William F. Readdy, Associate Administrator for Space Flight at NASA Headquarters in Washington, today named Woodrow Whitlow, Jr., Ph.D., as the new Deputy Director of the agency’s Kennedy Space Center […]
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EMS Technologies Announces Plans to Sell Its Montreal Commercial Space Division
EMS Technologies, Inc. today announced that its board of directors has approved a formal plan to sell the Company’s commercial space division, based in Montreal. Alfred G. Hansen, president and […]
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New Fast Lane towards Discoveries of Clusters of Galaxies Inaugurated
Space and Ground-Based Telescopes Cooperate to Gain Deep Cosmological Insights Using the ESA XMM-Newton satellite, a team of European and Chilean astronomers [2] has obtained the world’s deepest “wide-field” X-ray […]
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DON’T PANIC – More supernovae on the way!
Recent near-infrared images from a new camera called PANIC (Persson’s Auxilliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera) on the 6.5-meter Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, confirm that the camera and telescope […]
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Key role for satellites on humanitarian front
While recent events have highlighted the role of satellites in defence and security, humanitarian aid has been and remains a strong suit for space-based earth observation (EO) satellites. Satellite imagery […]
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Scuttle the Shuttle! Foundation Urges
Los Angeles, July 14 The Space Shuttle system should be retired, and all further investments in the Shuttle ended, argued the non-profit Space Frontier Foundation today. A growing consensus in […]
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University of Arizona Observatories Came Through Aspen Fire OK
TUCSON, Ariz. – There are still a few hot spots burning and a lot of smoldering debris in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, but astronomical observing sites on […]
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International Space Station Crew Talks With Regional Educators
Educators will talk with orbiting International Space Station astronauts during a special conference call at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., July 15. Five competitively selected NASA Explorer Schools’ […]
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Note to News Media; Community Says Farewell to KSC Director Roy Bridges
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The National Space Club Florida Committee is hosting an appreciation and farewell dinner for outgoing Kennedy Space Center Director Roy Bridges, who in August will take […]
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Drastic expansion of Pluto’s atmosphere as revealed by stellar occultations
Moving on its eccentric orbit, Pluto is presently receding from the Sun; between 1979 and 1999 it was inside Neptune’s orbit, but since then it has again been the planet […]
