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Rosetta Launch Scrubbed Due To High Upper WindsKourou (AFP) Feb 25, 2004 
The launch Thursday of Rosetta, a 1 billion euro spacecraft designed to chase and land on a comet, was postponed by 24 hours because of bad weather, officials said. High-altitude winds prompted mission controllers to scrub the launch 20 minutes and 40 seconds before the Ariane 5 rocket was due to lift off from Europe's spaceport here, they said. "We will make a second attempt tomorrow provided the weather is good," said Jean-Yves Le Gall, director-general of Arianespace, the ESA-affiliated company that is in charge of the launch. |
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Into the Briny Deep - Perhaps
Moffett Field - Feb 25, 2004Opportunity has been getting the lion's share of the attention in recent weeks, because its twin sister Spirit has been engaged mostly in long-distance driving. But it may be about to steal the spotlight. For several sols, Spirit has been working its way towards nearby Bonneville crater. But even before it gets there, the mobile robot may make a critical discovery. It may find evidence of liquid water on Mars. El Capitan Is That A Rock Or What 
Moffett Field - Feb 25, 2004MER engineers at JPL are using a graphical planning tool to plot and scheme the perfect location to place the rock abrasion tool on the rock collection dubbed "El Capitan" near Opportunity's landing site. |
Singapore (AFP) Feb 25, 2004 
Unmanned "drones" held centre stage with modern warplanes and long-range commercial aircraft when the world's third biggest aerospace event took off here Tuesday. With their unique surveillance capabilities backed by satellite telecontrol, UAVs saw wide spread deployment recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
Peterson Space Battlelab To Demonstrate Near Space Maneuvering Vehicle
Peterson AFB - Feb 25, 2004Members of the Air Force Space Battlelab will conduct a Phase I demonstration flight of the V-Airship, a Near Space Maneuvering Vehicle, in late February at the new Pecos County/West Texas Spaceport in Ft. Stockton, Texas that could see the V-Airship reaching 100,000 feet (30,000 meters) |
Was Einstein Right After All
Baltimore - Feb 24, 2004The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right--maybe. A strange form of energy called "dark energy" is looking a little more like the repulsive force that Einstein theorized in an attempt to balance the universe against its own gravity. Even if Einstein turns out to be wrong, the universe's dark energy probably won't destroy the universe any sooner than about 30 billion years from now, say Hubble researchers. |
SES Global Buys Strategic Orbcomm Stake
Luxembourg - Feb 25, 2004SES Global S.A. has acquired a 9% ownership stake in Orbcomm Inc., a US-based provider of global satellite data services to industrial, military and commercial clients. SES Global's investment is part of a new $26 million equity financing by Orbcomm. Other investors include OHB Technology and a group of financial investors. |
Researchers Discover Way To Grow Silicon Nanowires
Portland - Feb 25, 2004Oregon Health & Science University researchers have discovered a new way to accurately grow silicon nanowires on an electrode for use in fabricating transistors. A portion of these findings will be published in the Feb. 23 issue of Applied Physics Letter. |
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