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 Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2009 
A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket fell to earth and burnt up after missing its designated orbit, officials said Wednesday. The science and technology ministry said the problem was caused by one of the two fairings which covered the satellite at the rocket's tip. Because one of them did not fall away from the rocket after opening, the rocket could not achieve en ... read more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 25, 2009A ruptured liquid hydrogen valve discovered while fueling the space shuttle Discovery led NASA to postpone a launch planned for early Wednesday and reschedule for two days later. NASA now is looking at a Friday liftoff said mission management team chairman Mike Moses, who said the launch attempt would be August 28 at 12:22 am (0422 GMT). Before then, engineers will evaluate the valve tha ... more
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Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 26, 2009Naro Space Center aims to become the cradle of South Korea's aspirations to build up its nascent aerospace sector, the state-run think tank operating the facility said Tuesday. Located 485km south of Seoul, the sprawling complex covering 5.07 million square meters was built at a cost of 312.4 billion won (US$251.4 million), with construction beginning in January 2005, the Korea Aerospace ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2009It's time to find out if humans can permanently live and work in space, according to an article written by Mark Sykes and published in the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona's morning newspaper. "This has never been a part of U.S. space policy, despite a long history of public relations implying the opposite," Sykes says. Sykes, CEO and director of the Tucson-based Planetary Science ... more  
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 26, 2009On the occasion of JAXA-DLR Strategy Dialogue in Tokyo, Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Prof. Dr. -Ing. Johann-Dietrich Worner, Chairman of the Executive Board of German Aerospace Center (DLR), signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) concerning Mutual cooperation for Satellite disaster monitoring. In this LOI, both parties acknowledged the necessity ... more |
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Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 24, 2009South Korea's first space rocket has been moved to its launch pad from the assembly complex in preparation for the historic launch scheduled for this week, the state-run aerospace institute said Sunday. Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), responsible for the launch, said the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), also called Naro-1, reached the launch pad earlier in the day with ... more 
Astana, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Kazakhstan's first satellite, KazSat-1, has been put into orbit for a 'space burial,' the country's mission control reported on Friday. The $100 million communications satellite, built for Kazakhstan by Russia's Khrunichev Space Center, was put into orbit approximately 36,000 km above the Earth in June 2006. Featuring eight Ku-band transponders for landline communications and four ... more 
Arlington VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2009The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently announced the launch of an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). "By funding this collaborative research with NASA, Purdue and The Pennsylvania State University, AFOSR continues to promote basic research breakthroughs for the future of the Air Force", said ... more |
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