NASA Daily News Summary – Media Advisory m00-35

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Feb. 23, 2000

Media Advisory m00-35

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES:
TINY HEARTS MONITORED BY NASA TECHNOLOGY
VIDEO:
Video File for Feb. 23, 2000
ITEM 1 – FETAL HEART MONITOR – LARC 
ITEM 2 – STS-99 LANDING (REPLAY)
ITEM 3 – SIGNS OF SPRING ON MARS – NEW MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS)

         IMAGES – JPL
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NEWS RELEASES:
TINY HEARTS MONITORED BY NASA TECHNOLOGY
A NASA technology originally used to measure airflow over airplane

wings has been successfully used to develop a portable, non-

invasive, easy-to-use fetal heart monitor.  The new clinically

proven fetal heart monitor takes advantage of aerospace technology

to make it more affordable, portable and easy to use by expectant

mothers in their own homes.  What’s more, it “listens, documents

and stores” fetal heart-rate data without injecting energy into

the womb, making it totally non-invasive. 
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus

(Phone 202/358-1979).

Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA:  H.

Keith Henry (Phone 757/864-6120/24).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-031.txt 
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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-

mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.
Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html
Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html
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VIDEO:
Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.
ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO

FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.

and midnight Eastern Time.
NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees

West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0

megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,

Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,

202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov
During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html
For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/
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