Space Daily articles from April 2005

Space Daily archives from April 2005

New Miniaturised Chip Dramatically Reduces Time Taken For DNA Analysis.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BARCELONA, Spain, April 4 (SPX) -- A team of researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has developed new miniature sensors for analysing DNA. The sensors have the same size and thickness as a fingernail...

Indian Ocean Climate Watch Network Grows.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PERTH, Wash., April 4 (SPX) -- The development of a huge observing network to monitor ocean currents and temperature and understand the conditions that bring rain - and drought - to nearly two thirds of the world's...

Rate Of Atmospheric Co2 Increase Returns To Average, NOAA Reports.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 4 (SPX) -- A spike in the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere between 2001 and 2003 appears to be a temporary phenomenon and apparently does not indicate a quickening build-up of...

Climatologists Discover Deep-Sea Secret.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CARDIFF, England, April 4 (SPX) -- Climate changes in the northern and southern hemispheres are linked by a phenomenon by which the oceans react to changes on either side of the planet. A research team from the...

Experimental Acrobatics Leads To First Synthesis Of Ultracold Molecules.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, April 4 (SPX) -- A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules. The experiments - conducted by Cheng...

St Petersburg And Lake Ladoga.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 4 (SPX) -- This Envisat image shows the major Russian city of St. Petersburg, located at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, and beside it the blue waters of Lake Ladoga, Europe's largest freshwater...

Incubating European Industry.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 4 (SPX) -- Entrepeneurs with innovative ideas of how to use space technology and systems in non-space sectors can be helped by ESA's European Space Incubator. Started in 2003, it has already helped to...

Key Internet System Faces Technical And Political Challenges.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 4 (SPX) -- The Domain Name System, which helps users find their way across the Internet by substituting user-friendly names for numerical computer addresses, has performed well, but technical and...

Chandrayaan-I: ISRO Selects American Geologist To Map Moon.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DELHI, India, April 5 (SPX) -- An American geologist, selected by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as an investigator for Chandrayaan-I, has said she is excited and honoured to be part of the historic...

Opportunity Takes Soil Survey As Rover Drives Over 200 Meters A Day.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Sometimes Opportunity needs to stop and smell the roses... uh, or the soil as the case may be. This week, the science team chose to examine the mineral content of the rippled ground...

The Martian Mortal Coil.(Interview)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- While the Spirit and Opportunity rovers continue to investigate Mars, scientists are already testing more advanced rovers for future missions. by Leslie Mullen for...

Industry Panel Urges Space Shuttle Fly-Out Plan, Space Station Integration.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NASHVILLE, April 4 (SPX) -- NASA must nail down a detailed fly-out plan in order to keep skilled technicians with the space shuttle program as it heads toward its 2010 conclusion, an AIA-led Industry Panel has...

Intelsat Chosen By Firestone To Expand Cable Programming Distribution.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, April 4 (SPX) -- Intelsat announced last Friday that Firestone Communications has expanded its use of the Intelsat Americas fleet for distribution of cable programming in North America. The long-term...

April Solar Eclipse.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 4 (SPX) -- Solar eclipses are grand cosmic events that no nature-watcher wants to miss - and an opportunity to see one will occur for most of the southern United States on Friday...

Tinsley's New Large Optics Facility Marks Another Step Forward For JWST.(James Webb Space Telescope)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., April 4 (SPX) -- With last Fridays' dedication by Tinsley Laboratories, of a new facility to grind and polish mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope to exacting degrees of accuracy,...

Distant "Super-Starburst" Galaxies Hide Active Black Holes.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BIRMINGHAM, England, April 5 (SPX) -- A team of European scientists has used Virtual Observatories to compare observations of distant "starburst" galaxies made at radio and X-ray wavelengths. This is the first...

"Earths" Galore Await Discovery.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MILTON KEYNES, England, April 5 (SPX) -- How many planets like the Earth are there among the 130 or so known planetary systems beyond our own? How many of these "Earths" could be habitable? Recent theoretical work...

