Space Daily articles from August 2005

Space Daily archives from August 2005

Icy Moon Enceladus Source Of Mysterious Hot Spots.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- A researcher at Southwest Research Institute, working with scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on data from the NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter, has found heat leaking out...

Astrata Group Awarded Contract in Italy For 3,600 GLP Units.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, July 29 (SPX) -- Astrata Group Incorporated, an international provider of innovative location- based IT services and solutions that incorporate the use of GPS and wireless communications technologies,...

Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- For several years geologists have been gathering evidence indicating that Earth has gone into a deep freeze on several occasions, with ice covering even the equator and with...

Gettting An International MSc In Space Exploration.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TURIN, Italy, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- European industry needs high-level specialists in space exploration. To respond to this requirement, three European universities have joined together to offer an MSc with a difference: a...

GMPCS Places First Order of Personal Broadband Satellite Terminals for Inmarsat.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers POMPANO BEACH, Fla., July 29 (SPX) -- GMPCS has placed the first order for personal broadband satellite terminals for the Inmarsat BGAN service. The order for 1,000 units was placed with Nera SatCom, a wholly-owned...

Shuttle Spacewalk Restores Space Station's Steering Mechanism.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Two U.S. space shuttle astronauts went on another spacewalk to restore the steering gear on the International Space Station. Shuttle engineers, meanwhile, are debating whether to have the...

Sea Launch wins Multiple Launch Award with PanAmSat.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONG BEACH, Calif., July 29 (SPX) -- The Sea Launch Company announces that PanAmSat has selected the Sea Launch system for the launch of two new spacecraft in 2006 and 2007. Sea Launch and PanAmSat have also signed an...

Land Launch Receives First Order with PanAmSat.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONG BEACH, Calif., July 29 (SPX) -- Sea Launch has signed a multiple launch agreement with PanAmSat (NYSE: PA) that provides for the first commercial Land Launch mission and several Land Launch options. In connection...

Dual Rovers That Go On Planet Mars.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 3 (SPX) -- A lot of the action was here on Earth last week. The science team for this mission has been together for about a decade, and during the first eight months after we landed we were all...

Exploring Southward In Search Of New Opportunities.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 2 (SPX) -- Opportunity continued its trek south toward "Erebus Crater," making 61 meters (200 feet) of progress over two sols of driving. The rover is approaching greater quantities of outcrop...

Water Ice In Crater At Martian North Pole.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, July 29 (SPX) -- These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show a patch of water ice sitting on the floor of an unnamed crater near the Martian...

NGC-Led Team Selects ATK's Utah Facility For Stage 1 Motor Work On KEIs.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MAGNA, UT, July 29 (SPX) -- The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Raytheon Company team for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) program has selected Alliant Techsystem's Utah manufacturing site to perform the critical...

Scuttle the Shuttle Now.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HONOLULU, July 29 (SPX) -- The dismal failure of the Shuttle RTF effort should signal the end of NASA's suicidal love affair with this fundamentally unworkable spacecraft. "By any measure of 'safe,' this[program]...

Gemini Samples Spectrum Of 2003 UB313: Pluto-Like Surface.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, July 31 (SPX) -- The Gemini Observatory has obtained a preliminary spectrum of 2003 UB313, the lastest so-called "10th planet". These observations were obtained on January 25, 2005 by Chad Trujillo, a...

Thumbs Up For 60-Second Firing.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 3 (SPX) -- Hot-firing tests of the new Vinci cryogenic upper-stage engine reached a new high on Wednesday with a successful test lasting 60 seconds. This is the longest duration test since trials began...

NASA, Industry Partner Test 20-Meter Solar Sail System.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 29 (SPX) -- NASA has reached a milestone in the testing of solar sails -- a unique propulsion technology that will use sunlight to propel vehicles through space. Engineers have successfully...

NASA'S Chandra Neon Discovery Solves Solar Paradox.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, MA, July 29 (SPX) -- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory survey of nearby sun-like stars suggests there is nearly three times more neon in the sun and local universe than previously believed. If true, this...

Orbital Selects Maxwell Technologies' Space Computer For Glory EO Mission.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, July 29 (SPX) -- Orbital Sciences Corp. has selected Maxwell's SCS750 single board computer (SBC) to manage payload data for NASA's Glory earth sciences mission. Glory is a three-year mission that will...

Spitzer Finds Life Components in Young Universe.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., July 28 (SPX) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster. Using Spitzer, scientists have detected...

