October 4, 2001. Korolev, Moscow Region: Today, on the 44th anniversary of the launch of the first Earth’s artificial satellite, in Moscow, in the Alley of Space Heroes a monument […]
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ESA has defined a new agreement opening up opportunities for four European states, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania, to participate more closely in ESA programmes. The aim is to […]
NASA Selects Spacecraft Contractor for 2005 Mars Mission
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, to build the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft scheduled for launch in August 2005 to return the highest resolution images yet of the […]
ERS-2 goes gyro-less
ESA engineers have saved the life of a crucial environmental spacecraft, enabling the decade-long European Remote Sensing programme to continue on track. The orbital rescue took place on terra firma, […]
NASA Ames Women Scientists Featured at Tech Museum
NOTE TO EDITORS: News media and the public are invited to a series of weekend talks at 2 p.m. at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market Street, San […]
NASA Quest Celebrates World Space Week with News Webcast
NOTE TO EDITORS: News media and the public are invited to observe the first of a novel series of one-hour news webcasts about the International Space Station on Oct. 4, […]
Space Foundation Highlights Plans for Upcoming International Symposium
WASHINGTON (October 3, 2001) – Space Foundation officials today announced a new sponsor and additional speakers for this month’s International Space Symposium. SpaceVest joins the list of sponsors at the […]
Boeing to Build Third SUPERBIRD Satellite for Japan
Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of The Boeing Company, signed a contract on Sept. 28, 2001 with Space Communications Corporation (SCC) of Tokyo for a Boeing 601 communications satellite. The […]
Scientists Toast the Discovery of Vinyl Alcohol in Interstellar Space
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s 12 Meter Telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ, have discovered the complex organic molecule vinyl alcohol in an interstellar cloud of dust and gas near […]
Wandering Black Holes On the Outskirts of the Solar Neighborhood
FAST is a free review of mainstream French press on issues of science and technology. It appears twice weekly. FAST is published by the Science and Technology Office of the […]