Professor Sigmar Wittig, Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt), and Yannick d’Escatha, President of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), […]
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Drastic expansion of Pluto’s atmosphere as revealed by stellar occultations
Moving on its eccentric orbit, Pluto is presently receding from the Sun; between 1979 and 1999 it was inside Neptune’s orbit, but since then it has again been the planet […]
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House Science Committee Seeks Delicate Balance on DOE Contractor Management
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Micromanagement and mandatory competition of Department of Energy (DOE) lab contracts may prove counterproductive and detrimental to the core scientific missions of the labs, witnesses today warned […]
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Rocket Telescope Gets Closest Look at the Sun
Scientists got their closest-ever ultraviolet look at the Sun from space, thanks to a telescope and camera launched aboard a sounding rocket. The images revealed an unexpectedly high level of […]
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NAVY Recognizes Columbia Astronaut
The National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) is dedicating and naming the organization’s redesigned auditorium to honor NASA astronaut Laurel Clark, a crewmember on the Space Shuttle Columbia. Clark, a captain […]
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‘Getting the Dirt’: From Space, Sky and Ground, Scientists and Students Dig High and Low for Soil Moisture Data
A water-sensing satellite orbits more than 400 miles above Earth. An instrument-packed airplane circles 25,000 feet above three U.S. states and Brazil. Scientists, college students and other volunteers troop into […]
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Space Systems/Loral Awarded $103 Million Contract to Build Critical Power Systems for the International Space Station
Contact: John McCarthy Loral Space & Communications 212/338-5345 SS/L to Build 40 New Batteries Under a Sub-Contract From Boeing NASA Systems PALO ALTO, CALIF. – July 8, 2003 – Space […]
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Germany and France to Pursue Closer Coopération Toward a Strong European Space Industry
Professor Sigmar Wittig, Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), and Yannick d’Escatha, President of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), […]
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UCI study finds dark matter is for superWIMPs
A UC Irvine study has revealed a new class of cosmic particles that may shed light on the composition of dark matter in the universe. These particles, called superweakly interacting […]
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NASA Committed to Diverse Workforce
NASA’s annual Joint Symposium of the NASA Administrator’s Fellowship Program (NAFP) and the Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) is underway. NASA is highlighting the two major agency initiatives […]
