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Broadband Makes Important Contributions To Industry Growth
Orlando - Dec 11, 2003Northern Sky Research has released the latest update to its industry-standard study "Broadband Satellite Markets" providing comprehensive analysis of the worldwide market for enterprise & SME VSAT networks, consumer and SOHO broadband satellite services, and ISP applications. Chimp Genome Assembled: Draft Sequence Aligned With Human Genome 
Bethesda - Dec 11, 2003The National Human Genome Research Institute has announced the first draft version of the genome sequence of the chimpanzee and its alignment with the human genome. All of the data have been deposited into free public databases and are now available for use by scientists around the world. |
Mars Is Just Around The Corner 
Paris - Dec 11, 2003After a journey of 400 million km, ESA's Mars Express is now approaching its final destination. On 19 December, the spacecraft is scheduled to release the Beagle 2 lander it has been carrying since its launch on 2 June. SMART-1 Is Flying At Full Speed 
Paris - Dec 11, 2003The spacecraft is now in its 139th orbit, in good operational status and with all functions performing nominally. As previously, the spacecraft was operated in electric propulsion mode almost continuously. |
Boeing Tests Future Rocket Engine Component to Record Levels
St. Louis - Dec 11, 2003Boeing has successfully tested a key component of its RS-84 prototype rocket engine, reaching pressures never before attained in an engine of this type in America. |
Purdue's Self-Assembled 'Nanorings' Could Boost Computer Memory
West Lafayette - Dec 11, 2003Recent nanotech research at Purdue University could pave the way toward faster computer memories and higher density magnetic storage, all with an affordable price tag. |
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E-Mail "Cluster Bombs" A Serious And Growing Danger Waiting To Happen
Bloomington - Dec 11, 2003Internet users can be blind-sided by e-mail "cluster bombs" that inundate their inboxes with hundreds or thousands of messages in a short period of time, thereby paralyzing the users' online activities, according to a new report by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington and RSA Laboratories in Bedford, Mass. China Says It Won't Let Taiwan Use Democracy As Cover For Separatism 
United Nations (AFP) Dec 11, 2003Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warned that Beijing would not allow Taiwan to use democratic aspirations as a cover for separatism, after arriving Sunday in the United States where he met with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan |
Improved Guidance Systems Can Reduce Collateral Damage
Palo Alto - Dec 11, 2003The collateral damage caused by "carpet bombing" has compelled the U.S. military to develop more precise air-to-surface missiles. This technology is based on a combination of radar sensors, global positioning systems, and inertial navigation systems. Smiths Aerospace Provides Autonomous Refuelling Technology 
London - Dec 11, 2003Smiths Aerospace is advancing the technology on the 767 Tanker Transport by developing autonomous aerial refuelling capabilities for hose and drogue refuelling systems for emerging usage on unmanned spy and combat air vehicles. Smiths is in the process of securing patents for this new technology. |
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San Francisco - Dec 11, 2003The potential for life on other planets is one of the topics that NASA scientists will explore during the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco. NASA Completes Successful Year Of Expendable Launches 
KSC - Dec 11, 2003A busy year of successful missions is drawing to a close for NASA's Expendable Launch Services. Since January, eight spacecraft have been safely and successfully deployed on expendable launch vehicles. Physicists Lead The Field In Solving A Major Mystery Of The Big Bang 
Brighton - Dec 11, 2003A Sussex-led team of scientists is ahead in the race to solve one of the biggest mysteries of our physical world: why the Universe contains matter. Global Wildfires Did Not Kill The Dinosaurs 
London - Dec 11, - New research suggest thermal radiation, resulting from the impact of an asteroid colliding with the United States 65 million years ago, was not responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs and other land organisms. Nanotechnology's Homeland Security Potential To Be Explored 
Moffett Field - Dec 11, 2003Nanotechnology's potential to help with homeland security is the subject of a forum that hundreds of experts from industry, academia and government will attend Dec. 15 at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Telkom Kenya Selects Direcway For Satellite Broadband Services 
Germantown - Dec 11, 2003Hughes Network Systems said Wednesday that Telkom Kenya Limited, the national Kenyan telephone network provider, has purchased a Direcway broadband satellite network, including a hub earth station and associated remote satellite terminals. |
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