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Congress Approves $420 Billion For DefenseWashington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2004 
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have agreed to add $19.3 billion to the 2005 defense budget over last year's budget, but put new requirements on programs dealing with the Iraq war. |
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Next Station Crew to Launch Oct. 13
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 11, 2004The 10th crew of the International Space Station is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 13 at 11:06 p.m. EDT for a six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. ISS Crew Prepare For Station Handover 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2004As Expedition 9 nears the end of its mission, the crew aboard the International Space Station prepared for the trip home by wrapping up science experiments, rehearsing, and continuing maintenance operations on the vehicle. Space Race Pilots Wore CarbonX Flame-Resistant Flight Suits 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 11, 2004What did SpaceShipOne pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie wear when they made their historic private manned missions into space to clinch the coveted X Prize and $10 million? The answer is CarbonX, an advanced fire-resistant fabric. |
Popping The Escape Hatch
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2004Opportunity may attempt to leave Endurance crater via a route marked as the "Escape Hatch", if scientists and engineers consider it safe after taking a closer look. Telling A Salty Tale Of Martian Water 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 11, 2004University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with a scientist from Indiana University have devised a method for determining whether sulfate salts can account for evidence of water on Mars. Mars Express Reaches End Of Solar Conjunction Period 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 08, 2004Most Mars Express scientific payload operations were suspended between 22 August and 27 September, due to a period of solar conjunction. During this time, however, radio science (MaRS) experiments of the solar corona were carried out. On the egress from conjunction all spacecraft systems were nominal. |
RapidCell Solution Improves National Guard Incident Site Capabilities
Melbourne FL (SPX) Oct 11, 2004AirNet Communications has received a $1.4M purchase order for deployment with the National Guard Bureau from a leading global strategy and technology firm. Canadian Marks Launch Of Breakthrough Broadband Satellite Services 
Vancouver BC (SPX) Oct 11, 2004Telesat's Anik F2, became fully operational this week following final in-orbit testing. Telesat's Anik F2 will deliver multimedia services to clients across North America through its C- and Ku-band transponders. |
Saturn's Perfect Storms
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2004Saturn is the windiest planet in the solar system, which is one mystery of the ringed giant. On Saturn the superstorms can produce winds that reach speeds of over 1000 kilometers per hour. Saturn Sightings: Tethys 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2004Cassini sighted the far-off icy moon Tethys as it headed back toward Saturn in its long, looping first orbit of the planet. A faint hint of detail on the moon's cratered surface is visible. Tethys was discovered by Giovanni Cassini, for whom the spacecraft was named. Its diameter is 1,060 km across. |
New Skies Granted Authorization To Provide Services In Japan
The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 11, 2004New Skies Satellites has been awarded a Radio Station License by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. This opens up a highly developed market to New Skies' Ku-band network, as well as the company's Internet and data services. Lawyers Key To Nano-Revolution 
New York (UPI) Oct 08 2004Nanotechnologists may be pioneering science and engineering at the scale of billionths of a meter, but it remains beyond doubt that no one understands the finest print better than lawyers. |
In the Stars: Galactic Heart Troubles
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2004A favorite episode in the late and lamented series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, saw the starship Enterprise kidnapped, benignly, by an advanced civilization living near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Phoning Home From The Ocean Floor - By Computer 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Oct 11, 2004Oceanographers will soon be able to sit in their labs ashore and communicate with instruments in the water at ocean observatories around the world, enabling researchers to direct instruments to respond to recent events like hurricanes and earthquakes in that area. |
US Congress Kills Plan For Air Force To Lease Boeing Tankers
Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2004Congress has killed a proposal by aerospace giant Boeing to lease, then sell, to the US Air Force dozens of its 767 tanker jets, paving the way for European rival Airbus to muscle in on a possible deal. |
UF Researchers Shine Light On New Explosives Detection Method
Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 08, 2004Researchers has invented a way to rapidly detect traces of TNT or other hidden explosives simply by shining a light on any potentially contaminated object, from a speck of dust in the air to the surface of a suitcase. |
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