Space Daily articles from May 2005

Space Daily archives from May 2005

CyberWalk - Unconstrained Walking In Virtual Worlds.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TUEBINGEN, Germany, May 2 (SPX) -- The development of a walking platform which will allow unconstrained movement in virtual worlds is the goal of the CyberWalk project, initiated by scientists of the Max Planck...

Cassini Team Gear Up For Next Phase In Saturn Mission.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PADADENA, Calif., May 2 (SPX) -- The Cassini spacecraft is about to embark on a new mission phase that will give it a ringside seat at Saturn -- literally. After concentrating on flybys of the stately planet's moons...

Harvard Scientists Create High-Speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2 (SPX) -- Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have made robust circuits from minuscule nanowires that align themselves on a chip of glass during low-temperature fabrication, creating...

Luca Technologies Confirms Real-Time Methane Generation.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, May 2 (SPX) -- Luca Technologies announced Thursday that its researchers have confirmed the presence of a resident, methane-generating community of microorganisms ("microbial consortium") in substrate samples...

NASA Gives Artificial Gravity A New Spin.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GALVESTON, Texas, May 2 (SPX) -- NASA will use a new human centrifuge to explore artificial gravity as a way to counter the physiologic effects of extended weightlessness for future space exploration. The new...

Low Level Of Extinction During Ice Age Linked To Adaptability.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, May 2 (SPX) -- A Johns Hopkins University graduate student may have figured out why rates of extinction were so low for many of the major groups of marine life during one of the greatest ice ages, which...

New ISS Crew Settle In.(International Space Station)
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, May 2 (SPX) -- The new crew members of the International Space Station completed their first full work week today. They performed routine maintenance, continued to settle in and practiced photography for the...

Wind Delays Last Skylark Launch.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, May 2 (SPX) -- Although a test launch Saturday went smoothly, Britain's last Skylark rocket due to blast off Sunday was delayed because of high winds. The 441st Skylark, to launch from Sweden, was...

Last Titan 4 Launched, $40 Billion Program Makes Way For EELV.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 29 (SPX) -- The United States Air Force and Lockheed Martin wrote the final chapter in a five-decade history at Cape Canaveral tonight with the final launch of a Titan IV B heavy-lift...

Programmable Cells: Engineer Turns Bacteria Into Living Computers.(research)
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PRINCETON, N.J., April 28 (SPX) -- In a step toward making living cells function as if they were tiny computers, engineers at Princeton have programmed bacteria to communicate with each other and produce color-coded...

Prospecting For Lunar Water.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 29 (SPX) -- The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people...

State-of-the-Art Mineralogy For Mars.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 2 (SPX) -- Planetary exploration proceeds by steps. Because life on Earth requires liquid water, the MER mission aimed to search for signs that liquid water existed on Mars in the past. MER...

Mars Express Radar To Be Deployed In May.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers FRANCE, Paris, May 2 (SPX) -- Following green light for the deployment of ESA's Mars Express radar, given in February this year, the radar booms are now planned to be deployed in the first half of May. Once the...

Air Force Space Leaders Deliver Positive Report On United States' Combat Capabilities.
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers COLORADO SPRINGS, May 2 (SPX) -- Two of the nation's top space professionals echoed each other as they delivered an upbeat message to industry and military space experts on the final day of the National Space...

B-SAT Authorizes LockMart To Proceed On A2100 Small-Class Satellite.(Lockheed Martin )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEWTOWN, Pa., May 2 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has been granted an authorization to proceed (ATP) by the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan to build its next geostationary telecommunications...

Trinkets for Shenzhou.(China, space programs)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SYDNEY, May 3 (SPX) -- China's recent announcement that it will fly items contributed by the public on the upcoming Shenzhou 6 mission is an interesting development. Since the inception of the Shenzhou program, public...

Yes, It Is The Image Of An Exoplanet.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GARCHING, Germany, May 2 (SPX) -- Astronomers have confirmed the first image of a planet outside of our Solar System. An international team of astronomers recently reported confirmation of the discovery of a giant...

