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All But A Small FortuneMojave (UPI) July 6, 2004
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Moons Sublime to Saturn's Magnetosphere
College Park MD (SPX) Jul 05, 2004The Cassini spacecraft has barely begun its four-year tour around Saturn, but already a University of Maryland sensor is beginning to reveal new data about the immense magnetosphere of the ringed planet. Cassini Provides New Views of Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon Pasadena - 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. |
Spirit Explores The Columbia Hills
Pasadena - Jul 06, 2004After a long trek across the floor of Gusev Crater, NASA's Spirit rover arrived late last month at the base of the Columbia Hills. Scientists believe that the hills are older than the surrounding plain, and holds clues to Gusev's more-distant past. In this exclusive interview with Astrobiology Magazine, Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the rover mission, discusses why the hills are important, what is known about them so far, and what remains to be puzzled out. |
Tau Ceti System, Asteroid Alley - An Inhospitable Neighbour
United Kingdom (SPX) Jul 06, 2004UK astronomers studying the Tau Ceti system have discovered that it contains ten times as much material in the form of asteroids and comets as our own solar system. Their discovery, suggests that even though Tau Ceti is the nearest Sun-like star, any planets that may orbit it would not support life as we know it due to the inevitable large number of devastating collisions. Two More Birds Added To Alcatel's Backlog 
Paris (SPX) (SPX) Jul 06, 2004 In June, Alcatel Space signed two new geostationary satellite contracts with China Satellite Communication Corporation (ChinaSat) and with the American operator PanAmSat. |
SMART-1 Observes The Earth
Paris (ESA) (SPX) Jul 06, 2004The spacecraft is now flying its 310th orbit, in good status and with all functions performing nominally. The new thrusting strategy is well in progress with thrust arcs around perigee for about one third of every revolution. Presently the thrust arcs last for about 21 hours out of a 68 hours orbital period. 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. |
Spot Image Becomes TerraSAR-X Agent
Friedrichshafen (SPX) Jul 06, 2004 Scheduled for launch in 2006, TerraSAR-X is the first satellite built through a public-private partnership (PPP) in Germany, with EADS-Astrium GmbH and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) sharing the costs of satellite construction and positioning. Lake Mead Water Level Drops 2000-2004 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Water is the lifeblood of the western United States. Not only does it sustain municipal drinking supplies and agriculture, it is also one of the primary sources of electricity. |
Free Service Starts In Space Weather Monitoring, Warning
Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2004China began to provide free servicein space weather monitoring and warning to the government and the public as the National Space Weather Monitoring and Warning Center was put into use in the China Meteorological Administration on Thursday. Lasers Critical To Industrial Future 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Lasers, already used from price scanning to eye surgery, are likely to dramatically change the construction, large-scale manufacturing, remote sensing and defense industries. |
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. |
Hubble Studies Star Formation In Nearby Large Magellanic Cloud
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 02, 2004Our neighbourhood galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) lies in the Constellation of Dorado and is sprinkled with a number of regions harbouring recent and ongoing star formation. One of these star-forming regions, N11B, is shown in this Hubble image. Mapping The Galaxy, And Watching Our Backyard 
Paris (ESA) Jul 06, 2004One of ESA's most ambitious current projects has the aim of compiling the most precise map of one thousand million stars in our Galaxy. Gaia, a spacecraft which will carry two of the most sensitive cameras ever made, is due to be launched in 2010. |
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