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X-Prize Flight Approaches Cape Canaveral (UPI) Sep 14, 2004 
In two weeks, the front-runner in a race to fly a privately developed passenger ship to space is scheduled to make its move. The pairing of Burt Rutan and billionaire Paul Allen, has already produced a space-worthy vessel. The test flight in June forever retired the notion that only governments possess the financial and technical resources -- and the legal reach -- to send people beyond the planet's atmosphere.
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GSLV To Launch EDUSAT On September 20
Bangalore, India (SPX) Sep 14, 2004Preparations for the launch of EDUSAT by India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle are proceeding satisfactorily at Satish Dhawan Space Centre. As per the present progress, the launch is expected to take place at 4:01pm Sept 20, 2004. Shuttle Tank Ready For Foam Spray On Intertank Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 14, 2004 
Workers at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have transferred External Tank 120 - the Space Shuttle External Tank slated for the launch of the orbiter Discovery next spring - into the facility's vehicle assembly building. |
Risk In Private Rocket Flights Worthwhile
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2004As the X-Prize sub-orbital rocket contest heats up, the Space Frontier Foundation is praising the imagination and bravery of the rocketeers competing to win this historic race to space.  SpaceDev's Rocket Motors For X-Prize Attempt No Laughing Matter 
Poway CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2004SpaceDev after recently completing work on a full duration, maximum energy, ground test firing of a more powerful version of the rocket motors destined for SpaceShipOne. |
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NASA's Desert "Rats" Test New Gear
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Sep 14, 2004Arizona's high desert isn't quite as tough on equipment as the moon or Mars, but few places on Earth can give prototype spacesuits, rovers and science gear a better workout. Learn More About How Spacecraft Operate 
Darmstadt, Germany (ESA) Sep 14, 2004Have you ever wanted to be a space engineer, or at least see how space engineers work; or be present in the mission control room during a satellite launch? Well now you can � at least virtually � by visiting the new spacecraft operations website that goes online today. |
Saturn's Family Portrait
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2004A stately Saturn poses for a portrait with five of its moons in this Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera view. Satellites visible in this image are (clockwise from upper left): Dione (1,118 kilometers or 695 miles wide), Enceladus (499 kilometers or 310 miles wide), Tethys (1,060 kilometers or 659 miles wide), Mimas (398 kilometers or 247 miles wide) and Rhea (1,528 kilometers or 949 miles wide). |
United Defense Integrates And Fires ETC Gun From Combat Vehicle
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Sep 14, 2004United Defense Industries achieved an industry first recently when it successfully fired a 120mm Electrothermal Chemical gun from a hybrid electric drive combat vehicle. DARPA Seeks Soldier Memory System 
Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2004The Pentagon wants to build a soldier-mounted camera, video and audio recording system to capture battlefield events. The ASSIST program would integrate a small digital camera, a microphone, GPS, wireless network connectivity, and a digital compass onto a soldier's vest or helmet. |
US Air Force Selects Northrop Grumman For E-10A Battle Management Contract
Melbourne FL (SPX) Sep 13, 2004The US Air Force has selected a Northrop Grumman-led team to develop the service's E-10A aircraft's Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) subsystem, one the most important programs in the development of Joint Network Centric Warfare in this decade. Next Phase Of B-2 Bomber's Radar Modernization To Begin 
El Segundo (SPX) Sep 09, 2004Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $388 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for the next phase of a program to modernize the B-2 radar system. |
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