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Canadian X Prize Team Faces Insurance DeadlineCape Canaveral FL (UPI) Oct 19, 2004 
The unofficial X Prize "runner up" team, The da Vinci Project, is facing a critical point in a few weeks time when mandatory insurance required by the Canadian government expires, and dashing any near term chance that the design will be flight tested. |
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Mars Express Gets An Eyeful Of Huygens Paris (ESA) Oct 20, 2004 
Huygens is an impact structure, about 450 kilometres wide, located in the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars. Crater counts of the rim unit of the impact basin indicate that it is almost 4000 million years old.Built Via The Internet, Student Satellite Coming To Life At ESA-ESTEC 
The Netherlands (ESA) Oct 20, 2004Scattered in universities across Europe, a 250-strong team of students have never collectively met in person, but between them they have built a space-ready satellite. SSETI Express is currently being integrated in an ESA cleanroom for a planned launch in May next year. |
China Launches Its First World Class Weather Satellite Platform
Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 20, 2004China launched its first geostationary orbit meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2 C, at 9:20 am Tuesday, with a Long March carrier rocket 3A, in Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in southwestern Sichuan. Space-Tech House Demolition 
Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 20, 2004The "successful" return of a Chinese recoverable satellite last week ended in an unfortunate apartment demolition incident. Luckily no one was reportedly injured in the bizarre event. The landing occurred on the exact date of the 1st anniversary of the historic Shenzhou-5 mission that made China the third nation to send its own people into space in its own rocket. |
Solar Cycle Update
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 19, 2004Solar physicist David Hathaway has been checking the sun every day since 1998, and every day for six years there have been sunspots. Sunspots are planet-sized "islands" on the surface of the sun. They are dark, cool, powerfully magnetized, and fleeting: a typical sunspot lasts only a few days or weeks before it breaks up. As soon as one disappears, however, another emerges to take its place. UN Inspects Brazilian Nuclear Plant 
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Oct 19, 2004U.N. nuclear inspectors conducted Tuesday long-awaited and controversial reviews of a Brazilian facility for enriching uranium. The three inspectors from the United States, France and South Africa toured a plant in Resende, the Rio de Janeiro state, to observe the facility and technology Brazil is using to enrich uranium, of the low-grade variety for power generation. |
Latest Survey Finds Alhurra TV Attracting Millions Of Arab Viewers
Springfield VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004After only six months on the air, Alhurra TV, the new Arabic-language satellite channel, has quickly attracted a large audience in the Middle East with a diverse schedule of news, talk shows, debates, documentaries and entertaining information programs on a wide variety of subjects from sports to fashion to technology. Radioactive Garbage Causes Scare 
Chicago (UPI) Oct 19, 2004The Illinois Emergency Management Agency found medical waste in a load of refuse from a Chicago garbage truck that set off radioactivity alarms. The contents of the truck were dumped and sorted after triggering alarms at the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation West Side recycling yard Monday. |
Megha-Tropiques Goes Tropical Water Monitoring
Toulouse, France (SPX) Oct 18, 2004CNES has given the go-ahead for the Megha-Tropiques project, designed to study the water cycle in the tropical belt. This joint mission with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will focus on important issues affecting the development of nations in this part of the world. France and Australia Resume Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Research 
Hobart, Australia (SPX) Oct 20, 2004French and Australian scientists resume measurements of Antarctic waters south of Australia this week to assess their capacity as a massive oceanic sponge to absorb greenhouse gases and store them away for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. |
Higher Power Portable Requirements Drives Micro Fuel Cell Development
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2004The proliferation of power-hungry portable electronic devices has ignited fresh interest in next-generation micro fuel cells that are compact, lightweight, and powerful with inherent capabilities to bridge the growing power gap. GE Energy Receives $1.3 Billion In Orders For New US Wind Projects 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004GE Energy Monday announced that it has secured contracts to supply more than 750 megawatts of wind turbines for new 2004-2005 projects in the U.S., and has received commitments for another 750 megawatts. In total, the orders and commitments are valued at more than US$1.3 billion. |
MIT's Novel Fabrics See The Light
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2004In work that could lead to applications including multifunctional textile fabrics and all-optical computer interfaces, MIT researchers report the creation of flexible fibers and fabrics that can not only sense light, but also analyze its colors. The team's leader, Yoel Fink, notes that "the technique we developed allows us to bring together two disparate technologies: those involved in creating optical fibers and those for electronic components." Researchers Guide Light Through Liquids And Gases On A Chip 
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have reported the first demonstration of integrated optical waveguides with liquid cores, a technology that enables light propagation through small volumes of liquids on a chip. |
NanoDynamics Signs JV To Commercialize Nanowire Production Platform
Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 19, 2004NanoDynamics announced Monday that it has signed a joint venture agreement with New Zealand-based technology company, Nano Cluster Devices (NCD). NanoDynamics will be working to commercialize NCD's technology process for self-assembly of nanowires in production of semiconductors and electronic components. Hughes Supplies Datasat With Direcway Broadband Satellite Solution 
Germantown MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2004Hughes Network Systems will supply Ukrainian firm Datasat - a Direcway network operations center and 1,000 DW6000 remote satellite terminals, enabling Datasat to provide a new range of broadband, value-added services to the Ukrainian market. |
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