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NASA Issues Draft Report On Environmental Issues To Wind Up Shuttle Program Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2007 
The U.S. space agency has issued a draft environmental assessment on potential impacts resulting from the space shuttle's retirement in 2010. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's assessment concludes that, because of the use of shuttle components and facilities by that program's successor, the Constellation project, potential environmental impacts from disposing of the ... read more |
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Mitsubishi Targeting Foreign Satellite Launch Orders
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 25, 2008Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries expects to win its first orders for commercial satellite launches with its H-2A rocket from foreign companies, its president said in an interview published Monday. The industrial giant is in the final stages of negotiations with US and South Korean telecommunications firms and hopes to launch their satellites by February 2009, the Nikkei business daily ... more India's Moon Mission Pushed To July First Week 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 26, 2008India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues. "We are targeting the end of June. We will try to make it in the first week of July," a senior scientist associated with the Rs 386 crore moon mission told PTI here on Monday on condition ... more China To Launch Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Around 2009 
Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2008China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television. However, Ye did not elaborate on the plan with more details. He said Chang'e-1, the country's first lunar ... more Joint ESA And Russian Team In Moscow Ready To Support Jules Verne 
Moscow (ESA) Feb 25, 2008When the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle is launched in early March it will use several key spacecraft hardware items such as the docking and refuelling systems, and the Kurs radar, procured in Russia. European and Russian engineers have worked together to adapt them from their previous use on the Russian spacecraft Progress and Soyuz to the much larger 20-tonne ATV vessel. ... more Space Tourism To Rocket In This Century 
Newark DL (SPX) Feb 25, 2008Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as "the" getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza. In fact, the "final frontier" could begin showing up in travel guides by 2010, they predict. "In the twenty-first century, space tourism could represent the most significant ... more |
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2008If you have the stomach for it, Vinnie LaFiura has an amazing view to show you. But to see it, you must be willing to go out on a 30-inch-wide painter's platform some 52 stories above the ground. You'll have a clear look at the launch pads just three miles away at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Florida coastline beyond. But when you glance past your safety harness and down at your ... more Tunnels Of Activity Beneath The Shuttle Launch Pad 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2008The rumbling of space shuttle engines and the view of a spectacular liftoff cause excitement as they capture the imagination of the world. Support systems in the tunnels beneath Launch Pads 39A and 39B are not so glamorous, but are extremely important to the success of those launches. The past meets the present in a series of rooms and connecting tunnels called the Pad Terminal Connection ... more New Theory Sheds Light On Space Enigma 
Leicester UK (JPL) Feb 25, 2008An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon. This raging eruption has intrigued scientists ever since the Cassini spacecraft provided dramatic images of the phenomenon. Now, physicist Nikolai Brilliantov, at the University of Leicester, and colleagues in Germany, have revealed why the dust particles in the ... more Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 23, 2008Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said. The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre on Tanegashima island off the southern tip of Kyushu ... more |
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Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2008As MESSENGER flew by Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera of the Mercury Dual Imaging System captured this view. Two of the larger craters in this image appear to have darkened crater rims and partial "halos" of dark material immediately surrounding the craters. Both craters appear to have nearly complete rims and interior terraced walls, suggesting that they ... more Unique Martian Formation Reproduced, Reveals Brief Bursts Of Water 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Feb 22, 2008Researchers from the United States and the Netherlands report that several formations on Mars indicate incidents of rapid release of water from the planet's interior. Mars has many basins that contain formations that look like fans. A few of these fans, only about 10, have steps down into the basin. Since scientists first reported this feature three years ago, there has been no clear conse ... more Hobbyists track secret orbits of spy satellites 
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 20, 2008When the United States shoot down one of its wayward top-secret spy satellites this week, a global group of 20 hobbyists keen to unearth heavenly mysteries were watching closely. They routinely track satellites in secret orbits and publish their findings online, rattling spy agencies that would rather not tip off their targets when an eye in the sky is watching them. "We're all childr ... more US DoD Succeeds In Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2008A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering the earth's atmosphere. At approximately 10:26 p.m. EST, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie (CG-70), fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) hitting the sate ... more
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