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    •  WATERWORLD
    NASA Extends TRMM Operations Through Current Hurricane Season
     Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     NASA will extend operation of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission through the end of 2004, in light of a recent request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Pacific Warms But No El Nino Yet
     Pasadena (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     Recent sea-level height data from the U.S./France Jason altimetric satellite during a 10-day cycle ending July 27, 2004, show that weaker than normal trade winds in the western and central equatorial Pacific during June have triggered an eastward moving, warm Kelvin wave.
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  • Space Race II A ticket to ride
    • SPACE TRAVEL
    Internet Casino Boldly Goes Where No Casino Has Gone Before
     Toronto ON (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     In another first for the online casino industry, gaming site GoldenPalace.com will boldly go where no casino has gone before with the GoldenPalace.com Space Program: Powered by The da Vinci Project.
  • Women Wanted For ESA Bed-Rest Study
  • NASA's New Space 'Hot Rod
  • Advanced Electric-Prop Tech R&D Teams Selected

    • DRAGON SPACE
    White Paper: China's Space Activities
     Beijing (XNA) Aug 06, 2004
     Introduction - The scope of mankind's activities has experienced expansion from land to ocean, from ocean to atmosphere, and from atmosphere to outer space. Space technology, which emerged in the 1950s, opened up a new era of man's exploration of outer space.
    NUCLEAR SPACE
    NASA Signs Nuclear Space Agreement With Department Of Energy
     Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration - Naval Reactors (NR) Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will lead to the development, design, delivery, and operational support of civilian space nuclear reactors within NASA's Project Prometheus.
  • Jupiter Mission Candidates Selected For Further Study

    • LAUNCH PAD
    Amerhis: First Switchboard In Space Launched
     Baikonour (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     Hispasat's Amazonas satellite was successfully launched from the Ba�konour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:32 (CEST) on 5 August. On board was the AmerHis 'switchboard in space' payload.
  • ILS Proton Successfully Launches Amazonas Satellite
    • SATURN DAILY
    Saturn's Southern Bullseye
     Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2004
     Saturn's southern polar region exhibits concentric rings of clouds which encircle a dark spot at the pole. To the north and toward the right, wavy patterns are evident, resulting from the atmosphere moving with different speeds at different latitudes.
  • Crescent Fluorescent Titan
  • Shadow And Glow Shed Light On A Complex System

    • SPACE SCOPES
    Costs Could Sink Hubble Rescue
      Washington, (UPI) Aug 5, 2004
     Ballooning costs coupled with tightening budgets threaten to overwhelm any attempt to rescue the aging and beginning-to-ail Hubble Space Telescope.
    MARSDAILY
    Rocks Tell Stories In Reports Of Spirit's First 90 Martian Days
     Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2004
     Scientific findings from the NASA rover Spirit's first three months on Mars will be published Friday, marking the start of a flood of peer-reviewed discoveries in scientific journals from the continuing two-rover adventure.
  • Spirit Climbs Higher
  • No 'L' Word Yet Looms For Mars

    • IRON AND ICE
    Monitoring Rosetta's New Avionics Software
     Paris (ESA) Aug 05, 2004
     In the reporting period (23 July to 30 July 2004) the spacecraft was monitored daily to ensure thecorrect behaviour of its avionics systems after the upload and activation of the new version 7 of the on-board software.
    ROBO SPACE
    The Growing Role Of Motion Control Software In Industrial Automation
     Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     The growing tendency to use motion control software in the robotics automation sector has created a demand for software packages that include a wide variety of features such as human machine interface, logic and motion control, and communications.
    UAV NEWS
    Shadow UAVs Clock Up 8,800 Hours In Iraq
     Anaheim CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     RQ-7A Shadow Tactical UAVs have flown more than 2,200 sorties and accumulated more than 8,800 flight hours while performing surveillance and reconnaissance during the Iraq War.
  • Teal Group Predicts UAV Market Will Double By 2014
  • Sanswire Networks Starts Countdown To Launch
  • World's Smallest Autonomous Submarine

    • MOONDAILY
  • Moon Written In Stone
  • Moon Probe Project Is Sure To Pay Off: Expert
    • EXO WORLDS
    No Place Like Home
     Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     On the evidence to date, our solar system could be fundamentally different from the majority of planetary systems around stars because it formed in a different way.
    EXO LIFE
    Rocking The Cradle Of Life
     by Astrobiology Magazine
     Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     To find what many consider to be the earliest fossil evidence for life on Earth, one starting point might be to book a flight to the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
    NHGRI Adds 18 Organisms To Sequencing Pipeline
     Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     As part of its ongoing effort to enhance understanding of the human genome, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced Wednesday that the Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network has received the green light to begin sequencing 18 strategically selected organisms, including the orangutan, African savannah elephant and domestic cat.
    Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution
     Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     It's no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. Human inventions such as the Internet, mobile phones and fiber optic cable have increased the speed of communication, making it possible for someone to be virtually in two places at once.
  • Dispute Over Life In Antarctic Lake
    • CLIAMTE CHANGE
    Early Humans Adapted Well To Different Climates
     Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 05, 2004
     Early human ancestors seem to have taken different climates and vegetation types in stride as they evolved from apelike populations in Africa to a worldwide, highly diverse human species.
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