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One Small Step For Plan BushWashington (UPI) May 21, 2004
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Beagle 2 Doomed From The Start
London (AFP) May 23, 2004Beagle 2, the European space probe lost shortly before it landed on Mars late last year, was doomed from the start of its mission due to a lack of testing and money, a report said on Sunday. The mission was a failure waiting to happen, according to a joint report by the European Space Agency, or ESA, and British National Space Centre. Seven Years To Saturn 
Pasadena - May 24, 2004As Cassini nears its rendezvous with Saturn, new detail in the banded clouds of the planet's atmosphere are now visible. From Under Gran Sasso Mountain, Universe Seems Older 
Rome (SPX) May 24, 2004Some nuclear fusion reactions inside stars occur more slowly than we thought and, as a consequence, stars themselves, as well as galaxies and the entire universe are a bit older than expected. |
Loneos Discovers Asteroid With The Smallest Orbit
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) May 24, 2004The ongoing search for near-Earth asteroids at Lowell Observatory has yielded another interesting object. Designated 2004 JG6, this asteroid was found in the course of LONEOS (the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search) on the evening of May 10 by observer Brian Skiff. Hayabusa Spacecraft Rounds Earth and Heads for Near-Earth Asteroid 
Pasadena - May 24, 2004At 6:23 am (Greenwich time) on May 19, the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft successfully made a close Earth approach (altitude = 3725 km), thereby gaining the velocity it needs to reach the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, named for the father of Japanese rocketry. Evidence That Asteroids Change Color As They Age 
Honolulu (SPX) May 19, 2004In an article published this week in the journal Nature, a team led by Robert Jedicke of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy provides convincing evidence that asteroids change color as they age. |
Chandra Opens New Line Of Investigation On Dark Energy
Boston (SPX) May 24, 2004Astronomers have detected and probed dark energy by applying a powerful, new method that uses images of galaxy clusters made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The results trace the transition of the expansion of the universe from a decelerating to an accelerating phase several billion years ago. Schlumberger Deploys IPoVSAT To Gulf 
Houston (SPX) May 20, 2004Schlumberger Information Solutions has implemented a high-speed IP-based network solution known as IpoVSAT, to support offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. |
SMART-1 Finds Small Thrust Level Oscillations Help
Paris (ESA) May 24, 2004The spacecraft is now flying its 288th orbit, in good status and with all functions performing nominally. The new thrusting strategy is well in progress with thrust arcs around perigee for about one third of every revolution. Theory Proposes New View Of Sun And Earth's Creation 
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 24, 2004Like most creation stories, this one is dramatic: we began, not as a mere glimmer buried in an obscure cloud, but instead amidst the glare and turmoil of restless giants. |
AMC Moves to PanAmSat in 15-Year Transponder Deal 
Wilton, CT (SPX) May 20, 2004PanAmSat Corporation has signed a 15-year transponder agreement with Rainbow Network Communications (RNC) for the transport of AMC. Under the terms of the contract, PanAmSat's Galaxy 1R satellite will now distribute AMC to over 10,000 cable head-ends across the United States. AMC will join such leading programmers as Disney, Fox, Time Warner and Viacom on one of the industry's premier cable satellites. |
Tightly Focused Laser Light Generates Nonlinear Effects And Rainbow Of Color
Lehigh (SPX) May 20, 2004Physicists at Lehigh University achieve supercontinuum generation in nonlinear fibers Two physicists at Lehigh University have produced a rainbow of visible and invisible colors by focusing laser light in a specially designed optical fiber that confines light in a glass core whose diameter is 40 times smaller than that of a human hair. |
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