October 6, 2003

October 6, 2003

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Europe Discovers the Moon

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA/BREMEN, GERMANY,,DOUGLAS BARRIE/LONDON,1 more...5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Spaceship 1 Hiccups

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Giant Leap

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA4 min

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Europe Discovers the Moon

ESA’s premier Moon mission aims to create first lunar mineralogical map

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA/BREMEN, GERMANY,,DOUGLAS BARRIE/LONDON,1 more...5 min

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Spaceship 1 Hiccups

Pitch hangup will result in delay and changes to design

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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Giant Leap

Chinese want new heavy-lift Long March to fly in time for the Beijing Summer Olympics

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA4 min

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Digitalglobe Wins

NIMA seeks funding to sustain Space Imaging as a second provider

By ROBERT WALL4 min

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Missile Guidance

Pentagon is considering the impact of Iraq on its guided-weapons road map

By DOUGLAS BARRIE3 min

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Maritime Predator

General Atomics speeds efforts to design a longer range UAV as a Navy unmanned maritime patrol aircraft

By DAVID A. FULGHUM3 min

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Buying Time

New ‘card’ program being unveiled by Delta subsidiary aims to broaden its share of the business jet market

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI3 min

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SOHO Saved Again

Antenna failure should have negligible impact on the solar observation satellite

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA3 min

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Surging Aloft

Missile Defense Agency propels U.S. lighter-than-air efforts

By ROBERT WALL3 min

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Galileo Gets the Data

LOS ANGELES Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have retrieved almost all the final data sent by their Galileo spacecraft before it hit Jupiter. The data could not be deciphered in real time during the last 4 hr. before the Sept. 21 impact, a period of strong scientific interest, after the transmission rate was increased to 32 from 20 bps.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM2 min

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