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Shuttle Or Not, Hubble Will Be SavedWashington (UPI) May 10, 2004 
Indications are growing that the aging Hubble Space Telescope will not be allowed to die -- even if the U.S. space shuttle fleet will not be used to save it. More and more, it appears that NASA -- or even an international consortium of some kind -- will deploy a robotic space mission sometime in the next few years to service or repair the telescope. |
 
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Tunnel Vision In Space
Honolulu (SPX) May 07, 2004Senator Brownback of Kansas has performed a noble public service in holding the May 5 hearings on future NASA launch vehicle policy. Although most press attention to this event has focused on Brownback's questioning of further Shuttle flights, for me the main value of the hearing was the astonishing views expressed by the people running the space launch business in the USA, writes Jeffrey F. Bell. High-Energy Laser Destroys Large-Caliber Rocket 
Redondo Beach - May 11, 2004As the scope of battlefield threats continues to expand, so does the versatility of a high-energy laser system to defeat them. The U.S. Army's Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) testbed destroyed a rocket on May 4 that's larger, faster and that flies higher than previous threats destroyed by the laser weapon demonstrator. |
New Bush Space Speech Planned 
Washington (UPI) May 10, 2004President George W. Bush plans to make a major speech early this summer defending his plan for a new U.S. space exploration initiative, administration sources told United Press International. Sources said although drafting the speech -- termed a vigorous call to support the president's new space exploration policy he announced last January -- has not yet begun, aides have been narrowing prospective dates and venues. Encore: What's Next Beyond LEO - Part 4 
Moffett Field (SPX) May 04, 2004On December 11, 1972 - thirty-one years ago- the astronauts of Apollo 17 eased their Lunar Module into a landing, beginning the last human excursion to the Moon. Three days later, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt blasted off from the lunar surface to rejoin crew mate Ronald Evans in the Command Module. |
Deep Faults And Disrupted Crater At Acheron Fossae
Paris (ESA) May 11, 2004These images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental 'plate') activity in the past. |
XMM-Newton Detects X-Ray 'Solar Cycle' In Distant Star 
Paris (ESA) May 10, 2004For years, astronomers have wondered whether stars similar to the Sun go through periodic cycles of enhanced X-ray activity, like those often causing troubles to telephone and power lines here on Earth. |
Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
Pasadena - May 10, 2004Included in the nation's new vision for space is a plan for NASA to "conduct advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars." To meet this challenge, NASA has chosen to fly two separate missions with distinct and complementary architectures to achieve the goal of the Terrestrial Planet Finder. Gravity Probe B Rollout Continues 
Stanford - May 10, 2004As of Mission Day #17, the Gravity Probe B spacecraft continues to perform well, and we are expecting a smooth and successful transition into the science phase of the mission. |
Rosetta Fit Out Continues For Decade Long Mission
Paris (ESA) May 11, 2004Payload commissioning activities continued in the reporting period. For the first time a scientific activity was executed: the observation of comet Linear. Four remote sensing instruments, MIRO, ALICE, VIRTIS and OSIRIS took measurements and images during this special pointing operation. The Remarkable Red Rectangle: A Stairway To Heaven? 
Paris (ESA) May 11, 200411-May-2004 Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star. |
ViaSat and Telesat Sign Contract for Ka-band Internet Satellite Service
Carlsbad - May 11, 2004ViaSat has finalized a contract with Telesat to supply gateways and terminals for Telesat's consumer Ka-band services on the Anik F2 satellite. Under the terms of the agreement, ViaSat will deliver and install a complete Ka-band broadband satellite system including gateways, a network management system and terminals. |
Raytheon Integrates SeaVue Radar and MTS Onboard Predator B
El Segundo (SPX) May 11, 2004Raytheon Company has successfully integrated and demonstrated its SeaVue maritime surveillance radar and AAS-52 Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS-A) aboard a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Mariner unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a derivative of the Generals Atomics Predator B UAV. |
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