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March 26, 2002
GPS NEWS
Europe Approves Rival GPS Network Despite US Concerns
 Brussels - Mar 26, 2001
 EU transport ministers agreed unanimously Tuesday to go ahead with the Galileo satellite navigation program, which will operate alongside the American GPS system from 2008. Sources said the 15 transport ministers took less than 30 minutes to reach their decision. They also agreed that Galileo's headquarters would be in Brussels.
  • EU Dismisses US opposition to Europe's Rival GPS
  • US steps up offensive against European rival to GPS
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    China Launches Third Shenzhou Test
    Manned Mission Maybe Late 2003
     Beijing - Mar 25, 2002
     China has successfully launched its third unmanned space vehicle, the country's official newsagency reported late Monday. According to Xinhua reports, the "Shenzhou III" blasted off Monday night at 2215 local time (1415 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province.
  • New Skies Bird Shipped For April launch
  • Russia Launches Satellites On US-German Climate Mission
  • Atlas 2 Launches NASA Data Bird

    • STATION NEWS
    Endeavour Launch Delayed Until May 31
     Washington - Mar 25, 2001
     Technical problems will delay until May 31 the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour towards the International Space Station carrying seven astronauts including French and Russian nationals, NASA said Monday.
  • Russian Cargo Spaceship Docks With International Space Station
  • Atlantis On Pad With New Engines
  • Designing Ecosystems For Space
  • Europe Offers Local Firms Money For ISS Research Projects

    • SPACEMART
    Africa Can Lift Itself Out Of Poverty, ICT Entrepreneur Says
     New York (AFP) Mar 23, 2002
     As Third World leaders pleaded this week for big increases in Western development aid, US-based African businesswomen said governments could help by unshackling their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sectors.
  • France Telecom Sells SatTV Stakes Following Record Loss
  • DirecTV Powers Ahead With New Subscribers
  • Pakistan Plans ComSat By Year End
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    EXO WORLDS
    Life Buried Deep Beneath the Ocean Floor
     Narragansett - Mar 18, 2002
     Over the past 15 years, studies of Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) cores have consistently identified abundant bacteria in deeply buried oceanic sediment. Microorganisms have been recovered from depths as great as a half-mile below the seafloor and have been estimated to constitute one-tenth to one-third of Earth's living biomass.
  • World's Purest Water Can Be Explored Without Contamination
  • Exploring Lake Vostok Without Destroying It
  • COBE Finds Sol's Ring Of Planetary Wealth

    • TECH SPACE
    Scientists Say "Grace" In Bid To Divine Water
     Greenbelt - Mar 24, 2002
     The joint US-German gravity mission Grace is progressing with the twin birds now 256 kilometers apart in stable orbits. Launch March 17 from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome - the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission (Grace) is comprised of identical twin satellites that will precisely measure Earth's shifting water masses and map their effects on Earth's gravity field.
  • Robotic Eye Will Save Millions Automating Drill Core Sampling
  • Scientists Do First DNA Field Tests on Antarctic Microbes
  • A New Form of Matter

    • EARTH OBSERVATION
    ESA Kicks Off Global Action Plan
     Paris (ESA) Mar 19, 2002
     Antonio Rodota, ESA's Director General and Philippe Busquin, Research Commissioner and responsible for space policy, today opened the first meeting of the GMES Steering Committee in Brussels. This meeting brings together, for the first time, the users and suppliers of GMES services and technologies.
  • Taiwan To Receive Chinese Weather Sat Data
  • Global Observations Tools Key To Understanding Earth's Climate
  • QuickBird Goes Commercial
  • Digital Photos From Solar Airplane To Improve Coffee Harvest

    • NUKEWARS
    Chill Settles Over US-China Relations
     Washington (AFP) Mar 24, 2002
     It took less than a month for the veneer of civility applied to China-US relations during President George W. Bush's visit to Beijing to crack.
  • US 'Deadly Serious' About Iraq Not Acquiring Nukes
  • China Hails Own Strategic Nuclear Missile Force
  • Russia Lays To Rest The Last Sailors From The Kursk

    • CIVIL NUCLEAR
    Greens Miffed With Jospin Over Nuclear Energy
     Paris (AFP) Mar 24, 2002
     Relations between Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and the Greens party in his coalition government have hit a low over his refusal to revise nuclear energy policy, weakening his support going into French elections.
  • Sweden Wrestles With Nuclear Phase-Out
  • Russia Awash In Nuclear Leftovers
  • Armenia Courts Disaster To Keep The Lights On
  • Russia Edges Closer To Importing Of Nuclear Waste

    • MISSILE NEWS
  • US Army Tests Research Missile BAT
  • Pac-3 Missile Defense Scores Successful Intercepts
  • Wolfowitz Says Missile Defense Shows "Impressive Success"
  • US Might Buy Russian Missiles

    • SPACEWAR
  • China Hails Own Strategic Nuclear Missile Force
  • Boeing To Update GPS 2F Satellites

    • EL NINO WATCH
  • Wind Shift Fans El Nino
  • The Cost Of El Nino
  • El Nino Awakens

    • NANO TECH
  • Flexible Ceramics At The NanoScale
  • Growing Nanowires By The Branch
  • New World Of Nanoelectronics May Arrive Soon

    • ROCKET SCIENCE
  • Atlas 5 Rolled Out For Pad Tests
  • Unexpected Explosion Keeps Pakhomov "Waiting"
  • Ion Engines Slowly But Surely Salvage Artemis

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