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    OUTERPLANETS
    New Horizons Pluto Payload Set For Flight
     San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     The science payload for NASA's New Horizons mission completed its last major preparations for flight last week. The probe will be the first to visit Pluto and its moon, Charon. The compact New Horizons spacecraft carries a payload of seven science instruments for examining the geology, composition, surface, temperature and atmospheric structure of the planet and its moon. fullstory
    MARSDAILY
    Mars Looms Big And Bright As It Swings Close To Earth
     Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     Look east late these evenings and you'll see a big, fiery yellow "star" shining much brighter than any other. This is the planet Mars, and it's passing unusually close to Earth during late October and early November 2005.
  • Spirit Wiggles Into A Sturdy Workspace
  • Spirit Tests Its Limits, Gets What It Needs From Hillary, Husband Hill

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  • Wilma intensifies into 'extremely dangerous' category five hurricane

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    STATION NEWS
    Brazil's President In Moscow Signs Deal For Joint Space Mission
     Moscow (AFP) Oct 18, 2005
     Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the first full day of a politically groundbreaking first visit to Moscow Tuesday signed a 20 million dollar deal to send one of his compatriots into space on a joint Russo-Brazilian mission.
    ROCKET SCIENCE
    ATK To Continue Development of Air Breathing Hypersonic Propulsion
     Minneapolis MN (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     Alliant Techsystems has received a five-year contract from NASA to conduct hypersonic aero-propulsion research in specially designed wind-tunnels that replicate the atmospheric conditions aircraft experience if traveling at speeds up to Mach 20.
    SPACEMART
    Boeing Delivers Next-Generation Commercial Satellite To DirecTV
     St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     Boeing recently (October 10) announced the on-orbit delivery of the Spaceway F1 satellite to DirecTV.
  • SES Astra Secures Channel 4 Contract
  • Tech-Sector Job Cuts Up 20 Percent
  • Global Computer Sales Up 17 Percent In Quarter: Analysts
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    PLANETARY SCIENCE
    Venus Express Ready For Lift-Off
     London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     Scientists Monday revealed their plans to analyse the magnetic field around Venus in a bid to discover whether the planets lack of an internal magnetic field is the reason it is so inhospitable.
  • Cassini-Huygens Mission Celebrates Anniversary
  • Britain Should Put Astronauts On Moon, Mars: AS

    • GAMMA RAY BURSTS
    Integral: Three Years Of Insight Into The Violent Cosmos
     Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2005
     Observing the cosmos, full of violent phenomena and extreme energy, has been the task of ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory since its launch on 17 October 2002. Three years later, the mission is going very well and has recorded a wealth of important discoveries.
    ENERGY TECH
    CIA Invests In No-Fuel Power Generators
     Arlington, Va. (UPI) Oct 18, 2005
     The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is reportedly investing in a power unit that can generate substantial electrical energy without using any fuel.

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    • HURRICANE NEWS
    Wilma Sparks New Hurricane Fears On American Coast
     Miami (AFP) Oct 18, 2005
     Hurricane Wilma built up force on Tuesday as it powered through the Caribbean toward the American coast.
  • This Year's Hurricane Season Ties a Record

    • FLORA AND FAUNA
    Researcher Identifies Tracks Of Swimming Dinosaur In Wyoming
     Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student.
  • Wright Brothers Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes

    • TERRADAILY
    Ozone Hole Third Largest On Record
     Geneva (AFP) Oct 18, 2005
     This year's seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica was the third largest on record, but forecasters are uncertain how it will behave in the future, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Tuesday.
  • NRL Scientists Detect 'Milky Sea' Phenomena
  • Seafloor Creatures Destroyed By Ice Action During Ice Ages
  • Mountain Winds May Create Atmospheric Hotspots

    • DISASTER MANAGEMENT
    UN Says Not Enough Tents In The World For Quake Survivors
     Islamabad (AFP) Oct 18, 2005
     A senior United Nations official said Tuesday there were not enough tents in the world to protect refugees from the coming winter after the October 8 earthquake in South Asia.
  • Quake-Hit Pakistan Races Against Winter
  • Pakistan, India Move To Open Quake-Hit Kashmir
  • Pakistan Forced Aid Agencies To Pull Sat Quake Pics: Journal
  • Pakistan Cuts Through Mountain Roads To Reach Survivors
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    SINO DAILY
    Analysis: Rumsfeld Arrives In Beijing
     Beijing (UPI) Oct 18, 2005
     US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Beijing Tuesday for a brief but busy first visit in his position as a top member of the Bush administration.
  • Rumsfeld: World Watching If China Charts Path To Open Society

    MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
    Firm Foundation Laid For Premier Research And Development Spacecraft
     Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     Demonstration and Science Experiments satellite will provide advanced technology to enhance war fighter communication, surveillance, and navigation when launched in 2008
  • Spacecraft To Forecast Outages Impacting US Milcomm Links
  • Norsat & Arrowhead to Deliver Backpack Satellite System

    • UAV NEWS
    DARPA MAV Passes Milestone Towards Future Combat System Class I UAV
     St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 19, 2005
     The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program has passed a significant milestone in its progress toward selecting a Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system.
    NUKEWARS
    India To Forge Plan With US To Separate Civilian, Military Nuclear Programs
     New York (AFP) Oct 18, 2005
     The United States and India will draw up a plan separating India's civilian and military nuclear facilities to pave the way for implementation of their landmark atomic energy cooperation deal by early 2006, a senior US official said Tuesday.
  • Elbaradei 'Confident' Nuclear Talks Will Resume With Iran
  • New Chinese Missile Subs Pose Challenge To U.S.
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  • YESTERDAY'S SPACE
  • Chinese Astronauts Return To Earth, New Mission In 2007
  • Shenzhou 6 Tab: US$111m
  • After Shenzhou VI, China Sets Sights On Manned Space Station
  • Ball State Students Developing Model Of Edible Lunar Vehicle
  • Dione In Full View Above Saturn
  • Mars' Climate In Flux: Mid-Latitude Glaciers
  • New Map Provides More Evidence Mars Once Like Earth
  • Scientists Propose Paradigm Shift In Robotic Space Exploration
  • Future Smart Robotic Space Missions Will Be Multi-Tiered, Researchers Say
  • New VLT Images Reveal the Surroundings Of A Super-massive Black Hole
  • Networking: E-mail Is The 'New Telephone'
  • Arianespace To Launch Spirale Microsats
  • Globecomm and Samacom Announce Launch of Middle East Service Operation
  • Symmetricom Announces First IEEE 1588 Network Grandmaster Clock
  • Mini-Plane Newest Addition To Unmanned Family
  • Homeland Security Mismanaging U.S. Cybersecurity Risks: Report
  • China Could Become World Leader In Wind Power: Greenpeace
  • Boeing Completes Successful Boost Test Of HyFly Hypersonic Demonstrator
  • Climate Model Predicts Dramatic Changes Over Next 100 Years
  • Method To Streamline, Accelerate The Process Of Measuring Acoustics
  • Analysis: Asia Quake Worse Than Tsunami?
  • Geologist Urges Seismic Shift In Process For Selecting Earthscope Study Sites
  • US Faces 'Extreme' Temperature Changes: Study
  • Oil Prices Jump On Fresh US Hurricane Threat
  • UN Urges Early Warning Systems To Combat Desertification
  • Ancient Anthropoid Origins Discovered In Africa


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