Nr. 17-99 – Paris, 15 November 1999 Will the night sky be illuminated with thousands of ‘shooting stars’ – known to scientists as the Leonid meteors – on the night […]
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Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1753) Mary Hardin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (Phone: 818/354-5011) RELEASE: 99-135 MARS PENETRATOR PROBES NAMED FOR PIONEERING POLAR EXPLORERS NASA’s Deep Space 2 […]
Kennedy Space Center – Space Shuttle Status Report
MISSION: STS-103 – 3rd Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: Pad 39B TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: December 6 at 2:37 a.m. EST TARGET LANDING DATE/TIME: December 15 at […]
Hubble Telescope Placed Into Safe Hold As Gyroscope Fails
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) Nancy Neal Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-0039) RELEASE: 99-136 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PLACED INTO SAFE HOLD AS GYROSCOPE FAILS NASA’s Hubble […]
New Explanation of Solar Eruptions Ignites Debate
Scientists Present New Theory on the Origin of Inclement “Space Weather” that Disrupts Satellites, Cell Phones, Electric Power College Park, MD (November 15, 1999)–Increased danger to satellites, the threat of […]
ISS Status Report #99-44
2 p.m. CDT, Friday, November 12, 1999 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas With no issues being followed aboard the International Space Station, flight controllers in Houston and Moscow continue to […]
Green light for XMM launch on 10 December
ESA Science News http://sci.esa.int 12 Nov 1999 BREAKING NEWS Green light for XMM launch on 10 December All lights are green to launch ESA’s X-ray Space Observatory on 10 December […]
Astronomers see shadow of planet cross distant star, proving that extrasolar planets are real
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nashville, Tenn., and Berkeley, Calif. – Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a distant planet passing in front of its star, providing direct and independent confirmation […]
Circular No. 7307 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (planet observed around star HD 209458)
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION Mailstop 18, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. IAUSUBS@CFA.HARVARD.EDU or FAX 617-495-7231 (subscriptions) BMARSDEN@CFA.HARVARD.EDU or DGREEN@CFA.HARVARD.EDU (science) URL http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html ISSN 0081-0304 HD 209458 G. W. Henry, […]
Campaign to catch thousands of falling stars
Michael Schmidhuber is a man with a mission. Flying high above the clouds, his task is to capture video images of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of shooting stars. Michael […]