Space Daily articles from November 2005

Space Daily archives from November 2005

Current Status of Hayabusa and Events Scheduled in November.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Hayabusa that arrived at the target asteroid Itokawa on September 12th of this year has performed detailed scientific observation so far by varying its relative position around Itokawa. As...

Physicists Offer New Approach To Studying Antimatter.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers RIVERSIDE, Calif., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- What happens when two atoms, each made up of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, called the positron, collide with each other? UC Riverside physicists are able to see for...

India To Launch Exclusive Satellite To Track Natural Disasters.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BANGALORE, India, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- In the wake of the recent earthquake which caused havoc in India and Pakistan, killing thousands of people, the Government of India has decided to launch an exclusive satellite that...

Northrop Grumman Showcases Comprehensive Suite Of Geospatial Intelligence Solutions.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 28 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman will highlight solutions to support national security and homeland defense next week at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's GEOINT 2005 Symposium. The...

Rensselaer Researcher Awarded DARPA Funding To Improve Terrain Maps.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TROY, N.Y., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- A Rensselaer researcher has been awarded $845,000 in federal funding to create improved computer representations of terrain on the surface of the Earth and beyond. The research could have a...

Garmin Taps XM NavTraffic Powered By NAVTEQ Traffic For Real-Time Data.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- NAVTEQ and Garmin International have announced the StreetPilot 7200, StreetPilot 7500 and Streetpilot 2730, will offer XM NavTraffic powered by NAVTEQ Traffic, the first satellite-based data...

New Book Expands Biological Classifications To Account For 'Alien' Life.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow? What if that alien didn't come from another world but rather was created in a laboratory right here on Earth and...

Mars Society Australia Gets Stage Three Funding For Starchaser Rover.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SYDNEY, Oct. 28 (SPX) -- The UK Space Tourism Company, Starchaser Industries through their Director, Paul Young has generously donated another UKP 20,000 (AU$ 46,723) for Stage 3 of the construction of the Starchaser...

Methane Found In Desert Soils Bolsters Theories That Life Could Exist On Mars.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists and...

SSETI Express: Power Problem.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Since Friday morning, the ground control station in Aalborg has not had any contact with SSETI Express. Thorough analysis over the weekend indicates that a failure in the electrical power system...

Hubble Spots Possible New Moons Around Pluto.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- The Hubble Space Telescope images above, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveal Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the planet's two new candidate satellites. Between May 15...

Azores Joins ESA's Tracking Network In Readiness For ATV Launch.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers AZORES, Azores Islands, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- The Members of the Regional Government of the Azores have formally inaugurated the site of a new ESA tracking station on Santa Maria Island which will support the flight of...

In-flight Demonstration Of Innovative Combined Antenna/Solar Array.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- In-flight testing of the results of ESA-funded research into and development of combined solar arrays and antennas commenced on 27 October, when an experimental device was launched into low...

Titan Weather: Cloudy Every 15 Years.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- About two years ago, before the Huygens probe arrived at Titan, Henry Roe, a graduate student I was working with at Berkeley, discovered clouds on Titan. He was the first person...

Harnessing The Sun: NASA Studies Advanced Solar Cells On Station.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CLEVELAND, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Did you know that instruments as small as postage stamps can keep a satellite operating in space for decades? It sounds unbelievable, but as they say, "from small beginnings great things...

Russia, China Could Create Spacecraft To Explore Mars, The Moon.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SANYA, China, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Russia and China are considering jointly creating spacecraft to explore Mars and the Moon, a senior official of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Monday, reports RIA...

El-Op To Supply CNES With Scientific Space Camera.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers REHOVOT, Israel, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- CNES and El-Op, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, have announced the signing of a contract for the supply of a scientific electro optical space camera called Vens. The contract is for...

Russia To Launch Satellite For World Space Observatory.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SANYA, China, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Russia is planning to build and put into orbit a satellite that will lay the foundation for the creation of the World Space Observatory (WSO), a project to explore deep space in the...

Bringing The Study Of Lightning Research Into The Laboratory.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Lightning, a high-voltage discharge that strikes quickly and sometimes fatally, is very difficult to study. A new and surprising finding by Florida Institute of Technology's Dr. Joseph...

NOAA Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For Next Weather Bird Definition Study.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, CO, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $10 million, six-month contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PDRR) phase...

KVH Introduces Embedded TracVision Automotive Sat TV System For OEM Apps.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- KVH Industries has brought live satellite TV programming one step closer to being a factory-installed reality when it unveiled an embedded automotive TracVision system Tuesday at the...

