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NASA Head Vows To Examine All Options To Save HubbleWashington (AFP) Jul 15, 2004 
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe says the space agency will examine all options to extend the life of the Hubble space telescope, but made no commitment on a manned flight, a statement said Wednesday. In his statement, O'Keefe does not address manned space flight issues but says the challenges of a robotic mission are under examination and we'll continue our exhaustive and aggressive efforts to assess [the] options. |
 
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Wendy's Restaurants Install Gilat VSAT Broadband Solution Nationwide
Israel (SPX) Jul 14, 2004Gilat Satellite Networks Tuesday announced that its US subsidiary, Spacenet, has been selected by WendCentral to provide a Connexstar broadband satellite network to a minimum of 250 Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger restaurants. Gravity Probe B Mission Status Report 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 14, 2004After more than 80 days in orbit, Gravity Probe B continues to perform well. Nearing completion of its initialization and orbit checkout phase, the mission will use four ultra-precise gyroscopes to test Einstein's 1916 theory that space and time are distorted by the presence of massive objects. |
Masterminds Of Scientific Art And Rover Movement On Mars
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 12, 2004The world gets to see the rusty, dusty martian terrain as if humans themselves were riding atop the rovers. Who's responsible for our front-row seats on Mars? The masterminds working tirelessly behind the scenes in the Multimission Image Processing Lab (MIPL) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
It's Action Stations For Lonely Interstellar Voyager
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 14, 2004When Voyager 1 signals NASA, which it does almost every day, there's usually not much to report. The spacecraft is nearly 9 billion miles (14.5 billion km) from the sun, at the edge of our solar system. It's quiet out there, dark and uneventful. It's Business As Usual At KSC 
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 14, 2004NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., will extend its Joint Base Operations Support Contract (JBOSC) for two years to Space Gateway Support (SGS) of Herndon, Va. |
Loral-Built Telstar 18 Reaches Proper Orbital Position
New York NY (SPX) Jul 14, 2004Loral Space & Communications Tuesday announced that Telstar 18, launched June 28, 2004 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket, has successfully reached its in-orbit testing position at 142 degrees East longitude. SES Americom's AMC-11 Satellite Completes In-Orbit Testing 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 14, 2004With in-orbit testing recently completed aboard its AMC-11 satellite, SES Americom, an SES GLOBAL company, Tuesday announced the A2100 model spacecraft is preparing to join its identical twin in support of HD-PRIME, the first and only two-satellite neighborhood capable of delivering HD to cable headends and consumers nationwide. |
When Sun's Too Strong, Plankton Make Clouds
Greenbelt (SPX) Jul 05, 2004People say size doesn't matter, and that may be true for tiny plankton, those free-floating ocean plants that make up the bottom of the marine food-chain. Little plankton may be able to change the weather, and longer term climate, in ways that serve them better. Pristine Polar Lakes 
for Astrobiology MagazineMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2004 Buried under more than two miles of ice, Lake Vostok is a freshwater basin that has remained isolated biologically from human influence. Recent air surveys now suggest that Vostok is actually two basins. If water doesn't flow between the two parts, different life forms may have evolved independently. |
Listening To Vega
Colleferro (SPX) Jul 08, 2004On a humid day in June, with a temperature similar to that at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, the engine of a miniature Vega launcher was ignited at Colleferro, a small town in the middle of Italy. The reason: to test the noise level. Chandra Looks Over A Cosmic Four-Leaf Clover 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 07, 2004NASA�s Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered evidence that a single star in a foreground galaxy may have magnified X-rays coming from a rare quadruple quasar. |
Get In Line To Find Extrasolar Planet
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2004More than 100 planetary systems have already been discovered around distant stars and now the Hobby-Eberly Telescope's will bring even greater precision to the process as the giant telescope finds its first extrasolar planet. Los Alamos Computers Probe How Giant Planets Formed 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 14, 2004Nearly five billion years ago, the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn formed, apparently in radically different ways. |
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