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ESA's Huygens Probe Set To Detach From Cassini OrbiterPasadena CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2004 
The highlights of the first year of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn can be broken into two chapters: first, the arrival of the Cassini orbiter at Saturn in June, and second, the release of the Huygens probe on Dec. 24, 2004, on a path toward Titan. |
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Space Race 2: Rest In Space
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Dec 21, 2004Going into the funeral business was not exactly what Charlie Chafer and a team of commercial space pioneers had in mind when they sketched plans, raised money and built rockets to break the government's monopoly on access to space. reports Irene Mona Klotz. North Carolina To Study Fractional Gravity Plants Signaling Processes 
Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 22, 2004A proposal by North Carolina State University researchers to put genetically modified plants on the International Space Station to study the effects of fractional gravity on the plants' signaling processes has been accepted by NASA. |
Progress Supply Ship Set To Leave Station For Ocean Disposal
Moscow (UPI) Dec 21, 2004A Russian cargo spacecraft will be disengaged from the International Space Station Wednesday, de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later. The Making Of An Ex-Activist 
Honolulu (SPX) Dec 22, 2004Since I started writing these space policy and technology opinion pieces here at SpaceDaily.Com, there have been two kinds of feedback from my readers, writes Jeffrey F. Bell in an article that sets out to explain Bell's thinking behind his views on the space program today. |
Cornell Gets Four Instrument Teams For Next Mars Rovers In '09
Ithaca NY (SPX) Dec 22, 2004Four Cornell University space scientists are on five of the eight teams that will begin planning the science program for NASA's next Mars rover mission, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), scheduled for launch in 2009. Instrument Studies Awarded For The NOAA Goes-R Spacecraft 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2004NASA has selected two contractors to perform design and risk reduction for the Space Environment In-Situ Suite of instruments for NOAA's next generation of GOES-R Series of spacecraft. |
In-Orbit Validation Contract: A Further Step Forward For Galileo
Paris (ESA) Dec 22, 2004The Galileo project is now well and truly taking shape, with today's signing of a second contract concerning the In-Orbit Validation phase, following that signed in July 2003 for two test satellites. Air Forces Use Joint STARS To Demo Secure, Airborne Internet 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2004The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman successfully demonstrated an airborne capability to collaborate real time via Internet 'chat rooms', e-mail, and the Web, all within a secure, classified environment. |
Australia Draws Line With United States On Global Warming: Report
Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2004Australia has distanced itself from the United States' hardline attempts to stall international action on greenhouse gas emissions, a report said Monday. It followed intense lobbying by the United States at a climate change conference in Buenos Aires earlier this month to set the stage for the Kyoto agreement, which Washington opposes. Climate Consensus In Any Language 
Boulder CO (UPI) Dec 20, 2004Scientific controversies get started when separate teams of researchers working on the same questions publish conflicting results in peer-reviewed journals. |
Aging Universe May Still Be Spawning Massive Galaxies
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2004NASA scientists have spotted what appear to be massive "baby" galaxies in our corner of the universe. Previously, astronomers thought the universe's birth rate had declined and only small galaxies were forming. Hidden Fault May Contribute To Bay Area Earthquake Risk 
University Park PA (SPX) Dec 21, 2004Earthquakes are not unusual in the San Francisco Bay Area, but a team of Penn State geoscientists believes that the hazard may be greater than previously thought because of a hidden fault under Marin County. |
Looking Through The IT Crystal Ball
Singapore (UPI) Dec 21, 2004The IT industry is coming of age, which means slower growth looking ahead as in any other mature industry, and new challenges for companies to bring in revenues. Rapid Progress Reported In Emerging Field Of Molecular Electronics 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2004The emerging field of molecular electronics - using nanoscale molecules as key components in computers and other electronic devices - is in excellent health and has a bright future, conclude UCLA, Caltech and University of California, Santa Barbara, chemists who assess the field in the Dec. 17 issue of the journal Science. |
Nano World: Nanoelectronics in 15 years
New York (UPI) Dec 21, 2004In order to keep computers advancing in power as they have for decades, a new research initiative partnering industry, academia and government has launched to hunt in nanotechnology for a successor to today's dominant chipmaking method. The Future's Bright For Diamond Dust 
Bristol, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2004Expensive, bulky TV screens could be a thing of the past thanks to a collaboration between the University of Bristol and Advance Nanotech announced today to develop new display technology made from diamond dust. |
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