Cape Canaveral - Jun 5, 2002 Shuttle Endeavour lifted off Wednesday at 5:22 pm (2122 GMT) with seven astronauts on board for a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. After four consecutive delays, the shuttle was finally launched despite the threat of more thunderstorms throughout the day.
Gilat Completes VSAT Deal With SES Global Petah Tikva - June 5, 2002 SES Global and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd announced Monday the formal start up and operation of their new joint venture company SATLYN that will provide two-way satellite broadband communications services to enterprises, consumers and small office/home office (SOHO) users throughout Europe.
Did A Rain Of Cosmic Particles Destroy Dino World Bonn - June 5, 2002 A shower of matter from space millions of years ago could have led to drastic changes in the Earth's climate, followed by the extinction of life on a massive scale, which also killed off the dinosaurs. This at least is a theory put forward by scientists from the University of Bonn.
Environmental Change And Global Security Stanford - Jun 4, 2002 Hijackings, bioterrorist attacks and suicide bombings aren't the only human-induced threats to global security. Climate change, dwindling resources and the unintentional spread of microbial pests also have the potential to cause political destabilization, according to former university president Donald Kennedy, now editor-in-chief of the journal Science.
Io Surface Captured in Full Motion Albuquerque -June 3, 2002 The highest resolution infrared global images ever taken of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, are now available from the W.M. Keck Observatory and UC Berkeley in a unique animated movie and 3D Java applet. The images provide a complete survey of Io's surface during one full rotation and demonstrate the power of adaptive optics, enabling astronomers to study phenomena from the Earth that previously could be studied only from space.
Space Station Using GPS In Attitude Control Houston - Jun 05, 2002 The Global Positioning System, used in a wide variety of applications on Earth, is performing a new task in space. It is determining the attitude, position and speed of the International Space Station.
Odyssey Completes All Hardware Deployment Pasadena - June 4, 2002 Flight controllers for NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft completed the last major technical milestone today in support of the science mission by unfurling the boom that holds the gamma ray spectrometer sensor head instrument.
USAF Teams With Industry To Develop Laser Guns For Jet Fighters Kirtland AFB - June 5, 2002 Exploring the feasibility of using high-energy lasers on fighter aircraft is the aim of an agreement signed Friday (May 31) between the Air Force Research Laboratory here and Lockheed Martin of Fort Worth, Texas.
Petah Tikva - June 5, 2002
Bonn - June 5, 2002
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Houston - Jun 05, 2002
Pasadena - June 4, 2002
Kirtland AFB - June 5, 2002