Merging Game Theory With Wireless Networks To Create 'Smarter' Garments.(National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BLACKSBURG, Va., April 29 (SPX) -- Using economic theory to improve wireless communications networks and designing garments that can sense their own shapes are among the goals of two National Science Foundation...

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, Oops...
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 3 (SPX) -- Opportunity used the spectrometers on its arm to examine the soil where the rover stayed for six sols, then resumed driving on sol 446. However, the drive ended after 40 meters when...

Tithonium Chasma Up Close.(European Space Agency)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, May 2 (SPX) -- These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show part of Tithonium Chasma, a major trough at the western end of the Valles Marineris...

New NASA Software Detects Bugs In Java Computer Code.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 28 (SPX) -- NASA scientists announced last Wednesday they are releasing free software that will find 'bugs,' or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is...

AAS Says Space Science Cuts Threaten US Pre-eminence In Space.(American Astronomical Society)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, May 2 (SPX) -- The American Astronomical Society released a statement today decrying the recently announced cuts to NASA astrophysics funding. AAS President Robert Kirshner said, "NASA is having a tough...

Salty Staircase In The Atlantic Provides Clues To Ocean Mixing.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 2 (SPX) -- Layers of salty ocean water mix with layers of fresher water, creating a salty staircase or layering driven by small-scale convection known as salt fingers. Although scientists...

Carnegie Mellon Robot Will Run Time Trials To Enter $2 Million Desert Race.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PITTSBURGH, May 2 (SPX) -- On May 5, Carnegie Mellon University's H1ghlander robot will demonstrate that it has the skills to compete in the 2005 Grand Challenge, a driverless rumble through 175 miles of hostile...

Loral Skynet, Global Crossing To Provide IP Network For British Council.(Internet Protocols)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 29 (SPX) -- Loral Skynet announced last Thursday that it has teamed with Global Crossing to provide a communications network to the British Council, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by...

Stay Tuned For A STEREO View Of Stormy Space Weather.(Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., April 29 (SPX) -- Soon you'll be able to see for the first time ever, in dazzling three dimensions - the Sun. Imagine solar prominences looping out into space for thousands of miles. Now picture a...

Micro Spacecraft To Pave The Way For Future Space Exploration.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 2 (SPX) -- Years ago, space visionaries dreamt that swarms of small spacecraft someday would travel to other worlds to explore them in preparation for future landings by human beings. ...

Beam Me To Mars.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, May 2 (SPX) -- "Are we there yet?" Everyone has faced this exasperating question from impatient companions on a long road trip. Imagine if the trip lasted six months. One way. It takes conventional...

LockMart And Aerosonde Enter Alliance For Unmanned Aircraft System Solutions.
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ORLANDO, Fla., April 29 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin, Aerosonde North America and Aerosonde announced last Thursday the establishment of a multinational strategic alliance to provide Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)...

Vsat Provider C2SAT Communications Awards SSC The Certificate Program.(Very small aperture terminals)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 2 (SPX) -- C2SAT communications announced last Friday the entry of the co-operation with Swedish Space Corporation regarding the certificate program for type approval of the C2SAT 1.2m...

Polar-Orbiting NOAA-N To Launch May 11.(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., May 3 (SPX) -- The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called NOAA-N, is set to be...

NASA Selects Magnetospheric Multiscale Instrument Suite Team.(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN ANTONIO, May 4 (SPX) -- NASA has selected the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) Instrument Suite team led by Dr. James L. Burch of Southwest Research Institute (SRI), San Antonio, to work with the Goddard Space...

Envisat Helps Polar Challenge Racers On Way To Magnetic North Pole.(Scott Dunn Polar Challenge )
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BERKSHIRE, England, May 3 (SPX) -- The final stretch of the Scott Dunn Polar Challenge is approaching: 44 competitors on 16 teams from all over Britain and Ireland are racing on skis, pulling sledges to the...

CARTOSAT-1 And HAMSAT To Be Launched By PSLV-6 On Thursday.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DELHI, India, May 4 (SPX) -- In its ninth flight, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C6, will launch India's remote sensing satellite, the 1,560 kg CARTOSAT-1, along with a 42.5 kg piggyback satellite,...

