EDUCATOR ASTRONAUT PROGRAM SOARING

Nominations for NASA’s Educator Astronaut Program are in high orbit. Since the Program’s kickoff January 21,…

ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE READIED TO DETECT SOLAR STORMS

The nation’s newest environmental satellite, GOES-12, is being readied for operations, NASA and the Commerce Department’s…

SHUTTLE DESERT DUST EXPERIMENT DELIVERS

An experiment aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) has uncovered a new phenomenon. Researchers made the…

OCEAN SURFACE SALTINESS INFLUENCES EL NINO FORECASTS

NASA sponsored scientists have discovered by knowing the salt content of the ocean’s surface, they may…

ESA on the trail of the earliest stars

Somewhere in the distant, old Universe, a population of stars hide undetected. They were the first…

NASA JOINS SNOW STUDY OVER THE SEA OF JAPAN

NASA and two Japanese government agencies are collaborating on a snowfall study over Wakasa Bay, Japan.…

NASA SELECTS NINE INNOVATIVE SMALL BUSINESS PROJECTS

NASA has selected nine research proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards for the 2001…

WATER RECYCLING EXPERIMENT FLYING HIGH

In a remote, hostile, totally alien environment, every life-sustaining resource is precious. In space, other than…

SORCE SATELLITE SOARS INTO SPACE TO CATCH SOME RAYS

NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) successfully launched Saturday January 25, 2003 aboard a Pegasus…

Venus Express

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Astrium will sign, on Tuesday 28 January, at ESA HQ…