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Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Sep 21, 2004 
Sergio Gaudenzi, president of AEB, Brazil's space agency, said his nation hopes to launch a Chinese-Brazilian satellite aboard a Ukrainian rocket from Brazil's Alcantara launch center sometime after 2007, reports Frank Braun for UPI. |
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India Launches Educational Satellite
New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 21, 2004India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV Monday successfully launched EDUSAT the country's first thematic satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services, into GTO from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.  
Dugway (SPX) Sep 21, 2004The NASA Genesis Mishap Investigation Board arrived at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, September 10, to take charge of the investigation. Since then the investigation board hasdetermined all the science-specific hardware is not relevant to the Board's work in determining the causes of the mishap. |
Water And Methane Maps Overlap On Mars: A New Clue?
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 21, 2004Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. Drilling For Weird Life 
Interview with Carol Stoker(Part I) for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2004 Carol Stoker is the principal investigator for the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE). MARTE has just begun its second field season drilling into the subsurface near the headwaters of the Rio Tinto in Spain, searching for novel forms of microbial life. |
NASA Selects Contractor For First Prometheus Mission To Jupiter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2004NASA's JPL has selected Northrop Grumman Space Technology, as the contractor for co-designing the proposed Prometheus Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter spacecraft. The contract award is for approximately $400 million, covering work through mid-2008. |
NextGen Solar Cells May Someday Power NASA's Robotic Explorers
Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 21, 2004The success of the 2004 twin Mars rovers is a sign of things to come as robotic technology plays a more complex role NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. |
SpaceDev Begins Work On Dream Chaser, Signs Space Act MOU With NASA
Poway CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2004SpaceDev has begun designing a reuseable, piloted, sub-orbital space ship that could be scaled up to safely and economically transport passengers to and from low earth orbit, including the International Space Station. Boeing, IBM Strategic Alliance Boosts Net-Centric Technology 
St Louis MO (SPX) Sep 21, 2004Boeing and IBM announced a strategic alliance Monday in New York City to address an estimated $200 billion market for ground and space-based systems to enhance the nation's military communications, intelligence operations and homeland security. Nanotechnology May Give Plastic Solar Cells A Boost 
Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 21, 2004Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology's NanoPower Research Laboratories have received a boost in their search for new power supply solutions. Funding from BP Solar will support their work using nanotechnology. |
MeterSmart Launches Remote Meter Reading Via Satellite
Dallas TX (SPX) Sep 21, 2004MeterSmart Monday announced a new MeterSmart offering allows utilities to collect accurate meter data across the globe, including rural and remote areas, via a deployed constellation of more than 25 orbiting satellites. EchoStar Announces $1 Billion Debt Offering 
Englewood CO (SPX) Sep 21, 2004EchoStar Communications Monday announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corporation, is offering approximately $1 billion aggregate principal amount of debt securities in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 144A. The proceeds of the offering are intended to be used for general corporate purposes. A160 Hummingbird Resumes Flight Testing As Boeing UAV 
Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 21, 2004The A160 Hummingbird unmanned aerial vehicle made its first test flight as a Boeing aircraft Friday from an airfield near Victorville, Calif. The successful 80-minute test included both hovering and forward flight. |
VSAT Systems Assists Florida Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Sep 21, 2004Satellite Internet service provider VSAT Systems has deployed their latest technology to the hurricane-ravaged State of Florida. VSAT Systems made their Emergency Mobile Communications System available to Florida's Department of Financial Services. Cold Sugar In Space Provides Clue To Molecular Origin Of Life 
Socorro NM (SPX) Sep 21, 2004Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope have discovered a frigid reservoir of simple sugar molecules in a cloud of gas and dust some 26,000 light-years away, near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. |
New Accurate Uranium/Lead Dating Technique For Earth's Largest Extinction
by Robert SandersBerkeley CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2004 A new study by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, improves upon a widely used dating technique, opening the possibility of a vastly more accurate time scale for major geologic events in Earth's history. Fossil Genes Reveal How Life Sheds Form And Function 
Madison WI (SPX) Sep 21, 2004Reading the fossil record, a paleontologist can peer into evolutionary history and see the surface features that plants and animals and, occasionally, microbes have left behind. |
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