NASA And EPA Team To Improve Crop Management.(United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, May 4 (SPX) -- Can you see the difference between traditional corn and bio-engineered corn? NASA technology is beginning to provide the answer in a snapshot. The technology is called hyperspectral imaging....

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Selects TransCore Vehicle Tracking System.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PHOENIX, May 3 (SPX) -- The City of Phoenix, operator of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, has selected TransCore to design and integrate a vehicle tracking system, utilizing radio frequency identification...

In-Orbit Tests Of Inmarsat I-4 F1 Completed Successfully.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TOULOUSE, France, May 4 (SPX) -- The Inmarsat-4 F1 satellite has successfully completed in-orbit tests following its launch on 11th March 2005. Early orbit operations have progressed as planned, and all spacecraft...

Stratos Brings Next-Gen Broadband Wireless Access To Gulf Of Mexico.(Stratos Global Corp.)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., May 3 (SPX) -- Stratos Global announced Monday the commercial launch of StratosMAX, a new, next-generation broadband wireless access (BWA) network that maximizes the performance, flexibility and...

LockMart Receives Contract for Laser-Guided Training Rounds.(Lockheed Martin Corp.)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ARCHBALD, Pa., May 4 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has received a contract valued at approximately $26 million to deliver laser- guided training rounds (LGTRs) to the U.S. Navy next year. The contract includes four...

Boeing, Lockheed Martin To Form Launch Services Joint Venture.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., May 3 (SPX) -- Boeing and Lockheed Martin have entered into an agreement to create a joint venture that will combine the production, engineering, test and launch operations associated with U.S....

Last Mission For Skylark Completed.(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KIRUNA, Sweden, May 3 (SPX) -- Today (Monday) at 05.00 UTC, the Swedish sounding rocket MASER 10 was launched from Swedish Space Corporation's launching facility Esrange, outside Kiruna in the north of Sweden. By...

SpaceX Awarded $100 Million Contract From USAF For Falcon 1.(Space Exploration Technologies Corp., United States Air Force)(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 4 (SPX) -- Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has been awarded a $100 million IDIQ contract by the U.S. Air Force/Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC Detachment 12) for Responsive Small...

NSAB Selects ILS for Proton Launch of Sirius 4 in 2007.(Nordic Satellite AB, International Launch Services)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 5 (SPX) -- Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) announced today that the launch of its Sirius 4 satellite will be on a Proton Breeze M booster provided by International Launch Services (ILS). Terms of the...

In Search Hints Of Habitability On Mars.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 5 (SPX) -- There are a number of exoplanets which have been detected around other stars, and they are all giant planets like Jupiter. The question is, "Are there any habitable worlds similar...

Stuck In A Martian Sand Pit.(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 3 (SPX) -- The Opportunity team continues working with an engineering test rover on Earth to determine the safest way to attempt to drive the rover out of the dune where it's currently parked on...

Spirit Analyzing Keystone.(mars rover)(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 4 (SPX) -- Spirit is in excellent health. The rover spent the week from April 22 to April 30 studying an outcrop called "Methuselah," and focusing on the "Keystone" rock. Before Spirit drives...

NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Arrives In Florida For Final Checkout.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 3 (SPX) -- A large spacecraft destined to be Earth's next robotic emissary to Mars has completed the first leg of its journey, a cargo- plane ride from Colorado to Florida in preparation for...

Wading In Martian Water.(Mars Express)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 3 (SPX) -- The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for over a year. While the high resolution images of the planet's many craters, volcanoes, and other...

Women Find Common Sense In Griffin's New NASA Culture.(Mike Griffin)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, May 4 (SPX) -- A wide range of topics was on the menu when NASA Administrator Mike Griffin addressed a breakfast gathering of Women in Aerospace (WIA) in Washington. About 200 people from industry,...

Gamma Rays From Thunderstorms?
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., May 3 (SPX) -- Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own atmosphere. Their...

