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Nature's Canvas Brings Color To Saturn's RingsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2004 
In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Delicate shadows cast by the rings arc gracefully across the planet, fading into darkness on Saturn's night side. |
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Gazing Down
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2004Cassini pierced the ring plane and rounded Saturn on Oct. 27, 2004, capturing this view of the dark portion of the rings. A portion of the planet's atmosphere is visible here, as is its shadow on the surface of the rings. The Moon Eclipses Jupiter 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 30, 2004On Tuesday morning, December 7, about an hour before sunrise, people in New York can see Jupiter rise over the Moon's mountains. At precisely 5:05 a.m. EST, Jupiter will pop up from behind the Moon. |
ISS Soyuz Capsule Moved To New Port
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Space Station crewmembers, Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, flew their Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft from the Pirs Docking Compartment to a docking port about 45 feet away on the Zarya module. Budget Analysts Call For NASA Cuts 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2004U.S. analysts Monday said Bush administration proposals to send astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars should be put on the budget chopping block. |
Ukraine To Partner U.S. In Space
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Nov 29, 2004Ukraine has been invited to partner the United States in the exploration of space, Interfax-Ukraine news agency said Monday. The cooperation of the two countries will be within the context of a new international program aimed at putting a new US space strategy into practice. Spacehab Joins Forces With Academia 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Spawned by NASA contracts to evaluate Lunar Exploration System concepts, Spacehab engineers along with SICSA staff and students will be working to develop offworld architecture. |
Cablevision Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For Five A2100 Satellites
Newtown PA (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by Rainbow DBS Company, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems, to build its next five geostationary telecommunications satellites. Iridium Announces Subscriber And Revenue Growth Rates 
BethesdA MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Iridium Satellite Monday announced that its subscriber base grew by 29 percent for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 versus the comparable period in 2003. |
Russia Tests Modernized Missile Defense System
Kiev, Ukraine (AFP) Nov 29, 2004Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday that the military had successfully tested a modernized missile defense system, but he gave no details of the missile involved. Pakistan Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Peace Moves With India 
Islamabad (AFP) Nov 29, 2004Pakistan test-fired a short-range nuclear capable missile Monday in its fifth missile test this year despite ongoing peace talks with nuclear rival India. |
Telesat Canada Goes Online With Satellite Control Center Upgrade
Melbourne FL (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Telesat Canada, which operates a fleet of satellites for broadcast distribution and telecommunications services throughout the Americas, is now operating two of those satellites with an OS/COMET-based Satellite Control Center developed by Harris. Malaysia To Buy US-Made Satellite With Financing From Ex-Im Bank 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2004The Export-Import Bank of the United States has approved a $138 million long-term loan guarantee to help Binariang Satellite Systems of Malaysia, a unit of MEASAT Global, purchase a telecommunications and broadcasting satellite from Boeing Satellite Systems, and a number of U.S. suppliers. |
Stratosphere Temperature Data Support Scientists' Proof For Global Warming
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 30, 2004A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth's surface. New Method To Measure Ancient Land Elevation Developed 
Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 30, 2004A Field Museum scientist has developed a novel way to determine land elevation as continents moved around the Earth through geological ages. |
Robots, Our Helpers In Space
The Netherlands (ESA) Nov 30, 2004At this month's ASTRA 2004 workshop robots designed in ESA's space research and technical centre in the Netherlands attracted much attention. Space Adventures' Client Sets Guinness World Record 
Arlington VA (SPX) Nov 30, 2004Neither age nor gravity stopped 80-year-old Dorothy Simpson from flying into record books. Recently, Mrs. Simpson officially became the world's oldest woman to experience weightlessness on a Zero-G flight.. |
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