Astronomers seeking to chart the solar system’s evolution reaped a windfall of information when a comet disintegrated just as it made its closest approach to the sun and they were […]
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Orbital Holds 2001 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Orbital Sciences Corporation held its 2001 Annual Meeting of Stockholders today at the company’s headquarters in Dulles, Virginia at which five members of the Board of Directors were elected to […]
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NASA Office of Inspector General: Assessment of Dreamtime Holdings, Inc. Activities at the Johnson Space Center, G-01-016
Note: The full report is online at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig/hq/inspections/g-01-016.pdf National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Inspector General Headquarters Washington, D.C. 20546-0001 Reply to Attn of: W May 18, 2001 TO: […]
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ESA’s Artemis telecommunications satellite to be launched in July
ESA and Arianespace have agreed today on an early summer launch date for Artemis, the agency’s new advanced telecommunications satellite. The multi-purpose satellite – the precursor to new and advanced […]
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ITT Industries Wins Contract to Modernize Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites
Lockheed Martin Space Systems has awarded ITT Industries Aerospace/Communications Division (A/CD), a $39M contract to upgrade up to twelve Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR satellites. The satellite payloads will […]
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Provide Cheaper Access to Space
SpaceDev Inc., the world’s first publicly-traded commercial space exploration and development company, today announced that it received over $1 million in new business during April, including grants from the California […]
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Dying Comet’s Kin May Have Nourished Life on Earth
A comet that shattered on its approach to the Sun breathed new life into the theory that comet impacts provided most of the water in Earth’s oceans and a significant […]
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Comet’s spectacular death may illuminate birth of solar system, special Science package suggests
Astronomers from the United States, France, and elsewhere may have seen a snippet of the solar system’s formation in reverse, while taking the first-ever detailed look inside the disintegrating heart […]
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Comet spilled its guts in fine fashion
Detailed analysis of Comet LINEAR’s disintegration last summer has left astronomers still wondering what triggered the breakup and how much of the comet broke into pieces too small for them […]
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Study offers insights into evolutionary origins of life
In some of the strongest evidence yet to support the RNA world-an era in early evolution when life forms depended on RNA-scientists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have […]
