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Britain launches first space agencyLondon (AFP) March 23, 2010 Britain launched its own space agency Tuesday with the help of home-grown astronaut Major Timothy Peake, aimed at boosting the country's multi-billion-pound space technology industry. While Peake may be its only astronaut, Britain is a world leader in areas such as robotics, satellites and telecommunications, which contribute about six billion pounds (nine billion dollars, 6.7 billion euros) a year to the economy. The new UK Space Agency, complete with a logo depicting the Union flag morphed int ... read more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 22, 2010International Launch Services (ILS) has carried the EchoStar XIV satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for DISH Network L.L.C., the fastest growing pay-TV provider in America. This was the second ILS Proton launch and the fourth overall Proton launch this year. The EchoStar XIV satellite was also the 21st consecutive successful Proton launch in 20 months and the first commercial flight of ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 22, 2010An additional Soyuz capsule could be built especially for commercial space tourists, the head of Russia's Energia space corporation said on Thursday. "Construction of an additional Soyuz spaceship could start in the middle of the year," Vitaly Lopota said. Energia currently manufactures four single-use three-man Soyuz capsules a year, but when the number is raised to five, it could r ... more 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 22, 2010Sea Launch received final approval on March 17 from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on its motion to secure a second tranche of debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing in the amount of $12 million from Space Launch Services, LLC (SLS). SLS also provided the first tranche of DIP financing in the amount of $12.5 million to Sea Launch, pursuant to an earlier court order dated December 3, 2 ... more |
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Astronauts return to Earth on Russian spacecraftMoscow (AFP) March 18, 2010 A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) after 169 days in space, mission control in Moscow said. "The crew of the Souyz TMA-16 craft is on Earth," it said in a statement, after Jeffrey Williams of the United States and Russia's Maxim Surayev touched down after five-and-a-half months together on the ISS. At 1125 GMT, the spacecraft "made a safe landing in the designated area northeast of the town of Arkalyk" in the steppes of ... read more |
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