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SpaceX Achieves Key Milestone of Tenth Launch Agreement - SpaceDaily SpaceX announced that the number of launches on manifest has now reached double digits. The ninth launch, already announced, is with MDA Corporation of Canada and will carry the Cassiope satellite on a Falcon 9 in mid 2008. The tenth launch agreement is a second responsive launch demonstration of the Falcon 1 for DARPA / Air Force in late 2006. This follows the first responsive launch demonstration in March 2006, which was also the maiden flight of Falcon 1. - Falcon 1 DARPA - Air Force Demo 1 Q1 2006 (Launched in March 2006) DARPA - Air Force Demo 2 Q4 2006 NRL - OFT TacSat 1 Q4 2006 - Malaysia RazakSat Q3 2007 - SpaceDev Q2 2008 - MDA Corp Q3 2008 - Swedish Space Corp. Q4 2009 - Falcon 9 US Government Q1 2008 - MDA Corp Q2 2008 - Bigelow Aerospace Q4 2008 |
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An Alternative to your Alternator - Technology Review Left: A "thermophotovoltaic" (TPV) generator burns fuel to heat a material that emits light (labeled "radiator"). The light is then filtered and converted into electricity in photovoltaic (PV) cells. (Image courtesy of John Kassakian, MIT.) Researchers at MIT are developing new technology for converting heat into light and then into electricity that could eventually save fuel in vehicles by replacing less-efficient alternators and allowing electrical systems to run without the engine idling. The technology, called thermophotovoltaics, uses gasoline to heat a light-emitting material, in this case tungsten. A photovoltaic cell then converts the light into electricity. The idea has been around since the 1960s, says John Kassakian, MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor. But until now, the light emitters for the photovoltaics produced inefficient and very costly systems. Improvements in the materials used in these latest devices are now making much more efficient systems. |
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Teamwork with elbowroom -- tabletop computing - CNN Mitsubishi's DiamondTouch displays a PC screen on a high-tech tabletop. People sitting around it use their fingers to create and manipulate projected virtual objects, with the system knowing whose fingers did what thanks to small currents of electricity that flow through the chairs. Masakazu Furuichi, chief engineer at the Japanese electronics maker, hopes DiamondTouch will become a tool for games, government decision-making, education and other areas in which several people need to interact intuitively and instantly. But first the price will have to drop -- the tables can cost as much as U.S. $10,000 (euro7,700) each. |
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6/8/2006: Swimming Robot Tests Theories About Locomotion In Existing And Extinct Animals -
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6/8/2006: Male Plant Species Eradicates Hermaphrodite Relatives -
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6/8/2006: Lobsters Avoid Virus By Detecting Illness In Their Own Kind -
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6/8/2006: Researchers Uncover Eight Previously Unknown Species In Caves Near Jerusalem -
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6/8/2006: Taking Evolution's
Temperature: Researchers Pinpoint The Energy It Takes To Make A Species -
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6/8/2006: Bacterial Parasite Strives For Balance In Host Infection -
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6/8/2006: Alarming Decline In Nepal's Rhinos And Tigers In Former Maoist Stronghold -
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Geosciences, Environment:
6/8/2006: Is Washington Ignoring Global Warming-... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Greenpeace plans protests at
Computex... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: More than 100 new printing and imaging products are intended to create `an ecosystem'... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Global warming ...... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Greenpeace to protest at Computex show... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Iraq's Marshes Show Progress Toward Recovery -
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6/8/2006: Climate Change Responsible For Increased Hurricanes, Researchers Find -
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6/8/2006: Extending The Reach Of Disaster Relief From Fire To Flood -
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6/8/2006: North Pole's Ancient Past Holds Lessons For Future Global Warming -
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6/8/2006: Sinking
Levees: New Report Maps Subsidence, Addresses Flooding In New Orleans -
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6/8/2006: Teamwork with elbowroom -- tabletop computing - CNN
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6/8/2006: No link between leukemia risk, nuclear plants... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Ruling clears way for N.M. nuclear plant...
