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Democrat Riders Bail Out Hawks
Washington - April 1, 1999 - As Washington congratulated itself for its defense of the realm following passage of the "National Missile Defense Act", the reality of what was approved is becoming apparent. SpaceDaily's Washington correspondent Frank Sietzen, says the NMD Act has so many riders along with zero funding its little more than window dressing for Republican hawks.
NASA, Military Restrict Satellite Data
Space Command Supports NATO
Milspace $: Only The Laser Need Apply
Students Get Mars Shot
Pasadena - April 5, 1999 -
 Two years this Saturday will see the launch of NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander that will carry the first student designed experiment destined for another world. The experiment must be designed to help determine how humans will one day be able to live on Mars.
Breath Deep Its Pure Martian
Mars Gets a Backbone
To Mercury with Love
Sydney - March 30, 1999 - In July, the next NASA Discovery mission will be announced. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but one candidate deserves our admiration and support - the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission.
In Search of A Long March
China Exports To Be Debated
Female Crews Save Money
Europa Get A Blonde Makeover
Washington - March 30, 1999 - Hydrogen peroxide -- the chemical that can turn a brunette into an instant blonde -- appears on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, according to a new discovery by NASA's Galileo spacecraft reported in the March 26 edition of the journal Science.
Earth's Magnetic Quirks
WIRE Out Of Gas
Northrop Grumman Bails Out Kistler
Los Angeles - March 22, 1999 -
Northrop Grumman has bailed out Kistler Aerospace with an additional $30 million in new equity and a $30 million conversion of unpaid contracting fees, that Kistler was unable to meet and precipitated the current funding crisis with over $150M yet to be raised.
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JPL - April 7, 1999 - NASA's Deep Space 1 mission has successfully demonstrated most of its exotic technologies - including an ion engine that will be ten times more efficient than conventional engines - and clearing the way for their use on future science missions.
Tokyo - April 7, 1999 - OrbComm's commercial operations in Japan have begun via a local service partner OrbComm Japan Ltd, with testing of its gateway center completed.
Despite three attempts Tuesday night, Boeing's Delta 3 launch was scrubbed at T-minus 2 minutes after Range officers called a hold due to communication problems. Scheduling at the Cape is expected to delay the launch until next week.
The Air Force and Lockheed Martin launch team is set to deploy a Titan IV/B rocket carrying a Defense Support Program satellite from Space Launch Complex 41 here April 9 at 11.33am EDT. Window closes at 3.33pm
Washington - April 5, 1999 - The Clinton administration has ordered an interagency review of U.S. commercial space launch operations in a decision announced by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy March 31st.
Washington - April 5, 1999 - Barely two weeks after taking effect, the new tougher provisions of the Arms Control Export Act have grounded yet another U.S.-made telecommunications satellite.
Project Phoenix, a collaborative project between the SETI Institute, the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in Manchester is seeing the two telescopes undertake the most sensitive search ever of Sun-like stars within 200 light years.
