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After an adventurous 7-year long tour among the planets, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will arrive at Saturn in July 2004. Once there, Cassini will parachute the Huygens probe to Saturn's biggest satellite, Titan. Titan is thought to have an atmosphere similar to the primitive Earth. However, both the probe and the Cassini-Huygens team are not in idle state until 2004. They have plenty of things to keep them busy. Full Details Cassini Special Reports
San Diego - Sept 2, 2002TransOrbital, Inc. has become the first private company in the history of space flight to win approval from the U.S. government to explore, photograph, and land on the moon. The company expects to launch its Trailblazer Mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan within the next 9-12 months. China Builds It First Supercomputer 
Beijing - Sept 2, 2002China's first supercomputer which is capable of making 1.027 trillion calculations per second has been unveiled in Zhongguancun, the "Silicon Valley" of Beijing recently reported Xinhua Lance Bass Out Of Sync With Russian Vendor 
Moscow - Sept 2, 2002Russian space officials warned US pop star and astronaut wannabe Lance Bass Monday that his planned ride to the space station was in serious jeopardy and would be called off if his sponsors do not send cash within "a matter of days." "We still haven't received a cent from Bass's sponsors. We want to start receiving money within a matter of days," Rosaviakosmos spokesman Sergei Gorbunov told AFP.
Near-Frictionless Carbon Coating Nears Commercial Applications 
Argonne - Sep 03, 2002Four years and more than 3,000 phone calls and e-mail contacts later, Argonne's "Near-Frictionless Carbon" coating stands on the brink of commercialization. A flurry of calls from just about every engineer who works with moving parts followed the announcement in 1997 of a new coating with the lowest coefficient of friction ever measured. Nanoantennas Could Bring Sensitive Detectors, Optical Circuits 
West Lafayette - Sep 02, 2002Researchers have shown how tiny wires and metallic spheres might be arranged in various shapes to form "nanoantennas" that dramatically increase the precision of medical diagnostic imaging and devices that detect chemical and biological warfare agents. Two Decades Of Orbital Command 
Peterson AFB - Sept 2, 2002September marks the 20th anniversary of the command. Compared to rest of the Air Force, space is new to the battleground, but it has proved no less essential than any aircraft, ship or battalion. The history of the command is no less vibrant. And it all began just more than two decades ago. Object-Oriented Operational Architectures For Milspace 
McLean - Sept 2, 2002SI International, an information technology (IT) and network solutions company, announced today that it has been selected as a contractor to the newly established Space Situational Awareness Integration Office (SSAIO). Robots Could Owe Their Mobility To A Cockroach 
San Diego - Aug 27, 2002The cockroach is an insect despised for its ubiquitousness, among other reasons. Yet, it may hold a key to the next evolutionary step in the "life" of robots. Just Park It Over Near Olympus Mons 
Moffett Field - Aug 26, 2002Scientists preparing for NASA's next Mars mission, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers scheduled for launch in June and July 2003, are now able to view more than 44,000 high-resolution images of Mars collected by the Mars Global Surveyor. Some show detail at less than three meters per pixel.
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Mildenhall - Sept 2, 2002  The airmen of the 100th Communications Squadron here hosted the first-ever demonstration of the pioneering "Net Decoy" system, combining two defensive information systems that detect, track and potentially identify cyberspace intruders.New Hypothesis Of The Tunguska Explosion Novosibirsk - Sept 2, 2002  A geologist from Novosibirsk has set up a new hypothesis of the explosion in Podkamennaya Tunguska, which took place on June 30, 1908. It was not a meteorite that caused such extensive destructions and conflagration, but a fluid jet, which had shot up under high pressure from the interior of the Earth.Dual Test Dummies To Ride Shenzhou 4 Beijing - Aug 27, 2002  Two dummies will be part of a collection of experiments on Shenzhou-4 (SZ-4) that will be the last unmanned test mission of the manned spacecraft later this year, Chinese media has reported in recent days.Los Angeles - Aug 25, 2002  The loss of the Contour comet probe will soon put the investigative spotlight on the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as a NASA appointed panel seeks to find out what went wrong with the $180 million probe as it fired its main engine to leave Earth orbit on August 15.
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