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LockMart Awarded Concept Development Contract For USAF Space Fence
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations centers that will detect and report on objects and debris orbiting the Earth. Lockheed Martin was one of three industry teams to receive contracts. The Air Force Materiel Command's Electronic Systems Center at Han ... read more

Indonesia launches rocket into space
Jakarta (AFP) July 2, 2009
Indonesia successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space on Thursday as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials said. The RX-420 rocket took off from a launch pad in Garut regency, West Java province, around 8:00am (0100 GMT). "The RX-420 rocket was successfully launched this morning. We're very happy," Aeronautics and Space Agency spokeswoman Elly Kuntjahyo ... more
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    Interview With ISRO's Madhavan Nair
    New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 03, 2009
    ISRO has had a long standing and successful co-operation with the erstwhile USSR in Space with the active participation of USSR in setting up the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in early Sixties, Joint meteorological studies using more than 1000 meteorological sounding rockets launched from Thumba supplied ... more

    XMM-Newton Discovers A New Class Of Black Holes
    Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2009
    Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses, a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier supermassive black holes, in a distant galaxy. This discovery is the best detection to date of a new class that has long been searched for: intermediate mass black holes. Due to appear tomorrow in the journal Nature, ... more

    Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers
    Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers. The world's largest commercial satellite deployed its solar arrays Wednesday evening, following its launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite's first thruster firing will begin later today, ... more

    Rocket Launch Helps Prepare MSU Faculty For Training Students
    Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    Three Montana State University instructors who want to help future scientists and engineers develop experiments for space recently launched experiments of their own. During a weeklong RockOn/RockSat workshop in Virginia, Ross Snider, Randy Larimer and Angela Des Jardins joined nearly 100 university instructors and students from 21 states who prepared experiments for flight. A rocket ... more

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  • Largest Ever Survey Of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed


  • LRO Sends First Lunar Images To Earth


  • ISS Appearing Nationwide Over July 4 Weekend


  • GOES-O Satellite Launched With e2v Image Sensors
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    IYA2009 Raises Millions Of Eyes To The Skies
    Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) reaches its six-month milestone, over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for the first time, and even more have newly engaged in astronomy. This is just one of many achievements, as countless ongoing projects and planned initiatives indicate that the IYA2009 is well on the way towards achieving many of its goa ... more

    Festive Ceremony Inaugurates University Programs At NASA Ames
    Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, June 29, 2009. The celebration welcomed more than 170 students, along with dozens of faculty and guest lecturers from more than 40 countries to ISU's 22nd annual Space Studi ... more

    Canada's Space Telescope Celebrates Birthday Number Six
    Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite was launched June 30, 2003 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a 12-month mission to study the vibration of distant stars and draw inferences about their hidden composition - a technique called asterose ... more

    Boeing Team To Develop Revolutionary Spacecraft Power System
    Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009
    An industry team led by Boeing has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for work on Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program. The $15.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is currently funded to $13.8 million. DARPA's FAST program aims to develop a new, ultra-lightweight High Power Generation System (HPGS) that can generate up ... more

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  • Ulysses Provides 12 Extra Months Of Valuable Science


  • Israel moves to block missiles to Iran


  • Russia says nuclear talks with US going well: report


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  • NKorea ship turns back, US officials say
  • NKorea Warns Over Cargo Inspections And Spy Flights
  • Israel takes flak over killer drones
  • New generation of UAVs displayed
  • NKorea food situation 'critical': UN
  • Iran at 'front and center' of Obama trip
  • China's Internet filter delay a victory for public opinion: analysts
  • Switzerland vows to destroy secret nuclear documents

  • Climate efforts: Germany No.1, Canada last
  • G8 summit to seek 80 pct emissions cut by 2050: report
  • Marshall islanders move to US as living costs soar
  • Rhine three degrees warmer than 100 years ago: study
  • Green power saved Earth from iceball fate
  • Denmark wants to speed up climate negotiations
  • French state nuclear giant Areva invites new investors
  • Airbus kicks off construction on new China plant

  • IAEA race down to three as Belgian candidate quits
  • Electric car projects all over Europe
  • Poor planning held up Finnish nuclear reactor: officials
  • GM vehicle sales in China soar
  • Largest-Ever Telecommunications Satellite Launched
  • No leaks in Endeavour's fuel tank: NASA
  • New class of black hole could explain cosmic leviathans
  • Vietnam To Operate Its First Satellite Image Receiving Station



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