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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 02, 2009 
On Thursday evening, October 1, Arianespace boosted two payloads into geostationary transfer orbit: the Amazonas-2 civil communications satellite for the Spanish operator Hispasat, and the ComsatbW-1 military communications satellite, built by Astrium for the German Ministry of Defense. The launch was the 47th Ariane 5 mission and the 33rd successful launch campaign in a row. ... read more 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 02, 2009For the first time, India's space scientists have developed electric propulsion technology that is expected to boost the life of geostationary satellites by upto five years. In other words, the satellites which today have a lifespan of ten years, could last upto 15 years. The system - plasma thrusters - would be tested in GSAT-4 spacecraft slated to be launched on board GSLV later ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 02, 2009China's first Mars probe mission will be delayed because of Russia's decision to postpone the launch of its mission to the Martian moon Phobos from next month to the year 2011. Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission had been slated to lift off aboard a Zenith rocket in October on a three-year mission to study Phobos and return soil samples to Earth. Yinghuo-1 orbiter was set to be launched with the ... more  
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 02, 2009MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury yesterday, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of five percent of the planet never before seen. With more than 90 percent of the planet's surface already imaged, MESSENGER's science team had drafted an ambitious observation campaign designed to tease out additional details ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2009The Expedition 20 crew members got the opportunity to relax aboard the International Space Station Thursday, as they had a light-duty day before the upcoming nine-day handover to the Expedition 21 crew. The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte, who is flying under an agreement between the ... more |
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by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2009 MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury yesterday, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of five percent of the planet never before seen. With more than 90 percent of the planet's surface already imaged, MESSENGER's science team had drafted an ambitious observation campaign designed to ... more  
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 30, 2009The billionaire founder of the Cirque du Soleil blasted off into orbit on a Russian rocket on Wednesday to bring his trademark humour and acrobatic energy into the ultra-serious world of space flight. Guy Laliberte, 50, a Canadian who spent millions from a personal fortune on his two week visit to the International Space Station (ISS), is likely to be the last such "space tourist" for ... more  
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 01, 2009So accustomed are we to the sunshine, rain, fog and snow of our home planet that we find it next to impossible to imagine a different atmosphere and other forms of precipitation. To be sure, Dr. Seuss came up with a green gluey substance called oobleck that fell from the skies and gummed up the Kingdom of Didd, but it had to be conjured up by wizards and was clearly a thing of magic. ... more |
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