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Russia Launches Soyuz-2 Test Rocket From PlesetskMoscow (AFP) Nov 08, 2004 
Russia successfully test-launched Monday a new generation rocket, the Soyuz-2, according to space officials quoted by Russian news agencies. The rocket was launched at 9:30 pm (1830 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia. Eight minutes later, it put into orbit a model of a satellite. |
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Winging It Takes Aviators To Edge Of Space
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2004In the weeks after claiming his X-Prize, Burt Rutan gave a public presentation in an airplane hangar, at Moontown, Alabama about his desire to apply biological principles of 'natural selection' to aerospace design. Astronauts Submit First ISS Medical Paper 
Oak Brook IL (SPX) Nov 09, 2004The first medical research paper submitted from the International Space Station was published online Monday by the journal Radiology. The report documents the first ultrasound examination of the shoulder performed under the microgravity conditions of space flight. |
Saturn's Dynamic Dance
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 09, 2004A University of Colorado at Boulder professor involved with the Cassini-Huygens mission is reporting an ever-changing vista at the frontiers of Saturn, featuring wayward moons, colliding meteoroids, rippling rings and flickering auroras. Oozing Across Titan 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2004This synthetic aperture radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on Oct. 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 2,500 kilometers above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time. |
NASA Reschedules DART Launch
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2004NASA has rescheduled the DART spacecraft launch for Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The seven-minute launch window opens at 1:07:40 p.m. EST. DART, launched onboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket, provides a key step in establishing autonomous rendezvous capabilities in space. China To Land Robot On Moon By 2012 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2004The lunar vehicle, "Chang'e-I", that China will launch in 2007, is expected to land on the surface of the moon by 2012, according to the People's Daily Online news site. Between now and 2020, China's lunar exploration program will focus on unmanned probing. The program is divided into three stages. |
Taiwan Intends To Build Asia's Largest Missile Base: Report
Beijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2004'A large bunker project is being constructed at the Jiupeng missile test-launch ground by the Zhongshan Scientific Research Institute, and upon completion next year, will be used to deploy a "Patriot III" missile system', Taiwan newspapers reported October 27. Future Pilots Could Fly With UAV Wing Man Under Their Direct Control 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 09, 2004Aeronautics researchers at MIT have developed a manned-to-unmanned aircraft guidance system that allows a pilot in one plane to guide another unmanned airplane by speaking commands in English. |
Laser Points To The Future At Palomar
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2004The Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain has been gathering light from the depths of the universe for 55 years. It finally sent some back last week as a team of astronomers created an artificial star by propagating a 4-watt laser beam out from the Hale Telescope. Black Hole Preceded Galaxy Bulge 
Socorro NM (SPX) Nov 09, 2004Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to study the most distant known quasar have found a tantalizing clue that may answer a longstanding cosmic chicken-and-egg question: which came first, supermassive black holes or giant galaxies? |
Climate: Earth Losing Ice In Every Form
Boulder CO (UPI) Nov 07, 2004Earth appears to be losing its ice in virtually every form, from glacial peaks to the permafrost frozen deep below ground. Suspicion naturally falls on greenhouse gases and global warming as the cause, but there are a few other candidates for the honor. Look At Past Sea-Level Rise Points To Troubling Future 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 09, 2004New research presented at this week's annual meeting of the Geological Society of America shows that rising sea levels of as little as a half-meter per century have been sufficient to dramatically change the shoreline of the U.S. Gulf Coast within the past 10,000 years. |
Researchers Discover Living Nanoscale 'Necklace'
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2004A interdisciplinary team of physics and biology researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have made a discovery at the nanoscale level that could be instrumental in the production of miniaturized materials with many applications. Dubbed a "living necklace," the finding was completely unexpected. New NSF Center To Study Nanostructures 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2004Nanobatteries, nanopumps, nanomotors and a slew of other nanoscale devices - most with parts that move a mere fraction of the width of an atom - are among the promises of a new $11.9 million Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) starting up this fall at the University of California, Berkeley. |
Researchers Sound Alarm Bells Over Rapid Arctic Warming
Oslo (AFP) Nov 08, 2004With temperatures in the Arctic rising at twice the rate of any where else, its ice cover will completely disappear in summer, and the its biodiversity will change dramatically within the next 100 years , according to a scientific study published Monday. Global Warming Reshaping US Ecology 
Washington (AFP) Nov 09, 2004The effects of global warming on North American ecosystems can already be seen in the shifting habitats of butterflies and foxes and the earlier breeding and flowering patterns of some birds and plants, according to a study released Monday. |
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