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 CHANNELS  SERVICES  SPACEDAILY EXPRESS July 24, 2002
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  The Ultimate In "Fly By Wire" 
Washington - Jul 24, 2002The Predator is just like every other aircraft, you just don't ride in it. That's the conclusion of Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Mathewson, commander of the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. He should know, as his unit flies 24 of the unmanned aerial vehicles on missions around the world.
Pyongyang - Jul 24, 2002Thanks to the respected and beloved general's energetic leadership, an artificial satellite center showing our country's up-to-date scientific and technical results and prospects for its development was excellently set up and opened at the Three Revolutions Exhibition Hall. SI International To Study Advanced Extremely High Frequency System 
McLean � July 24, 2002SI International has received a four and one-half year, $1.9 million award to provide technical, engineering, and consulting services in support of the Headquarters Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) Military Satellite Communications Systems Division.
Dulles - July 24, 2002Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected for a contract, valued at approximately $39 million, by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology, to design, manufacture and support mission operations of a new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) atmospheric science satellite. Sirius Announces New Satellite Radio Products for Consumers 
New York - July 23, 2002Sirius Satellite Radio said Monday that Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company (PCEC), will introduce Panasonic Sirius satellite receiver products for distribution in September. Globalstar Demos Dual Use Phone 
San Jose - July 24, 2002Globalstar has demonstrated a wireless phone that can use the same radio spectrum to connect to both satellite and terrestrial communications networks. If introduced commercially, this system could further increase the utility of satellite phones while at the same time making far more efficient use of existing radio spectrum. A Little Bit Of Ferrari Takes Off To The Red Planet 
Paris - Jul 24, 2002What is the fastest Ferrari's distinctive red paint has ever traveled? Next year it will be 10,800 km/h! Mars Express, to be launched in May/June 2003, the first European spacecraft to visit the Red Planet, will be speeding on its way accompanied by the very essence of Ferrari: a sample of its distinctive red paint. Moscow Space Talks Bring Lift-Off A Step Closer 
Canberra - Jul 24, 2002 A recent bilateral agreement between Australia and Russia on technology safeguards for the Christmas Island spaceport project, to be run by the Asia Pacific Space Centre, has moved a step closer after three days of talks in Moscow. BAE Systems Receives Satellite Components Contract From TRW
Nashua - July 24, 2002BAE Systems has been awarded a $55 million contract from TRW to develop and build radiation-hardened electronics for the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite system. NASA To Study Lightning Storms Using High-Flying UAVs 
Huntsville - July 23, 2002To better understand both the causes of an electrical storm's fury and its effects on our home planet, NASA and university research scientists will use a tool no atmospheric scientist has ever used to study lightning -- an unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Pasadena - July 23, 2002  Now within two years of reaching Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took test images of a star last week that reveal successful results from an extended warming treatment to remove haze that collected on a camera lens last year.Asteroids Offer Dark Clues To Missing Matter Melbourne - July 23, 2002  Astronomers have lost thousands of comets. A University of Melbourne physicist thinks they may still be there, just invisible and some of them potentially on a collision course with Earth.NASA Developing Hypersonic Flight Huntsville - Jul 24, 2002  Imagine taking off from any U.S. airport and landing on any other runway in the world in less than two hours. Or making a quick hop from that same airport to the International Space Station and back -- a trip that normally takes days or weeks -- to drop off science experiments, provisions and new equipment.Harmonic Boosts Satellite Efficiency Sunnyvale - July 24, 2002  Harmonic Inc said Wednesday that its digital headend systems are being used by Media Overseas, a leading French-language Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite broadcaster, to increase the effective bandwidth of its network, providing more capacity to deliver additional programming content.Final Pluto Showdown Looming Los Angeles - Jul 22, 2002  The interminable on-again off-again saga of the proposed U.S. Pluto probe -- and whether it will be launched early enough to take advantage of a Jupiter gravity-assist flyby that would boost it at redoubled speed into the outer Solar System -- is, at long last, approaching its end. And the ending is likely to be bizarre, as noisily melodramatic as the climax of any grand opera, and entirely unpredictable. |
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