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China Spending More Than Ever On Military Washington (UPI) May 28, 2004 
The Pentagon believes China has more than 500 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan, a number that is growing by about 75 a year, a senior Defense Department official said Friday. The missiles are become more accurate and lethal as well, and China's pace of deploying the missiles has surprised the Pentagon.Opportunity On The Edge Of More Mars Science 
Pasadena (JPL) May 30, 2004 NASA'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. |
Cassini Make Tiny Course Change For Saturn
Washington (SPX) May 31, 2004The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six- minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27 to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11. The spacecraft is operating normally and is in excellent health. Stormy Bands On Ringed World 
Pasadena (JPL) - May 31, 2004As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft, which is hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world on June 30 (July 1, Universal Time), both Cassini and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope snapped spectacular pictures of the planet and its magnificent rings. |
The Columbia Hills in Color
Pasadena (JPL) May 31, 2004Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to take the images that make up this color mosaic of Columbia Hills. Cook And The Transit Of Venus 
Huntsville TX May 31, 2004Every 120 years or so a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing, toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South Pacific isle.. |
EGNOS Improves Safety For Maritime Navigation In China
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2004The fog today is hanging heavy on the Yangtze River making conditions for navigation rather difficult, however one ferry goes forward with no special worries. The captain is using the highly accurate EGNOS system. China To Build First Regional Climate, Ecology Surveillance Network 
Shanghai (SPX) May 31, 2004A network will be established to monitor the climate and ecology of 16 cities in the Yangzte River valley. The network is said o be the first cross-provincial system of the its kind ever built up in China. |
Double Stars Emerge As New Heavyweight Champions
Cambridge MA (SPX) May 31, 2004About 20,000 light-years from Earth, two massive stars grapple with each other like sumo wrestlers locked in combat. Both giants, each weighing in at around 80 times the mass of our Sun, are the heaviest stars ever. They orbit each other every 3.7 days, nearly touching as they spin on the celestial stage. Antex To Offer Multi-Zone and XM Receivers For The Home 
Washington (SPX) May 28, 2004XM Satellite Radio on Friday announced an agreement under which Antex will develop and market high-end satellite radio products for receiving XM's critically- acclaimed programming. |
Gravity Probe B Checkout Continues
Los Angeles (JPL) May 31, 2004At five weeks past launch, the Gravity Probe B mission is now about half way through the Initialization and Orbit Checkout (IOC) phase of the mission. Thus far, the team has successfully transmitted over 5,000 commands to the spacecraft, which remains healthy on orbit. All spacecraft subsystems are continuing to perform well. Prospect Of Sudden Climate Change 
Washington (SPX) May 31, 2004By now, many of us have heard the ominous predictions of a possible future global apocalypse, where cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, and blizzards threaten to destroy civilization. |
Lockheed Brings A THAAD To Troy
Troy AL (SPX) May 31, 2004Lockheed Martin began manufacturing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile today at its Pike County Operations facility in Troy, AL. The facility will perform final integration, assembly and testing of the THAAD missile, which is an integral part of the THAAD weapon system and the United States' network of layered defenses against ballistic missile attack. Raytheon Delivers First Production Tactical Tomahawk Cruise Missile 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 31, 2004Raytheon has delivered to the U.S. Navy the first production model of the next-generation Tactical Tomahawk (Tomahawk Block IV) cruise missile at the company's Missile Systems operations. Nuclear Sites Ready For Terror 
by Thom J. RoseWashington (UPI) May 27, 2004 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Nils Diaz said U.S. nuclear sites are well protected against terrorism despite recent safety scares. "The level of security, which is what I'm concerned with, has continued to increase," Diaz said at a news briefing sponsored by the trade journal Energy Daily. NASA-Industry Alliance Initiates UAV National Airspace Access Project 
Edwards AFB (SPX) May 31, 2004 A new NASA-led project intended to eventually enable remotely or autonomously operated aircraft to fly safely and routinely with other aircraft within the national airspace system is being initiated this month. Jet Models Will Push The Envelope For Safety's Sake 
Langley VA (SPX) May 31, 2004They can fly as fast as 200 miles per hour and push the flight envelope to a place most pilots never want to go. "They" are turbine-powered, dynamically-scaled remote control models, a new research capability being developed at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. |
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