Modeling Of Long-Term Fossil Fuel Consumption Shows 14.5 Degree Hike In Temperature.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters...

Harris Corporation Awarded Contract For Joint Direct Attack Munition Anti-Jam GPS Electronics.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Harris has announced that it has been awarded an $18.2 million follow-on contract by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems to provide Anti-Jam Global Positioning System (AJ GPS) modules...

NASA Marks Five Years Of A Unique Room With A View.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Break out the thermostabalized beef tips with mushrooms and rehydratable apple cider! Tomorrow, NASA and the international space station partners celebrate a major milestone, as the unique...

Riding Ripples And Working Issues.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Opportunity is healthy and traversing around the northwest side of "Erebus Crater." The rover has driven on every sol possible, acquiring during and after each drive, and surveying...

Anteon Awarded $26.9M Contract from U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Command.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Anteon International has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) PEOC4I & Space. Anteon will provide...

Raytheon Trials BTID Devices.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HARLOW, England, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) is trialling two Battlefield Target Identification Device (BTID) Transponders at the Coalition Combat Identification Advanced Concept Technology...

Non-Lethal Laser Weapon Halts Aggressors.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KIRTLAND, N.M., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- A laser technology being developed by Air Force Research Laboratory employees at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., will be the first man-portable, non-lethal deterrrent weapon intended for...

Physicists Measure Tiny Force That Limits How Far Machines Can Shrink.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TUSCON, Ariz., Oct. 20 (SPX) -- University of Arizona physicists have directly measured how close speeding atoms can come to a surface before the atoms' wavelengths change. Theirs is a first, fundamental...

Astronomers Announce Discovery Of Two New Moons Of Pluto.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- A team of astronomers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and other institutions has discovered that Pluto has two previously unseen moons. Ground-based observers discovered Pluto's...

Mitsubishi Electric Receives Orders For Superbird 7 From SCC.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, Nov. 2 (SPX) -- In a commercial communications satellite market dominated by American manufacturers, Mitsubishi Electric (President and CEO Tamotsu Nomakuchi) announced today it received an order for the...

Globalstar Extends Satellite Data Service To Central And South America.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Globalstar has announced that it will offer simplex, or one-way, data services to its customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern portion of South...

Surgery Enters Virtual World.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOLOGNA, Italy, Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Hip replacement outcomes could become far more predictable thanks to a revolutionary virtual surgery system developed by European researchers. The IST-funded Multisense project...

Kazakhstan Will Not Lower Rent For Baikonur Space Center.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Kazakhstan does not plan to lower the rent it is charging Russia for the Baikonur space center, the head of Kazakh company Kazkosmos said Tuesday, reports RIA Novosti. Baikonur...

Black Widow Nebula Hiding In The Dust.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- In the constellation Circinus, where previous visible-light observations by the Digital Sky Survey (left) saw only a faint hourglass-shaped patch of obscuring dust and gas, NASA's...

Alion To Enhance Helicopter And UAV Technologies.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Alion Science and Technology was awarded a $5M contract for process technology of replacement parts production through the Army Aviation and Missile Command. The contract will focus...

High-Tech Micro Air Vehicle Will Battle With Soldiers.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- While on a dismounted patrol along a rocky dirt path, soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, stayed alert of their surroundings as they made their way to the...

Raytheon Delivers First Production ISS for Global Hawk.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Raytheon has delivered the first full production Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk unmanned aerial system used by the U.S. Air Force. ...

China Ministry of Water Resources Selects SkyStream zBand Platform For National Flood Control Program.
November 2, 2005... Byline: BEIJING, CHINA (SPX) NOV 02, 2005 SKYSTREAM HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE CHINA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES HAS SELECTED SKYSTREAM'S ZBAND CONTENT DELIVERY SOFTWARE, Source Media Router (SMR-26) and Edge Media Router (EMR) to manage its...

UV Measurement Tool Aids Defense Against Microbes In Tap Water.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have developed a new way to measure microbes' exposure to ultraviolet light. The tool could bolster efforts to use UV light to improve...

Leader Envisions Future of Air Mobility Command.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NASHVILLE, TN, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- As the final speaker during the Airlift/Tanker Association convention here Oct. 29, U.S. Air Force Gen. Duncan McNabb looked out at the immense crowd that included retired Air Mobility...

