Spectrolab, Inc., has once again set a new world record by manufacturing satellite solar cells able to convert 29 percent of the sun’s rays into spacecraft power. This surpasses its […]
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Contact: Gail Brown gbrown@instadv.ucsb.edu 805-893-7220 University of California, Santa Barbara “It was as if we were searching for a dim bulb and instead found a bright flash of light.” — […]
AIP FYI: Second Science Committee Hearing on NASA’s Mars Failures
FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 81: July 11, 2000 “In September 1999, NASA flew the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter into the red […]
Scientists Look Forward to Cluster II Quartet
After years of frustration and hard work following the tragic loss of all four Cluster spacecraft in 1996, UK scientists are eagerly awaiting the launch of the first two Cluster […]
Chandra captures flare from brown dwarf star
RELEASE: 00-206 The first flare ever seen from a brown dwarf, or failed star, was detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bright X-ray flare has implications for understanding the […]
Anniversary Of Apollo Soyuz Test Project Observed
With Russia’s launch of its major contribution to the International Space Station imminent, NASA today prepares to mark Saturday’s 25th anniversary of an earlier cooperative human space flight endeavor — […]
ISO detects a new molecule in interstellar space
ESA’s infrared space telescope has once again detected a new molecule in the ‘chemistry labs’ of the Universe, the clouds of gas and dust in the space amid the stars. […]
First X-ray from brown dwarf observed
Contact: Gail Brown gbrown@instadv.ucsb.edu 805-893-7220 University of California, Santa Barbara “It was as if we were searching for a dim bulb and instead found a bright flash of light.” — […]
Florida Airborne Field Mill Research May Improve Launch Weather Criteria
KSC Release No: 56 – 00 A weather study conducted at Kennedy Space Center last month could lead to improved lightning avoidance rules and fewer launch scrubs for the Space […]
AIP FYI: Second Science Committee Hearing on NASA’s Mars Failures
FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 81: July 11, 2000 “In September 1999, NASA flew the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter into the red […]