[HCDX] Fw: SPACE.com Update for Tuesday, April 10, 2001

["Joseph Coles" <n5hqm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Read it and weap folks.... there is more on the way... de Joseph Coles N5HQM
Bryan, Texas USA
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> Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, April 10, 2001 -- http://www.space.com/
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> In today's issue:
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> Science/Astronomy:
> * Astrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy Finding
> * European Space Agency Alert for Promising Spinoffs
>
> Missions/Launches:
> * Future Moon Base Sited!
> * 20th Anniversary Report: Shuttle Columbia's Future Uncertain
> * 40th Anniversary Report: Touring the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center Museum
>
> Space News Business Report:
> * 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' Pioneer Petitions Dan Goldin To Stay at NASA
Helm
> * Goldin Details $14.5 Billion Budget Request
> * Russia Spending $800 Million To Replace Aging Satellite Network
>
> Plus...
> * UPLINK: Where do we go from here?
> * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch
> * Solar and Space Weather
> * Space Illustrated Magazine, Starry Night, TeamSETI
>
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> Today in Science/Astronomy:
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> * Astrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy Finding
>
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/darkenergy_folo_010410.
html?Enews=y
>
> A strange repulsive force of "dark energy" pervades every nook and cranny
of the universe, a team of scientists said earlier this month, but the force
not only pushes against the master force of gravity -- it also has
astrophysicists' heads spinning.
>
> * European Space Agency Alert for Promising Spinoffs
> http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/esa_lostesc_010410.html?Enews=y
>
> A program co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European
Union (EU) has identified nearly 50 technological innovations from small
players in the space and aeronautical sector that show promise for adapting
to wider markets.
>
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>
> Today in Missions/Launches:
>
> * Future Moon Base Sited!
>
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/nss_moon_site_010410.html?
Enews=y
>
> Fresh looks at data from the Pentagon's Clementine spacecraft that circled
the Moon for the first half of 1994 is supportive of the view that the lunar
south pole is an ideal locale for a future human-tended outpost.
>
> * Shuttle Columbia's Future Uncertain
>
http://www.space.com/news/spaceshuttles/shuttle_columbia_future_010412.html?
Enews=y
>
> Twenty years after it flew NASA's first shuttle flight, NASA's oldest
orbiter is a spaceship in search of a mission.
>
> * Touring the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Museum
> http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/gagarin_facility.html?Enews=y
>
> It was 10 a.m. in Moscow and approximately 10 hours since I had left New
York City aboard a direct flight to Russia. With only enough time to drop my
bags in my hotel room and splash some cold water on my face, I climbed into
the front passenger seat of a van, quickly surveyed the people sitting in
the back seats and turned to our driver.
>
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>
> Today in Space News Business Report:
>
> * 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' Pioneer Petitions Dan Goldin To Stay at NASA
Helm
>
http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacepolicy/nss_draft_goldin_010409.html?Enew
s=y
>
> The 17th annual National Space Symposium began with a sonic boom April 9
when one of the pioneers of the "faster, better, cheaper" movement of
spacecraft development announced he is forming a "Draft Dan Goldin Movement"
to convince U.S. President George Bush to retain the agency's longest
serving administrator.
>
> * Goldin Details $14.5 Billion Budget Request
> http://www.space.com/spacenews/americas/budget_detail_010409.html?Enews=y
>
> Funding for NASA's Earth Science enterprise would drop substantially next
year despite a boost in spending for a new round of missions under a budget
plan unveiled April 9 by U.S. President George W. Bush.
>
> * Russia Spending $800 Million To Replace Aging Satellite Network
>
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/russia_satellites_010409.html?Enews=
y
>
> Russia plans to spend $800 million over the next four years to replace the
national satellite cluster, the head of state company Space Communications
(GPKS), Boris Antonyuk, said at Saturday's launch of a new Ekran-M
television satellite from the Baikonur space center.
>
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> UPLINK: Where do we go from here?
>
> To commemorate the 40th anniversary of human spaceflight, SPACE.com is
inviting its readers to submit letters and commentaries about the state of
human space exploration four decades after Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the
first man to orbit the Earth.
>
> The best submissions will be published in Space News in April and May, on
our web site and in our magazine Space Illustrated.
>
>
http://uplink.space.com/2/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=tpc&s=874094803&f=484094803&m=8990
925561&Enews=y
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> * SpaceTV:
> http://www.space.com/spacetv/index.php3?Enews=y
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> * Space Age Gear:
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> * SpaceWatch:
> http://www.space.com/spacewatch/index.html?Enews=y
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> * Uplink: Share your opinion!
> http://uplink.space.com/index.html?Enews=y
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> SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (April 10, 2001)
>
> 3-Day Solar Forecast
> Solar activity is expected to be mostly moderate during the next three
days. There is a fair chance, however, for additional major flares from
Region 9415.
>
> 3-Day Aurora Forecast
> The geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly unsettled tomorrow, with a
chance for some isolated active periods. Predominantly unsettled levels
should prevail for the second and third days.
>
> Solar Data
> The current sunspot number is 214, and the solar wind speed recently
clocked in at 500 kilometers per second (1,116,000 mph). The solar wind
density was 5.3 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are
snapshots in time and change during the day.)
>
> The Sun's magnetic north pole, which has for years been in the northern
hemisphere, has flip-flopped in recent months and now points south, NASA
scientists said Feb. 15. Learn more, plus get the full Space Weather
Forecast:
>
> http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html?Enews=y
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