Houston - Jun , 2002 US astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz and his French colleague, Philippe Perrin, successfully completed a space walk Sunday to add new fixtures to the International Space Station. During the spacewalk that continued for seven hours and 14 minutes and ended at 5:41 pm (2241 GMT), the astronauts have "successfully accomplished all the tasks," said John Ria-Pelly, a spokesman for the Johnson Space Center here. It is the first of three scheduled for the current mission of the space shuttle Endeavour.
Russian Tests New Ballistic Missile Moscow (AFP) Jun 06, 2002 Russia launched a successful test Thursday of its new intercontinental ballistic missile Topol-M, which is set to replace Moscow's current arsenal of SS-18 missiles, the Interfax-AVN agency reported.
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.
Decline Of World's Glaciers Expected To Have Global Impact This Century Greenbelt - Jun 03, 2002 The great majority of the world's glaciers appear to be declining at rates equal to or greater than long-established trends, according to early results from a joint NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) project designed to provide a global assessment of glaciers.
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.
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.
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.