April 2004 Space News |
- ADDITIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF THE PATRIOT, AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SYSTEM US Forces Korea 30 Apr 2004 -- Republic of Korea and United States has agreed to deploy additional Patriot units, air defense missile system to Korea temporarily this fall.
- RUSSIA SPACE VOA 29 Apr 2004 -- A three-man crew has returned to earth Friday from the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz capsule that touched down in Kazakhstan. The three men are from the United States, Russia and the Netherlands.
- SPACE STATION / GYROSCOPE VOA 23 Apr 2004 -- Astronauts aboard the international space station say the failure of a stabilizing gyroscope is not a crisis. As we hear from V-O-A's David McAlary in Washington, the orbiting outpost is now operating with the minimum number of gyroscopes.
- RUSSIA/SPACE STATION VOA 21 Apr 2004 -- A two-man replacement crew and a scientist aboard a Russian spacecraft have arrived at the International Space Station, or I-S-S.
- U-S / RUSSIA / SPACE STATION VOA 20 Apr 2004 -- The United States has rejected a Russian request to extend the length of International Space Station missions from six months to one year.
- NEW SPACE STATION CREW VOA 18 Apr 2004 -- A new crew is [will soon be] on its way to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spaceship. A Russian cosmonaut and U-S astronaut took off from Baikonur, Kazahsktan, and are to arrive at the outpost Wednesday for a six-month stay. The mission maintains the basic operations of the research outpost until space shuttles fly again.
- DISTANT PLANET MAGNIFIED VOA 15 Apr 2004 -- An international team of astronomers has discovered yet another planet far beyond our solar system, but the astronomers used a different method than the one previously used to find planets. They used a cosmic magnifying glass provided by nature.
- MISSING MOON VOA 14 Apr 2004 -- Astronomers are looking for a missing moon. They think it is orbiting the tiny, icy, red planetoid named Sedna they discovered last month, far beyond Pluto, until then the most distant planet in the solar system. But a search with the most powerful ground and space telescopes has failed to turn a moon up.
- ROCSAT-2 TO HELP IN NATURAL DISASTER CONTROL MISSION KCNA 08 Apr 2004 -- The National Space Program Office (NSPO) and the Natural Disaster Center under National Chengkung University (NCU) forged a joint venture Thursday on the prevention of natural and environmental hazards by using images that will be captured by a Taiwanese satellite.
