MISSION OPERATIONS: The NEAR satellite continued to operate nominally this past week in orbit around the asteroid Eros. NEAR has been in Operational Mode with Flight Computer #1 and Attitude […]
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Orbital Taurus rocket set for Sunday launch
An Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus rocket, carrying the U.S. Department of Energy’s Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite, is set for launch Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff […]
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Cassini Weekly Significant Events for 03/02/00 – 03/08/00
The most recent spacecraft telemetry data was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, 03/08. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. […]
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First Announcement and Call for Papers for the 34th ESLAB Symposium on the 3-D Heliosphere at Solar Maximum
From: R. G. Marsden (rmarsden@estec.esa.nl) 34th ESLAB Symposium: “The 3-D Heliosphere at Solar Maximum” 3-6 October 2000, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands http://solarsystem.estec.esa.nl/eslab34/eslab34_frame.htm We hereby invite you to participate in the […]
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NASA Daily News Summary 10 Mar 2000
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Mar. 10, 2000 Media Advisory m00-47 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES: None today. VIDEO: VIDEO FILE: ITEM 1 – SOHO SEES FAR SIDE OF THE SUN […]
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Implementation of Manned Closed Environment Tests
The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) conducts tests to obtain basic data for Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) at closed environment aptitude training facilities of an […]
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SOHO sees right through the Sun, and finds sunspots on the far side
One of the highest hopes for SOHO, the European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA spacecraft is fulfilled with the detection of sunspots on the invisible far side of the Sun. This scientific […]
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Shuttle Experts Chat Live with Students Via the Internet
John Bluck NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 650/604-5026 or 604-9000 jbluck@mail.arc.nasa.gov RELEASE 00-18AR How a crawler carries the Space Shuttle to its launch pad, space suit care and […]
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SOHO sees right through the sun to find stormy regions on the other side.
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) William Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-5017) RELEASE: 00-33 A week’s advance warning of potential bad weather in space is […]
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Asteroid devastation could even be worse than feared
By David Stauth, 541-737-0787 SOURCES: Andrew Blaustein, 541-737-5356 Charles Cockell, (international) 44-1223-221560 CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers say in a new report that if a huge asteroid were to hit the […]
