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News briefs: August 17-18
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002, 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
  • NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe is scheduled to make a "major announcement" Monday morning in upstate New York. O'Keefe will make the announcement at the Utica Childrens Museum; the topic of the announcement is unknown but a team from Cornell University working on a Mars rover project will also be in attendance. O'Keefe will be there at the invitation of Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee.
  • A group of Chinese students stated a visit to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama on Friday, the first such visit by a Chinese group. The group of 43 elementary and middle-school students will spend four nights at Space Camp.
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news in brief
Europe increases size and cost of IRIS2 constellation
Posted: Sun, Aug 9 10:41 AM ET (1441 GMT)

Senate confirms next Space Force commanding general
Posted: Sun, Aug 9 10:37 AM ET (1437 GMT)

NASA astronauts complete ISS spacewalk
Posted: Sun, Aug 9 10:35 AM ET (1435 GMT)

news links
Saturday, August 15
Ukraine strikes space centre developing ‘Russian Starlink’
The Daily Telegraph — 8:18 am ET (1218 GMT)
Plan to Deorbit Old Satellites Gains Steam with New Deals
Air and Space Forces Magazine — 8:17 am ET (1217 GMT)


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