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Send Your Business Card Into Space
Colorado Springs - Apr 14, 2004Beyond-Earth Enterprises, a Colorado Springs-based small payload sub-orbital launch company, announces MissionOne, the first space-related commercial product offerings geared toward the average American household. The MissionOne consumer-based launch will be in the Fall 2004. ISS Two Man Crew To Be Rotated With Expedition 9 
Houston - Apr 15, 2004Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke are set to take command of their new out-of-this-world home, the International Space Station. Padalka and Fincke are to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 18 aboard the ISS Soyuz 8 spacecraft and arrive at the Station on April 21. |
Opportunity Boots Up Okay After Flight Software Upgrade
Pasadena - Apr 15, 2004Waking up to the Ramones' "Teenage Lobotomy," Opportunity began operating with new flight software on its 79th sol on Mars, which ended at 12:16 p.m. PDT on April 14. Yestersol, the rover took daytime readings with its Moessbauer spectrometer on "Jeff's Choice" -- a soil target in the tailings of the trench that the vehicle dug on Sol 73. Views of Titan - the quest for the surface 
Santiago - Apr 15, 2004Titan, the largest Saturnian moon and the second largest moon of the solar system (only Jupiter's Ganymede is slightly larger), is the only satellite known with a substantial atmosphere. It is composed mainly of nitrogen and also contains significant amounts of methane. Opaque orange hazes and clouds of complex organic molecules effectively shield the solid surface from view. |
By Looking Back, Scientists See A Bright Future For Climate Change
New York - Apr 15, 2004For scientists studying climate change, the past is often a key to understanding the future. Dake Chen at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory recently used more than a century of climate data to successfully test an improved model of the El-Ni�o/Southern Oscillation. Garmin Launches Marine Network: GPS, Weather, Sonar, and Radar 
Olathe KA - Apr 15, 2004Garmin International has announced the Garmin Marine Network, a fully-integrated, plug-and-play system that puts GPS, weather, sonar, radar, and other important data literally at a boater's fingertips. |
Supercold, Wiggling 'Jelly' Points To New Kind Of Superfluidity
Durham NC - Apr 14, 2004Duke University researchers may have reached a milestone in physics by cooling and confining a gas of lithium-6 atoms into a kind of oscillating "jelly" exhibiting group behavior uncharacteristic of this antisocial "fermion" atom class. Controlling Biomolecules With Magnetic 'Tweezers' 
Boulder - Apr 13, 2004An array of magnetic traps designed for manipulating individual biomolecules and measuring the ultrasmall forces that affect their behavior has been demonstrated by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). |
Comtech Wins New Order For Its Movement Tracking System Contract
Melville NY - Apr 14, 2004Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said Tuesday that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., has recently received $3.7 million of additional orders for mobile satellite transceivers, ruggedized computers, and satellite service time relating to its Movement Tracking System, or MTS, contract with the U.S. Army Logistics Command. Hubble Fails To Spot Sedna Moon 
Baltimore - Apr 15, 2004Astronomers poring over 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, are surprised that the object does not appear to have a companion moon of any substantial size. Dongfanghong Delivers Satellite Operation Rights To End User 
Beijing - Apr 13, 2004China's satellite maker Dongfanghong Satellite Co. Delivered on Monday the operation rights of a satellite to its end user, a space center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Renewable Energy Promotes Job Growth Better Than Fossil Fuels 
Berkeley - Apr 15, 2004Investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind and the use of municipal and agricultural waste for fuel would produce more American jobs than a comparable investment in the fossil fuel energy sources in place today, according to a report issued today (Tuesday, April 13) by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Arizonian Optical Engineers Play Key Role In Gravity Probe B 
Tucson - Apr 15, 2004University of Arizona optical scientists have played important roles in the Gravity Probe B experiment, which will test key ideas in Albert Einstein's theories of space and time. The Stanford University experiment, first proposed 40 years ago, will finally start Monday (April 19) when NASA launches the $700 million science mission. |
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