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    Australian Telco Bird To Ride First Arianespace Soyuz Flight
     Sydney (SPX) May 12, 2004
     Optus, Australia's second largest telco carrier has chosen Arianespace to orbit its D1 and D2 satellites. Optus D1 will be launched by an Ariane 5 at the end of 2005, while Optus D2 will be launched by the first Soyuz to lift off in 2007 from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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    A New 'Constellation' At NASA
      Washington (UPI) May 11, 2004
     NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., are now bustling with activity in the wake of President George W. Bush's plan, announced last Jan. 14, to revitalize the U.S. space program. Just as Project Apollo encompassed the attempt to reach the moon in the 1960s, the agency has named its new effort, writes Frank Sietzen.
  • New Bush Space Speech Planned
  • Encore: What's Next Beyond LEO - Part 4
  • Space: A Job For Man Or Machine? - Part 3
  • Going Mobile Beyond LEO - Part 2
  • Hemorrhaging from the Fingertips - Part 1
    • SPACE SCOPES
    Spitzer Shares The Wealth
     Pasadena (JPL) May 12, 2004
     Like a philanthropist donating a prized collection to a museum, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has opened a virtual vault rich with scientific data.
    SPACEMART
    Teal Counts 1,209 Future Space Payloads
     Berlin (SPX) May 12, 2004
     A study by the Teal Group counts a total of 1,209 payloads proposed for launch to Earth orbit during the next 10 years, down 14% from last year's total of 1,410 payloads for 2003-2012.
    EARTH OBSERVATION
    Drought Signals Severe US Fire Season
     Greenbelt (SPX) May 12, 2004
     Wildfire management teams across the West gear up for one of the worst fire seasons to hit the Rockies and Southwestern United States. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), nation's support center for wildlandfirefighting, predicts another above average fire season for most of the interior West in 2004.
         		Global Media Giants Flock To India
     Calcutta (SPX) May 12, 2004
     Call it a new wave sweeping the Indian media, or simply a late realization by the global media giants of India's market potential. Leading players from the global media industry are now flocking to the sub-continent, giving its media landscape an international sheen.
  • Astra Reaches 94 Million Households
  • Intelsat To Acquire COMSAT General Business
    • MARSDAILY
    Deep Sleep Will Give Opportunity Endurance To Cruise Round Crater
     Pasadena - May 12, 2004
     The most vulnerable MER instruments are the miniature thermal emission spectrometer. With a cutoff of the power electronics, the rovers can't heat tje MiniTES overnight. Data returned on sol 102 showed the temperature reached -46 degrees Celsius, a bit warmer than the spectrometer's lowest proven temperature for functionality of -50 C.
         		Mars Express Reports In As Final Deployment Delayed
     Paris (ESA) May 12, 2004
     The overall operational performance of all spacecraft subsystems on Mars Express is good reports ESA mission control in a detailed status report released.
  • Deep Faults And Disrupted Crater At Acheron Fossae
  • Doubt Cast On Some '96 Evidence Of Mars Life
  • Martian Water Science Early 2004
    • CLIMATE SCIENCE
    Global Warming's Latest Hot Topic Causes Yet More Nasty Arguments
     Boulder CO (UPI) May 11, 2004
     Climate change research is a giant scientific sandbox. The subject is so complex, the data sources spread across so many disciplines, and the analytical tools so new and powerful that just about any scientist can stick in his shovel someplace and come up with a new -- and probably plausible -- result.
    TECH SPACE
    Corporate Team Targets Enhanced Cooperation for Naval Composite Programs
     Pascagoula (SPX) May 12, 2004
     The future operational effectiveness of U.S. Coast Guard ships in littoral warfare and other key national security missions will be revolutionized in an agreement announced today between Northrop Grumman Corporation's Ship Systems sector and Kockums AB and its parent company, Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG (HDW).
