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US Would Hit Europe's GPS Birds If Used By China In WarLondon (AFP) Oct 24, 2004 
The US could attack Europe's planned network of global positioning satellites if it was used by a hostile power such as China, The Business weekly reported Sunday.
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Ninth ISS Crew Return Home Via Soyuz Taxi
Arkalyk, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 24, 2004A Russian Soyuz spacecraft bringing back three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, Russian space officials announced. 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2004Orbital Sciences is in final preparations to launch the NASA's Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft aboard a Pegasus rocket. |
Opportunity Ready To Explore Burns Cliff
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2004NASA's Opportunity rover continues to operate without any major issues after spending 130 sols inside "Endurance Crater". To date, the rover has ground 21 targets with the rock abrasion tool, performing 62 integrations with the Moessbauer spectrometer and 33 with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, and taking 115 observations with the mini TES. The Sounds Of Titan 
Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2004The sound of alien thunder, the patter of methane rain and the crunch of a landing, all might be heard as Huygens descends to the surface of Titan on January 14, 2005. |
Brazil Test Launches New Exploration Vehicle
Sao Luis, Brazil (UPI) Oct 24, 2004Brazil has launched its first rocket into space, a feat that comes just 14 months after its space program was devastated by a deadly launch pad accident. The VSV-30 lifted off Saturday from the Alcantara launch center and spent just seven minutes in microgravity. Proba: The Smart Satellite That Runs Itself 
Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2004ESA's first microsat has completed three years of successful operations. The size of a large television set, Proba was launched to demonstrate new technologies for future European spacecraft, but continues to provide fantastic images of Earth. |
Deep Impact Arrives At KSC For December Launch
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2004NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch on Dec. 30, 2004. The Deep Impact spacecraft is designed to launch a copper projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, when the comet is 133.6 million kilometers (83 million miles) from Earth. Brazil And China To Build Third EO Satellite 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 22, 2004Brazil and China are to collaborate on contruction of an Earth observation satellite, their third, scheduled for placement in orbit in 2006, Brazil's space exploration agency said Friday. |
Planetesimal Belts Are Discovered Around Beta Pictoris
Sagamihara City, Japan (SPX) Oct 25, 2004Beta Pic is a young main-sequence star with an edge-on circumstellar disk supposed to embody an aspect of the early solar system. Its dust is considered not to be remains from the protoplanetary disk but must be replenished by planetesimal collisions and/or evaporation from comets, though the detailed mechanism is still controversial. Flashes Leave Astronaut's Eyes Damaged 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 25, 2004Gazing out of their space capsules, Apollo astronauts witnessed sights that humans had never before seen. They saw the breathtaking view of the Earth's bright blue disc against the inky black of space. They saw the far side of the Moon. They also saw strange flashes of light inside their eyeballs! |
NASA Helps Find Lifelong Gene Activity In Live Organisms
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2004NASA scientists and their academic colleagues are providing valuable insights into how DNA encodes instructions for control of basic biological functions. Their research may change the understanding of human diseases. India, U.S. Strategic Ties To Deepen No Matter Who Wins Whitehouse 
New Delhi (UPI) Oct 22, 2004The United States has assured India that it would continue to work for closer strategic ties irrespective of the outcome of Nov. 2 presidential elections. Even as the United States is gripped in the final stages of the upcoming presidential polls, Washington continues to warm up to New Delhi in furthering strategic ties. |
Iran Uranium Facility '70 Percent' Operational: Official
Tehran (AFP) Oct 24, 2004A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now "70 percent" operational, an official from the country's nuclear agency said on Sunday. Taiwan Shows Off Missile Defense Strength, Highlights China's Threat 
Wanli, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 22, 2004Taiwan showed off its missile defense system to the media for the first time Friday, but said it badly needed more advanced weaponry to counter a military threat from rival China. |
Aerojet Tests LOX Ethanol Reaction Control Engine
Sacramento CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2004Aerojet has successfully conducted a hot fire test program for a non-toxic reaction control engine utilizing liquid oxygen (LOX) and ethanol as propellants. Japan Earthquakes Kill 23, Leave Thousands In Shelters 
Ojiya, Japan (AFP) Oct 25, 2004Overturned cars, crumbled homes and shattered roads greeted rescue workers who flew here Sunday after Japan's deadliest earthquake in almost a decade stunned residents used to bearing up through the nation's frequent tremors. |
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