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The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis has been postponed until Monday because of Hurricane Lili, which is expected to pass near Houston, Texas, where the shuttle's mission control is based, NASA said here Wednesday. Atlantis's launch -- which was first delayed on Tuesday -- was to be the first since space shuttle flights were suspended in July after cracks were discovered in the propulsion systems of all four US shuttles.
Chemist Creates Structure in Amorphous Materials 
Argonne - Oct 1, 2002A chemist at North Carolina State University has made breakthrough discoveries that advance basic understandings of the nature of liquids and glasses at the atomic and molecular levels. Featured in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature, these discoveries could lead to the development of totally new materials with useful optical and electronic properties - as well as applications not yet foreseen.
Northrop Grumman Unveils Concept For Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 
El Segundo - Oct 1, 2002Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems sector has unveiled a design for an efficient and capable long-range supersonic cruise aircraft that would operate with a less intense sonic boom. MSG-1 Weather Satellite Ready For Commissioning 
Paris (ESA) Oct 1, 2002The first of EUMETSAT's new generation of weather satellites, MSG-1, has arrived on station at 10.5 deg W in geostationary orbit at 36,000 kilometres above the Earth. Black Carbon Contributes To Droughts And Floods In China 
Greenbelt - Oct 1, 2002A new NASA climate study has found large amounts of black carbon (soot) particles and other pollutants are causing changes in precipitation and temperatures over China and may be at least partially responsible for the tendency toward increased floods and droughts in those regions over the last several decades. Beijing To Use Satellite Broadband To Distribute Disaster News 
Montreal - Oct 1, 2002NSI Global Inc has been awarded a $3.8 million contract to supply a broadband satellite communications network to the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television (SARFT) of the People's Republic of China. Astronomer Speaks Up For ET 
Sydney - Oct 1, 2002While some scientists cautiously plan for ways to reply to extraterrestrial transmissions, others haven't waited for a signal to start talking. Sending messages from Earth into space to announce the existence of the human race is somewhat rare and controversial. Digital transmissions have been beamed into space from radio telescopes, and four spacecraft currently leaving the solar system bear messages for anyone who finds them. The Right Stuff for Super Spaceships 
Huntsville - Oct 1, 2002"What I'm really looking for," you say to the salesman, "is a car that goes at least 10,000 miles between fill-ups, repairs itself automatically, cruises at 500 mph, and weighs only a few hundred pounds."
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 Washington - Oct 03, 2002  Scientists are making progress in cataloguing and tracking large near-earth objects (NEOs), but a serious threat still remains from smaller objects, an expert panel told the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee today.Lili's Passing Clears Way For Atlantis Launch Monday Cape Canaveral (AFP) Oct 3, 2002  Hurricane Lili, downgraded to a tropical storm, on Thursday swept by east of Houston, Texas, where preparations for the delayed launch of the space shuttle Atlantis resumed, NASA said.ORNL Invention Clears Way For Development Of New Materials  Oak Ridge - Oct 04, 2002From soft drink cans to bones, virtually all materials are made up of heterogeneous - or dissimilar - micro structures, and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a tool to better study those structures. Stratospheric Winds May Make South Ozone Hole Collapse Short Term Greenbelt - Oct 02, 2002  Scientists from NASA and the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have confirmed the ozone hole over the Antarctic this September is not only much smaller than it was in 2000 and 2001, but has split into two separate "holes."Space Dynamics Lab Teams With NASA On New Sensor Development Logan - Oct 4, 2002  The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has teamed with NASA Langley to develop an innovative sensor called FIRST (Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere) to measure long wave radiation emitted from Earth.
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