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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Selects Nallatech for Multiple FPGA-Based Satellite Platform Nallatech Ltd. in Glasgow Scotland worked with the Northrop Grumman Corp. Space Technology segment to develop a test platform for space-borne processing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007	NASA Selects Green Hills Software for Space-Telecommunications Radio-System Prototype NASA engineers are employing the Green Hills platform for software-defined radio (SDR) with Spectrum Signal's flexCommTM SDR-4000 reconfigurable, multifunction communications platform.
Geotimes March 2007 Margaret Putney	Peru's Ancient Solar Observatory A line of 2,300-year-old stone towers north of Lima, Peru, form the oldest known solar observatory in the Americas, a team of archaeologists has found.
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Black Diamonds Have E.T. Origins Carbonado, or black, diamonds look more like basalt than their traditional colorless counterparts. New research indicates that carbonado diamonds might have formed in space.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Mark Anderson	Planet Hunters Wanted The rate of extrasolar planet discoveries could mount not by building new planet-finding telescopes or satellites, but by marshalling an army of amateur astronomers and enthusiasts along with their personal computers.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland	Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland	Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon.
Geotimes February 2007	Cassini Sees Lakes on Titan Radar imaging from the July 22, 2006, flyby of the Cassini spacecraft is providing what researchers call "convincing evidence" for large bodies of liquid.
Geotimes February 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Water Responsible for Martian Landscape? The remnants of a recent debris flow turned up in photos of a gully on Mars. Some researchers speculate the flow could imply the presence of water, while others think it resulted from a dry, granular flow.
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