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Subj: This Week's News in Brief
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 207.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. July 25, 2004
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** Capping his three-decade struggle to explain an elemental paradox in
scientific thinking, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says black
holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed stars, do
not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out
matter and energy "in a mangled form." --CNN
** Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit
checkout of the upgraded Global Positioning System satellite launched
successfully June 23 from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft has been
declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users
around the globe. --Spaceflight Now
** After weeks of having a face free of large blemishes, the Sun now
sports a Jupiter-size spot. Designated active region 10652, the sunspot
is large enough to be visible without magnification — all you need to
see it is a sunny day and a safe solar filter. --Sky and Telescope
** SpaceDev has been awarded a small contract by Lunar Enterprise
Corporation of California for the next phase in designing a mission and
spacecraft for a lunar lander program. The low-cost, unmanned mission is
intended to land a small dish antenna near the south pole of the Moon.
--SpaceDaily
** A House of Representatives panel voted Tuesday to cut space,
environment and science programs next year, including giving President
Bush 7 percent less than the $16.2 billion he proposed for NASA. The
cuts, including deep reductions in the funds Bush wants to prepare for
manned missions to the Moon and Mars, were approved on the 35th
anniversary of the day Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong took man's
first steps on the Moon. --SkyNews
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