Manufacturing Academy - Big Boost for Aerospace.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- The announcement of a new employer driven Manufacturing Academy is a big boost for UK aerospace and great news for manufacturing, SBAC said Wednesday. The Manufacturing Academy will help...

Neutron Star Discovered Where A Black Hole Was Expected.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- A very massive star collapsed to form a neutron star and not a black hole as anticipated, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows that...

Scientists See Light That May Be From First Objects In Universe.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope say they have detected light that may be from the earliest objects in the universe. If confirmed, the observation provides a glimpse of...

Agreement Establishes Energy-Efficient Home Collaboration.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- A partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) will move forward energy-efficient...

Boeing Awarded National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Security Data Contracts.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Boeing received approximately $24 million in new orders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, extending the company's work to speed delivery and analysis of critical,...

L-3 Comm And QinetiQ Sign MoU For ISTAR And ISR Program Collaboration.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- L-3 Communications has announced that its Integrated Systems (L-3 IS) subsidiary has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue a Strategic Alliance Agreement with QinetiQ of Farnborough,...

SES Americom Adds IPoS And DirecWay DW7000 To List Of Broadband Standards And Platforms.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, Md., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Hughes Network Systems announced Wednesday that SES Americom fully endorses HNS' DW7000 satellite broadband platform and the Internet Protocol over Satellite (IPoS) standard upon which...

Iridium, Impeva Labs Contract With PANYNJ For Operation Safe Commerce Testing Phase III.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Iridium Satellite and Impeva Labs announced Wednesday that they will further expand their current collaboration in the implementation of a real-time container monitoring,...

Five years Of ISS Crews.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Just over five years ago the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was launched into orbit. There had been 30 previous launches of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft, all of which went to the Mir Space Station. This...

Leader Envisions Future of Air Mobility Command.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NASHVILLE, TN, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- As the final speaker during the Airlift/Tanker Association convention here Oct. 29, U.S. Air Force Gen. Duncan McNabb looked out at the immense crowd that included retired Air Mobility...

Manufacturing Academy - Big Boost for Aerospace.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Nov. 1 (SPX) -- The announcement of a new employer driven Manufacturing Academy is a big boost for UK aerospace and great news for manufacturing, SBAC said Wednesday. The Manufacturing Academy will help...

Neutron Star Discovered Where A Black Hole Was Expected.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- A very massive star collapsed to form a neutron star and not a black hole as anticipated, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows that...

Scientists See Light That May Be From First Objects In Universe.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope say they have detected light that may be from the earliest objects in the universe. If confirmed, the observation provides a glimpse of...

Agreement Establishes Energy-Efficient Home Collaboration.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- A partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) will move forward energy-efficient...

Boeing Awarded National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Security Data Contracts.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 1 (SPX) -- Boeing received approximately $24 million in new orders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, extending the company's work to speed delivery and analysis of critical,...

L-3 Comm And QinetiQ Sign MoU For ISTAR And ISR Program Collaboration.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- L-3 Communications has announced that its Integrated Systems (L-3 IS) subsidiary has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue a Strategic Alliance Agreement with QinetiQ of Farnborough,...

SES Americom Adds IPoS And DirecWay DW7000 To List Of Broadband Standards And Platforms.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, Md., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Hughes Network Systems announced Wednesday that SES Americom fully endorses HNS' DW7000 satellite broadband platform and the Internet Protocol over Satellite (IPoS) standard upon which...

Iridium, Impeva Labs Contract With PANYNJ For Operation Safe Commerce Testing Phase III.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Iridium Satellite and Impeva Labs announced Wednesday that they will further expand their current collaboration in the implementation of a real-time container monitoring,...

Five years Of ISS Crews.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- Just over five years ago the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was launched into orbit. There had been 30 previous launches of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft, all of which went to the Mir Space Station. This...

Sea Launch Initiates Countdown For Inmarsat-4 Launch.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- The Sea Launch team has initiated a 72-hour countdown in preparation for the launch of the Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellite on Saturday, November 5, at the opening of a 29-minute launch...

Newly Recognized Gene Mutation May Reduce Seeds, Resurrect Plants.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- A mutated plant that seems to return from the dead may hold the secret to how some flora protect their progeny during yield-limiting drought and other stresses, according to...

A Dusty Weekend For Opportunity.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- The three-sol plan for Opportunity's sols 627 to 629 (Oct. 29 to 31, 2005) began well, with a drive of 51 meters (164 feet) on the first sol. To allow as much time as possible for...

