Highway and transportation engineers now have a powerful new tool that will impact the way they make decisions and do business. High-resolution Earth imagery from Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite will […]
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BepiColombo formally acknowledged as ESA cornerstone – Under review as an ESA/ISAS joint mission
While “BepiColombo” may be an unfamiliar word to most people, it is in fact the name of a survey mission to Mercury by the ESA. The planet closest to the […]
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Registration and Abstract Submission Deadline for the 1st Joint SOHO/ACE Workshop on “Solar and Galactic Composition” December 1, 2000
Dear colleague, The first snow has fallen on the hills surrounding Bern where we will hold the workshop on “Solar and Galactic Composition”. Similarly, the first registrations are in, as […]
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Discovery of a Very Low Mass Stellar Object in the Immediate Neighborhood of the Solar System
Eduardo Martín Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (Phone: +1 808 956 9844, email: ege@ifa.hawaii.edu) Karen Rehbock Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (Phone: +1 808 956 8566, email: rehbock@ifa.hawaii.edu) […]
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Chandra X-ray Observatory team wins Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Trophy
One of the Smithsonian Institution’s most distinguished honors – the National Air and Space Museum’s Trophy – has been awarded to the team responsible for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Established […]
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IEEE Spectrum magazine: NASA’s next flights to the space station, with no time to spare, must be ready for glitches and workarounds.
Different problems continue to pop up late in the game, as NASA embarks on its next three Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. None of them should constitute […]
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NASA Marshall Center seeeks 2nd Generation RLV risk reduction proposals from industry
RELEASE: 00-300 To help make space travel dramatically cheaper and safer than it is today, NASA is asking industry, academia and others to propose technologies, experiments and other risk reduction […]
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Yale Astronomers Find New Minor Planet Between Neptune And Pluto
CONTACT: Jacqueline Weaver 203-432-8555 #109 For Immediate Release: October 25, 2000 New Haven, Conn. — A new minor planet measuring about 400 miles in diameter and located between Neptune and […]
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Russia’s Mir Station is Ready for Life-extending Orbit Boost; Citizen Explorer Dennis Tito Prepares for Historic Flight
MirCorp requests meeting with Russian President Putin to outline company’s future plans Russia’s Mir space station is ready for its boost to a higher orbit and for long-term commercial operations […]
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The Most Remote Gamma-Ray Burst: ESO Telescopes Observe “Lightning” in the Young Universe
Summary Observations with telescopes at the ESO La Silla and Paranal observatories (Chile) have enabled an international team of astronomers [1] to measure the distance of a "gamma-ray burst", an […]
