DODEA director accused of abusing authority | Stars and Stripes

Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:43 AM EDT (stripes.com)

WASHINGTON — A federal teachers union is demanding a full investigation into allegations that the director of the Defense Department's worldwide network of schools for military dependents routinely abused her office by steering jobs to relatives and friends, arranging retreat …

politics, dodea, dodds, miles

ESA - ESA Spacecraft Operations - ESA's Herschel calls home using mobile phone technology

Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 3:03 AM EDT (esa.int)

Looks like mobile phones are pretty near **everywhere** now! It's funny how the efficient use of spectrum that has long been a commercial imperative in terrestrial cell phone networks now applies to communication with spacecraft as well.

technology, mobile, gsm, herschel, space, l2, esa

ESA - Space Debris

Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:40 AM EST (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Space_Debris/index.htm)

The European Space Agency (ESA) have opened a new website highlighting space debris. There is a gallery:

science, esa, space-debris

ESA Portal - Follow the Jules Verne ATV docking

Seeded on Thu Apr 3, 2008 8:47 AM EDT (esa.int)

ESA's first automated transfer vehicle, Jules Verne, is due to dock with the ISS at 14:00 GMT - just over an hour from now. ESA are hosting a blog, here:

science, iss, esa, space, atv

ESA | DLR | Columbus Blog

Seeded on Mon Dec 3, 2007 10:34 AM EST (webservices.esa.int)

ESA - the European Space Agency - are blogging the next shuttle mission, which will deliver the ESA Columbus science module to the ISS. The last blog they ran covered the Rosetta comet-chaser Earth swing-by in November 2007.

science, space-esa-iss-columbus, evs