Astronotes - December 16, 2002 to
December 21, 2002
From the release
of the picosats to
the capture by Europe's Integral gamma-ray telescope of evidence of a black hole
to the launch of five satellites onboard a former Sovier
ICBM.
Astronotes - December 9, 2002 to
December 15, 2002
From the new
astronomical observatory at the
Mars Society's research station in Utah to a cool pic of a solar
eclipse seen from the ISS to the radiactivity levels of
Mars.
Astronotes - December 2, 2002 to
December 8, 2002
From artist Damien Hirst's contribution to the British Beagle-2 spacecraft
to satellite snooping on Saddam Hussein to finding the mass of
neutrinos.
Astronotes - November 25, 2002 to
December 1, 2002
From another call for planetary defense
to the failure of yet another missile defense launch to a curious
contrail that left NORAD scratching its collective
head.
Astronotes - November 18, 2002 to
November 24, 2002
From the launch of AlSat-1 to the continuing search
for Noah's Ark and the power of Japan's Earth Simulator
supercomputer.
Astronotes - November 11, 2002 to
November 17, 2002
From the
curious coincidences between Apollo 13 and STS-113 to China's announcement that Shenzhou 4 would
fly in January, 2003 to how Homeland Defense would marshall space
technology.
Astronotes - November 4, 2002 to
November 10, 2002
From sending 3
million names to Mars to "branding" the International Space Station to the live
coverage of the test firing of the space shuttle's main
engine.
Astronotes - October 28, 2002 to
November 3, 2002
From the removal of
a Nazi's name
on a lunar figure to Halloween high-jinks on board the Internatonal Space
Station to the possible use of the "geophone" in the exploration of
Euorpa.
Astronotes - October 21, 2002 to
October 27, 2002
From the death at 70 of Cosmonaut Nikolai Rukavishnikov to a black hole consuming
a star to the launch by China of a remote sensing
satellite.
Astronotes - October 14, 2002 to
October 20, 2002
From news that Japan delayed the launch of the MUSES-C to an
update on the Galileo missions to the investigation of the CONTOUR
spacecraft's engines.
Astronotes - October 7, 2002 to
October 13, 2002
From the successful PongSat launches to the
World Space Congress to a fireball above the skies of Siberia.
Astronotes - September 30, 2002 to
October 6, 2002
From news that
Antarctica's Ozone Hole has split in two to the latest updates from the Mars
Odyssey mission to the first pic from the Mars Rover
camera.
Astronotes - September 23, 2002 to September 29,
2002
From the "Big Jump" to space chimp
retirees to the latest update on the soccer mom space
tourist.
Astronotes - September 16, 2002 to September 22,
2002
From studying
the Earth's crust with satellites to Pepsi's space-age ad campaigns to a
new material that will help spaceships heal themselves.
Astronotes - September 9, 2002 to September 15,
2002
From the continuing Lance Bass spaceflight saga to the
beginning of Buzz Aldrin's apparent scuffle, plus an amateur photo of the International
Space Station..
Astronotes - September
2, 2002 to September 8, 2002
From NASA helping Consolidated Edison at the site of
the World Trade Center to Ted Nugent offering Lance Bass and earthier
alternative to spaceflight.
Astronotes - August 26 to September 1,
2002
From NASA's atmospheric balloon record to the catfight between
MirCorp and Space Adventures to the almost true story of Pigs in Space..
Astronotes - August 19 to August 25,
2002
From the creation of the SSAIO to debunking the Planet
X myth to the scaling back of the search for the CONTOUR spacecraft.
Astronotes - August 12 to August 18, 2002
From the mysteries of the Black Sea to our nearly impossible Universe
to loss of the CONTOUR spacecraft.
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Astronotes - August 5 to August 11,
2002
From the Beagle-2's launch vehicle, Fregat, to Lance
Bass' ongoing efforts to get spaceborne to the Beltway rumors about Sean O'Keefe
and Homeland Security.
Astronotes - July 29 to August 4,
2002
From the Canadian Arrow Team's successful rocket test to
Australia's successful Hyshot launch to the space
race between the states.
Astronotes - July 23 to July 28, 2002
From Venera 8's anniversary to Cassini's camera woes; from the Russian Space
Agency's ultimatum to Lance Bass to the launch of France's Helios 2A.
Astronotes - July 15 to July 22, 2002
From the United Kingdom's participation in the European Southern
Observatory to crash of the Japanese supersonic transport test model.
Astronotes - July 8 to July 14, 2002
From the return of El Niņo to a look at the Interplanetary
superhighway helping the Genesis spacecraft make its way between the planets.
