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Paris (ESA) Sep 24, 2004 
ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board met at the Eden Project in Cornwall on September 21 where an agreement was reached that ESA Member States would release a total of �80m to fund the next stage of the ESA component of the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. |
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Integral Systems To Provide Satellite Control Software For Optus
Lanham MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Integral Systems Thursday announced that SingTel Optus ("Optus") has awarded Integral Systems a contract to expand the Optus C1 satellite control system to include support of the Optus D1 and D2 satellites. |
Heavy Lift Is Needed
Pinson AL (SPX) Sep 24, 2004I was disturbed by the anti-Heavy Lift sentiment expressed by Don Robertson in the Sept. 20 issue of Space News ("No Need for New Launchers Now "). He could not be more wrong. The key to lower launch costs is not launch frequency, but delivery in bulk. |
Computer Scientists Develop Wireless System To Monitor Volcanoes
Cambridge MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2004A rumbling South American volcano has gone wireless: Computer scientists at Harvard University have teamed up with seismologists fitting an Ecuadorian peak with a wireless array to monitor volcanic activity. Arianespace To Launch AirTV Bird In 2007 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 24, 2004AirTV has signed a launch services agreement with Arianespace to orbit its first broadband spacecraft, which will deliver a new level of in-flight entertainment and connectivity for airlines worldwide. The AirTV system will provide 60+ channels of live television and 40Mbps of Internet, e-mail and data services to aircraft. |
ESA Checks Over First Galileo Satellite Model
Noordwijk, The Netherlands (ESA) Sep 24, 2004The structural model of the first of two experimental Galileo satellites to be launched in 2005, is currently being tested at the European Space Research and Technology Centre. Over the coming weeks ESA will assess the design worthiness of this satellite model from Surrey Satellite Technology. Integral Systems To Provide Satellite Control Software For Optus
Lanham MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Integral Systems Thursday announced that SingTel Optus ("Optus") has awarded Integral Systems a contract to expand the Optus C1 satellite control system to include support of the Optus D1 and D2 satellites. |
General Designers' Review For The Soyuz TMA-5 Prelaunch Processing
Korolev, Moscow (SPX) Sep 24, 2004The General Designers' Review of the International Space Station Russian Segment heard the reports on the results of the ISS-related efforts implemented throughout the April - September 2004 period, and the progress made in preparation for implementing a new phase of the Program. New Research Could Ignite New Solutions To Heat Transfer In Nano-Devices 
Scranton PA (SPX) Sep 24, 2004For the first time, an innovative research technique successfully completed a detailed measurement of how heat energy is created at the molecular level, an approach that could have far reaching implications for developing nano-devices. |
Massive Merger Of Galaxies Is Most Powerful On Record
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Scientists have now officially witnessed the perfect cosmic storm. Thanks to the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory, they watched a nearby head-on collision between two galaxy clusters. The clusters smashed together thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars in one of the most powerful events ever witnessed. Hubble Approaches The Final Frontier: The Dawn Of Galaxies 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams, have at last identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies. |
El Nino May Be Returning
Miami FL (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Hopes that the El Nino weather phenomenon will come riding out of the west and save the nation from more deadly hurricanes this year may be premature, forecasters say. Coast-Mapping Will Follow The Tides 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 24, 2004Accurate up-to-date marine charts are essential for safe shipping navigation. They also increasingly serve as tools for coastal zones - areas that are economically and environmentally important as sites of harbours, fisheries, oil and gas fields, tourism sites, wildlife habitats and home to most of the human race. Quake Could Trigger Californian Tsunami 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2004With a strong enough jolt the seafloor under Catalina Island could be violently thrust upward, causing a tsunami along the Southern California coast, according University of Southern California researchers. |
New Structure Found Deep Within West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Bristol, UK (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Scientists have found a remarkable new structure deep within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which suggests that the whole ice sheet is more susceptible to future change than previously thought. Scientists Report Increased Thinning Of West Antarctic Glaciers 
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Sep 24, 2004Glaciers in West Antarctica are shrinking at a rate substantially higher than observed in the 1990s. They are losing 60 percent more ice into the Amundsen Sea than they accumulate from inland snowfall. New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered As "South Pacific Odyssey" Research Begins 
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 24, 2004A team of 27 U.S. marine scientists beginning an intensive program of exploration at the Lau Basin, in the South Pacific, has discovered a new cluster of hydrothermal vents along a volcanically active crack in the seafloor. |
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