Contact: Michelle Viotti (818) 354-8774 Inspired by the elegant efficiency of spider webs, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., have designed a tiny, web-shaped sensor that maps […]
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Contact: John Leslie NOAA 2000-036 The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for launch this afternoon after being delayed by strong winds for two days in a row. NOAA’s National Weather Service Spaceflight […]
NASA Developing Space-based “sensor Web” an “Internet” for Earth Observing Satellites
David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1730) RELEASE: 00-65 NASA is taking the first steps toward Internet-like connectivity among its future Earth sensing satellites with the funding of 30 […]
NASA Daily News Summary 25 Apr 2000
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: April 25, 2000 Media Advisory m00-82 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES: CHANDRA SHOWS NEW WAY TO MEASURE COSMIC DISTANCES BOOMERANG NEWS BRIEFING: SATELLITE CHANGE NASA DEVELOPING […]
NASA scientist: Lightning studies may provide earlier tornado alerts
RELEASE: 00-140 It’s been a year almost to the day, but NASA researcher Steve Goodman still hasn’t forgotten May 3, 1999. On that date, more than 50 tornadoes cut a […]
Boomerang New Briefing: Satellite Change
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Amber Jones National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA (Phone: 703/306-1070) NOTE TO EDITORS: N00-19 Due to the launch delay of STS 101, the BOOMERANG […]
Chandra shows new way to measure cosmic distances
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (Phone: 256/544-6535) Dr. Wallace Tucker Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (Phone: 617/496-7998) RELEASE: 00-66 […]
April 24 – A busy weekend, and preparations for a new Progress resupply spacecraft
The Mir cosmonauts have returned to a standard work/rest cycle, waking up in the morning and going to sleep in the nighttime hours. This is a change from the previous […]
NASA HQ Video File for April 25, 2000
Video File for April 25, 2000 v00-078 ALL TIMES EASTERN No Video File today due to launch of Space Shuttle Mission STS-101 at 3:52 pm ***************************** LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS […]
The Next Three Weeks on Galileo April 24 – May 14, 2000
The first of the next three weeks sees the continued return of science data stored on the spacecraft’s onboard tape recorder. In the second and third weeks, the orbital motion […]