Cassini Flies By Saturn's Tortured Moon Mimas.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- On its recent close flyby of Mimas, the Cassini spacecraft found the Saturnian moon looking battered and bruised, with a surface that may be the most heavily cratered in the Saturn...

Saturn's Polar Auroras.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to...

Faster Carbon Dioxide Emissions Will Overwhelm Capacity Of Land And Ocean To Absorb Carbon.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- One in a new generation of computer climate models that include the effects of Earth's carbon cycle indicates there are limits to the planet's ability to absorb increased emissions...

Earth's Surface Transformed By Massive Asteroids.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- A cluster of at least three asteroids between 20 and 50 kilometres across colliding with Earth over 3.2 billion years ago caused a massive change in the structure and composition...

Solar Energy Project At The Weizmann Institute Promises To Advance The Use Of Hydrogen Fuel.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers REHOVOT, Israel, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- The solar project is the result of collaboration between scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Paul Scherrer Institute in...

VIB Signs Cooperation Agreement For The Development Of A New, Universal Flu Vaccine.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GHENT, Belgium, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Last week the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) entered into an agreement with the British company Acambis for the development of a new flu vaccine. ...

Luxembourg Becomes ESA's 17th Member State.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LUXEMBOURG, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Following its ratification of the ESA Convention, Luxembourg has become ESA's 17th Member State with effect from 30 June 2005. Cooperation between ESA and Luxembourg began with the...

New Technology Shows Our Ancestors Ate ... Everything!
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Using a powerful microscope and computer software, a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins, the University of Arkansas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and elsewhere has developed a faster...

NRL Measures Record Wave During Hurricane Ivan.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC) measured a record-size ocean wave when the eye of Hurricane Ivan passed over NRL moorings deployed last May in...

Connexion By Boeing, Intel Efforts Boost Hotspots In The Sky.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing, and Intel recently announced an agreement to enhance and promote high-speed, in-flight wireless Internet service. As part of...

Airborne Laser Team Completes New Phase Of Payload Testing.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- The Boeing Airborne Laser (ABL) team has completed flight testing of the system's passive mission payload, moving the program through another phase of critical testing. This test...

Quadrupeds To Bipeds.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- The embryos of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur are the earliest ever recorded for any terrestrial vertebrate and point to how primitive dinosaurs evolved into the largest animals...

Spirit Wraps Up Work In Voltaire Region.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- It'll have to be a quick one this week. Spirit is just wrapping up work in the Voltaire region. We gave Voltaire the full treatment with all of the arm instruments at Bourgeoisie,...

Mars Express Radar Collects First Surface Data.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Marsis, the sounding radar onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, is collecting the first data about the surface and ionosphere of Mars. This radar started its science operations on 4 July,...

No Trouble Removing Oil From Water.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SYDNEY, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- A simple tank-and-siphon system for removing oil from oily water and protecting the environment is about to be launched internationally by an engineering team from the University of New South...

Boeing Completes Sale Of Rocketdyne Propulsion Unit To United Technologies.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Boeing recently announced the completion of its sale of its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business to United Technologies Corporation, effective August 2. Boeing and United...

Penn State Technology Used To Diagnose Shuttle Fuel-Sensor Problem.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- A wire testing technology developed by Penn State engineers was used to diagnose the recent fuel-sensor problem that delayed the launch of the shuttle Discovery. The original...

Brown Grad Student's Seismic Study Shakes Up Plate Tectonics.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 29 (SPX) -- Earth's cool, rigid upper layer, known as the lithosphere, rides on top of its warmer, more pliable neighbor, the asthenosphere, as a series of massive plates. Plates continuously...

San Andreas Quake Observatory Achieves Milestone As Drillers Penetrate The Active Fault Zone.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) reached a significant goal on Aug. 2 when scientists drilled into a seismically active section of the fault approximately two...

ITT Industries To Build Meteorological System For South Korea.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 29 (SPX) -- ITT Industries' has been awarded a contract to build a new meteorological system that will be one of three payloads aboard the first South Korean multi-function geostationary...

Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter?
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DEVON ISLAND, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life. But there is a chance the heavy bombardment of Earth...

Model Gives Clearer Idea Of How Oxygen Came To Dominate Earth's Atmosphere.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new...

Earth From Space: Unique Arctic Landscape Surveyed By Proba.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- This Proba image shows the region around Samoylov Island, located within the Lena River Delta on the Laptev Sea coast of Northern Siberia. The small pear-shaped island of Samoylov in the...

