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Sacramento - Mar 23, 2003 
Although a delayed launch to comet Wirtanen next January cannot be completely ruled out, the most probable replacement mission for Europe's Rosetta comet exploration mission is a launch next February that will see Rosetta weave its way across the solar system to reach comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko after several planetary and asteroid flybys sometime in 2014. |
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Power Up With A Pack Of Cool Ones 
Huntsville - Mar 21, 2003Astronauts have been using them for power aboard spacecraft since the 1960s. Soon, perhaps, they'll be just as common on Earth--powering cars, trucks, laptop computers and cell phones. They're called fuel cells. A Powerhouse of Space Technology 
Sydney - Mar 21, 2003Welcome to Sydney. In addition to visiting Bondi Beach and the Opera House, this suburnt city invites you to stand beneath a Saturn 5 rocket motor and walk through a space station module. Dawn's Attractive Science 
Pasadena - Mar 21, 2003The solar system contains a spectrum of magnetic dynamos in large bodies like the Sun and Jupiter, in more modest-sized bodies like the Earth and in smaller bodies like Mercury and Ganymede. |
British Drop Secret New Bunker Busters On Iraq ALI AL SALEM BASE, Kuwait (AFP) Mar 23, 2003 
British Tornado warplanes have dropped new bunker busting missiles named Storm Shadow on key targets in Iraq, senior officers said. Storm Shadow, an Anglo-French production, was delivered under cover of darkness to Ali Al Salem and offered to US battle planners.Experiment May Help Size Up Neutrinos 
Rehovot - Mar 21, 2003Our planet is bombarded every second with a large number of chargeless, seemingly massless, particles that originate in nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun. They're called neutrinos. Telesat Buys Proton Again 
Ottawa - Mar 20, 2003International Launch Services (ILS) finalized a contract with Telesat this week to launch the Anik F1R satellite on a Russian Proton rocket in 2005. The deal includes an option for launching an additional satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed. |
Miniature Spectrometer Can Detect Biological Hazards
Oak Ridge - Mar 21, 2003Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a miniature device that can identify as little as a fraction of a spore of anthrax and other biological hazards within 30 milliseconds. For Markets Of The Future, Success Depends On Advanced Materials 
San Jose - Mar 21, 2003Advanced materials look set to revolutionize numerous applications in the 21st century. Scientists and engineers are undertaking extensive research activities in their quest to develop sophisticated new materials that are more durable, environmentally friendly, and energy efficient. |
Mars Trip Postponed Indefinitely
Amsterdam - Mar 20, 2003So, I guess I won't be going to Mars after all. Absent the invention of some miracle age-reversing formula and the sudden need for NASA to develop a Lawyers in Space program, the destruction of the Columbia, it seems, has finally put Mars beyond my hope. |
Trajectory Science Critical To Comet Surfing
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. 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. |
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. |
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