Hugo Maree ESA 00 31 71 565 4604 hmaree@hq.esa.fr Several of ESA’s scientific spacecraft play starring roles in a remarkable new widescreen IMAX movie entitled ‘Solarmax’, which received its world […]
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Note: Pictures available at http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=21360 27 months away from launch, the SMART-1 project team and its industrial partners now have their very first full-scale version of Europe’s lunar satellite. The […]
AIP FYI# 77: A Closer Look: FY 2001 NSF, NASA, and NIST Appropriations Bills
FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 77: June 29, 2000 The Clinton Administration has recently released two Statements of Administration Policy on H.R. 4635, […]
SpaceDev Names Dave Smith as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President
SpaceDev, Inc., the world’s first publicly traded commercial space exploration and development company, today announced that Mr. David B. Smith has been named to the newly created position of Chief […]
Europe’s first Space Station hardware set for lanch on board Zvezda module on 12 July
Following a General Designerís Review held Monday in Moscow, the partners in the International Space Station announced that the Zvezda service module is set to be launched on Wednesday 12 […]
TRW Wins Contract To Study Spacecraft Designs For NASA’s NPOESS Preparatory Project
TRW Inc. has been awarded a three-month study contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). Scheduled for […]
Boeing Wins Contract to Launch RADARSAT-2 in 2003
The Boeing Co. will launch Canada’s RADARSAT-2 Earth-observation satellite, with the world’s most advanced synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, on board a Delta II rocket in 2003. MacDonald Dettwiler and […]
NASA Daily News Summary 28 June 2000
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: June 28, 2000 Media Advisory m00-128 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES None today. VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR JUNE 28, 2000 ITEM 1 – […]
MacDonald Dettwiler Awarded $72 Million to Support Space Station Robotics
Richmond, B.C. —MacDonald Dettwiler announced today its subsidiary, MD Robotics, located in Brampton, Ontario, has entered into a three year contract valued at $72 million with the Canadian Space Agency […]
Hubble uncovers the first high-resolution details in a gamma-ray burst host galaxy
A group of European astronomers have obtained the first detailed images of a galaxy in which a gamma-ray burst has occurred. The image was taken with one of the NASA/ESA […]