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India on Thursday launched its first meteorological satellite which authorities hope will reap widespread commercial benefits as well as bring more accurate weather forecasts, officials said. The 1,050-kilogram (2,310 pound) METSAT was successfully launched from a Polar Satellite Launching Vehicle (PSLV-C4) near the southern city of Madras at 3:54 pm (10:24 GMT), a spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organisation said. Japan Launches H2A With Two Birds On Board 
Tokyo (AFP) Sep 10, 2002Japanese engineers worked against the clock Tuesday to sort out a last-minute payload glitch which threatened to delay the launch of Japan's H2-A unmanned rocket. The problem was sorted out just in time to enable the launch to proceed today, with a successful liftoff at 5.20pm JST (0820 GMT). Details to follow. Steady Growth For New GEO Sats As Data Demand Increases 
Bethesda - Sep 12, 2002Futron Corporation has released its latest ten-year forecast of the demand for satellite services. The forecast shows that the business, while somewhat volatile, has a solid base and strong growth potential still ahead. Satellites will continue to be required to meet key telecommunications service needs. However, these needs are not spread uniformly in either time or geography, and each individual market demonstrates distinct patterns of demand.
TRW Wins Contract To Build New Space Telescope
TRW has been selected by NASA as the winner of an industry competition to build the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. To be named the James Webb Space Telescope in honor of the second NASA administrator, the new telescope will be the most powerful telescope ever built with a mirror nearly three times that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Next Steps in Lunar Science and Exploration 
Los Alamos - Sep 12, 2002The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting an international gathering of lunar scientists in Taos, N.M. beginning Thursday. At the meeting, scientists will discuss recent advances in lunar science as well as the prospect of future scientific missions to the moon. A Case for Life on Mars 
Leicester - Sep 11, 2002A multitude of arguments supporting the possible existence of life on Mars have surfaced after the discovery and examination of the ALH84001 meteorite. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found within, plus detailed examination of the ratios of certain metabolites, all have various interpretations supporting or opposing their organic origin. SHOT Selected For Additional NASA Biotechnology Research Contracts 
Greenville - Sept 12, 2002The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Space Hardware Optimization Technology, Inc.(SHOT), for four Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts -- totaling more than $1.3 million -- for further development of the company's latest biotechnology research devices.
NASA Tests Advanced Spacesuit, Robot Helper At Meteor Crater 
Houston (JSC) Sep 12, 2002Scientists will trek into the Arizona desert near Flagstaff this month to study how robots and humans can best interact using spoken language, and to gather data for comparing human and robotic performance. Space Proves Its Mettle As Emerging Battlefield 
Nellis AFB - Sep 09, 2002A recently concluded exercise has proven that space is rapidly improving all aspects of the battlefield operations, said the commander of last month's 11-day Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2002.
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Scottsdale - Sep 11, 2002  In the year since September 11, 2001, we have begun to acknowledge, finally, that the world has changed. Back in the Cold War, both sides believed that reason and technology were prime values and the key to victory. Space - science and engineering alike - held an assured pride of place.Australia's FedSat Slated For Japan's Next H2A Launch Canberra - Sep 12, 2002  Under an agreement signed today, the research satellite, developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS) in Canberra, will be launched from Tanegashima Space Centre by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) on their H-IIA rocket.Seeing Double Among The Kuipers Boulder - Sep 11, 2002  The Kuiper Belt region of the solar system, which stretches from just past Neptune to beyond the farthest reaches of Pluto's orbit, was only discovered in 1992, but continues to reveal new knowledge into the formation processes of the planets.Working Up News Perspectives On Impact Threats Santa Cruz - Sep 11, 2002  Direct measurements of the surface properties and interior structures of asteroids and comets should be fundamental elements of future spacecraft missions to these primitive solar system bodies, according to participants in a scientific workshop held in Arlington, VA, from September 3-6.Comets Break Up Far And Near Pasadena (JPL) Sep 11, 2002  Some comets may break apart over and over again in the farthest reaches of the solar system, challenging a theory that comets break up only occasionally and not too far from the Sun, says a researcher from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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