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Analysis: Congress Restricts Private SpaceWashington (UPI) Dec 9, 2004 
Most space advocates have been excited about the benefits of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which the Senate passed Wednesday and now awaits the president's signature, but a close reading of the bill gives reason for pause. |
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Japan To Resume Rocket Launches After Spy Satellite Flop
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 09, 2004Japan said Thursday it would try again to launch its domestically developed H-2A rocket in early 2005 following last year's aborted mission to try to send two spy satellites to monitor NKorea. Travelling To Mars In Your Dreams? 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 10, 2004Can you imagine spending eight weeks in bed? ESA is looking for female volunteers who are prepared to do just that for a study taking place in Toulouse, France, from the end of February next year. |
A Nuclear-Powered Mission To Neptune?
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004In 30 years, a nuclear-powered space exploration mission to Neptune and its moons may begin to reveal some of our solar system's most elusive secrets about the formation of its planets -- and recently discovered ones that developed around other stars. Outer C Ring Detail 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004This view of Saturn's outer C ring shows the extreme variations in brightness, along with the subtle, large-scale wavy variations discovered 24 years ago by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. |
Spitzer And Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2004Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary debris around stars the size of our Sun. Nanotubes Glow, Even In Biological Cells 
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2004In some of the first work documenting the uptake of carbon nanotubes by living cells, a team of chemists and life scientists from Rice University, the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Texas Heart Institute have detected low concentrations of nanotubes in laboratory cell cultures. |
Standards-Based Broadband Satellite Platforms Poised to Post Solid Gains
Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 10, 2004Northern Sky Research has released its newest market survey and forecast report "Reassessing the Viability of Satellite Standards." The report offers a concise update of the standards-based satellite market in seven regions and for both enterprise and consumer market segments. Connexion by Boeing Achieves Strong Growth in Availability 
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing continues to solidify its leadership in providing secure, high-speed, in-flight Internet and e-mail connectivity for travelers. |
Japan To Exempt Joint Missile Development With US From Arms Ban: Reports
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 09, 2004Japan decided Thursday to exempt joint missile development with the United States from its longstanding ban on arms exports, press reports said. @Road Awarded Two New Patents for Applying Business Rules To GPS Applications 
Fremont CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004@Road(R), Inc. has been awarded U.S. Patent 6,795,017, "Rule-based Actions using GPS Tracking Data," and European Patent EP1168863, "Dual Platform Location-relevant Service." |
Building a Gigapixel-Sized Image
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Dec 10, 2004An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel - one billion pixels - of visual information in a single image. Deep Tremors Under San Andreas Fault Could Portend Earthquakes 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have discovered mysterious tremors deep under the San Andreas Fault that may portend future earthquakes. |
AstroVision Signs Marketing Agreement with Astro Research of Japan
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 10, 2004The Managing Director of AstroVision Australia, Mr Michael Hewins, announced today the signing of a marketing agreement between AstroVision Australia Limited and Astro Research Corporation of Japan to work together in a business development capacity to develop the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese markets. Columbia Team Shows How Stratospheric Conditions Affect Weather 
Columbia NY (SPX) Dec 09, 2004Three members of Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics have used a simple climate model to demonstrate how the weather systems and storms we experience may be influenced by disturbances in the Earth's stratosphere, the upper layer of atmosphere between 10 and 30 miles high. |
Carbon Sink Or Carbon Source? Aerosols Play Significant Role In Shifts
Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 09, 2004Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that the amount of aerosols - dust particles, soot from automobile emissions and factories, and other airborne particles - in the atmosphere has a significant impact on whether the surface area below either absorbs or emits more carbon dioxide (CO2). Global Warming Good News For Coral Reefs 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 10, 2004Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third in response to increased ocean warming and the greenhouse effect, according to Australian scientists. "Our analysis suggests that ocean warming will foster considerably faster future rates of coral reef growth that will eventually exceed pre-industrial rates by as much as 35 per cent by 2100," says Dr Ben McNeil, an oceanographer from the UNSW. |
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