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Russia Offers Honeymoon Flight For $40 Million
 MOSCOW (AFP) Dec 21, 2003
 Despite having "banned" any further space marriages, Russia is now offering newly weds the chance to swap Venice or the Niagara Falls for a cosmic honeymoon romance by buying a $40 million ticket to space, officials said Sunday.
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Europe's Martian Orbiter and Lander Separate Successfully

The Beagle 2 lander package 20 meters out from Mars Express
London (AFP) Dec 19, 2003
 Mars Express spacecraft separated from its probe, Beagle 2, on Friday in a key operation to send the lander towards a landing on the Red Planet next Thursday. "They successfully separated," ESA's director of science, David Southwood, said, in a teleconference to the agency's headquarters from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. If all goes well, Beagle 2 will glide through the thin Martian atmosphere and land on Dec 25.
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  • Point And Shoot
  • On The Centenary Of Powered Flight
    • SPACE TRAVEL
    The Spaceship And The Zeppelin
     Honolulu - Dec 19, 2003
     There are certain holy icons that we Space Cadets worship uncritically. People get really upset when they are attacked -- especially by someone who is inside the tent, writes Jeffrey F. Bell.
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    Spitzer's IRAC Camera Snaps Spectacular First Images
     Washington - Dec 18, 2003
     NASA released Thursday the first spectacular images from the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared images reveal remarkable details in objects ranging from nearby star formation regions to distant spiral galaxies.
  • Satellite Sees Through Space Clouds
  • Spitzer Detects Organics In Ultra Luminous Galaxy
    • ROCKET SCIENCE
    SpaceShipOne Rockets To Mach 1.2

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    • Mojave - Dec 17, 2003
     To mark the 100th year of powered flight X Prize entrant Scaled Composites used the occassion to fire up the company's experimental SpaceShipOne and rocket to Mach 1.2 (930 MPH) in a fully powered flight that reached 60,000 feet and tested multiple onboard systems.
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    Optus Signs For Two Orbital Small GEO Birds
     Dulles - Dec 19, 2003
     Orbital Sciences announced Wednesday that it has signed a major new contract in its geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite manufacturing business. Sydney-based Optus Networks has placed a firm order for two spacecraft that will provide Ku-band fixed communications and direct television broadcasting services to Australia and New Zealand.
    ORBCOMM Announces Global Partnership With Fleet Management Solutions
     Dulles - Dec 19, 2003
     ORBCOMM has entered into an agreement with Fleet Management Solutions LLC to provide wireless data access through its low-earth-orbit satellite network for tracking and managing fixed and mobile assets around the world.
    MILITARY SATELLITES
    Eleventh and Final UFO Series Naval Communication Satellite Launched
     St. Louis, Dec. 17, 2003
     A successful Atlas 3 launch Wednesday saw the 11th UHF Follow-On spacecraft lifted into orbit for the US Navy which will use the satellite for secure communications to the warfighter and other military personnel worldwide.
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    XTAR Buys Arianespace For EUR Launch
      Washington - Dec 19, 2003
     XTAR, a joint venture between Loral Space & Communications and HISDESAT said Thursday it has signed with Arianespace for launch pf its XTAR-EUR satellite aboard an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. Launch of XTAR-EUR is currently planned for early second quarter 2004.
  • Arianespace To Launch MSG 3
  • Ariane 5 To Loft French Military Comsat in 2005
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    Critical Milestones Reached In Next Generation Airborne Radar
     El Segundo - Dec 18, 2003
     Northrop Grumman and the USAF have received the go ahead from the Department of Defense to deploy an airborne radar system that will increase the ability to detect, track and identify stationary and moving objects on the ground and in the air.
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    New Skies Joins Euronext's Top Large- and Mid-Cap Equities in Next 150 Index
     The Hague - Dec 19, 2003
     New Skies Satellites announced Thursday that its stock has been added to Euronext's Next 150 equity index.