    NUKEWARS
    Nuclear Security Plan Questioned
      Washington (UPI) May 11, 2004
     Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow told a House subcommittee Tuesday that recently announced plans for improving security at federal nuclear weapons facilities and research labs are part of an effort to change the culture at the department as well as improve the safety of the nation's nuclear stockpile and research.
    RAY GUNS
    High-Energy Laser Destroys Large-Caliber Rocket
     Redondo Beach - May 11, 2004
     As the scope of battlefield threats continues to expand, so does the versatility of a high-energy laser system to defeat them. The U.S. Army's Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) testbed destroyed a rocket on May 4 that's larger, faster and that flies higher than previous threats destroyed by the laser weapon demonstrator.
    OPINION SPACE
    Tunnel Vision In Space
     Honolulu (SPX) May 07, 2004
     Senator Brownback of Kansas has performed a noble public service in holding the May 5 hearings on future NASA launch vehicle policy. Although most press attention to this event has focused on Brownback's questioning of further Shuttle flights, for me the main value of the hearing was the astonishing views expressed by the people running the space launch business in the USA, writes Jeffrey F. Bell.
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    YESTERDAY'S SPACEDAILY HEADLINES
  • Arianespace To Launch Aussie Satellite On First Soyuz From Europe's Kourou Spaceport
  • New Bush Space Speech Planned
  • EADS to win 3.0-billion-euro contract for 30 Ariane-5 rockets
  • Shuttle Or Not, Hubble Will Be Saved
  • Tunnel Vision In Space
  • Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
  • Gravity Probe B Rollout Continues
  • High-Energy Laser Destroys Large-Caliber Rocket
  • Deep Faults And Disrupted Crater At Acheron Fossae
  • Rosetta Fit Out Continues For Decade Long Mission
  • The Remarkable Red Rectangle: A Stairway To Heaven?
  • XMM-Newton Detects X-Ray 'Solar Cycle' In Distant Star
  • Red Cross To Caution China On Urbanization
  • Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Brings High-Temp PEM Cells Closer
  • Analysis Uncovers Critical Stretches of Human Genome
  • Nano-Scale Trees Created At Lund Institute Of Technology
  • Teleradiology: So Far, So Good
  • ViaSat and Telesat Sign Contract for Ka-band Internet Satellite Service
  • IDirect To Provide Broadband Connectivity Puerto Rico Schools
  • Raytheon Integrates SeaVue Radar and MTS Onboard Predator B
  • Lockheed Martin and General Atomics Demo Integrated Maritime Surveillance
  • Sony Launches World's Smallest Windows XP-Operated Personal Computer
  • Japanese Police Arrest Developer Of Popular File-Sharing Application
  • US Does Not Rule Out Talks With North Korea On Nuclear Crisis
  • Iran Should Quit NPT: Frmer IAEA Representative
  • Quake Shakes Devastated City Of Bam
  • Monsanto Gives Up On Bid For Genetically Engineered Wheat
  • Jordan, US Launch Multi-Million-Dollar Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Encore: What's Next Beyond LEO Part Four
  • Navy Demos Future Warfare Strategy
  • Lockheed Martin Completes Major Milestone On AEHF Milstar
  • An Enduring Opportunity On Mars
  • The Spirit Of A Country Mile On Mars
  • Planning for Mars, The Stafford Way
  • Encore: What's Next Beyond LEO Part Four
  • Former Mexican-American farmer among NASA's astronaut candidates
  • Lockheed Martin Wins $5 Billion Joint Common Missile Deal
  • Lockheed Martin Offers Two Open Architecture Capabilities For Aegis
  • Lockheed Martin Completes Major Milestone On AEHF Milstar
  • Navy Demos Future Warfare Strategy
  • Air Force Laboratory Selects Uni-Solar Ovonic For Solar Cells
  • Cassini's First Glimpses Of Titan
  • New Interpretation Of Satellite Data Supports Global Warming
  • Stanford Engineers Create GPS Steering
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