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...SPACE $60 million Estimated cost of launching a missile that the U.S. Navy hopes will destroy a potentially hazardous satellite 200 Number of industry experts and scientists working since January to modify the sea-based Aegis missile-defense system so it could bring down a satellite in low orbit...
...Number of industry experts and scientists working since January to modify the sea-based Aegis missile-defense system so it can shoot down a satellite in low orbit...
...organize ourselves around markets," he says. "So we said, 'We're going to organize from the outside in.'" It's a huge decision. Organize however you like: around product lines, manufacturing, markets, geography, customers, etc. But get it wrong, and your company will wobble in the wrong orbit for years...
...does smack into Mars, every telescope on Earth will be pointed in that direction - just as they were in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. In that case, the comet broke up while it was still in orbit, so astronomers watched nearly two dozen individual impacts. But Jupiter is made mostly of thick clouds, so there was no lasting scar, and because it lies so far from Earth, the event wasn't quite as spectacular as this one promises to be. Asteroid 2007 WD5 should release some 3 megatons of energy if it slams into solid ground...
PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2½ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...