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C/NOFS Satellite Built By General Dynamics Successfully Launched From Reagan Test Site Gilbert AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008 
The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. C/NOFS is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) mission that will ... read more |
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Russia Continues Flight Simulation Experiments For Mars-500
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Four volunteers will spend ten days in a compression chamber with a reduced oxygen level as preparation for Mars-500, a Russian ground-based experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. A spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Issues, which runs the project, said that four healthy men will be held in a chamber with the pressure equivalent to being five meters ... more Orbital Awarded USAF Contract For Three Minotaur Space Launch Vehicles 
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 16, 2008Orbital Sciences has announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) has ordered three additional Minotaur space launch vehicles in support of the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office. The Program Office responsible for Minotaur vehicles is the Launch Test Squadron (LTS) of the Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The late ... more Hope Takes Flight On Shuttle Discovery 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The cargo aboard the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124 already has traveled halfway around Earth, more than 10,000 miles over land and sea. It's now ready for the culmination of its 23-year journey to the International Space Station. Hope will take flight on Discovery. Or rather, the centerpiece of Kibo, a laboratory complex named for the Japanese word for hope, will take flight. ... more German whizzkid got it wrong: NASA 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday. The agency, sounding a bit like a weary math ... more Russia Needs Billions More To Complete It's ISS Segment 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Russia will need an additional $5 billion to finish the construction of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, the head of Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia said Friday. The ISS is a joint project of space agencies from the United States, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan. The orbital station is likely to remain operational until 2020. "So far, we have all ... more |
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Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 16, 2008The electric solar wind sail developed at the Finnish Meteorological Institute has moved in a rapidly pace from invention towards implementation. Electric sail propulsion might have a large impact on space research and moving in space more generally. The electric solar wind sail developed by Dr. Pekka Janhunen at the Finnish Meteorological Institute might revolutionise moving around in deep spac ... more Confusion Over Asteroid Calculation Sorted As NASA Issues Clarification 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2008A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdame ... more NASA's Marshall Center Readies Historic, Apollo-Era Test Stand For Testing Of Ares I 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Engineers have begun preparations to renovate the historic, 360-foot-high Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The test stand, used in the 1960s to test the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and later the integrated space shuttle system, soon will be used for the integrated vehicle ground vibration test of the nation's new Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsul ... more Missions To Mars 
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 15, 2008The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the GSI accelerator facility to assess radiation risks that astronauts will be exposed to on a Mars mission. GSI was selected because its accelerator is the only one in Europe able to create ion beams similar to those found in space. To determine possible health risks of manned space flights, scientists from all over Europe have been asked to investigat ... more |
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Moscow, April 12, 2008 The Russian Federal Space Agency supports space tourism as long as the activity doesn't interfere with its operations, an agency official said. Vitaly Davydov deputy head of the agency, called Roskosmos, said if space tourists on board Russia's Suyoz spacecraft do not interfere with the International Space Station, he has no opposition, ITAR-TASS reported Saturday. Currently, any ... more Scrap unlucky 13th mission: Russian space chief 
Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008The next Russian spacecraft should be renamed to avoid the traditionally unlucky number 13, believes the head of Russia's space agency. "In Russia, many people have superstitious beliefs -- black cats, Mondays, the number 13. That's why I think that it is a good idea to change the number of the next space ship," said Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, according to ... more Space Research Can Improve Life On Earth 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Countries sending their citizens into space for the first time proudly call them their Gagarins, with good reason. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. Since then, many countries joined space exploration, and Russia has recently sent its 101st and 102nd cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). They will work together with South Korea's Yi So-y ... more Statue To Pioneering Russian Space Dog Unveiled In Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008A bronze monument to a former street dog called Laika, which was the first living creature in space and paved the way for manned flights, was unveiled in northwest Moscow on Friday. The monument, erected a day before Russia's Cosmonautics Day celebrated on April 12, is a two-meter (6.5 feet) high space rocket with Laika proudly standing on top. The three-year-old mongrel, originally named ... more
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