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Northrop Grumman-Led Team to Compete For Space Based Radar ProgramRedondo Beach - Feb 12, 2004 
Northrop Grumman has assembled a team to develop the Space Based Radar system that is being designed to bring global, persistent surveillance to military and intelligence community users. The system will be an integral component of the nation's future integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) network. |
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"Aloha, Mars": The Ready Rock Reckoner Model Of Mars
Honolulu - Feb 11, 2004Right after the Spirit rover landed on Mars, I made a flippant remark to my friend Dr. X to the effect that "Gusev Crater is one big basalt flow, not a lakebed like they think. All the rocks in the rover pictures look just like the ones in my neighbor's garden wall." Aloha Mars - The Advanced Course 
Honolulu - Feb 13, 2004My friend Dr. X is really getting interested in Mars. Yesterday he challenged me about those mysterious spherical beads at the Opportunity landing site, writes Jeffrey Bell. |
An Odyssey of Mars Science: Part 3
Sacramento - Feb 12, 2004The lead time on Martian science is measured in years as newly available data is sifted through and tantalizing clues to the story of Mars are uncovered and shared with the rest of the science world. In an extended series of reports based around the 2003 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Bruce Moomwaw takes SpaceDaily readers through a wide range of science papers and poster sessions to make for an Odyssey of Martian science. |
Gilat Introduces The Next Generation In VSAT
Petah Tikva - Feb 11, 2004Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd, a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, announced the introduction of its next generation product -- the SkyEdge DVB-RCS very small aperture terminal (VSAT), a member of its newly launched SkyEdge product family. Pollution Might Be Main Cause Of Most Coral Reef Die Off 
Harbor Branch - Feb 11, 2004Scientists agree that coral reefs are in an alarming global state of decline. However, determining the main cause or causes of this decline has proven a much more contentious issue. |
A Capsule For Japan
Sydney - Feb 13, 2004Japan has an unusual approach to human spaceflight. It has developed a high-powered, if somewhat unreliable launch vehicle. It has flown astronauts on the US shuttle, writes Morris Jones Mars Express Does Olympus Mons 
Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2004View from overhead of the complex caldera (summit crater) at the summit of Olympus Mons on Mars, the highest volcano in our Solar System. Olympus Mons has an average elevation of 22 km and the caldera has a depth of about 3 km. This is the first high-resolution colour image of the complete caldera of Olympus Mons. |
Ulysses To Stay On Station As Sol Orbitor Mission Is Extended
Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2004At a meeting in Paris on 11 and 12 February 2004, ESA's Science Programme Committee unanimously approved a proposal to continue operating the highly successful Ulysses spacecraft until March 2008, when the European-built space probe will fly over the poles of the Sun for a third time. Century May Bring Major Climate Change To Southern Hemisphere 
Melbourne Fl. - Feb 11, 2004The new century may bring hundreds or even thousands of plant and animal extinctions to the Andes Mountains of Peru according to new research by Florida Institute of Technology Paleo-Ecologist Mark Bush. |
Making Of Mouse Marks Move Toward Mitochondrial Medicine
Rochester - Feb 11, 2004There sits in most mammalian cells what amounts to a lock-box of DNA tucked away from the bulk of genetic material. While scientists routinely cut and paste snippets of life's blueprint to learn more about life and to treat disease, crucial DNA within cellular structures known as mitochondria has remained off-limits. New Effort To Control, Track And Negate Potential Dirty Bomb Sources 
Albuquerque - Feb 11, 2004Small radioactive sealed sources, designed to provide useful tools for measurement and analysis in a variety of industry and laboratory settings, have moved from the beneficial category to the threatening category in the post 9/11 world. |
Why We Must Defend Hubble
Los Angeles - Feb 11, 2004Recently the Steering Committee of the Mars Society released a statement supporting the new Bush space initiative, but taking strong exception to the decision by NASA Administrator O'Keefe to cancel all future Space Shuttle missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, including SM4, the nearly-ready-to-go flight that would have installed the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Widefield Camera 3 instruments. Mars Rover Pictures Raise "Blueberry Muffin" Questions 
Pasadena (JPL) Feb 11, 2004NASA's Spirit rover has begun making some of its own driving decisions while its twin, Opportunity, is presenting scientists with decisions to make about studying small spheres embedded in bedrock, like berries in a muffin. |
Rosetta Lander Successfully Completes On-Ground Check-Out
Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2004January 2004 saw the completion of the on-ground check-out activities of the Rosetta Lander at CSG, Kourou, French Guiana. The check-out team took the Lander through a flawless "Cruise Abbreviated Functional Test". UK Science Minister Lord Sainsbury Outlines Beagle 2 Inquiry 
London - Feb 13, 2004Beagle 2, the British-built element of ESA's Mars Express mission, has failed to communicate since its first radio contact was missed shortly after it was due to land on Mars on Christmas Day. The Beagle 2 Management Board met in London on Friday 6 February and, following an assessment of the situation, declared Beagle 2 lost. |
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