ANN REALTIME REPORTING 09.13.07 1400 EDT: It's
BIG money... for a big goal. Moments ago, ANN's Aero-TV News
Team covered the X Prize Foundation and Google
announcement of the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to
the Moon to win a share of a $30 million Prize purse.
First Commercial Geostationary Telecommunications Customer
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) told ANN Thursday
it has signed a contract with the UK-based Avanti Communications
Group (Avanti) for the launch of Avanti's HYLAS Ka band satellite
to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on board a SpaceX Falcon
9.
Discovery Foam Repair Snags Plan To Move Atlantis In Early
NASA may be facing yet another hurdle in its plan to launch two
more shuttle flights before the end of 2007... and it has nothing
to do with insulating foam.
Everything From Laptops To Spacecraft Could Benefit
NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that
can take the heat like never before... a development that could
benefit everything from laptop computers, to jet engines, and deep
space probes.
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