From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 05:03:17 -0700
Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, May 29, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Just in time for summer, Space Adventures, Ltd. invites you to lose some weight... in fact, lose it all! With programs scheduled for July and August, Space Adventures Zero-Gravity flights can free you of your extra pounds multiple times in one hour, for 30 seconds intervals: http://www.spaceadventures.com/zerog/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Heavy Traffic; Keeping Communication Lines Open in an Ever-Crowded Solar System * Odyssey's Icy Discovery Warms Up Controversial Theories * European Mission Planned in Search of Earth-Like Planets * Water Ice Discovery on Mars May Be 'Tip of an Iceberg Missions/Launches: * Expedition Five: Summering Aboard the Frontier Outpost * Israel Launches Spy Satellite * New! STS-111 Preflight Photo Album Business/Industry: * Collapsed Roof Causes Minor Damage to Clean Room at Baikonur Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ Buy one or build a collection of the best NASA videos in the galaxy. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Heavy Traffic; Keeping Communication Lines Open in an Ever-Crowded Solar System http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/dsn_future_020529-1.h tml Calling long distance is tough when the telephone lines are busy. For most of us, that simply means waiting a few hours and calling again, but for NASA's deep space missions, constant and reliable communication is vital. * Odyssey's Icy Discovery Warms Up Controversial Theories http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/odyssey_viking_020528. html The NASA spacecraft Odyssey's measurements of the planet Mars' huge cache of subsurface ice is yet another piece of data shoring up a controversial claim based on information found by the dual Viking landers in the 1970s. Not only is water ice an elixir for Martian life, it will help support human explorers of the future. * European Mission Planned in Search of Earth-Like Planets http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/eddington_esa_020528.htm l Astronomers announced Monday that the European Space Agency had committed to launching the Eddington satellite, which would search for Earth-like planets, by 2008. * Water Ice Discovery on Mars May Be 'Tip of an Iceberg http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_ice_020528.html Scientists are reporting this week detailed evidence for vast amounts of water ice just beneath the surface of Mars. The finding, which confirms preliminary data released earlier this year, should help answer an age-old question regarding where ancient Mars' water went, and it is likely to fuel greater interest in probing the Red Planet for signs of life. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Expedition Five: Summering Aboard the Frontier Outpost http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts111_exp5_preview_020529.html Summer has barely begun in the northern hemisphere, yet for three humans about to be launched into orbit this week aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour, the season is all but over. * Israel Launches Spy Satellite http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/israel_satellite_020528.html Israel launched a spy satellite into space on Tuesday, putting its advanced missile technology on display at a time of rising Mideast tensions _ just days after Iran confirmed it test-fired its own long-range missile. * New! STS-111 Preflight Photo Album http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/ Here's a collection of images showing some of the training and preparations that take place before every shuttle mission. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Collapsed Roof Causes Minor Damage to Clean Room at Baikonur http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html Ten days after a roof collapse at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan killed seven workers and destroyed the decommissioned Soviet-era Buran space shuttle, portions of the hangar came crumbling down on a clean room at the facility. It was the first damage to operational space equipment as a result of the May 12 accident. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (May 29, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate through Saturday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels. Isolated active conditions are possible Thursday, however. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 218, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 560 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 1.3 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.) http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html ------------------------------------- Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/index.html NEW! Join the SPACE.com affiliate program. 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