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 Chennai, India (PTI) Jul 29, 2009 
A technology safeguards agreement (TSA) signed with the US last week will open up fresh opportunities for India in the field of space launches, say officials. The agreement, signed July 20 in New Delhi, will facilitate the launch of non-commercial US satellites and satellites with US components on Indian launch vehicles. "It will open up more satellite launch opportunities for India," said ... read more 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Launched aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter June 18 and activated July 8, the system, known as Mini-RF, will take high-resolution radar imagery of permanently shaded regions of the moon to ... more
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Oshkosh WI (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Abu Dhabi's Aabar InvestmentsAabar Investments and Virgin Group have announced that they have agreed to enter a strategic partnership, which will see Aabar take an equity stake in the world's first commercial spaceline - Virgin Galactic. To date, Virgin Galactic has been wholly owned and funded by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. The deal, signed at the EAA AirVenture air show in ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 28, 2009The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday to take photographs of the orbiting research facility before final maneuvers to prepare its return home. Endeavour separated from the ISS 1:26 pm (1726 GMT), NASA said. "After completing a fly-around of the space station, shuttle Endeavour will perform a maneuver to separate from the station," it added. ... more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 28, 2009NASA and other national space agencies are again focused on lunar exploration, which raises the question of how to best use semi-autonomous rovers to explore the Moon's surface. R. Aileen Yingst, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is leading a group of Mars-rover veterans who are conducting field studies to answer that question. The scientists are ... more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 27, 2009The intense radiation from the sun that roasted India's first unmanned lunar satellite's key orientation instrument - the star sensor - has raised concerns over the safety of Indian astronauts on the country's first manned space flight, planned around 2015. A scientist from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) pointed out that radiation can kill astronauts if the emissions from ... more 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 27, 2009In yet another deft handoff maneuver, the space shuttle robotic arm this morning grabbed the Japanese Exposed Section cargo carrier from the International Space Station robotic arm and carefully placed the cargo carrier back into Endeavour's payload bay bringing to close this mission's robotics work on the space station's new porch. The 13 crew members aboard the space station and space ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Opportunity had been driving to the west to go around a large field of impassable dunes on her long way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 1947 (July 16, 2009), the rover drove a little over 70 meters (230 feet) to the west, slightly north. On the next sol, the rover performed a Mars quake experiment, reading the inertial measurement unit (IMU) accelerometers while stationary. Another westward ... more |
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