Swift Mission Nabs Its First Distance Measurement To Star Explosion.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 6 (SPX) -- The NASA-led Swift mission has measured the distance to two gamma-ray bursts - back to back, from opposite parts of the sky - and both were from over nine billion light years...

LISA And The Search For Elusive Gravity Waves.(Laser Interferometric Space Antenna)
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BIRMINGHAM, England, April 5 (SPX) -- For almost 100 years, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of the existence of gravity waves - faint ripples in the fabric of spacetime predicted in Albert...

Case Of Sedna's Missing Moon Solved.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 6 (SPX) -- When the distant planetoid Sedna was discovered on the outer edges of our solar system, it posed a puzzle to scientists. Sedna appeared to be spinning very slowly compared to most...

LockMart Delivers Atlas V For Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, April 5 (SPX) -- NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin marked another significant milestone in the Mars space exploration program as Lockheed Martin delivered the vehicle that will launch the...

Chemical Guidebook May Help Mars Rover Track Extraterrestrial Life.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, Idaho, April 5 (SPX) -- To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life. Using new imaging tools and earthly...

Spirit Slipping On New Terrain.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Spirit is heading toward the summit of "Husband Hill." The rover has been making slow progress recently due to slippage on new, sandy terrain, but it is persevering to reach the...

XTAR-EUR Enters Full Commercial Service.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ROCKVILLE, Md., April 5 (SPX) -- XTAR Monday announced that XTAR-EUR, the world's first satellite developed for commercial X-band services, has completed its in-orbit testing and is now fully operational. "The...

New Alloy Verified For Safer Disposal Of Spent Nuclear Energy Fuel.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BETHLEHEM, Pa., April 5 (SPX) -- A new alloy developed and patented by researchers at Lehigh University, Sandia National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory could help the U.S. dispose more safely of 50,000 tons...

Aerojet Test Solid Rocket Motor At Air Force Lab.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SACRAMENTO, April 5 (SPX) -- Aerojet announced Monday that it successfully completed a test of its Atlas V solid rocket motor on a new test fixture at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Edwards AFB, Calif. ...

SpaceDev Begins Development Of Its Small Launch Vehicle SpaceDev Streaker.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers POWAY, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- SpaceDev has signed a lease to expand its fabrication and test facilities and to begin constructing portable, high tech rocket motor test support equipment in anticipation of test...

Vulcain 2 Engine Now In Full Production.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers VERNON, France, April 6 (SPX) -- A small ceremony took place Tuesday at the site of Snecma Moteurs in Vernon, France, to mark the beginning of industrial production of the Vulcain 2 engine, designed for the new Ariane...

Alhurra TV Gaining Audience and Credibility In Middle East: Survey.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SPRINGFIELD, Va., April 5 (SPX) -- After just one year on the air, Alhurra Television (Arabic for "The Free One"), the Arabic-language news and information satellite network for the Middle East, reports audience gains...

New Titan Territory.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 6 (SPX) -- Although the Huygens probe has now pierced the murky skies of Titan and landed on its surface, much of the moon remains for the Cassini spacecraft to explore. Titan continues to...

Archive Trawl Gives BISON Three Decades Of Solar Music.(Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network)(helioseismology)
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BIRMINGHAM, England, March 31 (SPX) -- Scientists in Birmingham have scoured the archives and put together a complete archive of helioseismic data for nearly three solar cycles. The results from reprocessing the...

Harris Signs Engineering Service Contract With Northrop Grumman MS.(Harris Technical Services Corp.)
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLORADO SPRINGS, April 5 (SPX) -- Harris announced Monday that it has signed a contract to support Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) in the development of OS/COMET applications for the STPSat-1, NEXTSat and...

Ophthalmologists And Physicists Team Up To Design Bionic Eye.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers STANFORD, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Stanford physicists and eye doctors have teamed up to design a "bionic eye," of sorts. On Feb. 22 in the Journal of Neural Engineering, Daniel Palanker, Alexander Vankov and Phil...

