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Taiwan maintains a qualitative edge over Chinese forces in the air and at sea, but has only negligible defenses against China's ballistic missiles, a Pentagon report on Chinese military power said. The report released last Friday said China has more than 300 short range ballistic missiles that can strike Taiwan. "This number will grow substantially over the next few years. Taiwan's ability to defend against ballistic missiles is negligible," it said.
Taipei - Jul 16, 2002Taiwan's defense ministry said it was taking seriously a Pentagon report on the threat of China's military but would not engage in an arms race with its rival. Chinese Satellite TV Hijacked By Falun Gong Cult 
Beijing - Jul 8, 2002Television signals illegally broadcast by the Falun Gong cult cut into transmissions using the Sino Satellite (SINOSAT) from June 23 to 30, blocking the World Cup finals for viewers in some rural and remote areas in China. Globalstar Contracts for New Constellation Using 2 GHz Spectrum 
San Jose - July 17, 2002Globalstar has awarded a contract to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the design and future construction of its 2 gigahertz (GHz) satellite system, which will provide greater capacity and enhanced Globalstar services when the new constellation is fully deployed toward the end of this decade. First Glimpse Of Fully Integrated Delta 4 
Cape Canaveral - July 17, 2002Boeing technicians rolled back the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., providing the first glimpse of the fully integrated Boeing Delta IV rocket. ESA Satellite Keeps Vigil On Antarctic Ice 
Paris - Jul 18, 2002An unusually heavy Antarctic sea-ice pack has kept polar supply ship Magdalena Oldendorff trapped for more than a month. A multinational rescue mission already evacuated passengers and non-essential crew from the vessel, caught in ice while returning from the Russian base of Novolazarevskaya on Queen Maud Land.
Ashburn - July 17, 2002AeroAstro recently completed a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the STPSat-1 spacecraft, a $12 million contract awarded in September 2001 and funded through the Air Force Space Test Program Office at Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Light-Weight, Highly Conductive Space Radiator Proves Itself 
Los Angeles - Jul 18, 2002A partnership between Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing and Space Vehicles Directorates, the Navy, NASA and industry partners yielded a revolutionary carbon-carbon space radiator panel that could increase the service lives of satellites, while reducing the cost of putting them in orbit. The Night the Tektites Fell on Georgia Middlebury - Jul 16, 2002  The Moon is not the geologically dead world that most astronomy textbooks claim, according to Hal Povenmire, a Florida Institute of Technology astronomer, long-time meteorite hunter and former NASA Project Apollo engineer.
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San Diego - Jul 18, 2002  A little look behind the business infrastructure that launches boy bands reveals a lucrative source of capital and explorers for the new frontier. A business world that appears to support Lance Bass's aspirations to become a space tourist.HyShot Scramjet Program On Track For Another Woomera Test Woomera - Jul 18, 2002  This week's unsuccessful Japanese aeronautical experiment at Woomera, Australia, is unlikely to cause delays to the international HyShot program to test a scramjet in flight for the first time in the world.Devon Crater Team To Test Mars Plane Concepts Los Angeles - Jul 18, 2002  From July 17 to 24, 2002, The Planetary Society will team up with NASA Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, and MicroPilot to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic in simulated Mars exploration.Writing in the Infrared Scottsdale - Jul 04, 2002  Ideas and technologies that were recently only the wildest speculation now are hotly, even violently, debated worldwide. But not the prospect of a spacefaring future. While many address opportunities in space, their work seems to fall into a cultural blind spot, present but unseen. It's as if they were writing in the infrared: something is there, discernable by anyone sufficiently attuned. The world at large, though, literally cannot see the writing on the wall.
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