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June 19, 2002
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Taking The After Taste Out Of Drinking Rocket Fuel

pretty powerful stuff
Evanston - Jun 19, 2002
 A Northwestern University environmental engineer has received a U.S. patent for a treatment device that renders perchlorate � a thyroid-damaging ingredient of rocket fuel and a drinking water problem � harmless.
  • Gilat Completes VSAT Deal With SES Global
  • Boeing 702 Satellite Set To Launch With New Solar Array Design
  • Xantic To Sell Iridium Services Worldwide As User Base Builds
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    MARSDAILY
    SwRI Kicks Off Initiative In Support Of Expanding Mars Science Program
     San Antonio - June 19, 2002
     In late 2001, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) launched a major, two-year initiative to broaden its base of expertise in support of the NASA Mars program.
  • Odyssey Completes All Hardware Deployment
  • NASA Selects 28 Scientists For Mars Rover Mission
  • Beagle 2 Gets Welcome Donation For Critical Instrument Payload
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    ROCKET SCIENCE
    ESA Explores Smarter Way To Cross Space
     Paris (ESA) Jun 19, 2002
     As scientists demand more from space missions traveling to other worlds and beyond, traditional rocket technologies are beginning to show shortcomings. In response, ESA are helping to develop a new type of rocket engine, known as solar-electric propulsion, or more commonly, an ion engine, that can mark a whole new era of space exploration.
    COBRA Completes Preliminary Design Review
     Huntsville - Jun 19, 2002
     COBRA, one of the engines being considered for the next generation reusable launch vehicle, has recently completed its preliminary design review for NASA's Space Launch Initiative. The COBRA engine is a reusable, hydrogen-fueled liquid booster and second stage engine with a thrust level of 600,000 pounds of force.
  • Georgia Tech To Lead Initiative To Develop New Engine Tech
  • XCOR EZ-Rocket to Participate at AirVenture 2002
  • ESA's Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator On Display At Toulouse Show

    • LAUNCH PAD
    Comet Mission To Launch July 1
     Laurel - Jun 19, 2002
     Contour will provide the first detailed look at the differences between these primitive building blocks of the solar system, and answer questions about how comets act and evolve as they speed toward the sun.
  • Atlas 3 Picks Up Martian Loiter For 2005 Window
  • NASA, NOAA To Launch New Environmental Satellite
  • Arianespace In Trouble As Satellite Demand Falters

    • SOLAR WEATHER
    100,000-Year Climate Pattern Linked To Sun's Magnetic Cycles
     Hanover - Jun 19, 2002
     Examination of exisiting sets of Geophysical data has revealed that the sun's magnetic activity is varying in 100,000-year cycles, a much longer time span than previously thought, and this solar activity, in turn, may likely cause the 100,000-year climate cycles on earth.
    EARTH OBSERVATION
    The Greening Of The North Gathers Pace
     Munich - Jun 19, 2002
     Twenty years of satellite observations have indicated a "greening" trend in northern regions of the northern hemisphere (boreal regions) say scientists at several European research centers who are using the data to build a global earth model.
  • HyPerspectives Adds Color To Camouflage
  • Around The World In 96 Hours
  • ESA Selects Three New EO Missions

    • TECH SPACE
    Computer Grid Reaches Tera-Scale
      West Lafayette - Jun 19, 2002
     Purdue University and Indiana University have succeeded in linking their IBM supercomputers in a computational grid via the universities' high-speed optical network, creating a facility capable of performing a trillion operations per second.
  • Space Observatory To Phone Home Via South African Call Center
  • Instruments Selected For Next Generation Space Scope
  • A New Approach May Finally Make "Smart Structures" Scalable

    • EARLY EARTH
    Fossils Found In Arctic Shows Plants More Developed At Earlier Time
    Chapel Hill - Jun 17, 2002
    In cojunction with Canadian colleagues, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist has discovered fossils of plants dating back some 420 million years.
  • Did A Rain Of Cosmic Particles Destroy Dino World
  • A Non-Biological Origin For Carbon In Ancient Rocks
  • Mass Extinction Gave Way To Eon Of Stability

    • DRAGON SPACE
  • Shenzhou Unknowns Continue To Confuse China Watchers
  • Yuhangyuan 14: "Made In China" For Spaceflight
  • China Hopes Manned Spaceflight Will Open Road To Moon

    • EXO WORLDS
  • Newfound Planetary System Has "Hometown" Look
  • The Gulf Beyond Earth
  • Eddington Mission Will Look For Earth-Like Planets

    • SPACEWAR
  • Israel Shows Off New Spy Sat With Iran Snaps
  • Taiwan To Receive Early-Warning Radars From US: Jane's
  • Russia Set To "Minimise" US Withdrawal From ABM

    • UAV NEWS
  • US Seeks To Block UAV Proliferation
  • European Conference Focuses On UAV Technologies
  • SkyNet Will Guide Unmanned Vehicles into Battle

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