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Shenzhou 6 To Spend Up To One Week In Orbit
Beijing - Feb 23, 2004Shenzhou VI, China's second manned space flight to be launched next year, is scheduled to fly five to seven days, says Wang Yongzhi, chief designer of China's manned space program. Two astronauts were expected to fly in Shenzhou VI, China's CCTV quoted Wang as saying. The design resembles that of Shenzhou V, but this time, the astronauts would work in the orbital module conducting experiments there. |
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Mars Science Advancing On Multiple Levels
Pasadena (JPL) Mar 01, 2004Just past the halfway point of its three-month prime mission, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has achieved several scientific firsts, but may still have its best "Eureka!" Moments in front of it. Breaking Trail On Primordial Lands 
Pasadena - Mar 01, 2004Even before Spirit set "foot" on martian soil, she was returning stunning images of her new surroundings. And, with her first triumphant roll off the lander, she set out to accomplish lofty science goals. What she left in her wake makes for a great bonus too. Mars Sunset Clip Tells Dusty Tale 
Pasadena - Mar 01, 2004Dust gradually obscures the Sun during a blue-sky martian sunset seen in a sequence of newly processed frames from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. "It's inspirational and beautiful, but there's good science in there, too," said Cornell's Jim Bell and lead scientist for the Rovers' panoramic cameras. |
Troubled Rosetta Launch Scheduled For Tuesday Or Wednesday Kourou - Mar 1, 2004 
The next attempt to launch Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta will take place possibly mid week, the launch operator Arianespace said Friday after liftoff was postponed for the second time in 24 hoursTwo Naked-Eye Comets At Once 
Boston - Mar 01, 2004A naked-eye comet - one visible to the unaided eye without telescope or binoculars - is an enjoyable sight, particularly for the brighter comets. On average, a naked-eye comet graces our skies about once every two years. Astrophysicists Use Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics 
Livermore - Feb 27, 2004For the first time scientists have observed that distant larger stars formed in flattened accretion disks just like the sun. |
NASA's New Vision Inspires Students In Great Moonbuggy Race
Huntsville - Feb 27, 2004Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles that roamed the lunar surface in the 1960s, to compete in NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville April 2-3. Carbon Found To Be Older Than The Solar Systems 
St. Louis - Feb 27, 2004For the first time, researchers have identified organic material in interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), gathered from the Earth's stratosphere, that was made before the birth of our Solar System. Marine Sponges Provide Model For Nanoscale Materials Production 
Santa Barbara - Feb 27, 2004"Nature was nano before nano was cool," stated Henry Fountain in a recent New York Times article on the proliferation of nanotechnology research projects. No one is more aware of this fact of nature than Dan Morse of the University of California, Santa Barbara. First Robot Moved By Muscle Power 
London - Feb 27, 2004A silicon microrobot just half the width of a human hair has begun to crawl around in a Los Angeles lab, using legs powered by the pulsing of living heart muscle reports New Scientist in this week's edition. |
Nebraska Bets Big On Vsat
Carlsbad - Feb 27, 2004ViaSat has been awarded a contract by INTRALOT Inc. to install a LinkStar VSAT system for secure lottery communication applications. The contract includes both LinkStar satellite communications networking equipment and managed satellite services from the network operations facilities of Immeon, ViaSat's VSAT services group for North America. Lockheed Martin Introduces New Paveway Dual Mode Guided Bomb 
Singapore - Feb 27, 2004Lockheed Martin introduced its new Paveway Dual Mode Guided Bomb at the Asian Aerospace exhibition in Singapore. SatCell IP Provide Instant CDMA/GSM Wireless Network 
Irvine - Feb 27, 2004Military Communications Technologies Inc. said today that its Australian affiliate, Military SDR Technologies Pty Ltd, has released information about a revolutionary new wireless product application of its proprietary SpectruCell SDR technology named "SatCell IP". This new product is based upon the Company's recently announced "world first" of providing VOIP (Voice Over IP) at a wireless base station. Europe Undertakes New Project Moves To Close 'Digital Divide' 
Brussels - Feb 25, 2004One of the first Integrated Projects funded under the Aeronautics and Space priority of the EU's Sixth Research Framework Programme (FP6) is to play a leading role in bringing broadband telecommunications to a wider European public. |
Raytheon Contracts For PASSUR Services To Develop Patriot Missile 
Greenwich - Feb 27, 2004Megadata Corporation announced today that Raytheon Company, of Waltham, Massachusetts has contracted to use a customized version of PASSUR AirportMonitor as a tool in the development of future Patriot missile system capabilities. |
Mars Express In The Shadow Of Mars
Paris (ESA) Mar 01, 2004It is the start of eclipse season for Mars Express. That means unavoidable passages of the spacecraft through the shadow of Mars, cutting it off from the sunlight that is converted into electrical power by the orbiter's solar arrays. |
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