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Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004 
Northrop Grumman has been selected to partner with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a preliminary design for the Prometheus Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, an electric propulsion vehicle powered by a nuclear fission reactor. The contract award is for $400 million, covering work through 2008. |
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Launch Of New Russian-US Space Team To ISS Rescheduled To Oct 11
Moscow (AFP) Sep 22, 2004 A new Russian-US team for the International Space Station will take off from the Baikonur space station in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on October 11, two days later than initially planned. Historic Tunnel's Final Test 
Hampton VA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004After 63 years of research across the entire flight range, NASA Langley Research Center's 16-Ft. Transonic Wind Tunnel is running its final test. |
Mars Life Looms Closer
Washington (UPI) Sep 21, 2004The old saying that big things can come in small packages might be exactly appropriate for a tiny but explosive amount of data that researchers have produced concerning Mars. Coping With Contamination 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Carol 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. |
Eagle Broadband's SatMAX Satellite System Added To SAIC's GSA Schedule
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Science Applications International Corp has received approval from the U.S. General Services Administration to add Eagle's Satellite Media Access Extender non-line-of-sight satellite communications repeater system to SAIC's GSA Schedule. |
PanAmSat Selects Sea Launch For Galaxy 16 Mission
Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Sea Launch has been selected to launch PanAmSat's Galaxy 16 communication satellite from its equatorial launch site on the Equator. The agreement provides for Sea Launch to lift the 4700-kg spacecraft to geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2006. |
Microbes Eat Their Way To Better Concrete
Rapid City SD (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Two South Dakota School of Mines and Technology researchers are creating living organisms that may provide a better way to seal cracks in concrete. What Genesis Solar Particles Can Tell Us 
Davis CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004The recent crash of NASA's Genesis space probe may have looked like bad news for scientists, but its cargo of particles captured from the sun should still yield useful information, according to Qing-Zhu Yin, a planetary scientist at UC Davis. |
Distributed Energy Awarded SBIR Contract
Wallingford CT (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Distributed Energy Systems announced Wednesday the award of a Small Business Innovative Research Phase II contract from the Missile Defense Agency to develop lightweight regenerative fuel cell technology for high altitude airships. EU Approves Bailout Of British Energy 
Brussels (AFP) Sep 22, 2004The European Commission approved Wednesday a multi-billion pound bailout of the nuclear group British Energy, after securing guarantees that the company would not breach EU competition rules. |
Project Investigates Lightning's Impact On Climate Change
Rapid City SD (SPX) Sep 23, 2004A three-year, $300,000 research project at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology will help scientists better understand the impact of lightning on global climate change. DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Helps Alaska Inventory Forests 
Longmont CO (SPX) Sep 23, 2004DigitalGlobe said Wednesday that Alaska's Department of Natural Resources is using QuickBird satellite imagery for forest inventory management, practice assessments and health and disease assessments. Climate Skeptics Tend To KO Straw Men 
Boulder CO (UPI) Sep 20, 2004A group of climatologists, scientists, professors, etc., as they deemed themselves, who are skeptical of global warming, held a news conference last week to respond to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on recent scientific research about the issue. |
Symmetricom Launches New Options For XLi GPS Time And Frequency Receiver
San Jose CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2004Symmetricom Wednesday introduced four new hardware option modules for its XLi high-precision GPS synchronized time and frequency receiver, which allow customers to make measurements of external timing signals relative to the XLi. NovAtel Launches EuroPak And First Commercially Available L5 Receiver 
Calgary AB (SPX) Sep 23, 2004NovAtel announced Wednesday the launch of its latest Euro-3M and Euro-L5 receivers. Designed for system integrators, these receivers address evolving customer needs for increased accuracy in dynamic and challenging environments. Big Potential For China's In-Vehicle Navigation Market: ABI Research 
Oyster Bay NY (SPX) Sep 23, 2004With only two models of automobile offering in-vehicle navigation systems in China, this industry is in its infancy. But the growth potential for navigation technologies in this large country can't be ignored. |
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