After one of the most complex series of manoeuvres ever carried out by Earth-orbiting spacecraft, the first Cluster pair have successfully reached their final elliptical orbit. Salsa (FM 6) and […]
Alenia Spazio Signs Agreement with RSC-Energia for the Space Station ATV Vehicle
Turin — Alenia Spazio, Finmeccanica, today signed an agreement of industrial collaboration with RSC-ENERGIA under which the supply and docking systems (the latter in a barter agreement between ESA and […]
Southampton astronomers find 10 billion billion billion megaton bomb
University of SouthamptonSouthampton, U.K. Contact:Sarah WattsExternal RelationsUniversity of SouthamptonHighfield, SouthamptonSO17 1BJTel. 023 8059 3807Fax. 023 8059 3285saw2@soton.ac.uk Astronomers at the University of Southampton have found a star that will produce one […]
NASA Scientists Detect Rapid Thinning of Greenland’s Coastal Ice
David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1730) Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/614-5562) RELEASE: 00-112 Scientists who want to monitor the state of our global […]
Research critically needed for manned space exploration
Contact: Emil Venere evenere@uns.purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University If the nation is serious about the manned exploration and development of space, then more attention must be focused now on research to […]
New Outer Satellite of Jupiter Discovered
A Joint Press Release from the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Spacewatch Project of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona. —————————————————————————- A […]
NASA to Announce Mars 2003 Plans at News Briefing July 24
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) NOTE TO EDITORS: N00-31 NASA will announce the agency’s Mars exploration plans for 2003 at a news briefing to be held 2:00 p.m. […]
Time Travel Through a Trail of Comet Dust
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-5017) RELEASE: 00-111 If you’ve seen one comet, have you seen them all? Not […]
NASA Daily News Summary 19 June 2000
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: July 19, 2000 Media Advisory m00-138 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES TIME TRAVEL THROUGH A TRAIL OF COMET DUST CUDDLING UP IN A QUILT OF GAMMA-RAY […]
Compact Research Satellite To Test New Technologies
>CONTACT: John BrownleePHONE: (505) 846-4704 VS RELEASE NO. 00-07 KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — If you have watched morning cartoons anytime in the last 45 years, you probably know that the […]