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Prize Money Helps To Fuel Private Space RaceCape Canaveral (UPI) April 12, 2004 
A California aircraft design company has taken its latest creation into the skies over the Mojave Desert for a milestone test flight a week after securing the U.S. government's first license to fly a reusable suborbital piloted spaceship. |
 
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X-45A Demonstrator Drops Inert Bomb
Edwards AFB - Apr 13, 2004The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) program conducted a weapons separation test of an inert bomb from a X-45A technology demonstrator, marking the first time that an unmanned aircraft has released a weapon from an internal bay, and the first time that a weapon has been released from a high-speed, high-performance, unmanned aircraft with a stealthy shape. NASA's X-43A Flight Results in Treasure Trove of Data 
Edwards AFB - Apr 13, 2004NASA's extremely successful X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flight of March 27, 2004, resulted in a treasure trove of the first actual scramjet flight data ever obtained. |
Mars, King Of The Hill
Moffett Field - Apr 13, 2004As both rovers approach their third month resident on Mars, the mission planners have returned to Earth time. Both rover teams look to make rapid progress toward distant hills, with a possible second September extension continuing with any remaining mission science. Scientists To Develop Organic Analyzer To Find Life On Mars 
Berkeley CA - Apr 13, 2004The same cutting-edge technology that speeded sequencing of the human genome could, by the end of the decade, tell us once and for all whether life ever existed on Mars, says a Berkeley chemist. |
Caught In The Act: Two Storms Merging On Saturn
Pasadena - Apr 13, 2004Three months before Saturn arrival, the Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of merging into one larger storm. This is only the second time this phenomenon has been observed on the ringed planet. A Messenger To The Sun 
Laurel DE - Apr 13, 2004Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) is a scientific investigation of the planet Mercury, and the first NASA mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. One of its goals is to look for water-ice. |
8.4-Meter Mirror Successfully Installed in Large Binocular Telescope
Tucson - Apr 13, 2004The University of Arizona today announced that the first 8.4-meter primary mirror for the world's most powerful telescope, the Large Binocular Telescope, has successfully been installed in the telescope structure at Arizona's Mount Graham Observatory. EMS Tech Delivers First Antenna Flight Set For Advanced EHF Bird 
Atlanta - Apr 13, 2004EMS Technologies, Inc. reports it has completed the first set of beam-forming networks for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications program. |
CNES Going Forward With Microsats
Paris - Apr 13, 2004The French Space Agency (CNES) is preparing to launch a new generation of microsatellites, Myriade, developed to offer to scientists a consequently cheaper access to space. High-Level Space Co-Operation Workshop Opens China Visit 
Brussels - Apr 13, 2004Meeting in Beijing on 7 April 2004, European and Chinese representatives expressed their willingness to further strengthen co-operative space activities. The 'High-level China-EU Workshop on Space Co-operation' kicked off a six-day mission to China by Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin. |
WCC Launches SSAS Compliant Maritime Security Solution
Chandler AZ - Apr 13, 2004In response to increased security demands in a post-9/11 reality, World Communications Center (WCC), a leading provider of global satellite voice and data communications, has announced the launch of MariTrack. Mystery In A Cup Of Tea 
Huntsville - Apr 13, 2004In your kitchen at home, squirt a stream of warm honey into a cup of water or tea, and watch what happens. Sweet gooey rivulets, falling downward, twist themselves into curly-cues, filaments, and spinning "smoke rings." It's mesmerizing. But only for a split-second, then the honey splats into the bottom of the cup. |
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