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Queensland Uni And NASA Sign Hypersonic Propulsion Deal Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 
The University of Queensland has signed a memorandum of understanding with NASA to continue close collaboration on hypersonic propulsion projects. Hypersonics is the study of velocities of Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) or more. The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics, one of the largest space engineering University groups in the world, conducts research into all aspects of ... read more |
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Broken Heart Image The Last For NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008As far as endings go, this one's a real heart breaker. NASA's Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible-light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora. The Polar team has dubbed this final image "The Broken Heart." When the Polar satellite launched February 24, 1996, the plan was for a two-year science mission to study the ... more PSLV Launches Ten Satellites 
Sriharikota, India (SPX) Apr 29, 2008In its thirteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today (April 28, 2008), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C9, successfully launched the 690 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2A, the 83 kg Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight nanosatellites for international customers into a 637 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). ... more Discovery Ready For Final Assembly And Checkout 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Space shuttle Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle's external tank and two solid rocket boosters awaited. Discovery was then lifted to vertical inside the building's 50-story-tall transfer aisle, lowered into a high bay and joined with the tank and boosters atop the mobile launcher platform. The fully ... more AMOS-3 Communications Satellite Launched 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Spacecom has announced that its newest satellite, AMOS-3, has been successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. AMOS-3 roared into the atmosphere onboard a Zenit-3SLB launcher this morning at 08.00 Israel local time (05.00 GMT). The launcher's first and second stages have already been successfully separated. The last stage will be separated a few hours ... more Shanghai's Own Moon Vehicle Passes Test 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Shanghai has developed a lunar rover that it hopes to be chosen for China's first moon landing in 2013, the city government announced yesterday. The Shanghai Science and Technology Commission said the key technology of the rover has passed a technical appraisal by the government. The technology mainly covers the rover's maneuverability and detection sensors. The rover, which hasn't been gi ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Apr 28, 2008An expert advisory team has been appointed by ESA with the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address one of the most exciting goals in modern astrophysics: the characterization of terrestrial exo-planets (up to the possible detection of biomarkers). The Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team (EPR-AT) will consult with the scient ... more NASA Officials Turn To Air Force For Guppy Evaluation 
Tinker AFB OK (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Tinker AFB OK (SPX) Apr 28, 2008 NASA officials brought the Super Guppy -- a uniquely-designed aircraft used to transport cargo, including parts of the space shuttle program -- to Tinker AFB in mid-April so that maintainers here could inspect the aircraft and perform some repairs. According to NASA Chief Flight Engineer Henry Taylor, officials chose Tinker AFB because it has a great reputation ... more China Blasts Off First Data Relay Satellite 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008 China launched the country's first data relay satellite "Tianlian I" Friday night. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellite will not go into function though until the Shenzhou VII mission scheduled for the second half of ... more Plan To Identify Watery Earth-Like Planets Develops 
Erie PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii. "We are looking for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their star, a band not too hot nor too cold for life to exist," says Darren M. Williams ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008A small motor in the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity that began stalling occasionally more than two years ago has become more troublesome recently. Rover engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are diagnosing why the motor, one of five in the robotic arm, stalled on April 14 after much less motion that day than in the case of several earlier stal ... more Explorers Flight Launch Set For June 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 25, 2008The Explorers Flight will be launched on board a Falcon 1 rocket from the Marshall Islands, which are located in the Western Pacific. Launch is projected to occur in early June 2008 (no earlier than June 10). As has been our practice in conducting our six previous launches, when we believe that we are approximately one month from launch we will e-mail you an invitation to the launch, providing ... more Prisma Satellites To Be Launched In June 2009 
Solna, Sweden (SPX) Apr 25, 2008The Swedish Space Corporation has signed a contract with the Russian space company Kosmotras regarding launch of the Prisma satellites. The satellites will be launched onboard a Dnepr launcher in June 2009, either from Baikonur in Kazakhstan or from Yasni in southern Russia. The French climate research satellite Picard will probably be launched on the same launcher. ... more NASA Awards Launch Services Contract To SpaceX 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 23, 2008NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a NASA Launch Services contract for the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles. The NASA Launch Services contracts are multiple awards to multiple launch service providers. Twice per year, there is an opportunity for existing and emerging domestic launch service providers to submit proposals if their vehicles meet the minimum contract ... more
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