Contact: Cheryl Gundy gundy@stsci.edu 410-338-4707 Space Telescope Science Institute NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing […]
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Contacts:Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations(510) 643-6998, rls@pa.urel.berkeley.edu Tina McDowell, Carnegie Institution of Washington(202) 939-1120, tmcdowell@pst.ciw.edu Berkeley — The National Academy of Sciences announced yesterday (Wednesday, Jan. 10) that the world’s […]
Commission Urges Recognition of Space as Top National Security Priority
The US is more dependent on space than any other country. That dependence is increasing rapidly, and it creates new vulnerabilities, which ought to receive top priority attention at the […]
Alcatel space launches Turksat 2A satellite
Alcatel Space today announced the successful launch by Arianespace of Turksat 2A, the most European powerful satellite communications satellite. Previously designated Eurasiasat 1, this satellite will expand the fleet of […]
Commerce Business Daily: KSC Payload Ground Operations
Primary Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deadline: 2/1/2001 KEYWORDS COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 11,2001 PSA#2765 SOL RFP10-01-0007 DUE 020101 POC Andrew L. Haugevik, Contracting Officer, Phone (321) […]
Delivery of Boeing-built ‘Destiny’ Laboratory on STS-98 Provides International Space Station its Science Centerpiece
A new era in space-based science will begin when the Space Shuttle Atlantis delivers the U.S. research laboratory module “Destiny” to the International Space Station (ISS) during the STS-98 mission […]
NASA Balloon Research to the Edge of Space
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202-358-1753) Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA (Phone: 757-824-1579) Betty Flowers Balloon Launching Station, Alice Springs Airport, Australia (Phone: 61-8-8952-6315) RELEASE: 01-03 […]
Hubble’s Ultraviolet Views of Nearby Galaxies Yield Clues to Early Universe
Astronomers are using these three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images to help tackle the question of why distant galaxies have such odd shapes, appearing markedly different from the typical elliptical […]
Not seeing is believing when it comes to event horizon evidence
NASA’s two Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have independently provided what could be the best direct evidence yet for the existence of an event […]
NSS Online Report Issue #10 / January 2001
Inside this issue: Space Community Discusses Issues for the 107th Congress NSS Opens 2001 With Roadmap To Space Settlement NSS Public Affairs Announces 2001 Volunteers Program ISDC 2001 News: John […]