RADARSAT International (RSI) of Richmond, British Colombia, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) of Saint-Hubert, Quebec, announced today that the RADARSAT-1 satellite is now being maintained in a +/- 2 […]
Lockheed Martin Awarded Support Contract for United Kingdom’s Fleet Ballistic Missile Program
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Strategic Missile Programs (SMP), Sunnyvale Calif., today was awarded a 12-month, $12,411,025 contract from U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs to provide program management and technical engineering […]
High school, college teams to compete in 8th Annual ‘Great Moonbuggy Race’ April 6-7
What: Student teams test their design and engineering skills, as well as their physical endurance. They must design, construct and race a human-powered vehicle over a half-mile course that includes […]
NASA, Alabama officials celebrate new science research center’s leap from drawing board to reality
The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) – a venture that brings together researchers and educators – made its official leap from the drawing board to reality today as […]
AIP FYI: Warnings Issued on Funding Shortfalls in Civilian and Defense S&T Funding
Last week, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich faulted the Bush Administration’s FY 2002 request for basic science funding during a hearing on the long-term security of the United […]
Alabama lawmakers, NASA, university officials to mark new science research center opening Monday
What: Alabama lawmakers, along with NASA and university officials, will celebrate the grand opening of the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC). With its core facility in Huntsville, Ala., […]
Lockheed Martin to study low-mass membrane telescope technology for NASA’s New Millennium Program
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has been contracted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct a study on a low-mass membrane telescope for NASA’s New Millennium Program. The telescope concept […]
Listen to Earth’s ‘songs,’ tweeks and whistles live on the Web from NASA Marshall Center
If humans had radio antennas instead of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them “tweeks,” “whistlers” and “sferics.” They […]
Record number of teams preparing to compete in NASA’s 8th Annual ‘Great Moonbuggy Race’ April 6-7
Students from across North America will be coming to Huntsville, Ala., to compete in the 8th annual Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center April 6-7. It’s […]
One-year-old IMAGE satellite snaps first pictures from space of Earth’s double aurora, UC Berkeley team reports
Berkeley — Among the first pictures captured by the Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, satellite, launched a year ago to study the Earth’s magnetic shield, is the first global view […]