When Spain’s Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias reported on 28 July 2000 that an ordinary-looking comet was breaking up, some of the world’s top telescopes watched its subsequent disintegration till […]
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NASA Introduces Pilot Undergraduate Student-Research Program
In late May, NASA will welcome the first cadre of students participating in the new Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP), another element in NASA’s continued commitment to education excellence and […]
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Chandra reveals nest of tight binaries in dense cluster
Scientists have gazed into an incredibly dense star cluster with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and identified a surprising bonanza of binary stars, including a large number of rapidly rotating neutron […]
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NASA Launches Next Generation Space Transportation Effort
NASA today announced the first round of contract awards in an agency initiative to find a more affordable and reliable highway into space. The Space Launch Initiative (SLI) is a […]
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2nd Generation RLV Task Awards (list)
SLI Partners – Universities 2nd Generation RLV Task Awards NRA 8 – 30 ($1K)* Totals by Company (Base Contracts with Options) *listed in millions of dollars University Location Contract Award Technology […]
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Breaking up is hard to do, even for a comet
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., helped to piece together what happened when Comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) disintegrated in July 2000, and their results will appear today in […]
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NASA ed-tech updates
Topics of this update listed below: * NASA Quest Web site Redesign * Planetary Flight Forum * Planetary Flight Webcast * Astrobiology Fieldwork * Project Astro: call for teachers To […]
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ITT Industries Awarded Contract for Next Generation GOES Imager
NASA has awarded ITT Industries’ Aerospace/Communications Division an $8 million contract for formulation phase work on an advanced imager for the next generation of geostationary weather satellites operated and funded […]
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Changes in Sun’s intensity tied to recurrent droughts in Maya region
The Maya were talented astronomers, religiously intense in their observations of the sun, moon and planets. Now, new research shows something in the heavens may have influenced their culture and […]
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Intelligent Library System goes live as satellite data streams in real-time
Lockheed Martin today announced the successful capture and processing of live satellite data in its Intelligent Library System (ILS)(tm). The image data, captured by the world’s first one-meter resolution commercial […]
