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Young Pilot Seeks More SpaceCape Canaveral FL (UPI) Nov 30, 2004 
Thirty-year-old Larry Clark, already an accomplished commercial airline pilot and flight instructor, is in line to become one of the world's first private astronauts. Clark's company, Canadian Arrow, was among more than two dozen teams that competed earlier this year in a $10 million race to send a privately developed spaceship into sub-orbital flight. |
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Transforming Dust Into Rocky Planets
Garching, Germany (SPX) Dec 01, 2004One of the hottest astrophysical topics - the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars - has just received impetus from new spectral observations of young stars. An international team of astronomers has obtained unique infrared spectra of the dust in the innermost regions of the proto-planetary discs around three young stars - now in a state possibly very similar to that of our solar system in the making, some 4,500 million years ago. Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our sun. |
EagleRay Brings Internet To Fast Trains
Vienna VA (SPX) Dec 01, 2004RaySat's new EagleRay satellite antenna system will soon bring broadband via satellite to high-speed passenger trains. With RaySat's EagleRay 5.5 inch high antenna, train passengers will be able to take advantage of two-way satellite always-on capability, such as sending and receiving e-mail and browsing the Internet over their laptop computers and PDAs while traveling by high-speed trains. New Evidence Supports Terrestrial Cause Of End-Permian Mass Extinction 
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Two hundred and fifty million years ago, ninety percent of marine species disappeared and life on land suffered greatly during the world's largest mass extinction. |
Gilat Introduces An Integrated Satellite Solution For GSM Operators
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Gilat Satellite Networks announced Tuesday that it has added to its family of SkyEdge products, the Sky-Abis, a satellite solution tailored towards the GSM market. VSAT Systems Establishes Service Recovery Taskforce To Assist Starband Users 
Akron OH (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Satellite Internet service provider VSAT Systems has established a Service Recovery Taskforce in response to the urgent needs of Starband business clients who lost service on Sunday due to a catastrophic failure on Intelsat Americas-7 (IA-7). |
Cellular Operator Mattel Moves Traffic To Intelsat System
Nouakchott, Mauritania (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Intelsat Tuesday announced that La Mauritano Tunisienne de Telecommunications (Mattel), in order to support the expansion of its cellular network, has moved all traffic onto the Intelsat satellite system. ESA Service Makes Customised Maps Available To African Aid Workers 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 01, 2004The map is not the territory, runs the famous quote, but maps do represent an unparalleled tool for emergency management. Nobody knows this better than Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose work often takes in locales without any usable maps. |
Iran Still An Enigma For US
Washington DC (AFP) Nov 30, 2004The United States, after the agreement on Iran's nuclear program, remains deeply distrusting of Tehran's promises and has mixed feelings about European efforts at conciliation. Iran Boasts Great Victory Over US, Warns Nuclear Freeze Is Temporary 
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Nov 30, 2004Iran boasted Tuesday it had humiliated the United States at a board meeting of the UN atomic watchdog by agreeing to what it reiterated was only a temporary freeze of its suspect nuclear programme. |
India Successfully Tests Short-Range Anti-Aircraft Missile
Bhubaneshwar, India (AFP) Nov 30, 2004India on Tuesday test-fired a short-range anti-aircraft missile from a site in the eastern state of Orissa, defence sources said. New Patriot Missiles Deployed In South Korea 
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) Nov 30, 2004US military authorities said Tuesday they had deployed new batteries of ground-to-air Patriot missiles in the southwestern city of Gwangju, a move that has triggered strong protests from activists there. |
Engineers Create Model For Testing Transistor Reliability
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors � a potential tool that industry could use to save tens of millions of dollars annually in testing costs. Phillipines Storm Leaves 300 Dead, 150 Missing 
Real, Philippines (AFP) Nov 30, 2004Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors Tuesday after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of debris. |
Spider Silks, The Ecological Materials Of Tomorrow
Munchen, Germany (SPX) Dec 01, 2004Spider silks could become the intelligent materials of the future, according to a review article published this month in the journal Microbial Cell Factories. The characteristics of spider silk could have applications in areas ranging from medicine to ballistics. The Poppy-Seed Bagel Theorem 
Nashville TN (SPX) Dec 01, 2004If you run into Ed Saff at a cocktail party and ask him what he does for a living, the mathematician is likely to reply that he is working on a "method for creating the perfect poppy-seed bagel." Then he'll pause and add, "Maybe that's not the most accurate description, but it's the most digestible." |
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