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Cassini Passes By Titan At 1,200 KilometersMoffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2004 
Long hidden behind a thick veil of haze, Titan, the only known moon with a major atmosphere was visited by the Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 1,200 km today. Early data suggests that a liquid ocean is not visible, but data analysis has barely begun. |
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Space Race 2: Flying High Beyond The Sky
Huntsville AL (UPI) Oct 26, 2004Burt Rutan cast an eye around the crowd pressed into Moontown Airport's biggest hangar Saturday night. There was not much room - the seats had been filled since 7 - and the rain kept folks pretty tightly packed inside. Moon Shadows 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004Skywatchers are about to be treated to a total lunar eclipse, just in time for Halloween. For more than an hour Wednesday night, the Earth's shadow will completely cover the moon - making it glow orange like a pumpkin. The color comes from Earth's sunrises and sunsets. That's the only light hitting the full moon during the eclipse, when the Earth passes directly between the sun and moon. |
Dart Launch Postponed
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2004NASA and Orbital Sciences have postponed today's launch of the DART spacecraft. The postponement is because the target satellite, Multiple Paths, Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications, had a temporary loss of GPS reception that might impact navigation accuracy for on-orbit rendezvous. US Plans To Acclerate Deployment Of Aegis Warships For Missile Defense 
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2004The United States plans to accelerate the deployment of Aegis warships in waters off North Korea to serve as forward radars for a missile defense system that is being readied for operations, a top US general said Tuesday. |
China Slams As 'Absurd' Idea That EU Satellite Cooperation Is Military
Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2004China Tuesday slammed as "absurd" the idea that its satellite cooperation with Europe could have military uses, after reports the United States might shoot down the satellites in wartime. MP's Aim To Force Iran To Resume Uranium Enrichment 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 26, 2004Iranian MPs are Sunday to debate a bill which would force the government to resume uranium enrichment in defiance of the international community, the official news agency IRNA reported. "Ninety-three deputies have signed the bill," said Rafaat Bayat, a conservative MP whose faction controls the 290-seat parliament, quoted by IRNA. |
SpaceDev Wins Phase 2 Of MDA Contract
Poway CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004SpaceDev has been awarded the second task order on its existing $43 million contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), to design and develop up to six responsive, affordable high-performance networked micro-satellites to support national missile defense. Orbimage Responds To NextView Protest 
Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004Orbimage Tuesday announced that it has received notice from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ("NGA") that a protest of Orbimage's recent award for the development and launch of a satellite under NGA's NextView Second Vendor Program has been filed before the Government Accountability Office by New SI, a competing bidder under the program. |
NASA Unveils Its Most Powerful Supercomputer, Columbia
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004NASA unveiled its newest supercomputer Tuesday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The "Columbia" is one of the world's most powerful supercomputing systems. Columbia was named to honor the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia lost Feb. 1, 2003. IDirect's VSAT's Connect US Army's Logisticians Worldwide 
Herndon VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004iDirect Technologies Tuesday announced the deployment of their remote Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite solution supporting the US Army's 'Connect the Logistician' Program. |
Chance Of A Cometary Impact Re-assessed
Cardiff, UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2004The chances of the Earth suffering a collision with a cometary body may be higher than previously thought, according to new research by astronomers Bill Napier and Chandra Wickramasinghe. In A Lava Tube 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004Penny Boston is one of the leaders of the SLIME team - that's Subsurface Life in Mineral Environments. She studies bizarre microorganisms that live, often under extreme conditions, in subterranean caves. In a two part report Astrobiology Magazine presents her research on cave environments and explains that we have a lot to learn from lava tubes. |
SSWM To Demonstrate New Technology For Perchlorate/Solvent Cleanup
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2004Sub-Surface Waste Management has received regulatory approval to conduct a paid demonstration of its proprietary cleanup technology for soil contaminated with a combination of rocket propellant and volatile organic compounds. Britain Advised To Conserve Energy 
London (UPI) Oct 25, 2004Britain's cod, spring daffodils and Scottish ski resorts could be gone by 2050 because of global warming, a report said Monday. The report warns that about $368 billion of assets, including more than 2 million homes, could be at risk from flooding and coastal erosion as a result of global warming raising coastal waters. |
ESA Joins European Effort To Create Digital Libraries For Science
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 27, 2004Spacecraft constantly scan the Earth, creating hundreds of gigabytes of new data products daily. Working with this ever-growing mass of information has made ESA's Earth Observation Directorate a pioneer user of powerful Grid computing. Hughes Supplies Direcway System To JSC SatLine In Ukraine 
Germantown MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2004Hughes Network Systems, a provider of broadband satellite solutions and services, which it markets under the Direcway brand, announced that it is supplying JSC SatLine, a new Ukrainian satellite services company, with a comprehensive Direcway system, including Network Operations Center (NOC) and remote terminals. |
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