Mars Express PFS Spectrometer Back At Work.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Nov. 3 (SPX) -- The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago. The instrument had been successfully...

Astronomers Get Closest Look Yet At Milky Way's Mysterious Core.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Astronomers have gotten their deepest glimpse into the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, peering closer to the supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's core then ever before. Using the...

AACER System Would Detect Ground Targets While Passing Data About Them.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- Development of an airborne radar that can search broadly for ground targets while transmitting data about them at Ka-band is the objective of the Affordable Adaptive Conformal ESA...

Tunnel 9 Completes Vehicle Testing.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn., Nov. 2 (SPX) -- The Arnold Engineering Development Center's Tunnel 9 facility in White Oak, Md. is playing a crucial role in the ongoing Falcon program, with the completion of...

Honing In On Huygens Landing Site.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- The Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The probe landed on Titan Jan. 14, 2005, acquiring a set of images...

Sandia Enters Into Agreement With The Aerospace Corporation.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- As part of an agreement to identify opportunities for interactive research and development in a broad range of scientific areas, Sandia and The Aerospace Corporation recently signed...

Venus Mission Will Hold Surprises Says U. Of Colorado Planetary Scientist.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 3 (SPX) -- University of Colorado at Boulder planetary scientist Larry Esposito, a member of the European Space Agency's Venus Express science team, believes the upcoming mission to Earth's "evil...

Western States To Host First Test Of Carbon Sequestration In Lava Rock.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Below the plains of the Big Sky states, where the Columbia and Snake rivers wind their way to the Pacific, might lie a geologic answer to one of our most pressing environmental...

Model Helps Assess Ocean-Injection Strategy For Combating Greenhouse Effect.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- In searching for ways to counteract the greenhouse effect, some scientists have proposed capturing the culpritAucarbon dioxideAuas it is emitted from power plants, then liquefying the...

Digitalglobe And Valtus To Instantly Serve-Up Imagery Via Secure Web.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers LONGMONT, Colo., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- DigitalGlobe and Canada-based Valtus Imagery Services (Valtus), a division of NorthWest Geomatics, have entered into an initial three year data distribution partnership to bring...

ERS Altimeter Survey Shows Growth Of Greenland Ice Sheet Interior.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers BERGEN, Norway, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Researchers have utilised more than a decade's worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA's ERS satellites to produce the most detailed picture yet of thickness changes in the Greenland...

Xantic First With Beta-Test BGAN.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers THE HAGUE, Holland, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Xantic is the first satcom provider to start beta testing with a customer for the BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) service. For the purposes of this test, Xantic is working...

Expedition 12 Prepare For Monday Morning Spacewalk.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- The Expedition 12 crew prepared for the mission's first spacewalk and kept the station ship-shape last week. Station Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev reviewed...

Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL Rocket Lift-Off Put Off.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- The lift-off of the Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launch vehicle carrying the Inmarsat-4 satellite was put off by 24 hours, reports RIA Novosti. The reason for the delay was not immediately...

Opportunity Dusts Off And Gets Back To Work.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Having weathered a recent dust storm, Opportunity is back to business. Energy levels are on the rise as the rover prepares for its next investigative campaign. Sol-by-sol...

From Ham-Radio To Galileo, Small Satellites Spell Success.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GUILFORD, England, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Next month should see the launch of the first Galileo satellite which will be paving the way for Europe's global positioning service. The GSTB-V2A spacecraft has been built by Surrey...

Cutting Edge Micro-Satellite Achieves Milestones.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- A 220-pound micro-satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here recently accomplished significant mission milestones when it...

Volcanic Eruptions Impact Global Sea Level.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Clouds of gases and particles sprayed into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions cool the oceans and temporarily offset the rise in global sea level caused by the greenhouse...

Quantum Chaos.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers GARCHING, Germany, Nov. 7 (SPX) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, investigating the chaotic behaviour of the quantum world, have been able to give the first ever demonstration of quantum...

Airlaunch Selected For Contract Continuance By DARPA.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers KIRKLAND, Wash., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- AirLaunch announced that it has been selected for contract continuance by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Phase 2B of the Falcon program. Valued at $17.8...

GM To Build 1.55 Million Vehicles With Factory-Installed XM Radio In 2006.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Staff Writers DETROIT, Ill., Nov. 7 (SPX) -- General Motors has announced that it plans to build 1.55 million vehicles with factory-installed XM Satellite Radio in 2006. "This will be the largest number of GM vehicles with XM...