Envisat Monitoring China Floods As Part Of Dragon Programme.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers RESOLUTION IMAGE FROM 25 MAY 2005 WAS PROCESSED WITH BEAM SOFTWARE. IT SHOWS THE HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF TOTAL SUPENDED MATTER AT THE MOUTH OF THE YANGTZE RIVER. HOWEVER, Since the present neural network algorithm was...

First Galileo Satellite Arrives At ESA For Testing.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- The first of 30 satellites for the proposed Galileo navigation system arrived at the European Space Agency (ESA) scientific center in Noordwijk of the Netherlands on August 2, ESA recently...

Initial Operations Begin For EGNOS.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- The European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) has begun the Initial Operations Phase of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), following the successful conclusion of...

India To Set Up Military SBS System By 2007.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW DELHI, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- India is building up a satellite-based Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance (SBS) System, which will become operational by 2007. "The program is in the advanced stages of...

DDT-Resistant Insects Given Genetic Boost That Helps Resistance Spread.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BATH, England, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Insects that can withstand the powerful pesticide DDT that was banned in the 1970s have a genetic advantage over their rivals that has helped them spread across the globe ever since,...

Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths,...

Is Methane The First Direct Sign Of Extra-Terrestrial Life?
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Are microbes making the methane that's been found on Mars, or does the hydrocarbon gas come from geological processes? It's the question that everybody wants to answer, but...

Prozac For Plants.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 8 (SPX) -- Anxiety can be a good thing. It alerts you that something may be wrong, that danger may be close. It helps initiate signals that get you ready to act. But, while an occasional bit of...

Five Easy Pieces - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, set to launch on August 10, will search for evidence that liquid water once persisted on the surface of Mars. This orbiter also will provide...

Latest US Mars Mission Plans Most Detailed Views Of Red Planet Yet Seen.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- The next American mission to Mars is set to launch from Florida soon to examine the red planet in the sharpest detail, yet. The first launch opportunity comes Wednesday, August 10, but...

Mars, The Blue Ecosynthesis.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Terraforming was once solely the province of science fiction. In the 1930s, Olaf Stapledon wrote of electrolyzing a global sea on Venus in order to prepare it for human...

Nanotechnology To Provide Portable Genetic Risk Detection.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MADRID, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- A state-of-the-art portable biosensing device based on micro- and nanotechnologies will empower doctors to rapidly and accurately forewarn patients of their genetic risk of developing diseases...

The Ecological Effects Of The Chernobyl Disaster.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- Nearly 20 years ago Reactor number 4 at Chernobyl exploded, sending radiation across a large region of what is now the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Some 40 radionucleotides were...

Next-Generation Space Vehicle Tested in Pacific Ocean Drop.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CRESCENT CITY, Calif., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- A new space vehicle to carry crews to the International Space Station moved closer to realization August 3 when Transformational Space Corporation tested its parachute landing...

BSkyB Signs Transponder Deal With SES Astra Ahead Of HD Launch.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BETZDORF, Luxembourg, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- SES Astra, an SES Global company, has secured a long-term contract to provide British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) with three additional 28.2 degrees East transponders. Sky will...

Scientists Weather A Space Storm To Find Its Origin.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- A team of researchers from the UK and France used SOHO, ACE and the four Cluster spacecraft to study a huge eruption on the Sun, tracing its progress from birth to when it reached Earth. ...

Venus Express Launch Campaign Starts.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Aug. 9 (SPX) -- ESA's Venus Express spacecraft recently completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. One and a half...

New Look At Microwave Background May Cast Doubts On Big Bang Theory.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- A new analysis of 'cool' spots in the cosmic microwave background may cast new doubts on a key piece of evidence supporting the big bang theory of how the universe was formed. ...

China Expected To Launch Lunar Probe Satellite In 2007.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BEIJING, Aug. 10 (SPX) -- China is expected to launch its first ever lunar probe satellite in 2007, given that the country's moon exploration project has so far been proceeding smoothly, according to the China...

Field Tested: Grasslands Won't Help Buffer Climate Change As CO2 Levels Rise.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Because grasslands and forests operate in complex feedback loops with both the atmosphere and soil, understanding how ecosystems respond to global changes in climate and element cycling is...

New Bacteria Screening Technique May Aid Food Safety.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers AMHERST, Mass., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- In work that has implications for the food safety industry, scientists, and environmental and public health agencies, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have developed a...

