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Pasadena - Feb 25, 2003 
At a distance of 12.21 billion km from Earth, Pioneer 10 is one of the most distant objects of humanity at 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 now cease. NASA engineers say the spacecraft's radioisotope power source has decayed, and it may not have enough power to send further transmissions to Earth. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) did not detect a signal during the last Deep Space Network contact attempt Feb. 7, 2003. |
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ESA Signs Up For Demonstration Of Vega Small Launcher
Paris - Feb 26, 2003Today ESA signed a contract with the ELV company for completion of the development phase of the Vega European small launcher programme, and CNES signed, on behalf of ESA, a contract with FiatAvio for development of the P80 advanced solid propulsion stage and demonstrator. Flying With Nature's Own Fuel 
Pasadena - Feb 24, 2003Hundreds of years ago, early discoverers used the Sun as a compass. Turns out the light of the Sun can do more than just guide us; it can actually propel us farther and faster into the vast realm of space than we've ever been able to go. |
Hundreds Of Molecules Unite In Self-Assembled Liquid Crystal Lattice 
Philadelphia - Feb 25, 2003A new liquid crystal lattice created by scientists at Pennsylvania and Sheffield universities may be invisible to the naked eye, but it's a giant in its own way. What's more, it's the first organic compound to assume an intricate structure previously seen only in metals such as uranium and various metal alloys. |
PSLV to Launch Singapore MicroSat
Bangalore - Feb 26, 2003Antrix Corporation of Department of Space and Nanyang Technological University, (NTU), Singapore signed an agreement late last month today, January 24, 2003, under which ISRO's PSLV will launch Nanyang's X-Sat. Will Carbon Sequestration Work 
Denver - Feb 25, 2003The U.S. Government is spending millions of dollars to research the feasibility of stuffing carbon dioxide into coal seams and fields of briny water deep beneath the Earth. But, a scientist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting argues we aren't thinking big enough in our plans to remove CO2 from emissions. NASA's Newest Seawinds Instrument Breezes Into Operation 
Pasadena - Feb 25, 2003One of NASA's newest Earth-observing instruments, the SeaWinds scatterometer aboard Japan's replacement advanced earth observing satellite - Midori 2 - has successfully transmitted its first radar data. |
Why We Fly
Scottsdale - Feb 26, 2003Post-Columbia punditry has formed up into two camps: mystically pro-human and reductionistically pro-robot. Before the isolated sparring turns into a general melee, we should look up from our conflicting means to examine the question of ends. If any of us are to be effective, in water-cooler conversation, op-ed high-noon showdowns or Congressional testimony, we'll need a good firm grip on our own answer to the root question: why do we want to go to space?, asks John Carter McKnight. 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. |
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