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As the remaining wreckage of NASA's latest comet explorer Contour fades into the abyss of deep space, the question of what happened grows more frustrating as yet another theory is discredited as to why Contour's STAR-30BP solid motor apparently exploded destroying Contour and NASA's plans to zoom by Comet Encke November 12, 2003 at a mere 100 km from the comet's nucleus. TaikoBot Tests Critical To Safety Of Shenzhou Yuhangyuans
When the two test dummies blast off into space on Shenzhou-4 (SZ-4) later this year or early next year, they will continue the role of their predecessors in the testing of the critical life protection and related subsystems on the manned spacecraft. No Cash, No Soyuz: Says Russia
Russian space officials have called off a planned trip to the International Space Station by US pop star Lance Bass because he failed to provide necessary payments for the flight, Itar-Tass reported on Tuesday. Bass, the star of pop group N'Sync, returned to Moscow at the weekend after a week's training at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston. No Rest On The Way To Titan 
Paris - Sept 2, 2002After 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
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. GPS Block IIR Celebrates Nickel Anniversary On Orbit 
Schriever AFB - Sept 2, 2002An addition to an Air Force system recently celebrated its nickel anniversary, but has been worth its weight in gold to warfighters in Afghanistan and coal miners trapped in a Pennsylvania mineshaft. Space Planning Office Open For Business 
Peterson AFB - Sept 2, 2002Air Force Space Command recently activated the Space Situational Awareness Integration Office in Colorado Springs, Colo. Antelope Valley Manufacturing Center For JSF, B-2 and UAVs Opened 
Palmdale - Sept 2, 2002Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems sector dedicated its Antelope Valley Manufacturing Center (AVMC) last week in a ceremony attended by approximately 1,000 employees at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale.
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Scottsdale - Sep 04, 2002  "Would ET Vote? The Likelihood of Extraterrestrial Democracy," a recent article by SETI's Doug Vakoch, sets out the proposition that "if we detect a signal from advanced extraterrestrials, there's a good chance that the basic principles of democracy play a role in their society."First Test Of 'Net Decoy' System Shows Promise 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.
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