October 2000 has proven to be an especially active month for Arianespace, with a fast-paced Ariane 4/Ariane 5 launch schedule in Kourou, French Guiana and a series of launch contracts […]
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At its 92nd meeting, on 11-12 October 2000, ESA’s Science Programme Committee took the final step to consolidate the future of the science programme by unanimously endorsing the recommendations of […]
ADONIS Discovers Dust Disk around a Star with a Planet – Zodiacal Light in the iota Horologii Extrasolar Planetary System
Summary The star “iota Horologii”, 56 light-years from Earth, possesses not only an extrasolar planet, but also a dust disk. This is the exciting result of recent observations with the […]
Rep. Gilman Questions NASA’s Use of Loophole to Continue Payments to Russia
WASHINGTON (October 12) – U.S. Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (20th-NY), Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, made the following statement today in a hearing in which he questioned a […]
Business Expo to Feature Vendor-Networking Opportunities
KSC Release No. 87 – 00 Business leaders interested in learning more about government contracting and what local and national vendors have to offer won’t want to miss the Business […]
Apollo 13 Astronaut James A. Lovell Joins Board of Directors at Space Media Inc.
James A. Lovell has joined the Space Media Inc.(TM)(SMI(TM)) board of directors, it was announced today by Chairman Dr. Shelley A. Harrison. SMI(TM) was formed last spring as a media […]
EMS Technologies’ Ku-Band and S-Band Communications Systems in Route To International Space Station
EMS Technologies Inc. announced today that the crew of NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery will install a Ku-band communications antenna designed by EMS Technologies during the current mission to the International […]
Canadarm poised to lay the exterior framework for the International Space Station
The Canadarm, developed by MD Robotics, a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. , will play a pivotal role on STS-92. The 11-day mission, launched from the Kennedy Space […]
Florida Spacegram 12 October 2000
TO: FLORIDA SPACE INDUSTRY LEADERS FROM: EDWARD ELLEGOOD ( 321-730-5301; edward@spaceportflorida.com; http://www.spaceportflorida.com ) 100th Shuttle Mission Launched — The historic 100th Space Shuttle launch was conducted yesterday by NASA and […]
Shuttle Program Results in Down to Earth Technology Discoveries
Dwayne Brown/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1600) RELEASE: 00-163 Discovery sits poised on the launch pad, ready to fly into the history books on the 100th voyage of the […]