  • Swedish Space Corp Retains 25% Stake In NSAB
  • Canadian Govt Approves New Telesat DBS Service
  • Intelsat Obtains Extension For IPO Deadline
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    Researchers Say Hybrid Pick And Place Robots Could Be A Third Cheaper
      Warwick - Dec 18, 2003
     Robot researchers have long looked at the science of Kinematics and particularly how it applies to parallel robotics as providing novel solutions to robotic problems. But now researchers at the University of Warwick and China's Tianjin University have used kinematic theory to produce a hybrid "rapid pick and place" robot that draws useful traits from both parallel and series robots and costs a third less than similar robots on the market.
    TERRADAILY
    Rainfall Could Speed Up Rock Uplifts
     Seattle - Dec 18, 2003
     Heavy rainfall causes both higher surface erosion rate and upheaval of underlying bedrock in the Washington Cascades mountain range, according to a study published in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal Nature.
    New Study Reports Large-scale Salinity Changes in the Oceans
      Woods Hole - Dec 19, 2003
     Tropical ocean waters have become dramatically saltier over the past 40 years, while oceans closer to Earth's poles have become fresher, scientists reported today in the journal Nature. Earth's warming surface may be intensifying evaporation over oceans in the low latitudes -- raising salinity concentrations there -- and transporting more fresh water vapor via the atmosphere toward Earth's poles.
    CLIMATE WARS
    This Year's Global Temperature At Third Warmest Recorded
     Geneva - Dec 18, 2003
     The global surface temperature for all of 2003 is expected to be +0.45 C above the 1961-90 annual average, according to the records maintained by Members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This value makes 2003 the third warmest year just behind 2002 (+0.48 C). The warmest year remains 1998 (+0.55 C).
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  • Hewitt Pledges Support For Aerospace Industry
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  • Battle Management "Flight" Tests Cruise-Missile Defense
  • Iran will tweak Shahab-3, not develop long-range missiles
  • Israel announces successful test of anti-missile missile
  • Taiwan urges China to scrap missile deployment
  • Nuclear crisis drags on amid mixed prospects for 2004
  • US rejoins ITER after five year absence
  • No difference between having and wanting WMDs: Bush
  • Evidence of laboratories, missile plans found in Iraq: Blair
  • Biggest Virtual Supercomputer Given The Go-Ahead
  • NEC, Hitachi to develop faster Internet routers
  • Radioactive Potassium May Be Earth's Core Heat
  • 2003 third warmest year yet as global warming continues
  • Norway opens the door to oil prospecting in the Arctic
  • Tones Breaks The Silence Of Mars Rover Landings
  • US Space Programme Fighting Out Of A Black Hole
  • Mission Captures Galaxies Galore
  • Jupiter's Icy Moon Orbiter
  • Extensive Destruction Powers Solar Explosions
  • Israel to launch second communications satellite
  • NY Times Misrepresents Mars Missions Radiation Danger
  • NASA Learning To Monitor Coral Reef Health From The Sky
  • US Space Programme Fighting Out Of A Black Hole
  • US Celebrates Wright Brothers Flight Centenary
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  • Two dead, 13 hurt in accident near Iranian nuke plant
  • Under siege, Iran's clerical rulers feel the heat from all sides
  • US blames North Korea for delay in North Korea crisis talks
  • India Helping Iran With Nuke Programme: FM
  • Indian fencing of Kashmir border violation of UN
  • Hussein capture unlikely to lead to WMD stash: Blix
  • NATO chief step down after stormy watch at Alliance helm
  • Cambodia to destroy more than 200 anti-aircraft missiles
  • Materials Retain Useful Properties At Nano Scale
  • Robot Navigates Using Its Own Voice
  • IBM exports high pay jobs to India, China: report
  • Sanyo to boost digital camera output by 2/3 by March '05
  • Asian IT to expand 11 pct in 2004 as new cycle hits
  • FRINGE Scientists Use Radar Vision To See The Earth Move
  • NASA Scientists Discover Spring Thaw Makes A Difference
  • Huygens Science Teams Begin Final Science Planning
  • Saturn To Ring In The New Year
  • Missile Defense Test Successful: Pentagon
  • US Firm Pushes Anti-Missile System For Civil Aircraft
  • Gas Hydrates Offer New Major Energy Source
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