Galileo continues to return valuable science data stored on its onboard tape recorder. The data were acquired during the spacecraft’s 198-kilometer (123-mile) altitude flyby of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on […]
Posted inPress Release
Space Imaging Acquires Pacific Meridian Resources
Space Imaging announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Pacific Meridian Resources (Emeryville, Calif.). The acquisition will enable Space Imaging to significantly expand its offerings of value-added, […]
Posted inPress Release
NOAA/USAF Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity 25 Mar 2000
::Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity Issued: 2000 Mar 25 2200 UT # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, #Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # […]
Posted inPress Release
Boeing Delta II Lifts NASA’s IMAGE Observatory into Orbit
A NASA spacecraft that will gather images of the magnetic field around the Earth was launched today aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The Delta II lifted off the launch […]
Posted inPress Release
HESSI Sustains Damage During Vibration Testing
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Mark Hess Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-8982) Mary Beth Murrill Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (Phone: 818/354-6478) RELEASE: 00-45 NASA’s […]
Posted inPress Release
NASA’s Successful Compton Gamma Ray Telescope Mission Comes to an End
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Nancy Neal Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-0039) RELEASE: 00-44 NASA’s extremely productive and long-lived Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory mission — which […]
Posted inPress Release
Briefing on Report of Mars Program Independent Assessment Team Scheduled
Elvia H. Thompson Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1600) NOTE TO EDITORS: N00-9 A briefing on the report of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team will be held Tuesday, March 28, […]
Posted inPress Release
Stardust Status Report March 24, 2000
There were two Deep Space Network (DSN) passes during the past week. All subsystems onboard the spacecraft are performing normally. Recorded engineering and Navigation Camera images were played backed, and […]
Posted inPress Release
Space Science News from NASA HQ
From: Craig Tupper (dtupper@hq.nasa.gov) Greetings! A buncha new stuff at http://spacescience.nasa.gov/ : —————— IMAGE, scheduled for launch tomorrow, is the first spacecraft dedicated to imaging the Earth’s magnetosphere — an […]
Posted inPress Release
Pioneer 10 Status
http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html STATUS UPDATED: 24 March 2000 Pioneer 10 (Launched 2 March 1972) Distance from Sun (1 March 2000): 74.67 AU Speed relative to the Sun: 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph) Distance from […]
