Europe Pushes Ahead With New GPS System Dubbed Galileo Paris (ESA) Mar 20, 2002 "Space can do a lot for European citizens. Our global satellite navigation system Galileo is now only a step away from taking wing and fly high", said Antonio Rodota, the Director General of the European Space Agency, welcoming the conclusions of the European Council held on 15 and 16 March in Barcelona.
New Skies Bird Shipped For April launch Sunnyvale - Mar 20, 2002 The NSS-7 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for New Skies Satellites N.V. was shipped recently from the production facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. to Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be readied for a mid-April launch.
Atlantis On Pad With New Engines Huntsville - Mar 20, 2002 Space Shuttle Atlantis will lift off with three "new," more robust engines when it launches from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on mission STS-110 to deliver new experiments to the International Space Station.
Flexible Ceramics At The NanoScale Ithaca - Mar 19, 2002 Using nanoscale chemistry, researchers at Cornell University have developed a new class of hybrid materials that they describe as flexible ceramics. The new materials appear to have wide applications, from microelectronics to separating macromolecules, such as proteins.
All Alone A Million Years Ago Berkeley - Mar 20, 2002 A million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species, according to an international group of scientists who discovered the skull in 1997.
Britain Will Use Nukes If Attacked With WMDs London (AFP) Mar 20, 2002 Britain is prepared to use nuclear weapons against rogue states such as Iraq if they ever used "weapons of mass destruction" against British troops in the field, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said Wednesday.
China Hails Own Strategic Nuclear Missile Force Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2002 Chinese state media Wednesday hailed the country's nuclear force and second-strike capability, amid a row over US contingency plans listing China as a potential target for nuclear attack.
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