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Possible Answer To Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal CycleArlington - Apr 08, 2004 
The Earth's magnetic field reverses every few thousand years at low latitudes and every 10,000 years at high latitudes, a geologist funded by the NSF has concluded. Brad Clement of Florida International University published his findings in this week's issue of the journal Nature. |
 
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Rutan Gets License For Sub-Orbital Tests
Washington DC - Apr 07, 2004The US Dept. of Transportation announced Wednesday that it issued the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight. The license was issued April 1 by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled Composites of Mojave for a sequence of sub-orbital flights spanning a one-year period. GoldenEye-100 UAV Successfully Completes Initial Flight Test Program 
Manassas VA - Apr 08, 2004Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation has successfully completed its initial flight test program for the company's GoldenEye-100 unmanned aerial vehicle. Flight testing began in September 2003 and all of the GoldenEye-100's flights, including the first flight last fall, have been in fully autonomous modes. |
Twin Mars Exploration Rovers Set For Extended Encore
Pasadena - Apr 08, 2004NASA has approved an extended mission for the Mars Exploration Rovers, handing them up to five months of overtime assignments as they finish their three-month prime mission. Nnew engineering objectives include the traverse of a kilometer to demonstrate mobility technologies; solar-array performance and demonstrating long-term operation of two robots on a distant planet. |
Its Go For DELTA ISS Mission And Taxi Ride
Paris - Apr 08, 2004The launch of ESA's DELTA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is currently scheduled for 19 April at 03:18 UT. Milky Way Was More Turbulent Than Previously 
Paris - Apr 07, 2004A team of astronomers from Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden has achieved a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live. |
AMP-Ohio Uses Spacenet To Monitor and Control Power Network
Petah Tikva - Apr 06, 2004Spacenet will provide American Municipal Power Ohio a high-speed VSAT data network that will connect over 100 transmission substations. XM Radio Offers Vehicle Navigation Updates 
New York NY - Apr 08, 2004XM Satellite Radio has released a new satellite data information service called XM NavTraffic. The service is powered by NAVTEQ Traffic, a new product from NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation systems. |
Internet2 May Change The Way Scientists Conduct Research
Narragansett - Apr 07, 2004When Dr. Robert Ballard went on a scientific expedition to Black Sea this past summer, he was able to take with him virtually any scientist or student who wanted to go. With the capability of Internet2 and a high bandwidth satellite link, scientists, for the first time, were able to work on the ocean floor from the comfort of their university laboratories. Congress Warms To New Space Plan 
by Frank SietzenWashington (UPI) Apr 06, 2004 In the 1983 movie, "The Right Stuff," astronaut Gordo Cooper points toward a space capsule and asks a NASA scientist, "Do you know what makes this bird go up?" Cooper answers his own question: "Funding makes this bird go up!" At which point, astronaut Gus Grissom chimes in: "No bucks? No 'Buck Rogers!'" |
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Open Architecture for Aegis Weapon System
Moorestown NJ - Apr 08, 2004Lockheed Martin has successfully migrated key elements of the Aegis Weapon System to an open architecture environment, a move that will significantly enhance the capabilities and service life of the U.S. Navy's premier surface combat system while also reducing its cost. ATK'S MRM-KE Autonomously Searched, Guided And Hit Tank 
Minneapolis - Apr 06, 2004ATK is the first company to score a direct hit for the Mid-Range Munition program. In a test firing yesterday at the Yuma Proving Grounds, ATK's guided Kinetic Energy projectile autonomously searched for, guided to, and hit a tank more than three miles away. |
Ice Melt May Dry Out US West Coast
London - Apr 08, 2004By mid century cities and towns along the American west coast could be suffering serious water shortages in response to climate change. As Arctic sea-ice melts, annual rainfall is forecast to drop by as much as 30 per cent from Seattle to Los Angeles, and inland as far as the Rocky Mountains reports New Scientist. Good Eyes For Living Below Ground 
Frankfurt - Apr 07, 2004Scientists have now discovered that in contrast to previous assumptions, the eyes of subterranean African mole-rats have a rather well-structured retina with an unusually high proportion of cone photoreceptors. |
Earth Impact Effects Program
Tucson AZ - Apr 08, 2004Next time an asteroid or comet is on a collision course with Earth you can go to a web site to find out if you have time to finish lunch or need to jump in the car and DRIVE. Researchers Probe Link Between Nanotechnology And Health 
Rochester - Apr 07, 2004Nanotechnology, a science devoted to engineering things that are unimaginably small, may pose a health hazard and should be investigated further, warns a University of Rochester scientist and worldwide expert in the field, who received a $5.5 million grant to conduct such research. |
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