Space Physics News Archives

October 1998

• More IMEX News Coverage:
  • "U scientists design satellite to Study Van Allen Belts" by Jim Dawson, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wednesday October 14, 1998

  • "Newton's Apple: The Magnetosphere" by Mark Ward, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wednesday, October 14, 1998

September 1998

• The Inner Magnetosphere Explorer (IMEX) was just granted funding as part of the NASA University-Class Explorers Program. The principal investigator is Dr. John Wygant of the University of Minnesota.

  An IMEX web page is under development.

  IMEX News Coverage:

  • "Final Frontier is U's New Baby" by Jake Kapsner, Minnesota Daily, September 21, 1998

  • "2001 Space Mission: Into The Heart Of The Van Allen Belts," ScienceDaily, September 17, 1998

  • "NASA gives U $13 million to design craft" by Judith Yates Borger, St. Paul Pioneer Press, September 16, 1998 - Available from the Pioneer Press News Archives

  • "U gets $13 million to build magnetosphere satellite" by Jim Dawson, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Metro/Region Section, September 16, 1998 - Available from the Star Tribune Archives

  • NASA Press Release, September 11, 1998

• The 1998 FAST Workshop was held 8/30/98-9/1/98 (Sun.-Tues.) at Superior Shores Resort in Two Harbors, Minnesota

February 1998

• University of Minnesota graduate Dr. Barbara Thompson and her SOHO co-workers were featured on the Learning/Discovery channel's "Ultrascience" series on February 25, 1998.

January 1998

• An article about aircraft flights to study the aurora done in conjunction with the FAST satellite recently appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Alaska Science Forum.

November 1997

• An article on space weather by graduate student Kristine Sigsbee appeared in the November-December 1997 issue of the Minnesota Technolog