Space & Satellite Market Surpasses $103B, To Reach $158B By 2010.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- The International Space Business Council announced Tuesday the release of the '2005 State of the Space Industry.' First released in 1997, the report was developed to provide...

Restoring The 'Garden Of Eden'.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. 10 (SPX) -- While much of the world has focused on the war in Iraq, a group of wetland ecologists has been busy collecting data on the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq. Formerly the...

Opportunity On An Ice-Cream-Cone Outcrop.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Opportunity continues to make progress south toward "Erebus" crater. The rover planners are doing an excellent job keeping Opportunity safely within the confines of the ripple...

Spirit 100 Meters From The Top.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Spirit has been busy performing investigations with the tools on its robotic arm. It studied two targets on the rock dubbed "Bourgeoisie," and did a small bump to "Hausmann" to take...

NASA's Next Leap In Mars Exploration Ready For Launch.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is ready for a morning launch on Thursday, Aug. 11. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in March 2006 for a mission to understand the planet's...

Ball Aerospace High Resolution Camera To Launch On Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 9 (SPX) -- NASA's next journey to Mars, scheduled to launch August 10 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, will include an advanced camera built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for...

Globecomm and IPIX to Offer Global Satellite, Wireless Surveillance Solutions.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Globecomm Systems announced Tuesday that the Company is teaming with IPIX, a designer of immersive imaging technology, to offer satellite and wireless surveillance solutions on a...

CACI Contracted To Support TROJAN Satellite Communications For U.S. Army.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- CACI International announced Tuesday that it has been awarded a delivery order contract by the Intelligence and Information Directorate of the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics...

Boeing Rolls Out First SLAM-ER For Republic Of Korea.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8 (SPX) -- The first Boeing Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) rolled out recently during a ceremony at Boeing's Weapons Enterprise...

Australian Army Successfully Fires First Hellfire II From A Eurocopter Tiger.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and Eurocopter have completed a successful live firing of the Hellfire II missile from Australia's Eurocopter Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopter (ARH), verifying the...

A 'Smart' Bio-Nanotube.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- By combining one natural component of a cell with the synthetic analog of another component, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have created a...

New Window Into Ancient Ozone Holes.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 10 (SPX) -- British researchers have hit on a clever way to search for ancient ozone holes and their relationship to mass extinctions: measure the remains of ultraviolet-B absorbing pigments...

The Rather Large Spacecraft That Could.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Just like that fabled little engine, this tenacious spacecraft just won't give up! But in this case, the "I-think-I-can's" are whistling from the team of mission operations engineers...

When Will Video Streaming To The Vehicle Via Satellite Radio Actually Occur?
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- The last quarter brought announcements from Sirius Satellite Radio of plans to provide video broadcasting services to the vehicle. But when can buyers expect product and what impact...

Atlantis Won't Be Launched Before Foam Problem Solved: NASA Chief.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 10 (SPX) -- NASA Administrator Mike Griffin reiterated Tuesday that the US space agency will not launch shuttle Atlantis if the problem of insulation foam remain unsolved. Speaking at a...

Water: Researchers Seek Ways To Make The Most Of A Limited Resource.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 10 (SPX) -- Mild winters, low humidity, lots of room, cultural diversity, higher education opportunities and a lively economy - El Paso has a lot to offer. But one thing it doesn't have is a lot...

Orbimage Expands International Sales Force To Meet New Demand.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DULLES, Va., Aug. 11 (SPX) -- Orbimage announced Wednesday the appointment of several key positions to its Worldwide Sales and Marketing organization to lead the company's sales initiatives, business development...

First Triple Asteroid System Found.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 11 (SPX) -- One of the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun has been found to have a mini planetary system of its own. University of California, Berkeley, assistant research astronomer...

Black Hole Blows Bubble Between The Stars.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Aug. 11 (SPX) -- A team of astronomers from The Netherlands and the UK has discovered a vast "jet-powered bubble" formed in the gas around a black hole in the Milky Way. The discovery...

Of Shuttles And Shenzhou.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WOLLONGONG, Australia, Aug. 11 (SPX) -- The safe return of the shuttle Discovery and her crew has brought relief to spacewatchers around the globe. But NASA's human spaceflight program remains mired in concerns over...

NIST Demonstrates Better Memory With Quantum Computer Bits.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 11 (SPX) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer memory lasting longer...