Boeing Announces Delta IV Heavy Launch Assignment Seal Beach - Apr 9, 2002 Boeing officials have received authority from the U.S. Air Force to proceed with launch service plans for a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) mission aboard a Boeing Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle. The Boeing Delta IV Heavy is the largest of the Delta family of launch vehicles and can lift up to 13,130 kilograms (28,950 pounds) to geosynchronous transfer orbit.
France And Chile Sign Space Cooperation Agreement Paris - Apr 5, 2002 Alain Bensoussan, President of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and Nelson Hadad Heresy, President of the Chilean Space Agency (ACE), will sign a framework agreement governing cooperation in space technologies and applications in Santiago, Chile, on 3 April 2002.
PanAmSat Brings VSAT Internet To Upper Amazon Wilton - Apr 9, 2002 PanAmSat Corporation said Tuesday that a new sales agreement between its Brazilian subsidiary, PanAmSat do Brasil, Ltda, Embratel would help bring VSAT internet service to remote areas of Brazil.
SeaLaunch Awaits Powerful New PanAmSat Bird For May Launch Seal Beach - Apr 10, 2002 The high-capacity Boeing-built Galaxy IIIC
satellite will be shipped next week to Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, Calif. It will provide widespread Internet, television, voice and data services to areas of the United States and Latin America.
Where Are The Other Earths Beyond The Solar System? Bristol - Apr 10, 2002 One of the most fascinating areas of astronomical research in recent years has been the search for other 'Earths' circling Sun-like stars far beyond our Solar System.
Building A Case For Life On Mars Brighton - Apr 9, 2002 When it was announced last month that the Mars Odyssey satellite had found water ice beneath the planet's frozen carbon dioxide south polar ice cap, Dr. Lidija Siller, a physicist from the University of Newcastle, England, felt excited. "I believe that the data I have explains how this water became trapped underneath the surface",she said.
Islands Threatened By Deepening El Nino Tides Auckland (AFP) Apr 8 2002 Thousands of people living on a low lying atoll in the central Pacific have been panicked by very high tides which experts say are a dramatic precursor to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
Civilian EO Birds Help Plan Afghanistan Attacks New York - Apr 8, 2002 The U. S. military has begun to use pictures from advanced new NASA civilian satellites to help plan attacks on Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan and to prepare for future military strikes possibly against Iraq, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports in its April 8 issue.
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