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 Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 
The US shuttle Discovery made a picture-perfect docking with the International Space Station late Sunday, hooking up with the orbiting outpost eight minutes ahead of schedule. The US space agency NASA confirmed the docking procedure, which allows the seven-member Discovery crew to open a hatch and climb into the ISS to begin their nine days together with the six astronauts aboard there, at 7:54 pm (2354 GMT) over the Atlantic ocean. Commander Rick Sturckow guided the shuttle to a "smooth-as-silk" soft docking, said a commentator on NASA TV. ... read more 
Panaji, India (AFP) Aug 30, 2009The head of India's state-run space agency on Sunday hailed the country's first moon mission a success, despite losing contact with the spacecraft. "The mission was a great success," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters in the state capital of Goa, Panaji, where a conference on low-budget space missions opens this week. Nair, who sai ... more
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Aug 31, 2009The initial passenger for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission of this year was delivered to French Guiana following a trans-Atlantic cargo flight from Europe. HISPASAT's Amazonas 2 telecommunications relay satellite arrived this morning aboard an Antonov An-124 jetliner, which landed at Cayenne's Rochambeau International Airport. It will now begin final preparations for liftoff in late ... more 
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 31, 2009South Korea's first launch of a rocket must be viewed as a success, despite its inability to place a satellite into orbit, a former science and technology minister claimed Sunday. Oh Myung, currently president of Konkuk University, said the launch of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) last week was a success since the rocket and satellite payload reached an altitude of over 300km. ... more 
Ankara, Turkey (XNA) Aug 31, 2009The procurement process started for TURKSAT 4A satellite which planned to be launched to space in 2011,said TURKSAT Director Genera Ozkan Dalbay on Friday. Dalbay was quoted by semi-official Anatolia news agency as saying that "TURKSAT plans to manufacture the satellite at the end of the year," adding that TURKSAT would send a preliminary specification to producing companies by the end of ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2009The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achieveme ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 29, 2009The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on a 13-day mission to help equip the International Space Station. Discovery roared into the dark nighttime Florida sky at 11:59 pm Friday (0359 GMT Saturday), as scheduled, and reached orbit a few minutes later. "I wish you and to your team good luck and godspeed," National Aeronautics and Space Administration launch ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 28, 2009Final preparations were underway Friday for a fourth attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery as its crew boarded the vessel for a takeoff scheduled for a minute before midnight. Dressed in bright orange space suits, the seven astronauts - six Americans and one Swede - left their quarters at the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida just after 8:00 pm (0000 GMT). A tra ... more |
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