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ESA's Miniature Earth Observer Put To Many Uses
Paris (ESA) May 05, 2004Think of ESA's Proba as the little satellite that does a lot. It is only the size of a washing machine but its main instrument -- the smallest hyperspectral imager ever flown in space -- has an expanding portfolio of uses encompassing agricultural mapping, water quality monitoring, charting forest fire damage and disaster management. |
 
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Spirit Back On Station With Communication Problem Solved Pasadena (JPL) May 05, 2004 
Mission control at JPL for NASA's Mars Exporation Rovers reported Wednesday that the previous days communication problems have been resolved. Further details are expected to be provided during this Thursday's morning press briefing that will be broadcast via NASA TV.An Interview With Colin Pillinger 
Moffett Field (SPX) May 04, 2004From 200 million miles away on Mars, the European Beagle 2 lander was intended to send back a faint 5-watt signal. To acquire that miniscule signal could be compared to picking up a cellphone broadcast from Mars to Earth. |
It's Time For Hubble-2
Honolulu - May 5, 2004There are a lot of issues to debate right now about the future of space flight, and we Space Cadets are debating them furiously among ourselves. But the only issue that has really fired up the general public is the decision to scrap the scheduled Space Shuttle refurbishment mission to Hubble. Lockheed Martin's IT with NASA PC Deal 
Seabrook, MD (SPX) May 04, 2004Lockheed Martin has been awarded contracts worth over $100 million under the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA. Desktop, server and telephone outsourcing services will be provided to NASA's four Aerospace Technology Enterprise centers. Going Mobile Beyond LEO - Part Two 
Moffett Field (SPX) May 04, 2004The importance of mobility was underscored by Chaikin, whether one is exploring the moon or Mars. Future Mars missions anticipate wheeled crew vehicles, and the latest twin robotic explorers have combined to surpass a mile of martian roving this month. |
Boeing Acquires UAV Developer Frontier Systems Inc.
Chicago (SPX) May 05, 2004Boeing said Tuesday that it has acquired Frontier Systems Inc., developer of the A-160 Hummingbird and Maverick unmanned aerial vehicles. J-UCAS X-45A Destroys Target 
Arlington (SPX) May 04, 2004Target confirmation, arm and cleared to release. With those three commands from its human operator, an X-45A technology demonstrator for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems program made aviation history by releasing an inert non-explosive Global Positioning System-guided Small Smart Bomb and hitting a ground target at China Lake, Calif. |
DARPA Pursuing A Mobile Energy Recovery System For The Battlefield
Arlington (SPX) May 04, 2004The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Mobile Integrated Sustainable Energy Recovery (MISER) program has two thrusts. The first will develop technologies to harness the energy content of packaging waste generated during military field operations and convert it to electricity. Northrop Adds New Capabilities To Multi-Service ISR Systems Family 
Baltimore (SPX) May 04, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation recently released the latest upgrade to its open-source architecture, multi-service family of intelligence and surveillance systems. |
China's Fastest Computer To Serve Beijing Olympic Games
Beijing (SPX) May 04, 2004The supercomputer set at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS) will be able to provide long-distance calculation services based on network. The supercomputer with a sustained performance of 4 Tflops is national Lenovo DeepComp 6800, now China's fastest and 14th among the top 500 worldwide. |
Researchers Identify Key Immune Factors Associated With Sars
Montreal (SPX) May 04, 2004The Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics (CANVAC) has announced that a group of its scientists has identified key immune factors associated with the early stages of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Results of this study, carried out by CANVAC scientists and their colleagues, were announced at the World Vaccine Congress held in Montreal. |
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