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NASA’s Genesis spacecraft, the first mission to collect and return samples of the solar wind — fast moving particles from the Sun — is moving closer to launch. Scheduled for […]
A Milestone for the VLT Interferometer – First Underground Delay Line Now on Rails at Paranal
Note: images available at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2000/phot-26-00.html Less than one month after “First Light” for the fourth 8.2-m YEPUN telescope (ESO PR 18/00), another special moment occurred at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This […]
Psychological and emotional studies of Mir missions show Russians fared better than Americans
Contact: Kevin Boyd kboyd@pubaff.ucsf.edu 415-476-2557 University of California, San Francisco American astronauts and mission control personnel who participated in missions to the Mir space station tended to be less happy […]
NMP Millenium Program Technology Announcement
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st6/notice.html Space Technology 6 (ST6) Technology Announcment Posted in CBDNet on September 7, 2000PART: SPECIAL NOTICESOFFADD: JPL, Attn: Thomas May, Mail Stop 190-205, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099SUBJECT: NMP MILLENNIUM […]
Save our stars
UK CONTACTClaire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, LondonTel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk Our only record of how starry nights have changed over the past century is in danger of […]
Navy awards Lockheed Martin $541 million contract for D5 missile production and deployed system support
Contact: Jeffery Adams (408) 742-6688Pager (888) 916-1796jeffery.adams@lmco.com The U.S. Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, CA, a $541 million contract for the follow-on production of […]
Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #2725 10/11/00
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2725 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 10/10/00 – 0000Z (UTC) 10/11/00 Daily Status Report as of 285/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Three Sets of WF/PC-2 […]
Antimatter could carry us to the edge of the solar system
Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 US Contact: New Scientist Washington office newscidc@idt.net 202-452-1178 New Scientist An antimatter-aided space drive might bring deep-space missions within our grasp. Engineers at NASA and […]
Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #2747 10/10/00
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2747 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 11/09/00 – 0000Z (UTC) 11/10/00 Daily Status Report as of 315/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of STIS/CCD […]