From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, May 24, 2002 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:19:43 -0700
Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, May 24, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Deep Space Explorer Wins Prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Award! Deep Space Explorer has been awarded a Parent's Choice Gold Award in the software category for ages twelve and older from the Parents' Choice Foundation, the nation's oldest and most respected authority on children's media. http://www.starrynight.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Satellite Spotting: How to Find Iridium, Shuttle or the ISS * Galileo Prepares for Final Fling Around Jupiter * New Observations of Early Universe Help Confirm Theories of Formation * Stephen Hawking Demands Halt of Book Publication Missions/Launches: * Auction Fails to Sell Buran, Russian Shuttle Remains Available * X-45 Robotic Combat Plane Makes Dramatic Debut * Bass, Garver in Moscow to Undergo Medical Tests Business/Industry: * NASA Awards Ball $94 Million Contract Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ Buy one or build a collection of the best NASA videos in the galaxy. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Satellite Spotting: How to Find Iridium, Shuttle or the ISS http://www.space.com/spacewatch/satellite_hunting_020524.html Skywatching is typically about looking for natural objects and phenomena, but there are now a host of interesting targets orbiting Earth that anyone can spot, from the space shuttle to the International Space Station to satellites that can briefly outshine the brightest stars. * Galileo Prepares for Final Fling Around Jupiter http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/galileo_update_020524. html Galloping Galileo is nearing its swan song finale. The veteran spacecraft has been on the job probing giant Jupiter and its brood of moons since December 1995. * New Observations of Early Universe Help Confirm Theories of Formation http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/early_universe_020523.ht ml The most detailed glimpse ever gained of the early universe shows ripples in space back before there were any stars. This finding adds support to theories of how the universe began in an initial Big Bang, inflated rapidly, then developed the first galaxies. * Stephen Hawking Demands Halt of Book Publication http://www.space.com/news/hawking_book_020523.html Stephen Hawking has asked the Federal Trade Commission to stop publication of an upcoming book. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Auction Fails to Sell Buran, Russian Shuttle Remains Available http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/buran_auction_ends_020523.html A Los Angeles radio station's effort to auction off a Russian Buran space shuttle ended Wednesday with no sale. * X-45 Robotic Combat Plane Makes Dramatic Debut http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/x-45_debut_020523.htm l The Boeing Co.'s X-45, the first robotic plane designed specifically to fly combat missions, has successfully made its maiden flight. * Bass, Garver in Moscow to Undergo Medical Tests http://www.space.com/news/garver_bass_020522.html Boy band member Lance Bass and a former NASA official are currently in Moscow vying for a chance to claim the next seat on a Russian spacecraft, a Russian official said. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * NASA Awards Ball $94 Million Contract http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a $94 million contract to build the spacecraft for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project, NASA announced May 22. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (May 24, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate during the next three days. The most likely sources for M-class events are 9957, 9960 (N14E19), and 9961. There continues to be a slight chance for a major flare or a proton producing flare. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly unsettled with a chance for some active periods during the next 24 hours. An extra dose of energy from a coronal mass ejection is expected to arrive Friday. Due to the apparent direction of the event, a direct hit is not expected, but it is likely that the eastern flank of the disturbance will impact the Earth. Activity levels are expected to be mostly active, but there is a chance for some isolated storm level activity. Skywatchers in northern parts of the United States and Europe may see the aurora. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 185, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 405 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 14.6 protons per cubic centimeter. 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