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 July 12, 2002
Scientists Back Kuiper Belt Mission To Pluto And Beyond
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Washington - Jul 12, 2002
Sending a probe to the Kuiper Belt and its largest member, Pluto, should be NASA's first priority in solar system exploration, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. Larger, more comprehensive efforts are also needed, beginning with a trip to Jupiter's moon Europa, said the committee that wrote the report.
Glenn Powers Ahead With Ion Engine
Cleveland - Jul 11, 2002
A giant leap toward enabling high power electric propulsion was recently demonstrated. With power levels up to 72 kW and nearly 3 Newtons of thrust, NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has designed, built and successfully tested a 50 kW-class Hall thruster.
Health Effects Of Perchlorate From Spent Rocket
Fuel Amherst - Jul 11, 2002
A University of Massachusetts scientist is part of a panel of experts helping the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determine how to deal with tons of spent rocket fuel that has seeped into aquifers in parts of the American Southwest.
DARPA Team Fire Up Scramjet Engine For Future Cruise Missile
Hampton - Jul 11, 2002
In a wind tunnel in Hampton, Virginia , on the 30th of May this year, a new kind of cruise missile engine, called a scramjet, was fired up. Just like any other cruise missile engine, it used conventional liquid hydrocarbon fuel, but this one was a mite different. In simulated hypersonic conditions, this engine reached MACH 6.5 speeds at 90,000 feet altitude.
Spare Naval Sat Brought Into Service For Afghanistan Campaign
Seal Beach - Jul 11, 2002
A Boeing-built US Navy communications satellite, launched nine years ago and formerly used as an in-orbit spare, has a new mission providing critical military communications capacity for U.S. forces in Operation Enduring Freedom.
Astronauts To Get NanoSensors To Monitor Radiation And Infection
Ann Arbor - Jul 11, 2002
Along with space suits, freeze-dried food and barf bags, tomorrow's astronauts may travel with nanomolecular devices inside their white blood cells to detect early signs of damage from dangerous radiation or infection.
Stopping The Aliens At PortSide
Washington - Jul 11, 2002
Of the estimated 100,000 ships entering U.S. ports from foreign waters each year, only 30 percent reported their ballast water management practices during the first two years that the U.S. Coast Guard mandated them to under the National Invasive Species Act of 1996 (NISA).
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Engine Cracks Ground All Shuttles Until September
Houston - Jul 11, 2002
 The US space agency NASA expressed optimism Friday that it will be able to resume space shuttle flights in September once it has resolved the mystery surrounding a series of small cracks found in metal fuel liners. "I'm optimistic about a resolution in the coming weeks ... I don't see it as a long drawn-out affair," said Ron Dittemore, space shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Satellite Anomalies Pushing Up Insurance
Bethesda - Jul 11, 2002
 In recent years, the satellite insurance market has experienced a great deal of volatility with recent rate increases directly linked to a growth in claims, industry analyst Futron says in a research paper released Wednesday.
In Search Of The Nanodiamonds
Livermore - Jul 12, 2002
 An astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics has found that some nanodiamonds, the most famous and exotic form of stardust, may instead have formed within the inner solar system.
Is The Universe Older Than Expected
Paris (ESA) Jul 11, 2002
 An analysis of 13.5 thousand million-year-old X-rays, captured by ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, has shown that either the Universe may be older than astronomers had thought or that mysterious, undiscovered 'iron factories' litter the early Universe.
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