Weather permitting, Columbia, America’s first Space Shuttle, may visit Houston’s Ellington Field on Saturday, Feb. 24, while it is en route to Florida piggyback atop NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. […]
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Students Uncover Baffling Martian Boulders
In a case of beginner’s luck, a group of international students, who won the chance to image Mars with a NASA spacecraft camera, have stumbled upon a surprising cluster of […]
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Magnetic field shocklessly shoots pellets 20 times faster than rifle bullet – For orbiting satellites, equations of state, kinetic kill weapons
Media contact: Neal Singer, nsinger@sandia.gov, (505) 845-7078 Technical contact: Marcus Knudson, mdknuds@sandia.gov, (505) 845-7796 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion […]
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Preflight Briefings on Second Expedition to International Space Station
After more than four months in orbit, it’s time for Expedition One to come to a close and make way for the second expedition to the International Space Station during […]
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Chandra finds most distant X-ray cluster
The most distant X-ray cluster of galaxies yet has been found by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth, the cluster 3C294 is 40 percent […]
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MDA to enhance charting of sea ice to help shipping and offshore drilling
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency to evaluate the capability of multipolarimetric SAR data to enhance the operational monitoring of sea ice in Canadian […]
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Student-Built Robots Battle for First in Competition at KSC
Thousands of spirited high school students will engage in a battle of wits and robots as they descend on Kennedy Space Center March 1-3 for the FIRST (For Inspiration and […]
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PanAmSat’s new PAS-1R Satellite in Position to Power Top Video, Internet, and Data Customers
PanAmSat Corporation today announced that the company’s newest satellite, the PAS-1R Atlantic Ocean Region spacecraft, is on station and ready to begin delivering advanced video and data broadcasting services later […]
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Des scientifiques canadiens se rejouissent du lancement d’Odin – Mission de satellite suédois en observation de la Terre et en astronomie
Ottawa, le 20 février 2001 – L’honorable Brian Tobin, ministre de l’Industrie et ministre responsable de l’Agence spatiale canadienne, a annoncé aujourd’hui l’attribution de 49 contrats à plusieurs entreprises de […]
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Canadian Scientists Cheer Odin Launch – Swedish Satellite Mission Takes on Earth Observation and Astronomy
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) today announced the successful launch from Svobodny, in far eastern Russia, of Sweden’s Odin satellite, on a dual-purpose mission to study ozone depletion in the […]
