UK CONTACT — Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 US CONTACT — New Scientist Washington office newscidc@idt.net 202-452-1178 http://www.newscientist.com WAY OUT beyond the icy rings of Saturn […]
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AIP FYI: Second Science Committee Hearing on NASA’s Mars Failures
FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 81: July 11, 2000 “In September 1999, NASA flew the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter into the red […]
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ISO detects a new molecule in interstellar space
ESA’s infrared space telescope has once again detected a new molecule in the ‘chemistry labs’ of the Universe, the clouds of gas and dust in the space amid the stars. […]
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“Fasten your seat-belts, we are going to the Moon – and this time to stay!”
Opening proceedings and greeting the many young people present this week in Noordwijk, Bernard Foing, President of the inter-agency International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) nicely set the tone of […]
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First X-ray from brown dwarf observed
Contact: Gail Brown gbrown@instadv.ucsb.edu 805-893-7220 University of California, Santa Barbara “It was as if we were searching for a dim bulb and instead found a bright flash of light.” — […]
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Florida Airborne Field Mill Research May Improve Launch Weather Criteria
KSC Release No: 56 – 00 A weather study conducted at Kennedy Space Center last month could lead to improved lightning avoidance rules and fewer launch scrubs for the Space […]
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Pizza Hut Pioneers Space Commercialization With Historic Rocket Launch
Tomorrow, the race for space commercialization officially begins with the planned launch (12:56 a.m. EDT, July 12) of the world’s largest proton rocket emblazoned with a Pizza Hut logo on […]
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Scientists Look Forward to Cluster II Quartet
After years of frustration and hard work following the tragic loss of all four Cluster spacecraft in 1996, UK scientists are eagerly awaiting the launch of the first two Cluster […]
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Insurance industry funds new research into satellite failures
Mr Patrick Edwards University College London 020 7679 1621 media@ucl.ac.uk The space insurance industry and the TSUNAMI initiative (funded by the DTI Sector Challenge) has put up £120,000 into two […]
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Champ for Earth Gravimetric Measurement
The First Flexbus Small Satellite of Astrium: Potsdam/Friedrichshafen — For a period of five years, the German research satellite Champ, developed and built by Jena-Optronik GmbH and Astrium GmbH (Friedrichshafen), will […]