Wyle Joins "All-Star" Team To Propose New Crew Exploration Vehicle.(Brief Article)
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 5 (SPX) -- Wyle Laboratories, a provider of crew health support for space operations, has been added to Lockheed Martin's "all-star" team of aerospace companies to submit a proposal to design...

Clues To Supernova Origin Found In Dusty Stellar Wind.
April 5, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, April 5 (SPX) -- Scientists from Imperial College London have detected a dusty wind emitted by a star that, at the end of its life, turned into a white dwarf and then exploded as a supernova. This is the...

Earth's Auroras Don't Mirror.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., April 6 (SPX) -- Thanks to observations from the ground and satellites in space, scientists know that the North and South Poles light up at night with Auroras because a "solar wind" of electrified gas...

Concentrated Dark Matter At The Cores Of Fossil Galaxies.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BIRMINGHAM, England, April 6 (SPX) -- Researchers at the University of Birmingham have used the new generation of X-ray space observatories to study "fossil galaxies" - ancient galaxy groups in which all of the large...

Remote Sensing Helps New Caledonia Monitor Sediment Erosion.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NOUMEA, New Caledonia, April 6 (SPX) -- Erosion and human activities are inducing large amounts of terrigenous sediment input to the southwest lagoon of New Caledonia. Such deposits can pose a threat to the...

Astronomers Obtain First Image Of Extra-Solar Planet.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers JENA, Germany, April 6 (SPX) -- German astronomers have obtained the first photograph of a planet beyond our solar system. The planet shows a distinct reddish-orange orb, with a white center, just to the right of...

Purdue Engineers Use 'Shaped' Laser Pulses In 'Ultra-Wideband' Research.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 6 (SPX) -- Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique that could result in more accurate "ultra-wideband" radio signals for ground-penetrating radar, radio communications and...

Sounding Rocket MASER 10 In Final Tests.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SOLNA, Sweden, April 6 (SPX) -- Less than four weeks remain until the sounding rocket MASER 10 will be launched from Esrange. The rocket, which will carry five scientific experiments, has been developed at SSC's...

Durable Mars Rovers Sent Into Third Overtime Period.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 6 (SPX) -- NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active...

Pairs Of Seagliders Set Endurance Records.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KAUAI, Hawaii, April 6 (SPX) -- Two ocean-diving gliders built at the University of Washington were retrieved late last month near the Hawaiian island of Kauai after setting a world record by traveling a quarter of...

Solving The Mystery Of Solar Flares.(Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, April 6 (SPX) -- An international group of scientists led by the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London, has discovered important new evidence that points to the cataclysmic events...

Northrop Grumman, Boeing Announce Companies Supporting CEV Team.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLORADO SPRINGS, April 6 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman and Boeing, who are teaming to design and build NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), Tuesday unveiled the major companies that will support their efforts to...

Supercomputer Simulations Shed Light On Cataclysmic Variable Flashes.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BIRMINGHAM, England, April 6 (SPX) -- Cataclysmic variables are binary systems that consist of a white dwarf and a normal star. The dense white dwarf drags material from its companion star, creating an accretion disc...

NJIT Math Professor Helps Navy Detect Subs; Explains Global Warming.(New Jersey Institute of Technology)
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEWARK, N.J., April 6 (SPX) -- The world's oceans, and mathematics, have a lot to say to Eliza Michalopoulou, PhD, associate professor in the department of mathematics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). ...

Cornell's Contract For Management Of Arecibo Observatory Renewed.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ITHACA, N.Y., April 6 (SPX) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed Cornell University's management contract for the operation of Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish...

Astronomers Expect To Be "Dazled" By Views Of Ancient Universe.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SYDNEY, April 6 (SPX) -- For the last five years, a team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge and the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia, has been building a special instrument to search for...

Global Hawk Reaches 4,000th Combat Flight Hour.
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, April 5 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk reached 4,000 combat hours on March 23 during an operational mission in support of the war on terrorism. Performing nearly continuous combat service...

Maxwell Single Board Computers Selecteed For Next-Gen Weather Satellites.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, April 6 (SPX) -- Maxwell Technologies announced Tuesday that Northrop Grumman Space Technology (NGST) has selected Maxwell's SCS750 single board computer (SBC) for spacecraft control and payload data...

