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Sacramento - Mar 20, 2003For decades, scientists have been joking about the "Great Galactic Ghoul", which supposedly lies in wait to devour space probes before they reach Mars. The joke was originally aimed at the Soviets, who have lost an incredible parade of Mars probes -- but in the Nineties, the same thing happened to three of America's five Mars probes. It is a joke -- all the failures were purely due to bad design or bad luck, rather than anything about Mars' environment. In the last few months, however, it's started to look as though the Ghoul may have expanded his repertoire to protecting comets. |
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Red Planet Out Of Scope For Red China Spacecraft For Now
Beijing - Mar 20, 2003China would not set sight to explore Mars before 2015, Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong reported on Mar. 9. Instead the country would focus on unmanned exploration of the Moon during this period. Mars Express Leaves For Baikonur 
Paris - Mar 20, 2003Mars Express, the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months extensive thermal environmental, mechanical and electric tests, the spacecraft with the Beagle 2 lander will leave for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 19 March 2003 onboard an Antonov 124 aircraft. It will be launched early June 2003 onboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket. |
Vandenberg AFB Prepares For Last Atlas II Launch
Vandenberg AFB - Mar 20, 2003The last Atlas IIAS rocket scheduled to be launched arrived here March 12. A C-5 Galaxy ferried the historic booster and its Centaur upper stage from Denver, landing at the airfield here around 10:30 a.m. Lt. Col. Clinton Crosier, 2nd Space Launch Squadron commander, said the booster and upper stage would spend a week at a processing facility before being moved to Space Launch Complex-3 for stacking. The Atlas is slated to launch June 16. Getting To Dawn 
Pasadena - Mar 19, 2003The design of Dawn's trajectory is difficult, unusual, and interesting because of the use of solar electric propulsion, implemented on Dawn as an ion propulsion system (IPS). |
Artemis Relays First Envisat Images
Paris March 20, 2003The first satellite-relayed images from Envisat have been received, via the Artemis data-relay spacecraft in geostationary orbit, at ESA's data processing centre at ESRIN, near Rome. Florida Creates Photonics Center Of Excellence 
Orlando - Mar 19, 2003The state Board of Education today approved spending $10 million to establish the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence at the University of Central Florida. Nanotech Decoys For Viruses Using Nanotechnology To Stop 
Davis - Mar 19, 2003HIV viruses from entering cells is the ultimate aim of a new project at the University of California, Davis. The researchers hope to create tiny particles that can interfere with the proteins that viruses such as HIV use to attach to cells. |
The Space Settlement Summit
Scottsdale - Mar 20, 2003Some forty prominent members of the space community met earlier this month in Los Angeles to face the leadership challenge (see 3.04, An Open Challenge to Space Leadership,) raised by the Columbia disaster. It's said of a dancing bear that what amazes isn't how well it dances, but that it dances at all. This Space Settlement Summit was no Russian ballet, but it did a creditable little cha-cha. Cut Manned Spaceflight Funding..We Need That S&L Bailout! 
Los Angeles - Mar 17, 2003Can we afford to spend billions on human spaceflight when the money could be better spent here on Earth? |
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