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NASA Ponders Future Without Shuttles Washington DC (UPI) Mar 08, 2007 
U.S. space officials are concerned NASA will have to rely on other countries to carry astronauts into space after its three space shuttles are retired.
NASA plans to retire its aging space shuttles in 2010 because of their high cost and safety concerns, with nothing scheduled to replace them until at least 2015, The Washington Post reported. That means there will be no way to transport ... read more |
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Europe Launches Jules Verne Robot Space Freighter
Kourou (AFP) Mar 09, 2008The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station. The Automated Transfer Vehicle, a nearly 20-tonne payload the size of a London double-decker bus, blasted into the skies aboard a beefed-up Ariane 5 launcher, an AFP reporter saw. After being placed in orbit ... more China To Launch Second Olympic Satellite In May 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008China will launch in May a second meteo satellite to ensure more precise weather forecasts during the Beijing Olympic Games set to open on August 8, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The new satellite, Fengyun-3, has a bigger payload than its predecessors and will provide medium-range weather forecasts for up to 10 to 15 days. It will replace the FY-1D weather satellite launched ... more Shuttle Crew Arrives As Endeavour Countdown Gets Under Way 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The space shuttle Endeavour astronauts are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final launch preparations for their STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. The crew arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft at 1:21 a.m. EST Saturday, March 8. After arriving in a driving rainstorm, Endeavour Commander Dominic Gorie made a few comments ... more Sea Launch Prepares For The Launch Of DirecTV 11 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the equatorial Pacific, in preparation for the launch of the DirecTV 11 broadcast satellite, planned for Monday, March 17. Liftoff is expected at the opening of a 58-minute launch window, at 3:49 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:49 GMT). Upon arrival at the launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, ... more First China Spacewalk On Course For October 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 09, 2008China is planning to conduct its first spacewalk in October from a Shenzhou VII spacecraft, senior space engineers said Wednesday. They also said a research team had been set up to conduct a feasibility study for a space station. Wang Yongzhi, former chief designer of China's Manned Space Program, said the launch date had originally been scheduled for after the Olympics (Aug 8 to 24) and ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2008The State Council of China has greenlighted the construction of a new space launch center in the southern island province of Hainan and the project has been kicked off, said a top provincial official on Thursday. The launch center, the fourth in China, is expected to complete in five years, Wei Liucheng, Secretary of Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, told ... more Russia To Launch US Communications Satellite On March 15 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 07, 2008A Russian Proton-M rocket will launch a U.S. communication satellite on March 15, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Thursday. The launch will be carried out under a contract between the Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services and the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center. ILS, owned by the Khrunichev Center, RSC Energia, and U.S. firm Space ... more Rockin' All Over the World -- The Top Ten for astronauts 
Paris (AFP) March 6, 2008Astronauts aboard the Space Station are to get an unusual treat - an MP3 player loaded with a playlist of songs specially chosen for people in orbit. The Top Ten was selected by a 14-year-old Norwegian girl, Therese Miljeteig, who won a competition staged by the European Space Agency. Her prize is to watch the launch this weekend of ESA's space freighter, the ... more Saturn Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected by a suite of six instruments on Cassini specifically designed to study the atmospheres and particles around Saturn and its moons. "Until now, only planet ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 06, 2008Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give scientists the data they need to investigate the evolution of the two planets' atmospheres. Scientists call this work comparative planetology. Mars Express and Venus Express are so good at it becau ... more Mechdyne Enables Virtual Reality Of Mission To Mars 
Marshalltown IA (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Mechdyne has announced that it has installed an immersive CAVE display system as the focal point of the new Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration at Washington University St. Louis (WUSTL). As a teaching and research facility of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Laboratory will provide 3D imaging capability for visualization of data collected by national and inte ... more Space X Falcon 9 Facing More Delays As Shuttle Replacement Looms 
Cape Canaveral, FL (UPI) Mar 04, 2008The first launch in the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Service has been postponed until June 2009. SpaceX announced the delay of the Falcon 9 launch Friday, saying it was putting off the launch for nine months, Florida Today reported. Roger Gilbertson, a spokesman for the company, said the postponement was at SpaceX's request. But he said there are no technical glitches ... more Ariane 5 Star One C2 Satellite Launch Campaign Underway 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Thales Alenia Space's Star One C2 telecommunications platform is undergoing processing in the Spaceport's clean room facilities, where it completed the fit-check process this week with an adapter unit that serves as the satellite/launch vehicle interface. To be used by Brazil's Star One telecommunications operator, Star One C2 carries a payload of 28 C-band transponders, 16 Ku-band transponders, ... more
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