Seal Beach, Calif. – Nov. 26, 2001 – DIRECTV-4S, a high-power satellite built by Boeing Satellite Systems, was successfully launched today aboard an Ariane 44LP rocket from the Guiana Space […]
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The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has teamed with a consortium of universities to plan and design an optical interferometer in the Magdalena Mountains in central New Mexico. Through a cooperative […]
100,000th Image from Mars Global Surveyor
E10-00678 context, E10-00679 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was launched from Earth just over five years ago on November 7, 1996. It began to orbit Mars on September 12, 1997. After […]
Joe Rothenberg – A Great Boss
Written by NASA MSFC Center Director Art Stephenson. Originally published in the “Marshall Star” Joe Rothenberg,associate administrator for the Office of Space Flight,has announced he will retire from NASA on […]
STARRS flying over Europe
A week-long ESA campaign co-ordinated across land, sea and air is gathering data on key variables of thin but crucial liquid layers of the Earth’s skin: the saltiness of the […]
Sunlight may nudge asteroids toward Earth
The Earth has long resided among swarms of asteroids. Many of these objects are miles across, large enough that an impact with the Earth could present a significant hazard to […]
SPOT 5, vers de nouvelles applications Les performances du nouveau satellite SPOT 5
Le Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) et Spot Image organisent les 27 et 28 novembre 2001 à Toulouse, au Centre de Congrès Pierre Baudis, un séminaire pour présenter les résultats […]
Two space mission opportunities on board Soyuz in 2003 under MirCorp program
November 22, 2001. Korolev, Moscow area. Russian Aviation and Space Agency and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have made a decision to provide two space mission opportunities on board Soyuz […]
Edwards AFB lends NASA a hand in capturing Leonid data
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Members of the Global Reach Combined Test Force at Edwards stepped up to the plate Nov. 17 to help NASA researchers capture one-of-a-kind data. […]
ESA receives IBIS gamma-ray imager after successful calibration
After six years of sometimes painfully difficult development, the construction of the world’s largest and most sensitive gamma-ray imaging camera has finished. Following calibration tests in Milan, the fully assembled […]