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 Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 18, 2009 
S. Korea's first space rocket has been safely put onto its launch pad ahead of its historic launch scheduled for this week, the state-run aerospace institute said Monday. Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), responsible for the launch, said despite a light drizzle reported at the Naro Space Center 485km south of Seoul, engineers and launch coordinators moved the rocket from the ... read more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2009Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained to gain as much distance in the sandbox as Spirit would need to complete on Mars to escape its predicament. The team expects to drive the test rover for several hundred meters, or yards, worth of ... more
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Wallops Island VA (SPX) Aug 18, 2009A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE, was vacuum-packed into a 15-inch diameter payload "shroud" and launched on a small sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2009This is my first post to the blog about AMASE 2009. I am writing it from the Spitzbergen Guest house, a nice little accommodation place located in Nybyen at the southeast end of Longyearbyen (Svalbard), the place where part of the members of the AMASE expedition are staying before flying to Ny-Alesund. I am writing this blog while lying on bed because I am very tired...after a full week of work. ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2009NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the ... more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 17, 2009India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon - this time in collaboration with Russia - that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data. "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ... more  
Seoul, Korea (Yonhap) Aug 17, 2009South Korea's first space rocket is expected to mark a milestone in the country's budding space exploration ambitions, which the government says include building a lunar lander within the next 20 years. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), set to blast off Wednesday afternoon, has given the country first-hand experience in designing, building and testing powerful space rockets, the ... more 
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 17, 2009Bad weather conditions could pose a final hurdle to the timely launch of South Korea's first space rocket, experts said Sunday. Local rocket experts said while technicians and engineers will check all mechanical and operational systems related to the launch, inclement weather could postpone or endanger the safety of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) that is scheduled to blast off ... more |
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