USAF-NASA Technology Demonstrator Engine Successfully Test Fired.(United States Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Miss., May 4 (SPX) -- An engine developed to demonstrate advanced rocket technologies for future launch vehicles was successfully ignited April 28 at 9:10 p.m. CDT during its test firing at NASA's Stennis...

Earth And Moon Through Rosetta's Eyes.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, May 4 (SPX) -- ESA's comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of 4/5 March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ...

South Korea Offers Satellite-Based Mobile TV Service.(TU Media Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEOUL, Korea, May 3 (SPX) -- Satellite-based mobile TV service went into commercial operation in South Korea Sunday, for the first time anywhere, its operator, TU Media Corp said. The satellite digital multimedia...

Sirius And Podcast Inventor To Bring Best Podcasts To Satellite Radio.(Adam Curry)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, May 3 (SPX) -- Sirius Satellite Radio and PodShow.com announced Monday that Adam Curry, the "father of podcasting," will produce a special Sirius Satellite Radio program which will broadcast the best...

SES Americom Retires Satcom C1 After 14 Years Of Service.(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PRINCETON, N.J., May 3 (SPX) -- SES Americom, an SES Global Company, announced Monday that it conducted the last operations on the Satcom C1 satellite, safely de-orbiting the satellite more than 280 km beyond the...

MSV's New Patent Awarded For Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Service.(Mobile Satellite Ventures)(hybrid satellite-terrestrial system )(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., May 3 (SPX) -- Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Monday that it had been awarded its 5th hybrid satellite-terrestrial system patent, covering 34 claims. The award of this patent brings the total...

Spacehab Accepts $4.8 Million Offer On Florida Processing Facility.(Tamir Silvers, sale and lease back )
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 3 (SPX) -- Spacehab announced Monday that it has consummated the sale and lease back of its 58,000 square-foot processing facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida in a transaction with Tamir...

Atmel Extends Its FPGA To ASIC Conversion Service For Space Applications.(Brief Article)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NANTES, France, May 4 (SPX) -- Atmel announced Tuesday a new service to convert existing space FPGA-based designs into cost-effective radiation hardened ASICs with shortened lead-times. This new service generates...

ILS Atlas Adds NRO Mission To West Coast Launch Manifest.(International Launch Services)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MCLEAN, Va., May 4 (SPX) -- International Launch Services (ILS), a Lockheed Martin joint venture, has signed an agreement with the U.S. Air Force to launch a national security payload on an Atlas 5 vehicle in 2007...

"Wonderful" Star Reveals Its Hot Nature.(Chandra X-ray Observatory)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29 (SPX) -- For the first time an X-ray image of a pair of interacting stars has been made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The ability to distinguish between the interacting stars a...

Hughes Announces New Range Of High-Speed Enterprise Satellite Service Plans.(Hughes Network Systems Inc.)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, Md., May 4 (SPX) -- Hughes Network Systems (HNS) announced Tuesday that it is offering a comprehensive range of standard high-speed enterprise broadband service plans in North America. The offering...

GOES-N Launch Delayed Until June 23.(geostationary operational environmental satellites)
May 4, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 3 (SPX) -- Like guardian angels, the GOES spacecraft keep a constant vigil over us. They're always on the job, bringing weather data that can predict a beautiful weekend for a picnic, or the...

NASA And NOAA Set To Launch New Environmental Satellite.(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG, Calif., May 5 (SPX) -- NASA is set to launch the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), another critical link in the...

This Mother's Day, Give Your Mom The Gift Of Safety And Security.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, May 4 (SPX) -- Mother's Day is May 9th. Candy, flowers, cards... a week after Mother's Day they are just a memory. Why not give your mom a present that she will appreciate for years to come... and give...

How Monarch Butterflies Are Wired For Navigation.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WORCESTER, Mass., May 5 (SPX) -- In their extraordinary annual migration from North America to Mexico, monarch butterflies are known to use the angle of polarized sunlight as a celestial guide to help them keep to a...

