Press releases from the NASA centers and from NASA researchers.
Ozone Mapping Instrument Put on Fast Track for Launch
August 27 In the spirit of "faster, better, cheaper," NASA plans to build
and launch in less than 13 months the next in the series of TOMS (Total
Ozone MappingSpectrometer) instruments. The QuikTOMS instrument will be
launched in August 2000 as a secondary payload aboard an Orbital Sciences
Corp. rocket to continuously monitor changes in global ozone as well as
sulfur dioxide and ash from large volcanic eruptions and smoke from forest
fires. More
Miniature Craft to Test Space Technology
August 19 They're each about the size of a large birthday cake, weigh
about as much as a desktop computer, and are smart enough to fly in
formation far from Earth while they test new technologies. They are three
very small satellites, called the Nanosat Constellation Trailblazer
mission, that NASA selected today NASA as the agency's latest mission in
the New Millennium Program. The mission will validate methods of operating
several spacecraft as a system, and test eight technologies in the harsh
space environment near the boundary of Earth's protective magnetosphere. More
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