|
|
 Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2009 
Initial testing on a malfunctioning valve that grounded the space shuttle Discovery is encouraging and countdown will resume Thursday ahead of the next launch attempt, NASA said. "There is no issue in the initial testing," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Allard Beutel told AFP late Wednesday. Engineers, he said, commanded the liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve in Discovery's main propul ... read more 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2009When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte flies as the latest tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, he promises to bring a comic touch to the mission. Already his screen saver pictures his mission colleagues - US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and cosmonaut Maksim Surayev - in space suits and red clown noses, and he says he will bring six more clown snouts to those now ... more
|
| |||||||||||||||
| Previous Issues | Aug 26 | Aug 25 | Aug 24 | Aug 23 | Aug 21 |
| . |
 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2009A 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 ... more  
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 |
. |
|
|
. |
Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2009 In an unprecedented move, the U.S. space program may turn to private contractors for much of the work now handled by government workers, officials say. Proposals under consideration the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would outsource everything from ferrying cargo into orbit to transporting astronauts, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. A switch to private ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars. The rover team has begun using a test rover that does not carry a science payload or robotic arm, as do Spirit and Opportunity on Mars, and the primary engineering test rover at JPL. While the primary test ... more 
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 |
. |
| Previous Issues | Aug 26 | Aug 25 | Aug 24 | Aug 23 | Aug 21 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2009 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
