Cape Canaveral - Apr 04, 2002 The space shuttle Atlantis' lift-off has been put back to Sunday, April 7 at the earliest, NASA officials said Thursday. "We are looking at a launch no earlier than Sunday afternoon," said Mike Leinbach, NASA shuttle launch director. Originally scheduled for Thursday's, blast-off was delayed by a hydrogen leak in the mobile launch platform. NASA immediately stopped the fueling process.
Smaller Asteroids Can Be Deflected From Earth With A Paint Job Tucson - Apr 05, 2002 Humans could deflect small but dangerous asteroids from Earth by changing how much sunlight the asteroids reflect, a University of Arizona planetary scientist suggests in the current issue (April 5) of Science. Possible schemes might include covering the upper few centimeters of the asteroid with dirt, or painting its surface white, or fusing part of its surface with a spaceborne solar collector � all technically feasible and civically preferable to launching a nuclear warhead to blast an incoming asteroid off course.
Hollywood Boosts Digital Distribution Efforts Los Angeles - Apr 03, 2002 Seven major studios today announced the creation of an entity to develop technical standards for digital cinema technology that will streamline distribution to theaters of new release movies using satellite links, fiber optic networks, or DVD-ROM to deliver feature films securely and cost-effectively.
TechnoCom To Equip 12,500 Vehicles With GPS Reporters Encino - Apr 03, 2002 TechnoCom Corp has begun shipments to Vericom Technologies, of it Location Messaging Units as part of a 12,500 unit contract for the innovative GPS tracking and reporting system that includes in-vehicle data collection location devices and a wireless LAN infrastructure.
Powerful Magnet Puts Molecular World In Three Dimensions Richland - Mar 29, 2002 The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today celebrated the arrival of the world's largest, highest-performance nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer�a first-of-its-kind 900 megahertz (MHz) wide-bore system developed by Oxford Instruments and Varian Inc.
Boeing To Help Manage Landsat Data Seal Beach - Apr 04, 2002 A Boeing-backed remote-sensing-based information service venture, Resource21 L.L.C., has been awarded $5 million by NASA to develop business and technical plans to support the Landsat Earth-observing missions that provide significant scientific and agricultural data to government and industry.
New Breed Of Auxiliary Propulsion Being Tested Huntsville - Apr 03, 2002 Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have begun a series of engine tests on a new breed of space propulsion: a Reaction Control Engine developed for the Space Launch Initiative (SLI) � a technology development effort to establish reliable, affordable space access.
Aeroastro Leverages Globalstar To Build Low-Cost Asset Tracker Herndon - Apr 03, 2002 To meet the growing demand for low-cost, remote monitoring of business assets, Globalstar, the world's most popular handheld satphone service, and AeroAstro, one of the world's leading providers of small satellites and related technology products, are now developing a new, very low cost simplex data modem for remote sensing and asset tracking via satellite. An initial demonstration of the new product is scheduled for late-summer 2002.
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