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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 30, 2009 
The sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2009 marked another success for this heavy-lift launcher today, carrying the first satellite launched by Arianespace for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS - THOR 6, along with the 32nd spacecraft from the SES group of companies entrusted for an Ariane launch - NSS-12. Lifting off on time at 5:00 p.m. from the Spaceport in French Guiana, the Ariane 5 deployed ... read more 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 30, 2009A new satellite launch center is now under construction near Wenchang in China's southernmost island province of Hainan. Once completed, it will be the country's fourth satellite launch centre and replace the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre (XSLC) for geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and other space launch missions. Yang Yong has more. Covering 20 square kilometers, the Wenchang Satellite Launch ... more
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 30, 2009Space shuttle Atlantis, its crew and payload have been given the green light to launch to the International Space Station on Nov. 16 at 2:28 p.m. EST. At the post-FRR press briefing held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations congratulated the Ares I-X launch team for a successful flight test. He then talked about the ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2009The National Space Society (NSS) welcomes the release of the Final Report of the Review of U.S. Space Flight Plans Committee, better known as the Augustine Commission. NSS thanks the Committee for its hard work and due diligence, and for the message that its Final Report seeks to convey: The United States can, and must, continue to be the world's leader in space, but to do so, our space ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2009This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this view covers an area about 3 kilometers (2 miles) wide. Channels associated with impact craters were once thought to be quite rare. Scientists proposed a variety of unusual circumstances to ... more |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Weather delays Tuesday forced NASA to postpone by 24 hours the launch of a prototype rocket designed to return astronauts to the Moon, and perhaps one day to Mars. Standing 327 feet (100-meters) tall, the Ares I-X is the longest rocket ever built and when lift-off goes ahead it will be the first spacecraft the Kennedy Space Center has launched other than a shuttle in 30 years. Tuesday ... more  
Chennai, India (PTI) Oct 28, 2009After its maiden moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to cross another milestone in December - take India into the exclusive club of countries that have developed their own cryogenic engines to power satellites in space. ISRO is hoping to end 2009 in style with the take-off of its fully indigenous geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) carrying an ... more 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 28, 2009Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been approved for its October 29 liftoff following the launch readiness review, performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This traditional milestone prior to every Ariane mission validated the heavy-lift launch vehicle's status, along with the NSS-12 and THOR 6 satellite payloads, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ... more |
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