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Italian Prepares For A Second Ride Up To The Space Station
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 27, 2005A distress beacon flashes over the snow-covered surroundings. Someone is apparently being evacuated from an improvised shelter. The scene looks strange, somewhat theatrical. But it's not a film studio. Cometary Encounter Closer 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2005NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the cruise phase. Discovery Getting Ready to Roll 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 28, 2005When the crew members of the Space Shuttle Discovery lift off later this year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., they'll be supported by two years of hard work by tens of thousands of people determined to make the Space Shuttle safer. NASA has upgraded flight hardware, as well as visual tracking and inspection equipment, to ensure the Return to Flight mission is successful. |
Analysis: Russia, China Clash On War Game Plans
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2005Russian Chief of General Staff Yury Baluyevsky flies home from the Far East this week after finalizing plans for large, ambitious joint-military exercises to be held with China this fall. India Open To Buying Military Equipment From US: Defence Minister 
New Delhi (AFP) Mar 27, 2005Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday welcomed an offer by the United States to boost missile defense and other security initiatives including the proposed sale of military equipment. Orbital Completes Fourth Test For Navy's Sea-Skimming Target Missile 
Dulles, VA (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Thursday that it successfully flight-tested the U.S. Navy's GQM-163A "Coyote" Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target (SSST) system for the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) on March 24, 2005. |
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X-Rays Signal Presence Of Elusive Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Peculiar outbursts of X-rays coming from a black hole have provided evidence that it has a mass of about 10,000 Suns, which would place it in a possible new class of black holes. In The Stars: Seeing The (Planet) Light 
Washington (UPI) March 27, 2005It might be hard to believe, but it has been only 10 years since the existence of the first three extrasolar planets was confirmed. And now we can detect the first faint hints of the reflective light coming from these sub-stellar objects. In The Stars: Omega Centauri Blues 
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2005The late astronomer Carl Sagan was fond of saying "we are starstuff," referring to the fact that the atoms in our bodies were once cooked up inside an ancient giant star that exploded. |
Up Next On Mars,...
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2005The path of America's Mars exploration through 2009 is well set. Following the current spectacularly successful pair of Mars Exploration Rovers, this year will see the launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - which will use extremely sharp cameras and spectrometers and a very high communications rate to map virtually the entire planet at very high resolution. - (5000 word essay by Bruce Moomaw.) Embezzlement At Russian Space Facility 
Kazakhstan (UPI) Mar 22, 2005Kazakh and Russian watchdog agencies are investigating $65 million that might have been embezzled from payments for the Baykonur cosmodrome, local media said. Milky Way Hides A Super Cluster 
La Silla, Chile (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Super star clusters pack over 100,000 very young stars packed into an unbelievably small volume. They represent the most extreme environments in which stars and planets can form. |
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Gilat's Spacenet Expands Its Reach With New Global Broadband Services
Israel (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Gilat Satellite Networks announced Tuesday that its U.S. subsidiary, Spacenet, has expanded its services portfolio to include worldwide broadband communications services to multinational corporations. USAF Awards SAIC And Eagle Broadband Contract For Eagle's SatMAX Technology 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Eagle Broadband announced Tuesday that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Eagle have been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for Eagle's Satellite Media Access Extender (SatMAX) non-line-of-sight satellite communications technology which has been shipped for immediate deployment at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Nanocatalysts For Oil, Drugs 
New York (UPI) March 25, 2005The catalysts on which more than 20 percent of world industrial production is based -- including the expensive platinum employed to scrub clean the exhausts of millions of vehicles and the molecules pharmaceutical giants use to manufacture drugs -- soon could be replaced in large part by more effective nanotechnology upgrades, experts told UPI's Nano World. |
Big Hopes For Tiny, New Hydrogen Storage Material
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking a new approach to "filling up" a fuel cell car with a nanoscale solid, hydrogen storage material. Theories Of High-Temperature Superconductivity Violate Pauli Principle 
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2005Scientists seeking to explain high-temperature superconductivity have been violating the Pauli exclusion principle, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University report. Any theory that does not embrace the Pauli principle has a lot of explaining to do, they say. Membraneless Fuel Cell Is Tiny, Versatile 
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2005A fuel cell designed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can operate without a solid membrane separating fuel and oxidant, and functions with alkaline chemistry in addition to the more common acidic chemistry. |
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