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SpaceX Activates ISS Comms System For Dragon SpacecraftHawthorne, CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2010 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces the successful activation of its new Dragon spacecraft communication hardware aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during a series of operations conducted in January and March. Dubbed the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit, the new system will allow ISS crewmembers to monitor and command approaching or departing Dragon spacecraft during cargo delivery missions to the orbiting l ... read more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 25, 2010The German Aerospace Center connects every first-time flyer to measuring equipment on each parabolic flight. During the flight programme that concluded in March 2010, the equipment recorded how motion sickness indicators manifested themselves on first-time flyers experiencing weightlessness during the 22 seconds of each of the 31 parabolic flights on the Airbus A300. In this interview, Dr ... more  
Gorki, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 25, 2010Russia could unite the Urals and Siberian time zones as part of a project to slash the time difference across the country's vast territory, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. Russia currently has 11 time zones, spanning a vast territory from the western exclave of Kaliningrad (-1 Moscow time) to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Far East (+9 Moscow time). "This proposal was a ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 29, 2010The year-opening Ariane 5 mission was delayed after an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem during final countdown operations. A decision was made by Arianespace to replace this part, resulting in the postponement for several days. Both the Ariane 5 and its mixed civilian and military telecommunications satellite payload of ASTRA 3B and COMSATBw-2 have been placed in stand-by mod ... more |
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NASA Awards Space Propulsion Research Contracts To Five FirmsCleveland OH (SPX) Mar 29, 2010 NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide space propulsion systems technologies in support of research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Each of the five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts provide for fixed price, cost share and cost reimbursement competitive tasks with a maximum value of $50 million over the next five years. The companies selected are Aerojet of Sacramento, Calif.; ATK Mission Systems of R ... read more |
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