The cover of the latest Science magazine shows images of Eros’ crater-scarred surfaces taken by the NEAR multi-spectral imager and infrared spectrometer. According to Cornell University’s Joseph Veverka and colleagues, […]
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Contact: Michael Buckley Michael.Buckley@jhuapl.edu 240-228-7536 Johns Hopkins University Findings from NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission — appearing in a special section of the Sept. 22 issue of the […]
Saab Ericsson Space in Los Angeles
Saab Ericsson Space, the leading space equipment supplier of Scandinavia, strengthened its ties with US space industry and inaugurated a second office on the US market, close to space industry […]
Revealing Eros’ Secrets, One By One
Eros, the chunky asteroid named after the god of love, is slowly revealing to scientists the mysteries of its size, rotation and other properties. Eros has been studied […]
Quantum Science could Provide Faster Chips
Researchers at the University of Wales, Bangor and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have invented a new way of etching micro-chips which, in theory, can produce much smaller circuits […]
U.S. Space Command marks 15th anniversary
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — United States Space Command marks its 15th anniversary Saturday as the Department of Defense’s joint command in charge of coordinating the nation’s military space […]
Keck Astronomers Observe Acceleration of Individual Stars at Center of Milky Way Galaxy
MAUNA KEA — In an historic first, astronomers from the University of California-Los Angeles have observed acceleration in the velocities of individual stars orbiting the gigantic black hole at the […]
Climate change: new impressions from space
Are variations in the Sun’s brightness an important cause of climate change? Could changes in the Sun’s magnetism affect the Earth’s clouds? Why do temperature trends in the lower atmosphere […]
TRW Begins Production of Astrolink Ground-to-Space Interface Following Successful Design Review
Sept. 20, 2000–TRW has launched production of the Space Applications Interface (SAI), a key ground-to-space interface for the Astrolink global broadband telecom system. The go-ahead follows the successful, on-schedule conclusion […]
PanAmSat’s New PAS-9 Satellite Goes Live in Time to Deliver Sydney Games Throughout Americas and Europe
When the national football teams from Chile and Spain, two contenders for Olympic gold, faced off in Melbourne, Australia, millions of viewers throughout the two countries, and most of Latin […]