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ISS Crew Begin Preparing For Big Shipment Back To Earth With Shuttle RTF
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 07, 2005The Expedition 10 crew is turning its attention to the Space Shuttle's Return to Flight mission, STS-114. This week Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov spent several days pre-packing International Space Station items destined for return to Earth aboard Shuttle Discovery. Poking Around On The Plains 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 07, 2005Opportunity continues to be active and healthy, making good progress south across the Meridiani plains with a few hiccups along the way. Despite the early end of one autonomous traverse and a Deep Space Network problem that precluded sending commands on sol 364, the rover covered more than 300 meters in the past week. Melting Mars To Create A New Earth 
Moffett Field (SPX) Feb 04, 2005Injecting synthetic "super" greenhouse gases into the Martian atmosphere could raise the planet's temperature enough to melt its polar ice caps and create conditions suitable for sustaining biological life. |
Ariane 5 ECA Prepares For Launch
French Guiana (SPX) Feb 07, 2005Preparations are well underway for the qualification flight of Europe's latest launcher, the Ariane-5 ECA, from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The launch window opens on the evening of 11 February at 16:49 and will extend until 18:10. EELVs Are A Bad Deal 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2005I take issue with both the spin Boeing management put on its failed Delta IV 'Heavy' launch (AV. WEEK & SPACE/Jan 3, 2005, p 25) and OSTP's EELV-only initiative ("New U.S. Space transportation Policy Emphasizes EELV Rockets" Space News Jan 10, 2005, p.12). Filter Enhances The Power Of Communications Satellites 
Navarre, Spain (SPX) Feb 07, 2005Researchers at the Public University of Navarre are designing and developing a filter that enhances the power of communications satellites for the European Space Agency. The filter enables the reduction, by a factor of a million, interference produced by what is known as the "Field Emission Effect". |
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Saturn's Bull's-Eye Marks Its Hot Spot
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2005NASA astronomers using the Keck I telescope in Hawaii are learning much more about a strange, thermal "hot spot" on the tip of Saturn's south pole. Even Stars Can Only Get So Big 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 04, 2005New research from the University of Michigan shows that there may be an upper limit to the mass of a star, somewhere around 120 to 200 times bigger than our sun. The sun is the closest star to Earth and therefore looks very big to us, but compared to other stars in the Milky Way, it�s considered a low-mass star. Arecibo To Search For Starless Galaxies 
Puerto Rico (SPX) Feb 04, 2005Fitted with its new compound eye on the heavens, the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory telescope early Saturday morning began a years-long survey of distant galaxies, which will perhaps discover elusive "dark galaxies" - galaxies that are devoid of stars. |
Volvo And Virgin Galactic Team Up
Irvine CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2005Volvo Cars of North America made history during its first-ever Super Bowl ad by announcing it will give away a chance to win a seat on the world's first commercial passenger-carrying spaceship. Sudan To Put Satellite In Space 
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP) Feb 06, 2005War-ravaged Sudan is to put its first satellite in orbit by the end of the year at a cost of 60 million dollars, the pro-government Sudanese Media Centre said Sunday. Panama Gets High-Tech NASA Environmental Monitoring Center 
Panama (AFP) Feb 03, 2005The US space agency NASA was to open a regional environmental change monitoring system in Panama Thursday which uses satellites to generate data on a region it called "urgently" in need of environmental protection. |
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