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Is El Nino Pumping Up Or Fizzling Out?Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2004 
Recent sea-level height data from the U.S./France Jason altimetric satellite during a 10-day cycle ending November 15, 2004, show that the central equatorial Pacific continues to exhibit an area of higher-than-normal sea surface heights between 180 and 130 degrees West. |
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Boeing To Use X-43A Flight Test Results For Future Hypersonic Applications
Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Information gained from Tuesday's record-setting flight of NASA's Hyper-X research vehicle will be used by Boeing as it designs the future of flight. RADAR Surprises From Titan 
Moffett Field (SPX) Nov 18, 2004When the Cassini spacecraft flew by Titan on October 26, the RADAR instrument peered through the moon's smoggy chemical haze. In an interview with Astrobiology Magazine editor Leslie Mullen, Ralph Lorenz from the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab discussed the surprises revealed by Cassini's RADAR results. |
Coprates Catena's 'Collapsed' Structures
Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2004This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the detailed structure of Coprates Catena, a southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. China To Launch New Experimental Satellite 
Xichang, China (XNA) Nov. 17, 2004China will launch a small scientific experimental satellite sometime between Nov. 18 to 20 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, a Chinese aerospace expert said Wednesday. The launch aims to test the technology of the satellite and conduct survey and monitoring of the land and resources and geographical environment on a trial basis. |
US Exercises Missile Defense System To Prepare For Operations
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2004The US missile defense system is still on track to go on alert by the end of this year and key US military commands are conducting "shakedown exercises" in preparation, a defense spokesman said Wednesday. Russia To Deploy New-Generation Nuclear Weapons System: Putin 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 17, 2004President Vladimir Putin served notice Wednesday that Russia intended to remain a major nuclear power by deploying a new weapon in the coming years that other states lack and are unlikely to develop in the near future. "We have not only conducted tests of the latest nuclear rocket systems," Putin told a meeting of the Armed Forces' leadership. |
Iranian Opposition Accuses Tehran Of Hiding Uranium Facility
Vienna, Austria (AFP) Nov 17, 2004An Iranian opposition group alleged Tuesday that Iran was hiding a uranium enrichment facility in Tehran and aims at getting the atomic bomb next year. The claims by the National Council for Resistance come two days after Iran agreed to suspend enrichment. Symmetricom Mark V Approved By NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office 
San Jose CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Symmetricom announced Wednesday that the Symmetricom Mark V P(Y) Code Time and Frequency Receiver supporting the US Government's latest Key Data Processor Operational Software Version 1.01 has been granted final security approval by the Air Force GPS Joint Program Office (JPO). |
Book Review: 'Leaving Earth'
Washington (UPI) Nov 18, 2004Robert Zimmerman, who covers aerospace for UPI, is also an independent space historian. His most recent book, Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel, was awarded the Eugene M. Emme Award on Nov. 16, as the best book of 2003 about space exploration for the general public. NASA Delays Swift Telescope Launch 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Launch of NASA's Swift spacecraft has been delayed at least 24 hours due to a concern with Range Command-Receiver Decoder equipment on the launch vehicle. |
"Ocean" Rendezvous On A Dry Moon
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Thirty-five years ago this week, the sedentary, fine-grained powder located at 3.01239� S latitude, 23.42157� W longitude began to rise, billow and race off toward the horizon. Soon after - at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on Nov. 19, 1969 - the lunar module Intrepid landed, bringing two more humans to the surface of another world. Europe Reaches The Moon 
Paris (ESA) Nov 17, 2004Europe's SMART-1 is successfully making its first orbit of the Moon, a significant milestone for the first of Europe's Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART) spacecraft. |
Orbimage Obtains First Tranche Of Nextview Equity Funding
Dulles VA (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Orbimage announced Wednesday that it has entered into definitive agreements with a group of investors for the private sale of 3.25 million units (each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one five year warrant to purchase a share of common stock at $10.00) for a price of $10.00 per unit. Counting Elephants From Space 
New York NY (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Scientists with the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society have recently been counting their zoo animals from a lofty perch: namely, outer space. Using high-tech cameras fixed to an orbiting satellite 280 miles overhead, a WCS scientific team tallied some of the zoo's own animal collection to see if satellites can help count wildlife populations in remote locations throughout the world. |
Combining Numerical Models To Improve Hurricane Research
Kingston RI (SPX) Nov 18, 2004In the current issue of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, University of Rhode Island physical oceanographers Il-Ju Moon, Isaac Ginis and Tetsu Hara investigate how surface waves and wind affect the dynamics of growing seas under extreme hurricane conditions using a combination of computer models. Plankton Cool The Southern Hemisphere 
The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 18, 2004Dutch research has shown that marine plankton have the greatest effect on the climate in the southern hemisphere, even though the majority of plankton are found in oceans in the northern hemisphere. |
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