Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:10:39 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 21, 2002 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 21, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Discover the latest trends in science and technology - all in the pages of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Get your Free Trial issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN when you subscribe TODAY! http://www.sciam.com/subscribe.cfm?lsource=0802space_mail -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Astronaut Ice Cream Science/Astronomy: * IBM's BlueBoard Technology on the Red Planet * Satellites Help Show Half of U.S. Gripped by Drought * SPECIAL REPORT: 2002 Leonid Meteor Shower SpaceFlight: * Complete Coverage: Inaugural Launch of Atlas 5 From Cape Canaveral * CONTOUR Spacecraft Orbiting Sun * Astronotes: Move Over Voyagers ... Viking 1, Sputnik 5 and Redstone Have Anniversaries, Too Business/Industry: * U.S. Army Awards $22 Million Contract to Titan Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Astronaut Ice Cream http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Just what you need after a hard day on orbit! Just kick back and enjoy this freeze dried ice cream while the planet gently spins below you. Everyone loves this one! (one serving) ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * IBM's BlueBoard Technology on the Red Planet http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/merboard_rover_020821.html Technology used to plan the next Mars mission is catching up with the technology of the spacecraft themselves. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory plan to use a giant plasma-screen electronic "whiteboard," based on IBM technology, to evaluate data captured by the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) once they have arrived on the Red Planet. * Satellites Help Show Half of U.S. Gripped by Drought http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/drought_020821.html Commuters along this city's Schuylkill River have a grim midsummer view of an alarming number of trees that appear to be dead or dying. Leaves of many smaller trees are brown and lifeless weeks before they should even be turning color. Larger and healthier trees are frequently tinged with yellow. Suburban backyards for miles around are littered with prematurely fallen leaves. * SPECIAL REPORT: 2002 Leonid Meteor Shower http://www.space.com/spacewatch/leonids_2002.html Fast on the heels of the summer Perseids, it's time to look ahead to the current king of meteor showers, the Leonids. While the 2002 peak on Nov. 19 won't equal last year's stunning display, it will still be a remarkable storm that even casual skywatchers should not miss. Unless you plan to wait for 2033. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Complete Coverage: Inaugural Launch of Atlas 5 From Cape Canaveral http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 (model 401) is to carry Hot Bird 6 into orbit for Eutelsat. The shot will be a first for this type rocket, designed as part of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. * CONTOUR Spacecraft Orbiting Sun http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/contour_update_020821.html NASA has found a missing $159 million spacecraft, thanks to a half-dozen telescope images that confirm the silent probe is in orbit around the sun but possibly broken in pieces. * Astronotes: Move Over Voyagers ... Viking 1, Sputnik 5 and Redstone Have Anniversaries, Too http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html On this date in 1953 the first Redstone rocket was launched. Considered the successor to the German V-2 rocket, they were later modified for the Mercury project. In 1960, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 5 and in 1977 Voyager 2 was launched. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * U.S. Army Awards $22 Million Contract to Titan http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Titan Corp. won a $22 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop Ka-band satellite communications terminals that will work with the U.S. Air Force's Wideband Gapfiller Satellites, Titan reported Aug. 19. ------------------------------------ * 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 21, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate to high. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled. Isolated active periods are possible due to solar activity over the past several days. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 209, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 405 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 1.6 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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