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All Eyes on TitanPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2004
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Spirit's Mulls Over Uchben
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2004Spirit is healthy and currently investigating a layered rock called "Uchben." Spirit is farther from the equator than its twin, Opportunity is, and it has much less available solar energy. Spirit's solar panels are pointed to the northern Sun, but Spirit is still only getting about 400 watt-hours of energy per day - enough to run a 100-watt bulb for four hours. 
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2004Scientists in the department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University have devised a method to precisely date the timing and temperature of a meteorite impact on Mars that led to ejection of a piece of the planet into space and its eventual impact on Earth. |
Russia To Launch New Soyuz Launch Vehicle This Month
Moscow (SPX) Oct 26, 2004Russia's new medium launch vehicle, Soyuz M-2, will make its maiden flight on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced on Monday. He said the vehicle will enable Russia to launch military satellites from its own territory, the Interfax news agency reported. Ivanov said the Soyuz M-2 will be a dual-purpose launch vehicle that permits the placing of commercial payloads in orbit. Columbus Control Centre Inaugurated In Oberpfaffenhofen 
Germany (ESA) Oct 21, 2004ESA's Columbus Control Centre in Munich, Germany, is now ready to take on operations of the European elements of the International Space Station (ISS). |
DOD Scrambling For Missing Explosives Info
Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2004The U.S. Defense Department Monday scrambled to track down records that might indicate where 380 tons of high explosives once stored at an Iraqi warehouse near Baghdad have gone. Whether the explosives were looted, a portion destroyed by air strikes during the war or later by U.S. forces during the occupation, or dispersed in advance of the war by Saddam Hussein's forces is not yet clear. A Tough Nuclear Neighborhood 
Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2004From the days of Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great who ruled the Persian Empire some 500 years before Christ through the Shah en Shah (king of kings) who lost his throne to revolutionary clerics in 1979, the talons of military supremacy ruled strategic thinking. The shah, not the ayatollahs, decided Iran would be a nuclear power. |
A Lunar Convergence: Eclipse & Return To The Moon
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2004The year 2004 is shaping up to be a memorable one for the Moon. Wednesday night brings us a total lunar eclipse visible throughout the country, while at the same time NASA begins preparations to return to the Moon with its new focus on exploration. New Astronomical Results Refine The Geological Time Scale 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 26, 2004A team led by Jacques Laskar from the Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides (IMCCE) and the Paris Observatory has released new computational results for the long-term evolution of the orbital and rotational motion of the Earth. |
Parasol Is Preparing To Enter A-Train Space Observatory
Toulouse, France (SPX) Oct 25, 2004Following the Demeter satellite in June, Parasol, the second-up in the Myriade microsatellite series, is preparing for launch. Parasol satellite (Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar) will study the impact of aerosols and how they interact with clouds to give scientists a better understanding of Earth's climate system. Loral Files Revised Plan Of Reorganization And Disclosure Statement 
New York NY (SPX) Oct 26, 2004Loral Space & Communications last Friday (October 22) filed a revised plan of reorganization (the "Plan") and a Disclosure Statement with the Bankruptcy Court. The company expects to exit chapter 11 under current management in the first-quarter of 2005. |
Greenhouse Gases Are The Most Threatening Weapons Of Mass Destruction
London, UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2004Global warming poses an increasingly sizeable threat to the continued existence of man. James Lovelock, atmospheric chemist and author of Gaia warns that the gravity of the situation facing Earth's inhabitants is greater than we have yet realized and accepted. Lovelock sets forth his predictions - and proposed solutions - in a commentary piece published this week in Atmospheric Science Letters. Climate Drought Problems In The West 
Los Angeles (UPI) Oct 25, 2004Over the high desert of southern Utah last week, a vast squall rained down on the red stone of Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks and the rest of the fabled plateaus and canyons in that normally parched part of the country. |
Laser Technology Helps Track Changes In Mount St Helens
Mount St. Helens WA (SPX) Oct 26, 2004US Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA scientists studying Mount St. Helens are using high-tech Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology to analyze changes in the surface elevation of the crater, which began deforming in late September 2004. With data derived from airborne LIDAR, scientists can accurately map, often in exquisite detail, the dimensions of the uplift and create better models to forecast volcanic hazards. UMAC Evaluates DigitalGlobe Products To Mitigate Crop Disease 
Longmont CO (SPX) Oct 26, 2004DigitalGlobe has announced that the Upper Midwest Aerosopace Consortium, a program of the University of North Dakota, is exploring high-resolution QuickBird satellite images for researching the impact of the Rhizomania disease on sugar beet crops. |
Nextel And Trimble Join Forces To Offer Mobile Phones For Navigation
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2004Trimble and Nextel Communications announced Monday that the companies will launch Trimble Outdoors service in time for the holiday season. The service is an online solution that enables customers to plan an outdoor adventure, including reviewing routes and points of interest on street aerial, or topographic maps covering the continental U.S. and parts of Alaska and Hawaii. When Good Metals Go Bad 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2004Air travel may become safer as a result of research USC will carry on as its $2 million part of a $3.8 million investigation into corrosion-induced failure in high-performance metals used in aerospace and other demanding applications. |
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