SPACEHAB, Inc. today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) added $21.6 million to the company’s REALMS contract to perform the next resupply mission to the International Space […]
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Innovative, Affordable Air-Launched Rocket Helped to Usher In ‘New Space Age’ of Commercial Space Ventures – – Company’s First $1 Billion Product Has Completed 28 Launches Since 1990, Carrying 69 […]
Some coronal mass ejections are caused by shock waves from solar flares in other regions of the sun
Contact: Harvey Leifert hleifert@agu.org 202-777-7507 WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered a new source for some of the large scale eruptions on the Sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. […]
MIT students develop mini satellites
Contact: Elizabeth Thomson thomson@mit.edu 617-258-5402 Ultimate goal: space telescope with higher resolution than Hubble CAMBRIDGE, Mass.– Picture the Air Force’s Thunderbirds flying in formation in an air show. Then imagine […]
Portuguese astronomers eye ESA science missions
Opportunities arising because Portugal is joining the European Space Agency were aired at a scientific meeting in Porto, 30 March – 1 April. Entitled "Space Astronomy: from the Sun’s vicinity […]
MirNews No. 374
Status space station MIR: As of 24.03.2000 the main computer and the SUD (system for the control of movements) continuously control the attitude of the MIR-complex with the use of […]
Ballooning to Mars
CONTACT: Larry Roe, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, (501) 575-3750, lar@engr.uark.edu Carolyne Garcia, science and research communication officer (501) 575-5555, cgarcia@comp.uark.edu FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Every day Larry Roe grapples with […]
How the next space telescopes will unveil the dark ages of the Universe
For current astronomers, the ‘darkest’ epoch of the universe is the time when the first galaxies started to form and evolve: no instrument today can peer into that era. Unveiling […]
NOAA/USAF Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity 3 Apr 2000
:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity :Issued: 2000 Apr 03 2200 UT # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, #Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # […]
Space Foundation Media Advisory
WHO: Reporters, Editors, and Photojournalists WHAT: 16th National Space Symposium – April 3-6, 2000 WHERE: International Center at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs DETAILS: The National Space Symposium is conducted […]