Nancy Neal Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Public Affairs Greenbelt, MD 20771 (Phone: 301/286-8955) Release No. 00-07 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE STATUS REPORT — Hubble Space Telescope Returns […]
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ESA’s Planck satellite shapes up
ESA Science News http://sci.esa.int Planck, ESA’s satellite to study the Universe as it was shortly after the Big Bang, is quickly taking shape. Its conceptual design has been settled and […]
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NEAR Watching the ‘Rock’ Around the Clock
Get the coffee ready. Starting late this evening – as NEAR begins regular observations of asteroid Eros – the NEAR Mission Operations Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory stays open […]
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Mars Program Independent Assessment Team Begins Work
Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) Elvia Thompson Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1696) RELEASE: 00-6 MARS PROGRAM INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT TEAM BEGINS WORK Sixteen experienced engineers, scientists and executives have […]
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Stardust Status Report January 7, 2000
The Trajectory Correction Maneuver A (TCM-A) was performed nearly flawless on December 28, with less than one-sigma errors in both maneuver magnitude and pointing. The timeline was followed to the […]
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NASA Headquarters Selects SAIC to provide Information Technology Services
Brian Dunbar Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1600) CONTRACT RELEASE: C00-a NASA HEADQUARTERS SELECTS SAIC TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES NASA has selected Space Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Information Services, Vienna, […]
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Media Opportunities with STS-99 Crew Set for Next Week’s Countdown Test
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham KSC Release No. 4-00 Note to Editors: The crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-99 will be at Kennedy Space Center next week for the Terminal Countdown […]
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Proton Return-to-Flight Update
Russian Government Inter-agency Launch Failure Review Board Report Released, ILS/LKE Independent Failure Oversight Board to Convene January 12th SAN DIEGO, CA, January 7, 2000 – Attached is an English translation […]
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Space Shuttle Status Report (4 p.m. EST) January 7, 2000
MISSION: STS-99 – Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 LOCATION: Pad 39A TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: No earlier than Jan. 31, 2000 at 12:47 p.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING […]
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STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Webcast Alert
Traditionally, topographic maps have been generated from stereo pairs of photographs acquired from high-altitude aircraft and satellites. However, such optical systems cannot penetrate the cloud cover that blankets nearly 40 […]
