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Tokyo (AFP) Mar 10, 2003 
Japan's space agency faces its ultimate test this year -- safely sending into orbit four spy satellites, the agency's head said Monday as North Korea's ratcheted up tension in the region with a missile test launch. While admitting the satellites are not as advanced as US military ones already in orbit, Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) president Shuichiro Yamanouchi called their safe delivery crucial. |
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Simulations Of Collisions Shed Light On The Internal Structure Of Asteroids
Nice - Mar 10, 2003For the first time simulations have made it possible to provide information about the internal structure of asteroids. CHIPS Begins Interstellar Search For Birthplace Of Solar Systems 
Washington - Mar 10, 2003The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite is living up to the adage "good things come in small packages," as the suitcase-size spacecraft is entering its second month of providing data to scientists about the birthplace of solar systems. |
Changes In Earth's Rotation Are In The Wind
Greenbelt - Mar 10, 2003Because of Earth's dynamic climate, winds and atmospheric pressure systems experience constant change. These fluctuations may affect how our planet rotates on its axis, according to NASA-funded research that used wind and satellite data. Rising Storms Revise Story Of Jupiter's Stripes 
San Antonio - Mar 10, 2003Pictures of Jupiter, taken by a NASA spacecraft on its way to Saturn, are flipping at least one long-standing notion about Jupiter upside down. |
Vega Launcher To Orbit Smaller Payloads In Arianespace Service
Paris - Mar 10, 2003Arianespace's commercial launcher family is ready to expand with the addition of Vega -- a new vehicle scheduled to enter operation in mid 2006 for missions with small- to medium-sized satellite payloads. Physicist Hopes To Rewrite The History Of The Universe 
Toronto - Mar 10, 2003Professor emeritus John Moffat of physics has his own ideas about relativity. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Einstein's famous theory has formed the backbone upon which cosmology experts have sought to explain how the universe began and eventually how it will end. |
Kuipers Beckon As Pluto Mission Funded Sacramento - Mar 03, 2003 
After years of uncertainty, the strange "Pluto War" over whether to launch a Pluto flyby spacecraft in the near future is finally almost over - and Pluto won. NASA, Congress and the White House finally agreed that they do want an early Pluto probe rather than waiting years for as yet untested nuclear electric propulsion system to be developed and flight tested enough for dispatch to Pluto and out in the Kuiper belt beyond. |
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