Media invited to film mission simulation from 12:30-3 p.m. today In the next 18 months, the International Space Station will grow to be the largest spacecraft ever built, but before […]
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Steve RoyPhone: 256-544-6535 Dr. Wallace TuckerChandra X-ray Observatory Center, CFA, Cambridge, MAPhone: 617-496-7998 Science Contact:Giuseppina Fabbiano, pepi@head-cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-7203 Like children blowing bubbles on the front porch steps, the merging Antennae […]
Canada and the United States Join Forces Spurring Application of RADARSAT-1 Earth Observation Research
Saint-Hubert (Quebec) August 15, 2000 -Surendra Parashar, Director of Satellite Operations at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Jack Kaye, Director, Research Division-Office of Earth Science of the National Aeronautics […]
New evidence that galaxies formed early in the his
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNIONXXIVth GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MANCHESTER, UK7 – 18 August 2000 Media releaseFrom Jacqueline Mitton (Meeting Press Officer)jmitton@dial.pipex.comphone: +44 (0)1223 564914 Phone contact 7 – 16 August [Meeting Press Room]+44 (0)161 275 […]
Satellite Analyzes Cosmic Gas Clouds; Finds Puzzling Concentrations of Water in Space
Contact: Elizabeth Luciano, luciano@journ.umass.edu Astronomers from a half-dozen institutions, including the University of Massachusetts, are looking at the universe in a new light with NASA’s Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS). […]
Lockheed Martin Delivers Flight Control Room to NASA
Lockheed Martin Space Operations has turned over another new flight control room to NASA, the third in the last six years. The latest addition to the NASA Johnson Space Center, […]
A clean sweep – NASA plans to carry out a spot of housework
By Justin Mullins A laser "broom" that will sweep space junk out of the path of the International Space Station will be tested on a space shuttle misssion in 2003. The […]
Cosmic Gas Clouds Yield Puzzling Concentrations of Water
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Megan Watzke Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (Phone: 617/495-7463) RELEASE: 00-126 The amount of water and molecular oxygen found in interstellar space […]
A new generation of detectors for X-ray imaging and spectroscopy applications
A new generation of detectors for X-ray imaging and spectroscopy applications Members of the Astrophysics Division of the Space Science Department at ESTEC Noordwijk have developed a new detector system for […]
Space experiments are key to better crystal-growth modeling
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Information gleaned from space experiments is enabling a Purdue University engineering professor and his graduate students to design new software aimed at manufacturing superior crystals for […]