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Mojave (AFP) Oct 04, 2004 
Today, over 100 kilometers above the Mojave desert of California, the world's first private manned spacecraft clinched a $10 million prize pool, and the honor of being the first reusable sub orbital manned spacecraft to do back to back flights and meeting all the other requirements as specified by the X Prize Foundation and the insurance company that "bet" it would not happen by January 1, 2005. |
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SpaceShipOne Team Ready For X Prize Run
Mojave (AFP) Oct 01, 2004Burt Rutan's Mojave Aerospace Ventures Team successfully reached an altitude of 337,500 feet with pilot Mike Melvill onboard along with 180 kg of ballast. SpaceShipOne is now scheduled to take off at around 7:00 am (1400 GMT) and blast out of the earth's atmosphere an hour later in its quest for the X Prize purse. |
Plenty Of Space To Make A Profit
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Oct 04, 2004Moon Rush is about viewing space and its planetary bodies from a commercial opportunity rather than solely as a scientific curiosity. Its author Dennis Wingo argues that by mining the Moon and asteroids will be a panacea to the problems of poverty, overpopulation, environmental degradation, climate change, international war and terrorism. |
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Hurricane Damage Delays Shuttle's Return To Flight Washington (AFP) Oct 02, 2004
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A Moon And Its Flock Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2004 
In its own way, the shepherd moon Prometheus is one of the lords of Saturn's rings. The little moon maintains the inner edge of Saturn's thin, knotted F ring, while its slightly smaller cohort, Pandora guards the ring's outer edge. |
US Commission On Public Diplomacy Praises Success Of Alhurra And Radio Sawa
Springfield VA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The 2004 Report released last week by the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy stresses the importance of the growing success of U.S. international broadcasting's major efforts to the Middle East: Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa. Northrop Grumman Wins Air Force Contract To Provide Theatre Deployable Communications 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar contract by the U.S. Air Force to manufacture and integrate a voice, data and multiplexing communications infrastructure. |
CSC Wins DoD Joint Theater Air And Missile Defense Organization Contract
El Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004Computer Sciences announced Thursday last week that it has won a contract to continue providing scientific, engineering and technical advisory services to the Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Organization. Johns Hopkins To Act As Integrator/Broker For J-UCAS Common Operating System 
Arlington VA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Md., a $26,941,808 other transaction to act as the integrator/broker of the Common Operating System development for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems demonstration program over the next five years. |
JPL Software Links Pediatric Doctors With New Research
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2004Conjoined twins from Guatemala and the Philippines were recently separated after marathon surgeries in the United States, since their small communities lacked the quality medical care for the delicate procedure. Mechanical Memory Switch Outstrips Chip Technology 
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004There are no gears or levers involved, nor even, for those who remember such things, punch cards transported in oblong boxes. Yet research by a Boston University team led by physicist Pritiraj Mohanty does update a decidedly "old" technology in a bid to build better, faster data storage systems for today's computers. GE's 1.5-Megawatt Wind Turbine First To Reach 2,500 Installations 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The most widely sold wind turbine in the megawatt-class for the global wind power industry has reached a major milestone. GE Energy announced today (September 30) that its 2,500th 1.5-megawatt machine has been installed as part of ENEL's Littigheddu project in Sardinia, Italy. |
DARPA Begins Advanced Radar Program
Arlington VA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The first phase of the Affordable Adaptable Conformal Electronic Scanning Antenna Radar program began this summer when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded funding to Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. New Cyber Infrastructure Offers Access To Ocean Observatories 
Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004Oceanographers and computer scientists will design cyberinfrastructure to link research institutions on land with several existing or planned ocean observatories off the west coasts of the United States, Canada and Mexico. Azerbaijan Joins Intersputnik 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The Republic of Azerbaijan has joined the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications. In May 2004 Azerbaijan's decision to accede to this Organization was approved by the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) and in September 2004 the depositary-government represented by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received instruments of ratification of Intersputnik's regulatory documents by the Republic of Azerbaijan. |
Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004A University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologist and his colleagues warn that the future of the Earth's mammals could be as dire as it was between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, when a combination of climate change and human pressure resulted in the extinction of two-thirds of all large mammals on the planet. Scientists Sequence Genome Of Organism Central To Biosphere's Carbon Cycle 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004The first ever genomic map of a diatom, part of a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth's most important inhabitants, has yielded surprising insights about the way they may be using nitrogen, fats and silica in order to thrive. |
Evidence Shaky For Sun's Major Role In Past Climate Changes
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 04, 2004Computer models of Earth's climate have consistently linked long-term, high-magnitude variations in solar output to past climate changes. Now a closer look at earlier studies of the Sun and Sun-like stars casts doubt on the evidence of such cycles, their intensity, and their possible influence on Earth's climate. US Volcano Eruption Imminent: Geologists 
Seattle WA(AFP) Oct 03, 2004A tremor shook Mount St. Helens for 25 minutes early Sunday, prompting scientists to warn of an imminent eruption two days after the volcano came back to life. |
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