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6/8/2006: Improved Method To Help Tailor Fuels For High-performance And Low Emissions -
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6/6/2005: International Study Launched Testing New Drug Combination To Cut Cardiovascular Disease -
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Cancer
6/8/2006: A Tumour Suppressor In Mice And Men -
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6/8/2006: MR Spectroscopy Significantly Reduces Need For Breast Biopsy -
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6/8/2006: Fatty Diet Does Not Increase Risk Of Skin Cancer -
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6/8/2006: Loss Of A Protein Favors Lung Tumor Growth -
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6/8/2006: Dartmouth Researchers Test New Technique To Examine Breast Tissue -
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6/8/2006: Mayo Clinic Studies Find Association Between Acid Reflux And Esophageal Cancer -
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6/8/2006: Combination Therapy Shows Promising Results In Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer -
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6/8/2006: Early Estrogen Exposure Leads To Later Prostate Cancer Risk -
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6/8/2006: New Potential Drug Target In Tuberculosis -
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6/8/2006: First Characterization Of Chikungunya Viruses From Indian Ocean Outbreak -
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6/8/2006: Vaccinate or
not? Treat or not- Study looks at tricky health decisions -
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6/8/2006: New Protein Target May Advance Design Of HIV And Cancer Drugs -
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6/8/2006: AIDS Research -
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6/8/2006: Researchers Open Door To Potential Treatments For Type 2 Diabetes -
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6/8/2006: New MRI Technique Shows Emphysema In Asymptomatic Smokers -
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6/8/2006: Trial Success For Diabetic Nerve Therapy -
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6/8/2006: Moderate Alcohol Intake Associated With Better Mental Function In Older Women -
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6/8/2006: Hypnotherapy Improves Quality Of Life For People With Irritable Bowel Syndrome -
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6/8/2006: Injecting Stem Cells From A Woman's Own Muscle May Effectively Treat Urinary Incontinence -
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6/8/2006: New Preservative Increases Shelf Life Of Blood Platelets, Decreases Risk Of Harmful Reactions -
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6/8/2006: Calorie Restriction Appears Better Than Exercise At Slowing Primary Aging -
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6/8/2006: Old tools shed light on hobbit origins
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6/8/2006: Histories: Fruits of the tomb - New
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6/8/2006: Putting a face to a skull - New
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6/8/2006: New fossils link Ape-men to more primitive ancestors... - FirstScience
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6/8/2006: Stock Performance Tied To Ease Of Pronouncing Company's Name -
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6/8/2006: Mowing The Lawn Is Not Child's Play -
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6/8/2006: Nervous
Inhibitions: How Inhibitory Signal Transmission Between Nerve Cells Affects Development -
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6/8/2006: Fear Circuit Flares As Bipolar Youth Misread Faces -
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6/8/2006: Lifting The Curtain On How Ritalin Packs Its 1-2 Punch -
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6/8/2006: Research Suggests Cause Of Neurodegeneration In Huntington's Disease -
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6/8/2006: Tests For 'Face-blindness' Reveal Disorder May Not Be So Rare -
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6/8/2006: Striking The Right Balance Between Excitation And Inhibition -
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6/8/2006: Birth Of A Notion- Master Planners In Brain May Coordinate Other Areas' Roles In Cognitive Tasks -
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6/8/2006: Why We Could All Do With A Siesta -
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6/8/2006: Study Shows Autism-related Developmental 'Red Flags' Identifiable At Age Two In Children -
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6/8/2006: Astrophysicists Discover 'Compact Jets' From Neutron Star -
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Space and Astronomy:
6/8/2006: SpaceX
Achieves Key Milestone of Tenth Launch Agreement -
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6/8/2006: Voyager
Data May Reveal Trajectory Of Solar System -
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6/8/2006: Dawn
Team Looking Good For Launch Next Year -
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6/8/2006: Kazakh
Leader Says First Satellite Means Space-Power Status -
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6/8/2006: Astronomers say Saturn's moon Enceladus rolls over... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Supercomputers Reproduce Fluid Motions of Cosmic Duet... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Mars Rover Opportunity Status 30 May 2006... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Riddle of Saturn`s moon may have been answered... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Droid Companions on the Space Station... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: NASA- No 'show-stoppers' for launch... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: NASA says risk from falling foam of shuttle tank acceptable... - FirstScience
6/8/2006: Voyager Data May Reveal Trajectory Of Solar System; Possible Presence Of Companion Star -
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6/8/2006: SOHO Spacecraft Will Lead A Fleet Of Solar Observatories -
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6/8/2006: Promising New Metamaterial Could Transform Ultrasound Imaging -
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