Progress With Shenzhou.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WOLLONGONG, Australia, April 11 (SPX) -- The Russian space program has used its venerable Soyuz spacecraft in a variety of roles. It has served as a platform for orbital missions with various modifications to its...

Observing Einstein's Gravitational Waves.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HANOVER, Germany, April 11 (SPX) -- A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity. On this occasion, Euronews' Space magazine plunges into the subject of gravitational waves and features the...

WINDS Satellite To Change Data Communications From "Mega" To "Giga".(Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, April 11 (SPX) -- The WINDS (Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite) satellite will be launched by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in the fiscal year 2005 to establish the world's most...

Crew 10 Repressurize Space Station For Next Residents Arriving April 16.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, April 11 (SPX) -- Last week, the current International Space Station crew started to pack-up for home while the next Station crew completed a final review of plans before heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome,...

Beyond-Earth Enterprises and XCOR To Offer Small Payload Launcher.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, April 12 (SPX) -- A new cooperative agreement between Beyond-Earth Enterprises and XCOR Aerospace will allow Beyond-Earth to purchase manufactured components from XCOR for standardized production...

Arianespace and Roscosmos Sign Soyuz CSG Infrastructure Contract.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EVRY, France, April 11 (SPX) -- Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO of Arianespace, and Anatoli Perminov, Director General of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, signed Monday in Moscow the partnership contract concerning the...

Satellite Maps Will Ease Plight Of Endangered Mountain Gorillas.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, April 11 (SPX) -- A two-year joint ESA and UNESCO project to chart the habitats of endangered mountain gorillas with satellites came to a fruitful finish in Paris, with end-users receiving final maps and...

Nanobridges Show Way To Nano Mass Production.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DAVIS, Calif., April 11 (SPX) -- They look like an elegant row of columns, tiny enough for atomic-scale hide-and-seek, but these colonnades represent a new way to bring nanotechnology into mass production. ...

Corrective Action Defined for Delta IV Heavy Demo Early Cut-off Anomaly.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, April 12 (SPX) -- Boeing and the Air Force, supported by The Aerospace Corporation, have formally closed the investigation into the root cause of the premature Main Engine Cut-Off (MECO) on the Delta 4...

Space Systems/Loral Begins Construction of TerreStar Satellite System.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PALO ALTO, Calif., April 12 (SPX) -- Space Systems/Loral announced Monday that it has completed design reviews of TerreStar Networks's geostationary satellite, TerreStar-1, and entered into the construction phase of...

Titan Mosaic - East Of Xanadu.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 11 (SPX) -- During a close flyby of Titan on March 31, 2005, Cassini's cameras got their best view to date of the region east of the bright Xanadu Region. This mosaic consists of several...

Remote Control Insects.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 11 (SPX) -- Yale University School of Medicine researchers have found a way to exercise a little mind control over fruit flies, making the flies jump, beat their wings, and fly on command...

Study Offers Alternative View On How Faults Form In The Ocean's Depths.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, April 11 (SPX) -- Scientists have long held the belief that the fracturing of the Earth's brittle outer shell into faults along the deep ocean's mountainous landscape occurs only during long periods when no...

DARPA's 'Wasp' May Carry Powerful Sting.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif., April 11 (SPX) -- Warriors throughout history have known that intelligence wins battles by helping eliminate the so-called "fog of war." The best intelligence available comes from the...

Oil Industry Could Save Billions By Forecasting Seabed Changes.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, April 12 (SPX) -- Australian research will potentially save the oil and gas industry billions of dollars by predicting the effects of future climate change on the seabed. CSIRO's Wealth from...

Surfing The Wavelengths To Find Habitable Planets.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 12 (SPX) -- Maggie Turnbull, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution, has spent many years thinking about what kind of stars could harbor Earth-like planets. Her database of...

Orbital Minotaur launches XSS-11 Research Satellite.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., April 13 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences has successfully launched the XSS-11 satellite aboard a Minotaur I rocket. The XSS-11 is an experimental small satellite for the US Air Force designed to test...

