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Washington - Feb 05, 2003 
NASA should lead a new program to determine the population and physical diversity of near-Earth objects down to a size of 200 meters, according to the final report of a workshop held in 2002 on the scientific requirements to mitigate hazardous comets and asteroids. "As our discussions proceeded, it became clear the prime impediment to further advances was the lack of assigned responsibility to any national or international organization," said planetary scientist Michael Belton, organizer of the September 2002 workshop. |
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Gerstenmaier Emails ISS Workers
Houston - Feb 03, 2003In an email sent to NASA's ISS teams, Station Program Manager Bill Gerstenmaier has written of the need to stay focused in working through the issues to keep ISS in orbit and support the three residents of Earth's only outpost in Space. Space Shuttle Risk Assessment Report Available Online 
Linthicum - Feb 06, 2003The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is again making available a report commissioned by NASA about the risk to space shuttles from damage to the spacecraft's protective tiles. Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board Appointed 
Washington - Feb 02, 2003NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced the members of the Space Shuttle Mishap Interagency Investigation Board, which will provide an independent review of the events and activities that led up to the tragic loss of the seven astronauts Saturday on board the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Kourou - Feb 05, 2003A commercial launch industry milestone was reached in French Guiana today as Arianespace's final Ariane 4 was completed at the Spaceport. Artemis On Orbit At Last 
Paris - Feb 06, 2003Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above the Earth, at 21.5 deg E. This announcement would, if all had gone to plan, been made just a few days after lift-off on 12 July 2001. Now, eighteen months and some serious brainstorming further on, the most advanced ESA telecommunications satellite ever commissioned, is on station, ready to play its part in the development of new telecommunications services. Using RNA Interference To Tune Gene Activity In Stem Cells 
Cold Spring Harbor - Feb 06, 2003The application of RNA interference (RNAi) to the study of mammalian biology and disease has the potential to revolutionize biomedical research and speed the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Robots Get Gung Ho As They Fly Together 
Desert Center - Feb 06, 2003"Gung ho" means "work together," and that's what Texas-based Geneva Aerospace, Inc. has got its flying robots doing. Using technology developed with the support of the Office of Naval Research, Geneva Aerospace showed that a single human operator can control three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at once. The flight tests were conducted between January 7 and 17 of 2003 at Desert Center, California. |
Globalstar Resumes Discussions with Potential Investors
San Jose - Feb 06, 2003Globalstar, L.P. confirmed today that New Valley Corp. has terminated its agreement with Globalstar under which it would have provided debtor-in-possession ("DIP") financing and would have acquired a controlling interest in the company. Purdue Researchers Connect Life's Blueprints With Its Energy Source 
West Lafayette - Feb 06, 2003The Purdue University research team that recently created a tiny motor out of synthetic biological molecules has found further evidence that RNA molecules can perform physical work, a discovery that could advance nanotechnology and possibly solve fundamental mysteries about life itself. U.S. Defense Electronics Market Set To Explode 
Newtown - Feb 06, 2003"The US Defense electronics market is in for stellar growth throughout the next ten years," said Richard Sterk, a Senior Defense Analyst with Forecast International, in citing the company's annual "Overview of the US Defense Electronics Market." Sapphire Slams A Worm Into .Earth 
San Diego - Feb 04, 2003A team of network security experts in California has determined that the computer worm that attacked and hobbled the global Internet 11 days ago was the fastest computer worm ever recorded. DNS Log Gam At 13 Core Servers Just Unnecessary Traffic 
San Diego - Feb 06, 2003Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries. |
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