Amateur astronomy clubs interested in enhancing or expanding their public outreach and education activities are invited to apply for membership in the “Night Sky Network,” a new program specifically designed […]
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Second GEO meeting highly constructive
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO), set up at the Washington Earth Observation Summit, held its second plenary meeting in Baveno Italy on 28 and 29 November 2003. Members reviewed […]
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New Penn State Computer Cluster Enables Researchers to Probe the Universe
A new Penn State computational cluster, known as Pleiades, recently was ranked 156th among the most powerful computer systems in the world on the Top 500 Supercomputers list. The cluster […]
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Nanotechnology’s Homeleand Security Potential to be Explored at NASA Ames Research Center Forum
Nanotechnology’s potential to help with homeland security is the subject of a forum that hundreds of experts from industry, academia and government will attend Monday, Dec. 15, from 8 a.m. […]
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Are Cities Changing Local and Global Climates?
New evidence from satellites, models, and ground observations reveal urban areas, with all their asphalt, buildings, and aerosols, are impacting local and possibly global climate processes. This is according to […]
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Launch Date Set for 11th Boeing-Built UHF Follow-On Naval Satellite
A Boeing satellite that will increase the U.S. military’s global mobile communications capacity is scheduled for launch on Dec. 15, 2003, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Boeing […]
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New National Security Mission to Fly on ILS/Lockheed Martin Atlas V
International Launch Services (ILS) has received authorization to begin operations for the launch of a new payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket. […]
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Space Station Crew Celebrates Wright Brothers’ Flight With Students
Students from the Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk, N. C. areas will have the opportunity to talk with the International Space Station Expedition 8 crew tomorrow. NASA, with the […]
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Lockheed Martin-U.S. Navy Aegis Weapon System Guides Standard Missile to Target Intercept
The Lockheed Martin- developed Aegis Weapon System successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target outside the earth’s atmosphere during its descent phase of flight today. The Aegis Weapon System, aboard the […]
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NASA Scientist Trains Astronauts to be “Earth-Smart”
When you see one of those amazing images of the Earth from space, sand sweeping through miles of the Sahara desert, or the massive swirl of a hurricane winding up […]