Opportunity Visits Twin Craters Viking And Voyager.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA CA (JPL) APR, 13, 2005, April 12 (SPX) -- Over the past two weeks Opportunity reached Viking Crater, before conntinuing to Voyager Crater, taking panoramas of each crater and conducting detailed surface...

Molecular Breakthrough For Plastic Electronics.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EVANSTON, Ill., April 12 (SPX) -- The potential applications for flexible plastic electronics are enormous - from electronic books to radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to electronics for cell phones, PDAs and...

Surrey Satellite Sign RapidEye Launch Agreement With ISC Kosmotras.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SURREY, England, April 12 (SPX) -- Surrey Satellite Technology Limited announced Monday the signing of a Launch Agreement with ISC Kosmotras of Russia and Ukraine, for the launch of five microsatellites in the...

Raytheon Wins Contract For Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, April 7 (SPX) -- Raytheon has received a $200 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for continued production of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air missile (AMRAAM). The contract, originally...

Nanotech Advance Makes Carbon Nanotubes More Useful.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, April 12 (SPX) -- Researchers at UCSD have made carbon nanotubes bent in sharp predetermined angles, a technical advance that could lead to use of the long, thin cylinders of carbon as tiny springs, tips...

Prepared Statement of NASA Administrator Nominee Michael Griffin.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, April 12 (SPX) -- Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Senators. I am honored to appear before you today as President Bush's nominee to be the next NASA Administrator. As you know, I have spent a long career in the...

Ball Aerospace Delivers Imaging Instrument For NASA's Mission To Pluto.(Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.)
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., April 12 (SPX) -- Ball Aerospace has delivered a high-resolution digital imager/spectrometer to the Southwest Research Institute and its partner, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...

XCOR Aerospace Wins NASA Contract To Develop Cryogenic Composite Tank.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOJAVE, Calif., April 12 (SPX) -- XCOR Aerospace announced Monday it has signed a contract with NASA to develop a composite cryogenic tank to hold liquid oxygen (LOX). This contract is part of NASA's Exploration...

America Online And XM Radio To Create Online Service.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, April 12 (SPX) -- America Online and XM Satellite Radio announced Monday that they will join forces to create a new online radio service. The service brings together the best of both XM and the AOL Radio...

Keeping Tabs On The Billions Of Dollars The Shuttle Program Consumes.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 12 (SPX) -- Judy Simonds doesn't look like a bona fide numbers guru. There's no green eyeshade on her head, no adding machine clattering away on her desk. But as the financial data manager...

Scientists Track Collision Of Powerful Stellar Winds.(very long baseline array radio telescope)
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 12 (SPX) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope have tracked the motion of a violent region where the powerful winds of...

Scientists Probe The Mysteries Of Space With Latest SGI Technology.(Silicon Graphics Inc.)
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12 (SPX) -- Peering at the very edges of the visible universe, scientists work to solve the mystery of how obscure dark matter gave birth to stars, solar systems and galaxies more than 13...

Northrop Grumman Conducts First Flight Of Endurance Hunter UAV.(unmanned aerial vehicle)
April 12, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, April 12 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has conducted the first flight of a new configuration of the U.S. Army's RQ-5A unmanned aerial vehicle system called the Endurance Hunter (E-Hunter). Conducted March...

Faulty Cassini Instruments Reducing Level Of Science Data Collection.
April 13, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., April 13 (SPX) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moon Titan at a distance of 2,402 kilometers (1,493 miles) on Thursday, March 31. Cassini's multiple instruments are...

China To Export First Chinese Satellite.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers XICHANG, China, April 13 (SPX) -- China will sell a communications satellite to Nigeria, the first overseas buyer of a satellite made by China's space sector, a spokesperson for China Aerospace Science and Technology...

China Launches AsiaSat-6.
April 13, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers XICHANG, China, April 13 (SPX) -- China launched the AsiaSat-6 at the Xichang Satellite Launching Center in the south western province of Sichuan on Tuesday. It was the country's first commercial launching of a...