Feb. 18, 2000 Michael Mewhinney NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (Phone: 650/604-3937, 650/604-9000) mmewhinney@mail.arc.nasa.gov RELEASE: 00-12AR NASA Ames Research Center, located in California’s Silicon Valley, has awarded a […]
Stardust Status Report February 18, 2000
There were two Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking passes in the past week. All subsystems on board the spacecraft are performing normally. During the first DSN pass no telemetry was […]
STS-99 Status Report # 15
Friday, February 17, 2000 – 7 a.m. CST With unprecedented detail of well over half of the world’s terrain already safely stored aboard, Endeavour’s crew continued mapping the Earth uninterrupted […]
Space Shuttle Status Report 18 Feb
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 (4:30 P.M. EST) MISSION: STS-99 — Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 LOCATION: On orbit OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH […]
Crews Named to Continue Space Station Assembly
Kirsten Williams Headquarters, Washington DC (Phone: 202/358-0243) Doug Peterson Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (Phone: 281/483-5111) RELEASE: 00-29 Veteran Shuttle commanders James Halsell (Col., USAF) and Terrence Wilcutt (Lt. Col., […]
NASA Daily News Summary – Media Advisory m00-33
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Feb. 18, 2000 Media Advisory m00-33 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES: Crews Names to Continue Space Station Assembly Newfound Quasar Wins Title of “Most Distant in […]
NEAR Mission Status Report 18 Feb
MISSION OPERATIONS: We’ve had a good week. The NEAR satellite entered Eros orbit on February 14 at 15:34 UTC after completion of the planned orbit insertion maneuver. Way to go […]
Space Foundation Announces Award for Space Achievement – Sea Launch to be Honored at National Space Symposium
CONTACT: Julie Howell / Space Foundation 719-576-8000 julie@ussf.org For Immediate Release News from the 16th Annual National Space Symposium Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 18, 2000) – Space Foundation officials announced […]
XMM-Newton spies mother Earth
An unexpected spin-off from the XMM-Newton commissioning phase, the spacecraft has snapped a picture of mother Earth. The image was taken with one of the two Small Visual Monitoring Cameras […]
WDC SI Launch Announcement 13076: Superbird 4
COSPAR/ISES WORLD WARNING AGENCY FOR SATELLITES WORLD DATA CENTER FOR SATELLITE INFORMATION CODE 633, NASA/GSFC, GREENBELT, MARYLAND, 20771. USA SPACEWARN 13076 COSPAR/WWAS USSPACECOM NUMBER SPACECRAFT INTERNATIONAL ID (CATALOG NUMBER) LAUNCH […]