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NASA Might Conduct "Fly-Off" For New Manned LauncherWashington (UPI) Apr 02, 2004
NASA may borrow a development approach from the U.S. Air Force and seek to build multiple prototypes of its proposed new moon landing craft, and then test competing designs against one another in a celestial version of an aircracft fly-off. |
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DoE To Revisit Cold Fusion
New York (UPI) Apr 02, 2004The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to give cold fusion a warmer reception after many years of skepticism and even ridicule as the agency pursues an official review of the controversial technology. James Decker, deputy director of DOE's Office of Science, said the review actually began last fall when he met with scientists to discuss the state of cold fusion research. Superdiamonds? - Scientists Find New Superconductivity Material 
Los Alamos - Apr 02, 2004Scientists working at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced today the discovery of superconductivity at ultracold temperatures in cubic diamond. The discovery offers the potential for a new generation of diamond-based device applications and even suggests that superconductivity in silicon or germanium, which also forms in the diamond structure, may be possible. |
Spirit Finds Multi-Layer Hints Of Past Water At Mars' Gusev Site
Pasadena - Apr 02, 2004Clues from a wind-scalloped volcanic rock on Mars investigated by NASA's Spirit rover suggest repeated possible exposures to water inside Gusev Crater, scientists said Thursday. Pentagon Wants New Generation Of Smaller, Cheaper Nukes 
Washington (UPI) Apr 02, 2004A panel of independent advisers is counseling the Pentagon to develop smaller, specialized nuclear weapons using money saved from cutting back on the number of older nuclear warheads and their attendant maintenance costs. |
Where Be Habitable Worlds
Milton Keynes - Apr 01, 2004More than 100 planetary systems have already been discovered around distant stars. Unfortunately, the limitations of current technology mean that only giant planets (like Jupiter) have so far been detected, and smaller, rocky planets similar to Earth remain out of sight. Digital Angel Offers Cattle-Tracking Products in Canadian Market 
St. Paul MN - Apr 01, 2004Digital Angel will begin marketing a broad range of radio-frequency identification (RFID) cattle-tracking system products in Canada under its distribution arrangement with Compass Animal Health Inc., a private company based in Edmonton, Alberta. |
Gravity Probe-B Ready For Launch
Sunnyvale - Apr 02, 2004NASA's Gravity Probe B is sitting atop a Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base undergoing final preparations for launch on April 17, 2004. The principle behind the Gravity Probe B measurement is that ideal rotating gyroscopes, free of disturbing forces, always point in the same direction in inertial space. Here Comes the Sun 
Pasadena - Apr 02, 2004Little did the Beatles know that their metaphor "Here comes the sun" would be taken literally one day. To the team behind NASA's Genesis mission, it has been years since they sent their "little darling," a small spacecraft with a wingspan of 22 feet (6.8 meters), out to collect and bring back a piece of the Sun. |
Cornell Astronomer Explains To Congress The Economics Of Lunar Water Supplies
Washington - Apr 02, 2004The discovery of accessible deposits of water on the moon would "profoundly" affect the economics and viability of a lunar base, Cornell University astronomer Donald Campbell told a House of Representatives subcommittee today, April 1. Unfortunately, he said, recovering water deposits will not be an easy task, since they are likely to exist in the bottoms of very cold, permanently dark craters at the moon's poles. |
Missile Defense Agency Buys Test Microsat Clusters From Spacedev
San Diego - Apr 02, 2004SpaceDev has been awarded a five-year $43 million cost-plus-fixed fee indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to conduct a micro satellite distributed sensing experiment, an option for a laser communications experiment, and other micro satellite studies and experiments as required in support of the Advanced System Deputate. |
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