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 The Hague (AFP) Nov 13, 2009 
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. "Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport min ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 12, 2009Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, among the smallest ever flown by ESA. As ESA's full-sized Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission soared skyward by Rockot launcher on 2 November, it had a smaller companion. ... more
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Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2009Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by Saab Aerosystems to deliver Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) for the NEURON European unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator. The LCR-100 AHRS units will be built by the company's German navigation systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman LITEF. The LCR-100 Gyrocompass AHRS is a north finding attitude and heading reference ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2009The U.S. human space program and the creation of new technologies for all humans are in peril if NASA deviates from its plan to explore the Moon and Mars. NASA should stay the course. A committee led by former Lockheed Martin CEO, Norm Augustine, has developed several options and recommendations for NASA that, if implemented, would have to be thoroughly evaluated before NASA could move for ... more  
Miama FL (SPX) Nov 10, 2009With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the east, the Southern San Andreas fault, according to an article in the journal Nature Geoscience. "Those minor to moderate events along the San Jacinto fault relieve some of the stress built by ... more |
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Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Nov 02, 2009The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series-the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission-and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy (Proba-2) were launched into orbit last night from northern Russia. SMOS will play a key role in the monitoring of climate change on a global scale. It is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea sur ... more  
Naval Air Warfare Center CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2009Raytheon and the U.S. Navy completed the first free-flight demonstration of the Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range air-to-surface precision guided missile. The JSOW-ER is a powered variant of the combat-proven glide JSOW. It takes the GPS-inertial navigation system reliability of existing JSOW variants and combines it with the network-enabled maritime-interdiction capabilities currently ... more  
Paris (AFP) Nov 2, 2009The European Space Agency on Monday launched a water tracking satellite that will help give faster predictions of floods and other extreme weather incidents caused by global warming. The 315 million euro (460 million dollar) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity probe was carried into space on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. The ESA said it is ... more |
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