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Seoul - Feb 25, 2003North Korea has fired a missile into the Sea of Japan, placing South Korea's military on alert, military officials said here Tuesday. The missile was fired Monday into international waters in the Sea of Japan, a South Korean defense ministry official said. He said that there were no details immediately available about the type of missile fired, or about its range. "The only information we have is that a missile was fired from an unknown location in North Korea into the East Sea." |
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Pioneer 10 Contact To End
Pasadena - Feb 25, 2003At a distance of 12.21 billion km from Earth, Pioneer 10 is one of the most distant objects of humanity over 11 light hours out. But with signal strength below what the Deep Space Network can lock on to, all official attempts to contact Pioneer 10 will soon cease. Simulation Shows Potential For Ultrafast Detonations University Park - Feb 25, 2003 
Explosive detonations at speeds faster than current theories predict have been shown to be possible in a powerful new computer simulation developed by engineers at Penn State. |
Can Robots Fly On NukePower Alone
Washington - Feb 25, 2003The US Air Force is reported to be examining the feasibility of a nuclear-powered version of an unmanned aircraft. The revelations come in the latest issue of New Scientist published Feb 22. Do Pluto's Other Children Hide In The Shadow Of Charon 
Boulder - Feb 25, 2003Pluto has only one known satellite - Charon - discovered in 1978 by American astronomer James Christy. At slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto, Charon's 1,200-kilometer diameter makes it the undisputed "relative size" king of solar system satellites. |
A Space-Age Coating Against Terrorism
Tyndall AFP - Feb 21, 2003With the threat of terrorist action the Department of Defense's vital workforce and assets must be protected. In response, engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate developed a method for protection using polyurethane, elastomer coating for concrete block walls, reinforced concrete, and lightweight trailers. Predicting The Climate Of The 21st Century 
Boulder - Feb 25, 2003Warming land and ocean surfaces, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and other recent evidence strongly suggest that Earth's climate is already changing rapidly because of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to Warren Washington at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Tiny Computational Machine Fueled By DNA Wins Guinness Record 
Tel Aviv - Feb 25, 2003The device was awarded the Guinness World Record for "smallest biological computing device" fifty years after the discovery of the structure of DNA. |
Lost In LEO
San Francisco - Feb 23, 2003The International Space Station writes Bruce Moomaw is a $90 billion dead-end expenditure without any justification -- unless you count all the expensive pork, carefully distributed by NASA among politically strategic states, that has been a critical motivating force for Congressional and White House support the three decades since the triumph of Apollo. Columbia Lost, But Not A Nation 
Boulder - Feb 24, 2003The sad and sudden demise of the space shuttle Columbia and her crew on the frontier of space on February 1st provided a sharp reminder of the risks of spaceflight, writes Alan Stern. Let's Ban Tourists From ISS 
Tokyo - Feb 20th, 2003Space tourism is real. Just barely, perhaps. It looks shakey at the moment and the Columbia disaster has definitely put a damper on it. Maybe for years. But it's real. Old news, but good news. |
Distant Galaxy Shreds Space And Time
Huntsville - Feb 24, 2003The sharp image of a galaxy halfway across the universe might shred modern theories about the structures of time and space, and change the way astrophysicists view the "Big Bang," according to two scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Is Missing Mass A Warm Intergalactic Fog 
Cambridge - Feb 20, 2003One of the fundamental questions astronomers are trying to answer is: What is the Universe made of? Numerous lines of evidence show that the Universe is about 73 percent "dark energy," 23 percent "dark matter," and only 4 percent normal matter. Yet this answer raises further questions, including: Where is all the normal matter? |
 Pegasus Goes AutonomousChina Lake - Feb 24, 2003 The X-47A took off at approximately 7:56 a.m. PST from the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, Calif., flew for 12 minutes, then landed safely near a pre-designated touchdown point. |
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