From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:31:34 PST
HEADLINES IN BRIEF
November 6, 2002
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MISSILE NEWS
- Army Uses Laser To Destroy Artillery Projectile In Flight
http://spacedaily.com/news/021105202011.2jyw73mt.html
Washington (AFP) Nov 05, 2002 - A mobile laser destroyed an artillery projectile in flight Tuesday for the first time in a test in New Mexico, the US Army said. The two-foot-long projectile was destroyed with the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser, a system that is being developed by the army and the Israeli defense ministry, it said.
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OUTERPLANETS
- New Horizons Passes Another Development Milestone
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/outerplanets-02n.html
Laurel - Nov 06, 2002 - NASA's first mission to Pluto has sailed past another critical milestone, as the New Horizons team successfully completed its second major system-level evaluation. New Horizons held its Preliminary Design Review Oct. 22-24 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., which manages the mission for NASA.
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OPINION SPACE
- Marching On Undiscovered Country
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-02r.html
Scottsdale - Nov 06, 2002 - With the ending of the Industrial Age, the future disappeared. Once a familiar land with agreed-on boundaries, aftershocks from the fall of communism and industrialism shattered its landscape like the mythic cataclysm that felled Atlantis. The future now is what Shakespeare and the Klingons called it, an undiscovered country writes John Carter McKnight in latest Spacefaring Web report.
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SPACE SCIENCE
- Gravity-Wave Search Produces Data
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gravity-02d.html
Boston - Nov 06, 2002 - The MIT team heading the search for gravitational waves reaching Earth from space expects to have some numbers early next month from its analysis of its observatory's first scientific run.
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ASTEROIDS AND COMETS
- NASA'S Stardust Comet-Chaser Passes Asteroid Test
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/stardust-02e.html
Pasadena (JPL) Nov 06, 2002 - All systems on NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed successfully when tested in a flyby of asteroid Annefrank on Friday, heightening anticipation for Stardust's encounter with its primary target, comet Wild 2, 14 months from now.
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SPACE SCIENCE
- V838 Mon Bursts Into Light
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/stellar-02c.html
Cape Town - Dec 06, 2002 - A highly unusual new variable star has attracted a great deal of attention amongst the astronomical community in recent months: the star has significantly changed its appearance during this time.
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ROCKET SCIENCE
- Special Cosmos Sail Uses Earth-Bound Energy To Assist Ascent
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-02zl.html
Irvine - Nov 06, 2002 - UC Irvine physicist Gregory Benford will announce plans for the first known attempt to push a spacecraft into the Earth's orbit with energy beamed up from the ground. Benford will give details on the unique project at the First International Symposium on Beamed-Energy Propulsion (ISBEP) Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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