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Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, August 13, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- ECLIPSE ALERT: Place yourself between the Earth and the Sun as daylight is replaced by the darkness of night in the Australian Outback! http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/eclipse/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Bullet Space Pen Science/Astronomy: * New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies * New Image Gallery: 100,000 Galaxies and More * Newfound Comet Visible in Binoculars * Rover Revealed: Secret Mars Robot Test to be Webcast SpaceFlight: * EXCLUSIVE: Lance Bass Backers Insist Flight to Station Will Happen as Planned * Astronotes: Ukraine/Russia to Launch Five Satellites in December * NASA Studies Crawler Transporter Problem, Atlantis' Cracks Welded Business/Industry: * Eutelsat to Acquire Stellat Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Bullet Space Pen http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ The famous Fisher "Bullet" Space Pen is a compact, convenient writing instrument that allows you the ease of writing under any conditions. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eso_images_020813.html Billed by astronomers as a "joyride to infinity," a photograph of a relatively small patch of sky in the Southern Hemisphere peers through a galaxy to reveal more than 100,000 distant galaxies. * New Image Gallery: 100,000 Galaxies and More http://www.space.com/spaceviews/ New views from the ESO's 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile * Newfound Comet Visible in Binoculars http://www.space.com/spacewatch/newfound_comet_020812.html A newly discovered comet is visible in binoculars and small telescopes now through at least mid-August, though astronomers doubt it will brighten enough for naked-eye observations except possibly under the darkest sky conditions. * Rover Revealed: Secret Mars Robot Test to be Webcast http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/mars_rover_020809.htm l A top-secret Mars rover test will be exposed Aug. 19 when NASA allows a film crew from San Francisco's Exploratorium to do a live webcast of a prototype robot poking around the desert somewhere in the American West. The Exploratorium is an interactive museum that also conducts astronomy webcasts from around the world. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * EXCLUSIVE: Lance Bass Backers Insist Flight to Station Will Happen as Planned http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bass_update_020812.html Despite reports and rumors to the contrary, when it comes to pop singer Lance Bass' mission to the International Space Station, all systems are go. * Astronotes: Ukraine/Russia to Launch Five Satellites in December http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html Kyiv. Aug 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Ukrainian-Russian joint venture Kosmotras, which upgrades SS-18 combat carrier vehicles (aka 'Satan' by NATO standards) into Dnepr civilian carrier rockets, plans to put five foreign satellites into orbit in December. * NASA Studies Crawler Transporter Problem, Atlantis' Cracks Welded http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts112_update_020812.html NASA officials are considering what to do about a problem discovered Friday with the two giant crawler transporters that move the space shuttle back and forth between the Vehicle Assembly Building and pads 39A and B at Kennedy Space Center. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Eutelsat to Acquire Stellat http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Eutelsat S.A. of Paris has agreed to acquire the Stellat satellite venture from France Telecom S.A., and will add the Stellat 5 satellite to its fleet, the companies reported Aug. 5. ------------------------------------ * 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 (August 13, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be predominantly low, but with a fair chance for isolated M-class activity over the next three days, primarily due to new Region 69. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to range from quiet to active conditions through Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 180, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 478 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 4.2 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! 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