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Blast Off for Orbital Express
Florida, soaring to low Earth orbit to begin an intensive, three-month demonstration of automated rendezvous and docking capabilities. If the mission is successful, NASA engineers say, those capabilities could become a critical element of America's future space endeavors, providing an...
Ice and Sky (DAAC Study)
ice. Product generation began in the summer of 1999 from both the RGPS located at JPL and the RGPS Mirror, a replica system, at the Alaska SAR Facility. For long-term operation, the systems will operate solely from the Alaska SAR Faci...
Robotic telescope captures visible light from a powerful gamma-ray burst
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., continually monitors the sky for gamma-ray sources. Normally, scientists must wait about a day for a sky position to be calculated from BATSE. In order to determine the gamma-ray burst location more quickly,...
Studying the Mysteries of the Titanium Star
neutron star that they long have suspected lurked at the heart of Cas A, but which had eluded detection in radio, optical, and even X-ray wavelengths. Click for RealVideo of NASA's "First Light" Press Conference"Last Thursday night we pointed Chandra in...
Fire! NASA Demonstrates New Technology for Monitoring Fires From Space
Goddard DAAC) NASA Demonstrates New Technology for Monitoring Fires from Space —by David Herring May 29, 1998 Earth scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center recently demonstrated that the MODIS instrument, scheduled to launch in December 1999 on NASA'...
Data in a Flash (DAAC Study)
detection of lightning from geostationary orbit. Journal of Geophysical Research 94:13,329-37. Christian, H. J., R. J. Blakeslee, and S. J. Goodman, 1992. Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) for the Earth Observing System, NASA Technical Memorandum 4350, MSFC, Huntsville, AL...
The Aurora Page
the sun - the source of it all. NASA Magnetosphere Imager Shooting Aurora Aurora Detectors, building your own... Mark Haun's The Aurora Alarm An Automated Detection System for the Northern...
This week's gamma-ray blast is the latest in a 30-year tale of cosmic discovery
This week's gamma-ray blast is the latest in a 30-year tale of cosmic discovery - NASA Science Skip to Main Content Header Visit NASA.gov Connect Contact Us Glossary Site Map Search SiteGo! Home Big Questions Earth Heliophysics Planets Astrophysics Missions Technology Science New...
The Value of Real-Time Lightning Detection
conducted by the NWS office at Melbourne, LDAR system was used to assist forecasters of the lightning threat in the vicinity of the Olympic soccer tournaments, which were held in the Orlando, Florida area during the summer of 1996. NA...
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