Opportunity Nearly Ready To Drive Out Of Dune.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ITHICA, N.Y., May 5 (SPX) -- We've made some substantial progress over the past week in getting ready to get Opportunity out of the drift that she's driven into. All the action so far has been on Earth, doing testing...

Lockheed Martin Completes Major Risk-Reduction Test Of SBIRS High Satellite.( Space-Based Infrared System High )
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has successfully completed a crucial "jitter" test of the Space-Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite, an important step in...

Lockheed Martin Conducts Successful Joint Common Missile Rocket Motor Tests.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ORLANDO, Fla., May 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin and its Joint Common Missile (JCM) rocket motor supplier, Aerojet, a GenCorp company, recently completed a series of successful tests of the rocket motor for the JCM,...

Russian Space Agency To Launch European Meteorological Satellite.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, May 5 (SPX) -- The Federal Space Agency has announced that it will support the launch of the European meteorological satellite Metop-A. The satellite is scheduled to be launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from...

Northrop Grumman Demos KEI Missile Defense Battle Management Capabilities.(kinetic energy interceptors)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 6 (SPX) -- Last month, Northrop Grumman successfully demonstrated two key battle management capabilities for the new Kinetic Energy Interceptors (KEI) missile-defense program, ahead of schedule....

The Ring On The Radar Screen.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 9 (SPX) -- This recent image of Titan reveals more complex patterns of bright and dark regions on the surface, including a small, dark, circular feature, completely surrounded by brighter...

Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family.(Phoebe)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., May 9 (SPX) -- Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. The new findings appear in the May 5 issue of...

Earth Surface Lightens Up.(Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers RICHLAND, Wash., May 6 (SPX) -- Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate warming at the surface and unmask the full effect of greenhouse...

Earth's Reflectivity A Great Unknown In Gauging Climate Change Impacts.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, May 6 (SPX) -- Earth's climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as...

New Thermometer Reveals Wet Conditions On Earliest Earth.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TROY, N.Y., May 6 (SPX) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Australian National University have found new evidence that environmental conditions on early Earth, within 200 million years of solar...

Envisat Making Sharpest Ever Global Earth Map.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers JENA, Germany, May 6 (SPX) -- The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth's land surface is being created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover...

Homeland Security Technology Offers GPS Systems With Iraq Street Maps.(GPS World Supply)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DEL MAR, Calif., May 6 (SPX) -- Colonel Jeffrey A. Powers, CEO of Homeland Security Technology, announced last Thursday that HST has signed a marketing/reselling agreement with GPS World Supply of West Chicago, IL, to...

Expedition 11 Get To Work.(International Space Station)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, May 9 (SPX) -- Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips moved full speed ahead into their Expedition 11 maintenance and science work aboard the International Space Station last week. ...

LockMart Chosen As Weapon System Integrator For DARPA Laser Program.(Lockheed Martin Corp., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency )
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin said last Thursday it had been selected by General Atomics as weapon system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). General...

Divining For Lunar Water?
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, May 9 (SPX) -- The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people there...

Preperation For Mission To Pluto And Beyond Continues.(Pluto-Kuiper Belt)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN ANTONIO, May 9 (SPX) -- April was a memorable month for the New Horizons spacecraft team, for it saw the completion of spacecraft assembly and the accomplishment of a thorough Comprehensive Performance Test (CPT)...

Physicists Detect The Undetectable: "Baby" Solitary Waves.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BUFFALO, N.Y., May 6 (SPX) -- When University at Buffalo theorist Surajit Sen published his prediction that solitary waves, tight bundles of energy that travel without dispersing, could break into smaller, "baby" or...

SpaceDev Wins USAF Research Contract to Develop Small Launch Vehicle Avionics.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers POWAY, Calif., May 6 (SPX) -- SpaceDev has been awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract, worth approximately $100,000. This new project is focused on the...

Dish Network And DirecTV File Suit In Florida Challenging Satellite Tax.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 6 (SPX) -- Defending the rights of hundreds of thousands of satellite TV subscribers in Florida, DirecTV and EchoStar Communications, and its Dish Network, have filed a lawsuit in the Florida...