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OPINION SPACE
Rebuilding The Russian Road To Space
 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2005

Your train to Space Hotel One is departing now!
To judge the future by recent events, one might think that by 2010 U.S. tourists will be flying to orbital U.S. hotels on U.S. spacecraft, while at the same time the Bush administration initiative to return humans to the moon will be charging forward at warp speed toward a 2015 return.

Think again.

The future of space in the next decade could just as easily be dominated by a resurgent Russian space industry, innovative and efficient, with the ability to provide quality service to its customers at a low cost. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian space program was the first business to face reality and shift gears, quickly adopting capitalistic and market-oriented techniques for making a profit. More
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NUKEWARS
Cat And Mouse Game Over Iran
 New York (UPI) Jan 26, 2005
 The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said.
OPINION SPACE
How Bush Got Iraq War Cost Wrong
 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2005
 President George W. Bush is spending the political capital of his decisive re-election just as he said he would. But he is being forced to spend it where he least expected -- to fund the soaring, ongoing costs of the endless war in Iraq with no end in sight.
SPACEWAR
Air Force Lab Exercises Option For X-band Thin Radar Aperture Contract
 El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 Raytheon's option to proceed with its X-band thin radar aperture contract has been exercised, allowing the company to produce the next generation radar antenna technology for the Joint Unmanned Air Combat System that could revolutionize manned and unmanned combat systems.
OPINION SPACE
The Big Lie: Tsumani and Global Warming
 Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 The only people linking the Tsunami with Global Warming are global warming skeptics looking for a straw man to burn their opponents with. They call global warming junk science - but I call this junk analysis that's driven by a political agenda and has nothing to do with science and the debate of stated facts.
TECTONICS
Presumed Death Toll In Asian Tsunamis Passes 283,000
 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 27, 2005
 The number of people presumed dead in last month's Asian tsunamis rose to more than 283,000 Thursday, with Indonesian authorities announcing a further increase in the number of dead and missing.
EARTH OBSERVATION
Satellite Data Reveal Immense Pollution Pool Over Bihar, India
 Champaign IL (SPX) Jan 28, 2005
 Scientists studying satellite data have discovered an immense wintertime pool of pollution over the northern Indian state of Bihar. Blanketing around 100 million people, primarily in the Ganges Valley, the pollution levels are about five times larger than those typically found over Los Angeles.
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AEROSPACE
Military Sales Lift Lockheed Martin Profit To $372 Million
 Bethesda MD (AFP) Jan 27, 2005
 Lockheed Martin said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose eight percent from a year ago to 372 million dollars, driven by higher sales of missiles, sensors and satellites.
SPACEMART
Orbital Completes Telkom-2 Satellite For Indonesia
 Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 Orbital Sciences announced Wednesday that it has completed the design, manufacturing and testing process for the Telkom-2 C-band satellite that the company is supplying to Indonesia's state-owned telecommunications company, PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (PT Telkom).
Alcatel Signs New Contract With Star One To Build Star One C2 Satellite
 Paris, Paris (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 Alcatel announced Wednesday the signature of a new 150 million US dollar contract with the Brazilian satellite operator Star One, the largest satellite solutions company in Latin America, for the construction of the telecommunications satellite Star One C2 for South America. It is the second satellite that Alcatel will build for the Brazilian operator.
VSAT NEWS
iDirect And Pronto Partner To Provide Wi-Fi Support For VSAT Industry
 Reston VA (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 iDirect Technologies has announced an agreement with Pronto Networks to incorporate the company's Operations Support System (OSS) into its product offering to deliver last mile, wireless connectivity via satellite.
SPACE MEDICINE
Telemedicine Is Healthcare's New Frontier
 Paris, France (ESA) Jan 28, 2005
 Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier, a means of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional competences. It can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow peripheral and primary healthcare providers to receive continuous assistance from specialised centres.
GPS NEWS
Gizmondo Selects MapInfo Platform To Deliver Location-Enabled Applications
 Troy NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 MapInfo Corporation has announced that Gizmondo Europe, subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based Tiger Telematics, has selected MapInfo Envinsa location services platform to provide core functionality for a range of location services for Gizmondo, the much anticipated and award-winning mobile, multi-entertainment device for 2005.
TECH.WIRE
PHYSICS
Lab Mimics A Star's Energy Bursts
 Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 A key process that enhances the production of nuclear energy in the interior of dense stars has been re-created in the lab for the first time by physicists at NIST.
NANO TECH
Lasers Aglow With Carbon Nanotubes
 Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 Carbon nanotubes may find one of its quickest applications in the next generation of standards for optical power measurements, which are essential for laser systems used in manufacturing, medicine, communications, lithography, space-based sensors and other technologies.
GAMMA RAY BURSTS
Swift Images Birth Of A Black Hole
 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole. The bright and long burst occurred on January 17. It was in the midst of exploding, as Swift autonomously turned to focus in less than 200 seconds.
OPINION SPACE
How Europe's Media Landed On Titan - Another Observation
 Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 European space science hadn't seen a day like this since decades, and you had to go back to perhaps the encounter of the Giotto spacecraft with Halley's comet in 1986 for an event of equal drama and importance.
STATION NEWS
Joint Statement by International Space Station Heads of Agency
 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 26, 2005
 The heads of space agencies from the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada met in Montreal Wednesday Jan 26 to review and further advance the ISS.
SHUTTLE NEWS
Moss In Space Project Shows How Some Plants Grow Without Gravity
 Columbus OH (SPX) Jan 27, 2005
 Experiments on moss grown aboard two space shuttle Columbia missions showed that the plants didn't behave as scientists expected them to in the near-absence of gravity.
YESTERDAY'S SPACEDAILY HEADLINES
  • First European Long-Term Space Station Mission This Year
  • Spacewalkers Outfit Station's Exterior
  • SMART-1's First Images From The Moon
  • NASA Selects Small Explorer Mission
  • Hoyer Fighting For Hubble Servicing Mission
  • Demonstration Launch Of SAR-Lupe Satellites Successful
  • Symmetricom Launches GPS Timing Instrument For Power Co's
  • Steady Growth in Satellite Broadband Services: Northern Sky
  • South Korea May Buy 10 Russian Angara Boosters
  • Climate: Ford Faces The Future
  • Lenovo Vows To Cooperate With US Panel Over IBM Sale
  • China Could Feed 2 Billion People With Better Irrigation
  • India, China Warm Up To Each Other
  • Analysis: Putin Discards His Reform Allies
  • Analysis: U.S.-U.K. Differences Deepen
  • Arming US Airliners Against Missile Attacks Too Pricey
  • Tsunami Makes India's Nuke Workers Jittery
  • Sinking Coastlines May Precede Subduction Zone Quakes
  • Microbes In Yellowstone Hot Springs Fueled By Hydrogen
  • Canada, Russia Eye 'Bridge' Over Melting Ice Cap
  • Iran To Commission Russia To Build Telecom Satellite
  • Calls For Solidarity To Tackle World problems
  • Anti-Globalization Forum Starts In Brazil
  • Free-Speech Suit Filed Against Japan Over Personal Databank
  • South Korean Firm Unveils New Lighting Diode System
  • Unconventional Threats Now In Focus For Pentagon
  • EU Calls On Iran To Dismantle Fuel Cycle Work Diplomats
  • Pakistani PM Warns India Against Arms Race
  • 31 Killed In Iraq Helicopter Crash: Military
  • Sri Lanka Sets Tsunami Toll At 30,957 Dead


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