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 Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2009 
The US shuttle Discovery made a textbook docking Sunday with the International Space Station where a total of 13 astronauts now begin nine days together improving and supplying the orbiting outpost. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed the docking procedure, which occurred at 0054 GMT, about 10 minutes ahead of schedule. Commander Rick Sturckow guided the ... read more 
Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 01, 2009India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday. "We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities. Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission," he said. The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2, Nair said. ... more
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Xichang, China (XNA) Sep 01, 2009Indonesian communications satellite Palapa D failed to enter a preset orbit after being launched at 5:28 pm Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. The satellite was launched atop a Chinese-made Long March 3B rocket. The first and second stages of the rocket entered space normally, but the third stage failed during a second-time ignition. Experts are ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2009The simple explanation for why there was no blog entry for yesterday is that yesterday rather bled into today - it's all a bit of a blur. Science being what it is, we were processing samples until the wee hours of the morning and headed to bed for a quick one-hour nap before rising from the dead to meet the Lance as it arrived at the ... more  
Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Sep 01, 2009China will begin the construction of its own orbital space station in 2020, the Sina news service said on Monday, citing a top official with the country's manned spaceflight program. Gu Yidong said that China would sent two or three space labs into orbit in 2010-2015, while the basic module of the space station is to be orbited by 2020. The spacecrafts will "form the basic orbital ... 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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