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Paris Apr 21, 2003President Jacques Chirac of France said last week the "reorganization" of the European space sector is "absolutely necessary" in order to preserve "the autonomy" of Europe, in particular in the field of launchers. France hopes that the forthcoming conference of the European Space Agency (ESA) will "validate" in May "the scenario of relaunch of the 10-tonne version of Ariane 5," Ms Haignere said at the cabinet meeting. |
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Operational Concept For Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle UnveiledEl Segundo - Apr 17, 2003 
Northrop Grumman has unveiled its operational system concept for a naval unmanned combat air vehicle designed to fly surveillance, strike and suppression-of-enemy-air-defense missions from an aircraft carrier. The concept represents Northrop Grumman's participation in an emerging government competition to develop and demonstrate UCAVs that could perform US Navy and Air Force missions.Marines Take Control Of Fire Scout UAV Test 
San Diego - Apr 17, 2003Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems sector continued its successful flight testing of the U.S. Navy's RQ-8A Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical UAV in March with the first flight fully operated from a Marines ground control station. |
Chinese EO sats eye fighting in Iraq 
Beijing - Apr 17, 2003Chinese officials have been using imagery returned from their own weather and remote sensing satellites to obtain "truthful" information on the war in Iraq, China Space News reported last Wednesday (Apr. 9). Surrey Wins Two Key Engine Contracts 
Guildford - Apr 17, 2003SSTL has won a contract with QinetiQ and ESA's Aurora programme to research in-situ resource utilisation methods for future Mars exploration. Satellite Navigation On Show This Week 
Paris - Apr 21, 2003The European Space Agency will be joining forces with the European Commission in a major contribution to GNSS 2003, the seventh in a series of international conferences devoted to global satellite navigation systems, to be held in Graz, Austria, from 22 to 24 April. |
Ball Aerospace To Build Next Medium-Class Explorer Missions
Boulder - Apr 17, 2003Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA as a team member to develop the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). WISE is a four-channel, super-cooled infrared telescope designed to provide a full sky, infrared map that will help the James Web Space Telescope identify which objects to observe following its scheduled launch in 2010. NASA and Naval Research Lab to Study Coastal Eddies 
Edwards - Apr 17, 2003NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory will take a closer look at the swirling water phenomenon known as coastal eddies when they fly a specially-instrumented NASA airborne sciences DC-8 jet off the Southern California coast this month. Europe Goes To Mars 
London - Apr 17, 2003Mars Express, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars, is due to launch from Baikonur in Kazakstan in June 2003 (launch window is 1st to 23rd June). Tjos week scientists involved in both the orbiter and lander will meet together in London to finalise and co-ordinate scientific operations between these two elements of the mission - a community of European scientists linked by their mutual desire to reveal the secrets of the mysterious Red Planet. |
XCOR Secures Equity Investment
Mojave - Apr 17, 2003XCOR Aerospace announced Wednesday that it has successfully acquired an additional $187,500 in equity investments. This round of investment qualifies the company for a Department of Defense program that matches private capital four to one up to $750,000. The funds will be used for development of rocket engine pump technology. Stay Away From Foam Surfboards - They Can Hurt Sacramento - Apr 16, 2003 
The pieces of the puzzle of Columbia's fatal accident are starting to come together with dramatic speed writes Bruce Moomaw in SpaceDaily's latest detailed round up of the official investigation to date, and the developing storm behind the scenes that may yet engulf NASA's human spaceflight program and leave the Space Station a $100 billion white elephant.Adieu Concorde 
Scottsdale - Apr 17, 2003Air France and British Airways announced last week that they will retire the Concorde supersonic jetliner. Hopefully, both NASA and the "build it and they will come" rocket boys are paying close attention, asks John Carter McKnight |
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