NC (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been awarded $109 million from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J., to provide specialized satellite communications earth terminals and support services for Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide the U.S. Army 299 Satellite T

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Survey Mars From Your Computer

With all the recent activity with the twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, fans of the planet Mars have one thing in common. Lot's of images of Mars, so many in fact, that NASA has opened up a public website to ask for the public's help in looking at future landing sites. For the first time in history, you can view the planet Mars in ways that were only dreamed of in the past. You might even find something that no one has seen before! To view the archive of photos, please visit this website: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/index.html