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Russian-US Crew Prepares For Space Station MissionBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 12, 2004 
A Russian-US crew will blast off from here Thursday bound for the orbiting international space station on a six-month mission to conduct a series of scientific experiments. |
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Space Race 2: After The X Prize
Cape Canaveral (UPI) Fla Oct 12, 2004The $10 million X Prize has been won, but the next space race, worth an estimated $1 billion a year, is just beginning. For now, Virgin Galactic, a U.S. offshoot of entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Group in the United Kingdom, is the most visible of the half-dozen or so companies developing plans and vehicles to fly tourists to space. Edwards SPADS Keeps An Eye On SpaceShipOne During X Prize Flights 
Edwards AFB (SPX) Oct 13, 2004As SpaceShipOne rocketed through the skies engineers followed the contrails and collected data about the spacecraft's trajectory thanks to an invaluable radar capability known as SPADS, Spaceport Arrival and Departure Safety System. |
Dust Devils Of The Southern Highlands
Paris (ESA) Oct 12, 2004This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra. Space Tourism Initiative Announces Trade-Only Space Tourism Summit 
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 12, 2004The Space Tourism Initiative, a new organization chartered with the growth of the emerging space tourism industry, announced the Space Tourism Summit, a trade-only event for professionals in the emerging space tourism industry, and the Space Tourism Conference, an event for would-be space tourists. Both annual events kick off in 2005. |
Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear Capable Missile
Islamabad (AFP) Oct 12, 2004Pakistan conducted its fourth test this year of a nuclear-capable missile Tuesday, test-firing the intermediate Ghauri missile, which can hit targets deep inside rival neighbour India. "Pakistan this morning carried out another successful test of the indigenously produced intermediate range Ballistic Missile Hatf V (Ghauri)," a military statement said. Khan's Nuclear Network, A Criminal Gang 
Washington (UPI) Oct 13, 2004The Pakistani government was not involved with the network of nuclear proliferators who supplied nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, but did allow this criminal gang to function, says a recent report released by a Washington-based nuclear watchdog. |
Newfound Star Cluster May Be Final Milky Way Fossil
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2004Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy's "fossils," they've discovered a new one in the galactic equivalent of our own backyard. Called globular clusters, these ancient bundles of stars date back to the birth of our Milky Way galaxy, 13 or so billion years ago. Stellar Night-Goggles 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2004A new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe. |
North Korea Says No Missile Test, But Defends Missile Program
Seoul (AFP) Oct 12, 2004North Korea denied Tuesday it was preparing a missile test, but said its weapons program was aimed at countering a growing US military threat. According to recent reports, increased activity around North Korean missile pads indicated Pyongyang may be readying a new test. Feature: DMZ, Flashpoint In Korea 
Demilitarized Zone, (UPI) South Korea Oct 12, 2004In appearance, the Demilitarized Zone- the dividing line between the two Koreas since their war in the early 1950s- is quiet enough to belie military tensions caused by the communist North's nuclear and missile ambitions. |
Outside View: Defusing Iran's Nukes
New York NY (UPI) Oct 12, 2004For the United States to restrain Iran from pursuing a nuclear program, it will require a multi-pronged approach that can, over time, diminish Iran's strategic ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons or neutralize such weapons, should it, nevertheless, acquire them. British FM Insists US Being Pressed Over Kyoto Treaty 
London (AFP) Oct 12, 2004Britain is "working hard" on the United States to pressure it into agreeing to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday. |
DoD Exercises Iridium Contract Option
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 12, 2004Iridium reports that the Department of Defense has exercised an option on its airtime contract. Presently, there are more than 20,000 subscribers using more than 4 million minutes per month in support of world wide activities. PoliSci: Government Slow On RFID Privacy 
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2004Depending on who you talk to, they will be sinister micro-spies, whose web of whispers will snare personal information with Orwellian efficiency. Or they will be dependable sentinels, shielding U.S. cities from infiltration by psychopathic terrorists. |
FDNY Selects Stratos for Emergency Response Communications
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2004Stratos Global has been chosen by New York's Fire Department to provide satellite-based emergency response terminals for on-the-scene responders and headquarters locations. Satellite Operators Decry RFI Problems 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2004The continual drive by satellite network operators to cut or control costs is contributing to a rise in radio frequency interference incidents and adversely impacting the satellite communications industry, says an industry group task to mitigating such interference. |
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