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Europe Sets A Course For The ISS Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2008 
Europe will receive its own access to the International Space Station by means of the Automated Transfer Vehicle space transporter. As the most complex spacecraft ever to be built in western Europe, the ATV represents a significant milestone for European space. The German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen is coordinating the communication between the ATV control centre ... read more |
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Unique Three-Way Partnership For ATV Ground Control
Toulouse, France (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Shortly after its planned 8 March launch to the ISS, ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle will make the first-ever laser-guided docking in space. The vehicle's fully automated docking provides unique challenges to the multi-agency mission operations team at ESA's ATV Control Centre. "We started from scratch to build the technical interfaces, the ground control systems and the working relations ... more ILS Proton To Launch S2M Satellite For Mobile TV Service In Middle East And North Africa 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2008International Launch Services (ILS) have announced a contract with S2M to use a Proton Breeze M vehicle to launch the first dedicated mobile television satellite for the MENA region. The companies made the announcement during the Satellite 2008 industry conference in Washington, D.C. The Proton Breeze M is Russia's leading heavy-lift vehicle, which launches from facilities at the Baikonur ... more NASA adds technologies Web feature 
Denver (UPI) Feb 26, 2007 The U.S. space agency has added an interactive program to its Web site, allowing users to discover some of the space technologies that now impact daily life. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deputy Administrator Shana Dale unveiled "NASA at Home" and "NASA City" Tuesday in Denver during the 3rd Space Exploration Conference. Dale said the interactive site takes users ... more The Next-Best Thing To Being On Mars 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Last week, two MIT students began living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending a two-week "mission," they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. When they send e-mail, it takes 20 minutes before the recipient can see it-the time it takes for radio waves ... more How The Atmospheres Of Mars And Venus Are Affected By Carbon Monoxide 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Modelling of the Earth's atmosphere has acquired economic importance due to its use in the prediction of ozone depletion and in measuring the impact of global warming. Now, researchers, writing in the online open access journal PMC Physics B have found that the rate at which electrons lose energy to carbon monoxide is greater than that to carbon dioxide at higher levels in the atmospheres of ... more |
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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 ... more 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 |
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2008The Department of Defense announced that based on debris analysis, officials are confident the missile intercept and destruction of a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite, achieved the objective of destroying the hydrazine tank and reducing, if not eliminating, the risk to people on Earth from the hazardous chemical. "By all accounts this was a successful mission. From ... more High Energy Electron Holes Reveal Unseen Rings 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2008Gaps in the soup of high energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn's tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. A paper in the February issue of the journal Icarus suggests the larger Saturnian moons may not be the only ones contributing material to Saturn's ring system. A team of scientists has detected two peculiar breaks in ... more View From The Top At The Vehicle Assemby Building 
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
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