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Cassini Provides New Views of Titan, Saturn's Largest MoonPasadena - July 3, 2004 
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed surface details of Saturn's moon Titan and imaged a huge cloud of gas surrounding the planet-sized moon. Cassini gathered data before and during a distant flyby of the orange moon yesterday. Titan's dense atmosphere is opaque at most wavelengths, but the spacecraft captured some surface details, including a possible crater, through wavelengths in which the atmosphere is clear. |
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Multi-Generational Space Science Missions
Paris (ESA) Jul 05, 2004The Cassini-Huygens mission has taken more than six-and-a-half years to reach its destination, and scientists have been working on its instruments since the late eighties. But this isn't the first nor the last multi-generational mission that ESA has undertaken. Titanic Thinking in Pictures 
Moffett Field - Jul 05, 2004In the next half year, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, seems poised to reveal what mysteries lay beneath its thick veil. If the January descent of the Huygens probe succeeds in capturing a close-up image, the event will mark one of the rarest moments in the space age: sites from the surface of another world. |
Sea Launch Investigates Results Of Telstar 18 Mission
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2004The Sea Launch team is gathering and reviewing Telstar 18 mission data to understand the sequence of events that led to a premature shutdown of the Sea Launch Zenit-3SL upper stage during that mission earlier this week. Develop Standards for Orbital Debris Mitigation 
Reston (SPX) Jul 05, 2004On 21 June, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission published a ruling that called for every U.S.-licensed satellite launched after 18 March 2002 to be placed into a disposal orbit at the end of its useful life. |
Gyro On Line After ISS Spacewalk Success
Houston (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Flight controllers put Control Moment Gyro (CMG) 2 back into full operation Friday morning, two days after a spacewalk restored its power supply. Dark Matter And Dark Energy May Be Different Aspects Of Same Force 
Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 02, 2004In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that there is a lot more to the universe than meets the eye: the cosmos appears to be filled with not just one, but two invisible constituents - dark matter and dark energy. |
Apollo's Lunar Leftovers
Washington - Jul 05, 2004By the time NASA's Apollo Program came to a close in December 1972, six crews of astronauts, six Apollo command modules, and more than 800 pounds of Moon rocks and lunar soil had been brought back to Earth. But some things were intentionally left behind. |
Canada's First Space Telescope Finds Stellar Flat Liner
Vancouver BC (SPX) Jul 01, 2004MOST, Canada's first space telescope, celebrates its first birthday today, but its latest surprising results could spoil the party for other astronomers whose earlier results are now being questioned. First 3D View Of Solar Eruptions 
Paris (ESA) Jul 05, 2004Using data from the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory, scientists have produced the first three-dimensional (3D) views of massive solar eruptions, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). |
NASA Satellite Captures Twin Typhoons
Greenbelt (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Typhoons Mindulle and Tingting spin side by side in the Pacific Ocean on June 30, 2004. Mindulle left seven dead and two missing after it scraped across the Philippines on June 29. Chinese Power Plant Will Exceed Plans 
Beijing (UPI) July 4, 2004China's Three Gorges hydropower plant was expected Sunday to generate 37.5 billion kilowatts of electricity this year, 15 billion more than originally planned. |
Columbus Was Dope!
Tokyo (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Kim Stanley Robinson, in an address to the Mars Society, cautioned against the disease of Freud's "narcissism of petty differences" This is the tendency, among those feeling relatively powerless in their pursuit of an ambitious, long-range agenda, to descend into factional bickering over minutiae. Wanted: Space Agency That Works 
by Joe LatrellPasadena (SPX) Jun 29, 2004 Lately within the circles of the space community there have been two camps form - those who support NASA and those who don't. Many people believe that NASA is the only way to go. |
Commentary Israel To Bomb Iran?
Washington (UPI) July 2, 2004As the Bush Administration concludes it cannot risk Iranian retaliation against a fragile Iraq under U.S. occupation, Israel is dusting off contingency plans to take out Iran's nuclear installations. Australia set to acquire unmanned surveillance aircraft 
Canberra (AFP) Jul 05, 2004Australia is set to acquire the latest unmanned aircraft for surveillance and target selection by day and night, the government announced Monday. Defence Minister Robert Hill said the government would spend 70 million to 105 million US acquiring a fleet of tactical unmanned surveillance aircraft able to back up land operations. |
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