Space News for April 29, 1999
IKONOS Never Made it to Orbit Telemetry from the recent launch of the IKONOS 1 space imaging satellite indicates that…
Space News for April 28, 1999
Businessman May Pay for Mir Flight To help cover maintenance costs, Russian officials have agreed to let a British businessman…
Space News for April 27, 1999
High-Resolution Satellite to Launch The first commercial high-resolution imaging satellite it due to launch tomorrow. Launching on a Lockheed Martin…
Space News for April 26, 1999
Blanket Could be Blocking Surveyor's Hinge Engineers are trying to determine what's causing the malfunctioning hinge on the Mars Global…
Space News for April 23, 1999
Delta III Launch Aborted The Boeing Delta III continues to disappoint, after the latest launch attempt of the Orion 3…
Space News for April 22, 1999
Hubble Gyro Fails Known to be on its last legs for almost 3 months, an ailing Hubble gyro has finally…
Space News for April 21, 1999
Surveyor Transmitting, But Still Not Fixed Unable to fix the malfunctioning hinge on the Mars Global Surveyor's high-gain boom antenna,…
Space News for April 20, 1999
Hubble Captures Images of the Moon Designed to catch light from the dimmest stars, the immense light-gathering power of the…
Space News for April 19, 1999
Astronauts Complete Partially Successful Mir Spacewalk Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev and French astronaut Jean-Pierre Heignere spent six hours "spacewalking" outside…
Space News for April 16, 1999
First Multi-Planet Star System Discovered Astronomers have discovered a group of three Jupiter-sized planets orbiting around the star Upsilon Andromedae.…