Dec 6 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that the Ulysses spacecraft, which was on its way to explore the polar regions of the Sun, had become the first spacecraft to reach further south than the most southerly dip of the Sun's magnetic equator. Ulysses's observations revealed that the fast-moving stream of charged particles, called the solar wind, is twice as fast, but less dense, than near the Sun's equator. (NASA Release 93-217; UPn, Dec 6/93)
NASA announced that it was working with industry partners to develop a new technology for parts tracking. The new technology, a small binary symbol similar to a checkerboard, can contain much more information and occupy less space than a bar code and be easily marked directly on a part's surface for permanent identification. (NASA Release 93-218)
Space-agency officials from the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan agreed to invite Russia to join them in building an International Space Station that would be the world's largest collaborative science project. (WSJ, Dec 7/93; B Sun, Dec 7/93; TTw, Dec 6/93)
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