Climate Maverick to Quit NASA “Dr. Hansen had already become an activist in recent years, taking vacation time from NASA to appear at climate protests and allowing himself to be […]
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Asteroid Threat Double Header in Congress
19 Mar: House Hearing: Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 – Prepared Statement By Air Force Space Command […]
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Jim Hansen Arrested For Yelling or Something (Again)
Top NASA scientist arrested (again) in White House protest, Fox “NASA’s top climate scientist and government official James Hansen was arrested Wednesday outside the White House — at least the […]
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Planetary Budgets and Younger Scientists
Editorial on NASA Planetary R&A Programs, Mark V. Sykes, Planetary Science Institute “At a minimum, this year’s decline needs to be reversed to ensure that selection rates are improved to […]
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Tired Of Looking at a Red Planet?
First Image From Europe’s MSG-3 Weather Satellite “Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-3 captured its first image of the Earth. This demonstrates that Europe’s […]
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A Unique Way to Use Space to Work Toward Peace on Earth
DigitalGlobe and Enough Project Formalize Partnership to Monitor Mass Violence in Sudan “DigitalGlobe (DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced an agreement with the Enough […]
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GoreSat Is Back
Once-derided climate-change satellite may launch with new goal “An Earth observation satellite conceived by former Vice President Al Gore — but banished to a Maryland warehouse by foes of climate […]
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Thais Think That NASA Wants To Spy On Them (Update)
Nasa says study open to inspection, Bangkot Post “After fears were raised that the plan might be a cover for a “spying mission”, Hal Maring, the US National Aeronautics and […]
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Weather Satellite Delays and Cost Overruns
Impacts of Delays and Cost Overruns on Nation’s Weather Satellites “Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) and Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Chairman Andy Harris (R-MD) held […]
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NASA Ignores Report on Economic Value of NASA Earth Science Data
Brattle Group Economists Estimate Value of NASA’s Global Solar And Meteorological Data Services To Be Up To $790 M “A report prepared for the NASA Applied Science Program and authored […]