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Today's Topics:
1. NASA might launch Atlantis a day early (Greg Williams)
2. Fox News offers audio feed on cell phones (Rob)
3. U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite (Rob)
4. AT&T Unity plan (Monty Solomon)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:10:48 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] NASA might launch Atlantis a day early
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NASA might launch Atlantis a day early
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070118/NEWS02/701180362/1007
BY TODD HALVORSON
FLORIDA TODAY
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CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA might move up the March 16 launch of shuttle
Atlantis to put more time between the International Space Station
construction mission and the arrival of a Russian capsule carrying new
crew members.
Delaying the shuttle flight until late April, after the crew rotation
mission, would make it more difficult to complete station assembly
before a 2010 deadline.
Senior NASA managers are expected to decide on Jan. 25.
A March 15 launch would come at 6:42 a.m.
"It is being evaluated," said NASA spokesman Rob Navias. "If all the
(shuttle program managers) say they can support an earlier launch
attempt, we certainly would take advantage of it."
Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov are set to launch to
the station April 9. Flying up with them: former Microsoft executive
Charles Simonyi, a tourist who will return to Earth after about a week's
stay.
NASA must launch Atlantis by March 29 to complete a station construction
mission and depart the station three days before the Soyuz launch.
Managers prefer a 72-hour gap between a shuttle's departure and the
arrival of a Russian Soyuz.
NASA officials say pre-launch work at Kennedy Space Center can be
completed in time for a launch March 15.
A 15-story external tank is set to be connected to twin solid rocket
boosters on Friday.
Atlantis is scheduled to move Feb. 7 from its hangar to the Vehicle
Assembly Building, where it will be mounted atop a launch platform and
connected to the external tank. The fully assembled shuttle would roll
to the launch pad Feb. 14.
Veteran astronaut Rick Sturckow will command Atlantis. Flying with him:
pilot Lee Archambault and four mission specialists: James Reilly, Steven
Swanson, Patrick Forrester and John Olivas.
The flight will be the first of five station assembly missions NASA
hopes to launch in 2007. A total of 13 to 15 shuttle missions are needed
to finish the assembly and outfitting of the station.
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Greg Williams
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:18:29 -0600
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Fox News offers audio feed on cell phones
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Fox News offers audio feed on cell phones
By Paul J. Gough
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070119/tc_nm/foxnews_dc_2
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox News has rolled out a new service
that will let anyone with a cell phone access an audio feed of the cable
channel.
The live feed will be available 24/7 by dialing "#FOXN" on a mobile
phone. The service, which will start with Cingular, costs $2.99 a month
plus applicable per-minute airtime charges.
Fox News has partnered with Single Touch Interactive, an Encinitas,
Calif., company that has existing deals with BET and Univision. But Fox
News will be the first news channel to have a Single Touch audio stream,
said Jeremy Steinberg, vp digital media sales and business development.
It's far from the first mobile deal for Fox News. There is a special
mobile Internet site that allows cell and BlackBerry users to access a
quick-loading site. The channel has been available for more than a year
as a live video stream on Sprint, with almost a million subscribers.
Cingular also offers video clips. But with the Single Touch Interactive
technology, the audio stream -- news and its daily primetime lineup
including "The O'Reilly Factor" -- will be available to people without
the expensive video cell phones.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:29:44 -0600
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates
satellite
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U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China last week successfully used a missile to
destroy an orbiting satellite, U.S. government officials told CNN on
Thursday, in a test that could undermine relations with the West and
pose a threat to satellites important to the U.S. military.
According to a spokesman for the National Security Council, the
ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile knocked an old Chinese
weather satellite from its orbit about 537 miles above Earth. The
missile carried a "kill vehicle" and destroyed the satellite by ramming it.
The test took place on January 11. (Watch why the U.S. has protested the
missile strike Video)
Aviation Week and Space Technology first reported the test: "Details
emerging from space sources indicate that the Chinese Feng Yun 1C
(FY-1C) polar orbit weather satellite launched in 1999 was attacked by
an asat (anti-satellite) system launched from or near the Xichang Space
Center."
A U.S. official, who would not agree to be identified, said the event
was the first successful test of the missile after three failures.
The official said that U.S. "space tracking sensors" confirmed that the
satellite is no longer in orbit and that the collision produced
"hundreds of pieces of debris," that also are being tracked.
The United States logged a formal diplomatic protest.
"We are aware of it and we are concerned, and we made it known," said
White House spokesman Tony Snow.
Several U.S. allies, including Canada and Australia, have also
registered protests, and the Japanese government said it was worrisome.
"Naturally, we are concerned about it from the viewpoint of security as
well as peaceful use of space," said Yashuhisa Shiozaki, chief cabinet
secretary. He said Japan has asked the Chinese government for an
explanation.
The United States has been able to bring down satellites with missiles
since the mid-1980s, according to a history of ASAT programs posted on
the Union of Concerned Scientists Web site. In its own test, the U.S.
military knocked a satellite out of orbit in 1985.
Under a space policy authorized by President Bush in August, the United
States asserts a right to "freedom of action in space" and says it will
"deter others from either impeding those rights or developing
capabilities intended to do so."
The policy includes the right to "deny, if necessary, adversaries the
use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests."
Low Earth-orbit satellites have become indispensable for U.S. military
communications, GPS navigation for smart bombs and troops, and for
real-time surveillance. The Chinese test highlights the satellites'
vulnerability.
"If we, for instance, got into a conflict over Taiwan, one of the first
things they'd probably do would be to shoot down all of our lower
Earth-orbit spy satellites, putting out our eyes," said John Pike of
globalsecurity.org, a Web site that compiles information on worldwide
security issues.
"The thing that is surprising and disturbing is that [the Chinese] have
chosen this moment to demonstrate a military capability that can only be
aimed at the United States," he said.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:56:28 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] AT&T Unity plan
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AT&T Creates Largest Unlimited Calling Community in America
AT&T Unity Subscribers Get Unlimited Free Domestic Calls to and from
100 Million Wireline and Wireless Phone Numbers.
San Antonio, Texas, January 19, 2007
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced an unprecedented new offer, which
gives subscribers the nation's largest unlimited free calling
community, including wireless and wireline phone numbers.
The AT&T UnitySM plan, which is available beginning Sunday, Jan. 21,
brings together home, business and wireless calling, creating a
calling community of more than 100 million AT&T wireless and wireline
phone numbers.
AT&T Unity customers can call or receive calls for free from any AT&T
wireless and wireline phone numbers nationwide without incurring
additional wireline usage fees or using their wireless Anytime
minutes.* In addition to free domestic calling to and from AT&T
numbers, the AT&T Unity plan includes wireless service with unlimited
night and weekend minutes, as well as a package of Anytime Minutes.
The AT&T Unity plan is the company's first major converged product
offering since the company's Dec. 29 acquisition of BellSouth Corp.
and consolidation of Cingular Wireless.
...
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=5097&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=23318
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