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YESTERDAY'S SPACE
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 Spirit Beeps It's Alive And "Commandable": NASA Official Pasadena - Jan 22, 2004 
NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have confirmed that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has responded to an emergency command this morning by sending back a radio beep - an event which had been stated as a possibility, but not a certainty, at the end of today's press conference. "This means it's commandable," a JPL spokeswoman told SpaceDaily. The command was tailored to the assumption that the rover is in fault mode and the beep confirms that it has detected a serious fault, in the hardware or the software. |
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Moffett Field - Jan 21, 2004If museums preserve a civilization's contributions to the future, then what will future generations remember about this half-century? Compared to the five million people who annually visit the Louvre in Paris, nearly double that number flock to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.--making it the most visited museum in the world. Fire Away, Sun and Stars We've Got Radiation Shielding Onboard 
Washington - Jan 21, 2004Last fall, the Sun was busy. It wasn't just bringing us light and warmth -- it was busy exploding. One of the most violent periods of solar activity in 60 years posed no danger to us, but triggered magnetic storms in Earth's atmosphere. |
Aeronautics and Space Leaders Want A Leaner Supply Chain 
New York - Jan 19, 2004As the growth of cross-border alliances spurs the rapid globalization of the aviation, aerospace and space industries, the aerospace capital of Europe, Toulouse, France, will an industry conference to discuss how to increase international cooperation and solve supply chain issues. Boeing Offer High Speed Internet Connection For Maritime Industry 
Hong Kong - Jan 19, 2004Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of The Boeing Company has announced an expansion of its service offering to include high speed satellite broadband capability for the maritime industry. |
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Cassini/Huygens Closing In On The Lord Of The Rings 
Paris - Jan 21, 2004This time next year, ESA's Huygens spaceprobe will be descending through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a body in the outer Solar System. |
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MBL Scientists Confirm Evolutionary Exception To Reproduction
Woods Hole - Jan 21, 2004Biologists at the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have confirmed that a group of microscopic animals has evolved for tens of millions of years without sexual reproduction. Their results demonstrate a radical exception to the biological rule that abandonment of sexual reproduction is an evolutionary dead end. Catch A Falling Ray From Ancient Times 
Baton Rouge - Jan 19, 2004The mention of Argentina conjures any number of exotic or dramatic images .. Eva Peron .. dancing the tango .. gauchos riding the plains .. falling high-energy cosmic rays. |
Probable Discovery Of A New, Supersolid, Phase Of Matter
University Park - Jan 21, 2004In the 15 January 2004 issue of the journal Nature, two physicists from Penn State University will announce their discovery of a new phase of matter, a "supersolid" form of helium-4 with the extraordinary frictionless-flow properties of a superfluid. Spectrolab Solar Cells Power Latest Mars Exploration Vehicles 
Sylmar - Jan 19, 2004High-efficiency solar cells manufactured by Spectrolab, Inc., are providing power to "Spirit," the NASA-built spacecraft that landed on Mars on January 4 to explore the Red Planet. Spectrolab supplied Improved Triple Junction solar cells for the Spirit rover. |
Trimble Wins U.S. Air Force GeoBase Program Contracts
Sunnyvale - Jan 21, 2004Trimble has been awarded two contracts from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying and mapping systems. The GPS equipment will be used as part of the GeoBase Civil Engineering Program for worldwide surveying and construction projects. The contracts are valued at approximately $5 million. Hughes Network Systems Scores A Prized Ham With VSAT Order 
Germantown - Jan 19, 2004Hughes Network Systems will provide The Original HoneyBaked Ham Company with broadband network connectivity via Direcway to more than 100 of the company's corporate-owned properties across the United States. |
High-Flying Montana Experiments Downed In Antarctica
Bozeman - Jan 19, 2004Montana student experiments that were flying on a high-altitude balloon over Antarctica had to be brought down to prevent them from drifting out to sea, Michelle Larson, Deputy Director of the Montana Space Grant Consortium at Montana State University-Bozeman, said Wednesday. NASA Satellites Improve Response To Global Agricultural Change 
Greenbelt - Jan 21, 2004NASA's Earth satellite observing systems are helping the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) improve the accuracy and timeliness of information they provide about important crops around the world. FAS information is crucial in decisions affecting U.S. agriculture, trade policy, and food aid. |
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