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NASA Working On Early Version Of Star-Trek-like Main Ship Computer
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004All that is known about future spaceships will be in their main computers, according to NASA scientists. They busily are creating a set of computer 'tools' that possibly will evolve into a main computer system much like that of the fictional starship Enterprise of television's 'Star Trek' series. Saturn Yields Two New Moons 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet. |
Bedrock In Mars' Gusev Crater Hints At Watery Past
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Now that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is finally examining bedrock in the "Columbia Hills," it is finding evidence that water thoroughly altered some rocks in Mars' Gusev Crater. AMC-15 Satellite Delivered For September Proton Launch 
Princeton NJ (SPX) Aug 19, 2004The Americom-15 (AMC-15) satellite of SES Americom, an SES Global Company, has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to be prepared for its scheduled September 24 launch aboard a Proton launch vehicle. |
Scientists Studying Desert Air To Uunderstand Weather And Climate
United Arab Emirates (SPX) Aug 19, 2004NASA, Naval Research Lab and Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists have assembled in the Arabian Desert to study tiny airborne particles called aerosols and their effect on weather and climate. Modeling Ocean Behavior: The Key To Understanding Our Future Climate 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Scientists have long recognized the importance of oceans in our climate. In fact, the unique physical characteristics of our oceans are largely responsible for making the Earth a livable environment. |
Underneath Ganymede's Ice?
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Ganymede. These irregular masses may be rock formations, supported by Ganymede's icy shell. Sweeping For Unseen Worlds 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Dr. Michael Liu, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, has acquired high resolution images of the nearby star AU Microscopii (AU Mic) using the Keck II Telescope, the world's largest infrared telescope. Proxity Tests Micro UAV Cyber Scout 
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Proxity Digital Networks has reported that its Cyber Scout has successfully lifted off from the test stand under its own power. |
US Working To Resume Space Shuttle Flights In March
Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2004Work is accelerating to resume US space shuttle flights next March, with crucial modifications to the shuttle Discovery based on recommendations of the commission that investigated the destruction of the shuttle Columbia, NASA said Wednesday. |
KVH Receives New Orders For Tactical Navigation And Fiber Optic Products
Middletown RI (SPX) Aug 19, 2004KVH Industries announced Wednesday that it has received four new defense-related orders for the company's TACNAV tactical navigation systems and its fiber optic products from U.S. and allied militaries. |
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The Case Against Hubble Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2004 
A combination of nostalgia and a "fear of flying" could cost US taxpayers over $2 billion if Congress backs an ever more complex plan using telerobotics to save the Hubble Space Telescope. In a detailed analysis of what could be the worst example of bad astronomy since Rome banished Galileo, Bruce Moomaw presents the case for terminating Hubble and building a fleet of cheaper, more advanced orbiting telescopes.Space Race II Bangs, Bumps And Drops 
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Aug 17, 2004The birth of the space age was not an easy delivery. US and Russian archives are filled with stories, pictures and grainy videos of rocketry gone awry. As the next generation of rocketeers steps into the limelight cast by a $10 million competition, it is finding some things never change. Scientists Report First Observation Of An "Atomic Air Force" 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2004The first sighting of atoms flying in formation has been reported by physicists at the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) in the Aug. 13 issue of Physical Review Letters. Raytheon Delivers Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Payloads For Fort Greely 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 18, 2004Raytheon has delivered the first deployable flight elements of the Missile Defense Agency Ground- based Midcourse Defense program from its Missile Defense Kinetic Kill Vehicle production facility in Tucson. Satisfaction Among Satellite Subscribers Continues To Top Cable: Study 
Westlake Village CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2004Overall customer satisfaction among satellite TV service subscribers outpaces that of cable customers, as satellite penetration continues to grow, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Customer Satisfaction Study released Wednesday. |
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