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Connexion By Boeing Announces Inflight Internet Pricing
Seattle WA - Mar 26, 2004Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of The Boeing Company, today announced pricing details for its high-speed in-flight Internet service scheduled to become commercially available this spring. Riding The Slowest And Fastest Train 
Houston - Mar 26, 2004The Mobile Transporter is the slowest and fastest train in the universe, at the same time. How can that be? It's all in the details. Eutelsat W3A, The First Eurostar E3000 Bus Reaches GEO 
Paris - Mar 25, 2004The W3A spacecraft, designed and built by EADS Astrium for EUTELSAT and launched by Proton on 16 March 2004, successfully performed early operations and is now in geostationary orbit. |
Rover and Track Makes Its Debut
Pasadena CA - Mar 26, 2004The engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of some of the best six-wheeled exo-atmospheric off-roaders anywhere, have really done it this time. Their 2004 series MERs (Mars Exploration Rovers) are jam-packed with so many cutting-edge technologies (several literally with cutting edges) it takes a stack of owner's manuals the height of a Sherman tank to do them justice. Carbon Nanotubes With Big Possibilities 
Montreal QC - Mar 26, 2004A scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with colleagues at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, has caused an individual carbon nanotube to emit light for the first time. |
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NIST-led Research De-Mystifies Origins Of 'Junk' DNA 
Washington - Mar 26, 2004A debate over the origins of what is sometimes called "junk" DNA has been settled by research involving scientists at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) and a collaborator, who developed rigorous proof that these mysterious sections were added to DNA "late" in the evolution of life on earth--after the formation of modern-sized genes, which contain instructions for making proteins. |
Martian Spiral Mystery At Poles Explained
Tucson AZ - Mar 26, 2004The spiral troughs of Mars' polar ice caps have been called the most enigmatic landforms in the solar system. The deep canyons spiraling out from the Red Planet's North and South poles cover hundreds of miles. No other planet has such structures. Opportunity Finds Beachfront Property on Mars 
Moffett Field - Mar 26, 2004The rocks in the outcrop that NASA's Opportunity rover has been exploring for the past several weeks "were not just altered and modified by water; they were actually formed in water, perhaps [in] a shallow salty sea," NASA Associate Administrator Ed Weiler said Tuesday. |
Gravity Rules: The Nature and Meaning of Planethood
Boulder - Mar 22, 2004I am a planetary scientist, so you won't find it surprising that this past Monday evening, March 15th, the dinner table conversation at our home eventually turned to the discovery of the largest ever Kuiper Belt Object, Sedna (2003 VB12). When I remarked that I was amused by the fact that some astronomers don't consider Sedna a planet, our teenage daughter Kate joined in-agreeing that Sedna shouldn't be classified a planet. EU Competitiveness Council Debates Space Policy 
Brussels - Mar 26, 2004The Competitiveness Council of the European Union, meeting on 11 March 2004, discussed European Space Policy � not only the long-term vision but also shorter-term possibilities for co-operative initiatives with the European Space Agency (ESA). Researchers Suggest That 'Dark-Matter Highway' May Be Streaming Through Earth 
Troy NY - Mar 25, 2004Astrophysicist Heidi Newberg at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her colleagues suggest that a "highway" of dark matter from another galaxy may be showering down on Earth. AeroTelesis Demos USM Technology for Satellite Communication Application 
Los Angeles CA - Mar 25, 2004aeroTelesis, Inc., recently conducted a live demonstration for a major satellite conglomerate where through the use of its proprietary USM technology achieved success in the data transmission of six Megabits per second (Mbps) through a single 3 Khz (3 dB Band Width) channel. StarBand Launches New 481 Telecommuter Service 
McLean VA - Mar 25, 2004StarBand has announced the national launch of the new StarBand 481 Telecommuter service that aims to provide customers with a business-grade satellite modem compatible with a wide array of operating systems (including Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux) and offers faster download and upload speeds than current StarBand Residential satellite offerings. Polyelectrolyte Inks Create Fine-Scale Structures Through Direct Writing 
Champaign IL - Mar 25, 2004Like spiders spinning webs, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are creating complex, three-dimensional structures with micron-size features using a robotic deposition process called direct-write assembly. |
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