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Tactical High Energy Laser Shoots Down Mortar Rounds
 Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2004

file photo of earlier test
The Tactical High Energy Laser, built by Northrop Grumman for the US Army, shot down multiple mortar rounds Aug. 24, proving that laser weapons could be applied on the battlefield to protect against common threats.
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  • Apollo Inspires New Moon Rockets
  • Opportunity To Stay Off The Dunes
  • British scientist asks NASA for helping hand to Mars
  • Beagle 2: Lessons Learned
  • Backyard Telescopes For New Planets. Is It Possible?
  • Wireless World: Satellite Phones On The Rise
  • Space Houses On Earth
  • Vast New Energy Source Almost Here
  • The Case Against Hubble
    • Bringing Space Home, When Your Mission Depends On It
    Bringing Space Home, When Your Mission Depends On It
    SPACE MEDICINE
    Fighting Diseases: NASA Takes It Outside
     Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     In the battle against cancer, HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening, infectious diseases, NASA has taken the fight outside - outside the body, that is.
    ENERGY TECH
    Cornell Apparatus Probes The Mystery Of A High-Temperature Superconductor
     Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     With equipment so sensitive that it can locate clusters of electrons, Cornell University and University of Tokyo physicists have - sort of - explained puzzling behavior in a much-studied high-temperature superconductor, perhaps leading to a better understanding of how such superconductors work.
    SATURN DAILY
    Distant Rhea
     Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2004
     Cassini caught a hint of Rhea's heavily cratered surface as it sped rapidly away from the moon on its first orbit of Saturn. There is a noticeable brightening near the left limb of the icy moon.
    TELESCOPES
    Groundbreaking Ceremony For $18 million Cosmic Ray Observatory
     Delta UT (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     A groundbreaking ceremony will be held 9 am MDT Saturday Aug. 28 in the desert southwest of Delta, Utah, for the Telescope Array � a Japanese and American cosmic ray observatory designed to find the source of the most energetic particles in the universe.
    EXO WORLDS
    Finding Super-Earths
     Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     A European team of astronomers has discovered a planet only 14 times more massive than the Earth. This is the smallest extra-solar planet discovered so far, and it lies at the threshold of the largest possible rocky planets, making it a possible super Earth-like object.
    How Did The Planet In The Gamma-Cephei Binary System Form?
     Paris (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     The formation of a planet in a binary star system poses serious problems, in particular when the two stars are very close, like in the system of Gamma-Cephei.
    SPACE.TV
    CenturyTel And EchoStar Sign Strategic Partnership
     Monroe LA (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     CenturyTel and EchoStar Communications announced Thursday a strategic partnership that will allow it to provide CenturyTel | DISH Network satellite television to households in 22 states served by CenturyTel.
    DirecTV-Pegasus-NRTC Settlement Approved By Bankruptcy Court
     Herndon VA (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     On Thursday the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative announced that its final settlement of legal disputes Pegasus Satellite Television had brought against NRTC has been approved by the US Bankruptcy Court.
    TECH SPACE
    Laboratory Advances The Art And Science Of Aerogels
     Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently demonstrated a novel method for chemically modifying and enhancing silica-based aerogels without sacrificing the aerogels unique properties.
    Surface Physics Reveals Complex Chemical Reactions On Icy Surfaces
     Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     A technique borrowed from the surface physics community is helping chemists and atmospheric scientists understand the complex chemical reactions that occur on low-temperature ice.
    EARTH OBSERVATION
    Falloff In Freezes: NCAR Study Projects Decrease In Frost Days
     Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     Days and nights when the air temperature dips below freezing will become increasingly less common by the late 21st century across much of the world, according to a modeling study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
    Going With The Flow
     JFK Space Center (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     High in the Earth's atmosphere flow virtual rivers of air and moisture delivering wind and rain around the globe. Also caught in the moist air currents are greenhouse gases and pollution that dangerously affect air quality and threaten our planet's environment.
    CLIMATE CHANGE
    Forest Burning Is A Net Contributor To Global Warming
     Stanford (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     What is the net effect on global temperature of the gases and particles produced when biomass is burned? That long-standing question in climate change has finally been answered, according to Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.
    DRAGON SPACE
    China Calls For Controls On Military Space
     Geneva (XNA) Aug 27, 2004
     China called Thursday for international consensus and a legally-binding agreement on preventing an arms race in outer space.
    UAV NEWS
    Sikorsky To Acquire Schweizer Aircraft
     Stratford CT (SPX) Aug 27, 2004
     Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies, Thursday announced an agreement to acquire Schweizer Aircraft Corp., a privately owned US company specializing in the light helicopter, reconnaissance aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) markets.
  • Lockheed Martin Wins $213 Million Strategic Mission Planning Contract

    • WATERWORLD
    New, More Accurate Measurements Of Earth's Water Distribution
     Austin TX (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the capability for measuring large-scale changes in the Earth's water availability. The development, reported in the July 23 issue of Science, will make climate change studies much more accurate.
    Unicellular Organisms Contribute More Nitrogen To Ocean Than Thought
     Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     Large, nutrient-poor expanses of the open ocean are getting a substantial nitrogen influx from an abundant group of unicellular organisms that "fix," or chemically alter, nitrogen into a form usable for biological productivity.
    ICE WORLD
    Arctic Coring Expedition Retrieves First Arctic Core
     Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2004
     The first 40 million years of Arctic climate history have been recovered from beneath the Arctic seafloor this week. After four days of working in hazardous conditions, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's (IODP) Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) retrieved 272 meters of core.
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  • Israeli FM urges Europe's big three to pressurise Iran over nukes
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  • Unicellular Organisms Contribute More Nitrogen To Ocean
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  • British scientist asks NASA for helping hand to Mars
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