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SpaceShipOne Aims For Space June 21
Mojave CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2004A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to become the world's first commercial manned space vehicle. Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and aviation legend Burt Rutan have teamed to create the program, which will attempt the first non-governmental flight to leave the earth's atmosphere. Sources Of Solar Hazards 
Denver CO (SPX) Jun 03, 2004Life on Earth is nurtured by heat and light from the Sun. Yet life on Earth also is inconvenienced, sometimes potentially threatened, when the Sun sends out huge blasts of energy and high-speed particles. |
Rovers Examining Hills And Crater In Bonus-Time Mission 
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 02, 2004More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has possibly seen layered rock in the "Columbia Hills" that lay just ahead. NASA To Award Contract For Aerospace Testing 
Moffett Field CA - Jun 03, 2004NASA will award a $48 million contract to Jacobs Sverdrup of Tullahoma, Tennessee to provide a wide range of support services for aerospace testing and facilities maintenance and operations at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. |
Globalstar Upgrades Caribbean Service
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2004Globalstar, the world's most widely-used handheld satellite phone service, announced Tuesday that its service quality in the high-traffic Caribbean region has been dramatically improved, following the installation of a fourth antenna at its regional gateway at Las Palmas, Puerto Rico. BT Selects Intelsat For Broadband Services 
London (SPX) Jun 03, 2004Intelsat today announced the commercial launch of BT's new satellite broadband service using the Intelsat system. The service will be an integral part of BT's overall broadband strategy to bring competitively priced two-way, high-speed services to users throughout the UK. |
Micro-Satellite Steers By The Stars To Return Views Of Earth
Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2004Since its launch in October 2001, ESA�s Proba micro-satellite has been returning remarkable imagery of some of our planet�s major landmarks with a compact instrument called the High Resolution Camera. Scanning Blood Flow During Operations 
Warsaw (SPX) Jun 02, 2004PERMON is developing a radiological imaging system that will give medics a clearer view inside the human body by accurately monitoring organ blood flow during operations. This essential information will lead to an increase in techniques such as laser surgery over more invasive methods. |
Engineers Visualize Electric Memory As It Fades
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 02, 2004While the memory inside electronic devices may often be more reliable than that of humans, it, too, can worsen over time. Now a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory may understand why. |
Scientists Prepare To Place Einstein On The Rim Of A Black Hole
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 03, 2004It may soon be sink-or-swim time for Albert Einstein. Scientists are preparing for the ultimate test of Einstein's law of gravity, known as the theory of general relativity, through a systematic, in-depth study of hundreds of black holes. |
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NASA Chief Calls For Robots To Save Hubble Denver (UPI) Jun 01, 2004 
NASA administration Sean O'Keefe said Tuesday his agency is seeking proposals to send a robotic mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope. "Our objective is still to maintain Hubble as a productive scientific asset," O'Keefe said at a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting.Water: Key To A Healthy Economy 
Canberra (SPX) Jun 03, 2004 One of the largest water research partnerships in Australian history, the Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, was launched in Canberra today by the Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson. Columbia To Start Major Tree-Ring Climate Research Study 
New York NY (SPX) Jun 02, 2004The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, a $5.5 million grant to study one of the largest climate systems affecting the globe--the Asian monsoon climate system. Near-Infrared Laser Transfers Data To Mid-Infrared Laser Beam 
Hoboken NJ (SPX) Jun 02, 2004"Interband transitions controlling intersubband transitions" is the technical description for what has been achieved in an optics lab in Stevens Institute of Technology's Physics Department. Robert K. Murawski, a post-doctoral research assistant working under the direction of Professor Rainer Martini , has a simpler way to describe it: "Controlling light with light." Jefferson Lab Completes 100th Experiment 
Newport News VA - June 02, 2004The experiment, titled "Quark Propagation through Cold QCD Matter," began its run in December 2003 and wrapped up in early March. It probed Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), a fundamental theory of particle physics that describes the interactions of quarks and gluons � the basic building blocks of matter. ATK AARGM Tests Off To A Flying Start 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 03, 2004Atk (Alliant Techsystems) is currently conducting System Design and Development captive carry flight tests of its AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California. The flight tests follow the Advanced Technology Demonstration in which a series of AARGM launches successfully acquired, guided to and hit a variety of targets in increasingly complex operational scenarios. |
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