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NASA Releases Requirements For Proposed Jupiter MissionPasadena (JPL) May 27, 2004 
NASA has issued its mission design requirements to three industry teams for a proposed mission to Jupiter and its three icy moons. The requirements are also the first product formulated by NASA's new Office of Exploration Systems in Washington. |
 
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Sleep Well Dear Rovers
Pasadena (JPL) May 27, 2004NASA's solar-powered Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning on Thursday what controllers expect to be frequent use of an overnight "deep sleep" mode to stretch the robot's power supply. There is a calculated tradeoff - an increased risk that, without an overnight heater running, one of the six scientific instruments might be disabled by the cold. |
Saturn Seen From Far And Near
Pasadena (JPL) May 27, 2004As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of Cassini, which is hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world on July 1, both Cassini and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope snapped spectacular pictures of the planet and its magnificent rings. Private Satellite Plan Wins Public Support 
Tokyo (UPI) May 27, 2004An association of small and medium firms in Higashi-Osaka City has obtained official support from Japan's aerospace agency for its own satellite project. |
Moon, Mars To Be First Stops On Our Journey Through Solar System
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 26, 2004The new Vision for Space Exploration calls for NASA to return humans to the Moon, where they will lay the groundwork for exploration missions to Mars and beyond. Robotic missions will come first, but later human crews will explore our Solar System. Summer Showdown For Bush Space Plan Washington (UPI) May 25, 2004 
A political showdown is looming this summer and fall over NASA's fiscal year 2005 budget request, which contains $866 million in new funding, with some $136 million of the proposed boost earmarked to start President Bush's new space exploration proposals reports UPI's Frank Sietzen. |
Russian Navy May Sink By 2008
Moscow (UPI) May 25, 2004Russia's navy has lost its most powerful subs and the whole fleet may disappear by 2008, a disgraced admiral said according to MosNews.com Tuesday. Brazil's China Plan Appears On Track 
Sao Paulo (UPI) May 25, 2004Brazil's president is making good on his promise to bolster trade relations with China, a move Washington is surely watching with great interest. But what is perhaps raising the most eyebrows in the Bush administration is Tuesday's news that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may be seeking closer relations with China regarding the production of uranium, the raw material used for nuclear arms. |
Sandia And Los Alamos Labs To Each Build New Nanotech Labs
Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 26, 2004The new Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories moved closer to reality with two groundbreaking ceremonies this week. Nanotech Improving Energy Options 
New York (UPI) May 27, 2004Nanotechnology could help revolutionize the energy industry, producing advances such as solar power cells made of plastics to cleaner batteries that detoxify themselves. One nanotech firm, mPhase Technologies in Norwalk, Conn., is partnering with Lucent Technologies to commercialize nanotechnology by creating intelligent batteries. |
Making Black Holes Go Round On The Computer
University Park PA May 26, 2004Scientists at Penn State have reached a new milestone in the effort to model two orbiting black holes, an event expected to spawn strong gravitational waves. Thick Siderite Marine Beds Suggest High Co2 Levels In Early Atmosphere 
University Park PA - May 27, 2004Carbon dioxide and oxygen, not methane, were prevalent in the Earth's atmosphere more than 1.8 billion years ago as shown by the absence of siderite in ancient soils but the abundance of the mineral in ocean sediments from that time. |
Microspace Tests Satellite Release For Shrek 2 To Movie Houses
Raleigh NC (SPX) May 26, 2004Microspace Communications has successfully delivered Shrek 2 via satellite, completing the first phase of a pilot digital cinema program with DreamWorks LLC. The digital film was delivered using Microspace's Velocity satellite service. Special Blankets Shield The Shuttle From Heat 
Cape Canveral - May 27, 2004When we think about blankets, we see them as protection from cold temperatures. But for the Space Shuttle orbiter, blankets mean protection from intense heat. |
Rosetta's First Scientific Observation Of Comet Linear
Paris (ESA) May 27, 2004ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta, whose 10-year journey to its final target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko started on 2 March, is well on its way. The first phase of commissioning is close to completion and Rosetta has successfully performed its first scientific activity - observation of Comet Linear. DoE Announces Nuke Plant Study 
Washington (UPI) May 24, 2004A detailed 10-month study of a proposed new-generation nuclear power reactor project in Alabama was launched Monday. |
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