Can Aurora Become Europe's New Age Of Planetary Discovery Noordwijk - Apr 02, 2002 Franco Ongaro spends his working day thinking about how to take European scientists, engineers and their sponsors to distant worlds in the decades ahead. In an interview by new SpaceDaily contributor Hans-Arthur Marsiske, Ongaro who is ESA's coordinator of the Advanced Studies and Concepts Office outlines to our readers his evolving blueprint for a new age of planetary discovery.
Virus Warning: List480.TXT.scr Los Angeles - Apr 03, 2002 An extremely nasty virus is on the loose. Targeting Outlook and MSN users, the virus sends a mail worm called "List480.TXT.scr" to everyone in your Outlook and MSN address books. Standard stuff, but with the kicker that this virus can cause serious unrecoverable damage to your hard disk.
India Continues To Develop Its Rockets And Motors Bangalore - Apr 2, 2002 An optimized version of solid motor for third stage of PSLV was successfully ground tested yesterday (March 30, 2002) at ISRO's SHAR Centre, Sriharikota. The performance parameters of the motor during the test were normal.
American Spy Drone Crashes While On Patrol In Southern Philippines Zamboanga (AFP) Mar 31, 2002 An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by United States forces in operations against local allies of the al-Qaeda group crashed into waters off the southern Philippines Sunday, officials said.
First Envisat Check-Up On The Earth London - Mar 31, 2002 A major new health check on the Earth got under way on 1 March 2002, when the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. It is the largest and most sophisticated Earth observation satellite ever built.
Russia Launches Molnya Rocket With Military Satellite Plesetsk - Apr 2, 2002 Russia successfully launched a Molnya-M rocket carrying a military satellite Tuesday, Russian space officials said as quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency. The Molnya rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia at 02:07 am Moscow time (2207 GMT Monday).
Mars Odyssey's THEMIS Begins Posting Daily Images Pasadena - Mar 31, 2002 Need to get away to someplace exotic? Mars is now open for daily sightseeing. Beginning March 27, 2002, recent images of Mars taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft have been available to the public via the Internet.
Engineering Test May Yield Clues To Plant Growth In Space Moffett Field - Mar 31, 2002 The engineering test of a plant-growth system to be launched on next week's space shuttle mission to the International Space Station also may reveal important clues about plant development in space.
Taiwan Objects To Use Of US Nuclear Weapons Against China Taipei - Mar 31, 2002 Taiwan has said for the first time it opposes any use of nuclear weapons by the United States against China, a newspaper quoted a military report as saying Sunday.
Smallpox Vaccine Can Be Diluted Washington - Mar 29, 2002 HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced that results from a key clinical trial indicate that the existing U.S. supply of smallpox vaccine-15.4 million doses-could successfully be diluted up to five times and retain its potency, effectively expanding the number of individuals it could protect from the contagious disease.