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A Martian Sandpit
Opportunity Examines A Trench And Scuff
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2005
Opportunity is in good health after more than a year on the martian surface. The rover completed its investigation of a trench and soil materials on sol 373 and is ready for a software patch, which will be uploaded over next few sols.

There have been no recent dust storm events, and tau - a measurement of atmospheric opacity - has remained close to 0.9 for the past two weeks. fullstory

Pluto At 75
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
Seventy - five years ago this month, in February of 1930, our solar system's ninth planet - Pluto - was discovered. The discovery of Pluto, 2500 kilometers wide and fully a billion kilometers beyond Neptune, was made by Clyde Tombaugh.

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The Wrinkles Of Youth
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2005
Many of Saturn's more interesting moons are crusted with ice. The moons are often too small for a radioactive core and internal heating. The bizarre wrinkled surface on one of the moons, Enceladus, may reveal a geologically young age.

Technology Satellite For Fluid Dynamics Successfully Orbited By Ariane 5
Paris (ESA) Feb 14, 2005
At exactly 22:03 CET last Saturday Ariane Flight 164 lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre carrying Sloshsat FLEVO, an experimental mini-satellite to investigate the dynamics of fluids in weightlessness.

LockMart Delivers First Atlas Five Booster To West Coast Launch Site
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
Lockheed Martin's first Atlas V booster for launch from the West Coast has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, continuing the proud legacy of over four decades of Atlas operations from California.
Wireless World: WiMax Is Coming
Chicago (UPI) Feb 11, 2005
The latest wireless mobile computing technology, called WiMax, is gaining momentum at a rapid clip. Research underway at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering suggests WiMax may be one of the hottest technology trends of 2005.

Eagle Broadband Secures $8.2 Million in New Financing
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 15, 2005
Eagle Broadband has successfully closed $8.2 million in new financing led by The Keystone Equities Group, which acted as a placement agent for the transaction.

Globecomm Targets Africa With New IP Network Architecture
Hauppauge NY (SPX) Feb 15, 2005
Globecomm Systems has announced that the Company has launched a new managed mobile network services platform into Africa utilizing the Company's award winning (patent-pending) Internet Protocol ("IP") network architecture.
LASCO Captures Piece Of Itself
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 11, 2005
Since the launch of SOHO in December 1995, images similar to this one have been observed about a dozen times. As in each previous case, it appears that some of SOHO's multi-layer thermal insulation (MLI), which has become brittle after over nine years' exposure to solar radiation, has flaked off and is passing in front of the wide-angle view of the coronagraph.

Bush Holds The Line On Kyoto As Debate Grows In US Public
Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2005
With the Kyoto Protocol on climate change set to take effect, President George W. Bush's administration still rejects it as too costly for the US economy and based on questionable scientific hypotheses.

Climate: Heating Up On A Yearly Basis
Boulder CO (UPI) Feb 14, 2005
Scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies have compiled data showing 2004 was the fourth warmest year on record. Another data set, calculated by scientists at the University of Alabama, found 2004 to be the ninth warmest since they began keeping track in 1976.
Nanotech May Cut Pharma Waste
New York (UPI) Feb 11, 2005
Much of the considerable waste the pharmaceutical industry generates could be cut dramatically by using nanotechnology reactors. Experts told UPI's Nano World the reactors - consisting of capsules only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size - could boost the efficiency of medicine synthesis by five-fold or more.

Engineered Support Systems Aquires Spacelink International
St Louis MO (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
Engineered Support Systems announced February 7 that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Spacelink International.

US Conducts Space War Game To Test Warfighting Capability
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
The US military has completed a week-long space war game in Nellis Air Force Base, in the western state of Nevada, to see how space-based assets can be used in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020, military officials said Thursday.
SPOT Satellites Assist In South Asia
Paris (ESA) Feb 14, 2005
The human tragedy and widespread desolation caused by the tsunami which hit Asia on 26 December will be, according to the United Nations, the biggest ever natural catastrophy to hit our planet.

No Sour Grapes Here
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2005
Growing grapes for winemaking is an art as old as the Egyptian pyramids. But today, space-age technology is helping vineyard owners grow healthier plants and pick their grapes at the height of perfection.

Analysis: The Kremlin's Majority Share
Moscow (UPI) Feb 11, 2005
Russia's Natural Resources Ministry announced last Thursday that foreign companies would be banned from bidding for large strategic oil and metal deposits in 2005.
LockMart Conducts Fifth Successful Test Of Guided MLRS Unitary Rocket
Dallas TX (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
Lockheed Martin recently conducted the fifth successful flight test of a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Unitary rocket at White Sands Missile Range, NM.

New Atomic-Bomb History Offered
Dallas (UPI) Feb 14, 2005
An author that challenges the traditional history of how the United States developed the nuclear weapons used to end World War II invites the face-to-face scrutiny of some of the nation's most respected scientists and historians.

US DoD University And Humanetics To Protect Against Radiation Exposure
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Feb 14, 2005
Humanetics and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine will develop and commercialize drugs to protect the immune system from exposure to radiation resulting from a terrorist attack.
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