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Satellite Images Boosting Asian Tsunami Aid EffortsParis, France (SPX) Jan 04, 2005 
Satellites are playing a key role in helping rescue and reconstruction efforts in the Indian Ocean, beaming down images from space of areas worst-affected by the earthquake and tidal waves. |
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Parachuting Into Titan
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 04, 2005Two hours. That's how long it will take the ESA's Huygens probe to parachute to the surface of Titan on January 14th. Descending through thick orange clouds, Huygens will taste Titan's atmosphere, measure its wind and rain, listen for alien sounds and, when the clouds part, take pictures. A Perfect Landing 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 05, 2005A year after Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity, made their dramatic arrivals on Mars, the man who led the landing team looks back on a job well done. |
Deep Impact Launch Window Open Jan 12 - Closes Jan 28
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2005In the movie "Deep Impact," NASA astronauts try to prevent a comet from hitting Earth. When the mission fails, as a last desperate act they fly their spacecraft into the comet, blowing it to smithereens. Deep Impact Set For Launch But Scientists Must Wait Six Months For Main Event 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The scientist who wrote the book on planetary impact cratering will join NASA and other university researchers at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to watch the launch of Deep Impact this month. |
Deep Space Network: Talking More For Less
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 04, 2005As more unmanned scientific spacecraft are launched to explore our Solar System, the task of tracking and communicating with them all, at once, has created new technical challenges for operators at NASA's Deep Space Network. Arianespace Continues Commercial Consolidation In 2004 
Evry, France (SPX) Jan 05, 2005Over the past year three Ariane 5 Generic missions were performed by Arianespace, successfully launching the Rosetta spacecraft on a trajectory to encounter a comet, orbiting the Anik F2 satellite (the world's largest telecommunications platform ever launched) and lofting the Helios 2A reconnaissance satellite. |
The State Of Weapons Proliferation In 2004
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 29, 2005Part 1 - Nuclear. During the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign both President George Bush and his opponent, Senator John Kerry, said nuclear proliferation is the single greatest global threat. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France - all possess nuclear weapons. India, Pakistan and Israel have them as well. ATK Test Demonstrates Pulse-Capable Solid Divert and Attitude Control System Design 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jan 04, 2005ATK and Honeywell successfully completed a hot-fire test of a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Solid Divert and Attitude Control System incorporating design features to improve performance and reliability. |
Reducing The Death Toll From Tsunami
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 26th December 2004 was caused by the largest earthquake that has been recorded in 40 years. Within minutes of the quake occurring the Tsunami Warning Centers in Hawaii and Alaska knew of the potential for a severe tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Clusters Of Earthquakes Yield An Ominous Scenario 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The newest studies on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest have identified a "clustering" of great earthquakes of the type that would cause a major tsunami, yielding a historical record with two distinct implications - one good, the other not. |
KVH Receives $2.25 Million Order For TACNAV Military Navigation Systems
Middletown RI (SPX) Jan 04, 2005KVH Industries has received an order valued at roughly $2.25 million for its TACNAV vehicle navigation systems and related program management services. The order, placed by a major defense prime contractor on behalf of a foreign customer, has a potential total value of $2.85 million if optional engineering support orders are placed. Satelinx Signs A Multi-Year Contract With Auto Spa Worth $1,380,000 
Montreal QC (SPX) Jan 04, 2005Satelinx International has signed a 5 year contract with Auto Spa of Montreal, Canada, a contract representing sales for Satelinx of $1,380,000 USD over 5 years. |
US West Coast Tsunami Dangers
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The type of devastating tsunami that struck the southern coast of Asia is entirely possible in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, but might not cause as much loss of life there because of better warning systems, according to experts at Oregon State University. High-Flying Observatory Reveals Land Changing To Desert 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2005Using advanced remote-sensing techniques from a U-2 surveillance plane and field studies, scientists from the Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology have for the first time determined large-scale interactions between ecosystems and the climate during the process of desertification. |
Comsat Wins $42 Million Contract for Brazilian Broadband Network
McLean VA (SPX) Jan 04, 2005Comsat International, a full-service provider of voice and data communications throughout Latin America, announced today that its Vicom subsidiary in Brazil has been awarded the GESAC project in Brazil. Researchers Discover Humans Are Of A 'Privileged' Evolutionary Lineage 
Chevy Chase MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2005The genes that regulate brain development and function evolved much more rapidly in humans than in nonhuman primates and other mammals because of natural selection processes unique to the human lineage. Researchers reported their findings in the cover article of the Dec. 29, 2004, issue of Cell. |
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