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Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, July 31, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- SPACE.COM SPECIAL: Book you and a friend for our August 22, Zero-Gravity flight and receive 50% off! Act quickly, as offer expires Monday, August 5. Call for details: 888-85-SPACE. For program details visit: http://www.spaceadventures.com/zerog/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * 2003 NASA Calendar Science/Astronomy: * SMART Technology: Moon Mission to Test Solar Engine With No Limits * Astronotes: Spectrolab Produces One Million Solar Cells * Robots Draw Rough Duty as U.S. Combat-Tests Them In Afghanistan SpaceFlight: * Human Space Exploration Goes Global * Scramjet Engine Makes First Test Flight over Australian Outback * Tech Today: Walking Forest Machine Business/Industry: * Launches of Two European Satellites On Hold Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * 2003 NASA Calendar http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ The 2003 NASA Calendar featuring awesome NASA and space images plus important dates and space history. The calendar measures 14 x 10 3/4, when hanging on your wall it measures 14 x 21 1/2. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * SMART Technology: Moon Mission to Test Solar Engine With No Limits http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/smart_technology_020731.html Electric power and ion propulsion are about to combine for only the second time to propel a spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. Next April the European Space Agency's SMART-1 lunar satellite heads off to explore the Moon from an orbital position. * Astronotes: Spectrolab Produces One Million Solar Cells http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html It's said that the press likes nice, round numbers and doesn't really care until the next magic number comes along just as long as it's impressive ... and even. This might explain why this news caught our eye: Spectrolab, the California-based company proudly announced today that it has produced one million gallium arsenide solar cells. * Robots Draw Rough Duty as U.S. Combat-Tests Them In Afghanistan http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/afghan_robots_020730.html Hermes the robot edged its way into the dark cave, its treads spinning over the dust and small rocks _ until a larger boulder appeared in the path. No problem. The tiny, tanklike machine dropped its side arms, lifted onto and over the boulder, and rolled on, its two cameras sending images to his operator waiting outside. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Human Space Exploration Goes Global http://www.space.com/news/nasa_future_020731-1.html While NASA wrestles with out-of-control costs and program management woes embedded within the International Space Station (ISS) project, behind-the-scenes efforts are underway to shape long-range space goals. * Scramjet Engine Makes First Test Flight over Australian Outback http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/hyshot_020730.html The world's first flight test of a scramjet engine, conducted over the Australian outback, appears to have gone well, University of Queensland officials report. * Tech Today: Walking Forest Machine http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tech_today.html Here's an invention whose appearance could give Dr. Seuss's tree-hugging character the Lorax a heart attack. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Launches of Two European Satellites On Hold http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Europe's two biggest satellite operators, SES Global and Eutelsat, have ordered suspensions of their planned mid-August commercial satellite launches. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.spacejobs.com/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (July 31, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at moderate to high levels. M-class flares are likely from Regions 39 and 44. Either region could produce a major flare during the period. Region 50 could produce an isolated M-class flare during the period. 3-Day Aurora Forecast A geomagnetic field disturbance was expected to begin early Monday and continue into Tuesday in response to July 26 eruption on the Sun. Active to major storm levels are possible during this disturbance. Earth's geomagnetic field activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 300, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 393 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 4.4 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! 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