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| February 09, 2012 |
 Russia May Spend Almost $12 bln on Glonass in 2012-2020 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 09, 2012 - Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's answer to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian uses. Government sources told Kommersant space agency Roscosmos and economics ministry had agreed on a draft deve ... more |
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 SpaceX to Launch AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 in 2014 Hawthorne, CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in Asia, has announced an agreement to launch two AsiaSat communications satellites using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in 2014. "SpaceX is proud to be the choice of AsiaSat, a pioneer in advancing sat ... more |
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 NASA PIT Crews Essential to Commercial Space Endeavor Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Just as every race car driver has a pit crew to keep them on track on the way to a victory quickly and safely, the seven aerospace companies that have teamed up with NASA's Commercial Crew Program have their own PIT Crews, called Partner Integration Teams, to help guide them in their race to space. They're not packing an arsenal of air compressors, fuel, or even spare tires, though. Instea ... more |
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 CU-Boulder study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The research effort is the first comprehensive satellite study of the contribution of the world's melting glaciers and ice caps to global sea level rise and indicates they are adding rough ... more |
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 Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way galaxy. The team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), used the database they created and were able to apply information theory techniques to prod ... more |
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 Birthday Cake for X-37B Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - It's almost time to light a candle for one of the world's most intriguing spacecraft. No, I don't mean ignite the rocket for launch. The second mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is approaching the one-year mark on its mission. On March 5, it will celebrate this milestone, assuming that the spacecraft is still in orbit. Nobody knows exactly when X-37B will return to Earth. Right now, th ... more |
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Jacob Bleacher Gives Free RATS Talk at Library of Congress Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, with its extreme temperatures that swing from hot to cold, resembles other places in the solar system. On this bleak landscape, NASA crews can test robotic systems and extravehicular equipment; ad ... more |
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 Augmented reality promises astronauts instant medical knowhow Paris, France (ESA) Feb 09, 2012 - A new augmented reality unit developed by ESA can provide just-in-time medical expertise to astronauts. All they need to do is put on a head-mounted display for 3D guidance in diagnosing problems or even performing surgery. The Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality prototype. Augmented reality merges actual and virtual realit ... more |
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 Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy Boston MA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home. Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre, an ... more |
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Sierra Nevada Delivers Flight Test Vehicle Structure Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - One of NASA's industry partners, Sierra Nevada(SNC), recently delivered the primary structure of its first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company's facility in Louisville, Colo., where it will be assembled and integrated with secondary systems. This is one of 12 milestones to be completed under SNC's funded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). "It's ... more |
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NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a call for industry to submit proposals for the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Initiative. It's expected that proposals will lead to Space Act Agreements that will help NASA and the U.S. ach ... more |
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 Astronauts seen and heard Paris, France (ESA) Feb 09, 2012 - Seeing ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on the International Space Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing from the Station to Earth, just how does this happen? The answer, of course, is via satellite. While the answer may be simple, the process is more complicated. Behind Andre's smiling face is a com ... more |
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 China publishes high-resolution full moon map Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 09, 2012 - China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The map and images, released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), are the highest-resolution photos of the entirety of the moon's surface to be pub ... more |
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 China's new rockets expected to debut within five years Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 09, 2012 - China's new generations of the Long March rocket family, Long March-5, -6 and -7 are expected to make their maiden flights in the next five years, a rocket scientist has said. Yu Menglun, also academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in a recent interview that China has sought to develop non-toxic, low-cost, highly reliable, adaptable and safe carrier rockets in its research of ... more |
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 Redu Space Services To Build EDRS Mission Operation Centre Redu, Belgium (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Redu Space Services (RSS) has announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre (MOC) in the framework of the European Data Relay System (EDRS) programme . The EDRS will provide bi-directional data transmission between Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellites and the ground almost in real-time and with broadband quali ... more |
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 NBN Co selects Space Systems Loral for communications satellites Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - The delivery of high-speed internet to some of the most remote communities in Australia has taken a leap forward following NBN Co's selection of Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a leading manufacturer of commercial broadband satellites, to build two next-generation Ka-band satellites. The satellites, which are planned to launch in 2015, are designed to provide high-speed broadband coverage to a ... more |
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 Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean Paris, France (ESA) Feb 08, 2012 - ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars. The MARSIS radar was deployed in 2005 and has been collecting data ever since. Jeremie Mouginot, Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG ... more |
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 High Planetary Tilt Lowers Odds for Life? Moffet Field CA (NASA) Feb 08, 2012 - If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher. However, the advent of milder seasons did more than offer comfort, some scientists suggest. Subdued seasonality might be linked to the emergence of complex life on Earth around 600 million years ago. On alien worlds, extreme seasonal spikes and ... more |
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Antrix-Devas deal: ISRO indicts Nair and 3 others Chennai, India (IANS) Feb 08, 2012 - A five-member team that probed a controversial deal between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commercial arm Antrix Corporation and Devas Multimedia has concluded that former chairman of the space agency, G. Madhavan Nair, and three other scientists were responsible for the contract. The other three are A. Bhaskaranarayana, former scientific secretary at ISRO, K.R. Sridharamurthi, ... more |
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SES-4 Satellite Launch Re-Scheduled For February 14-15 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - SES S.A. announces that ILS has re-scheduled the SES-4 satellite launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board an ILS Proton Breeze M rocket for 1:36 am local time on February 15th, 2012 (February 14th, 2012 at 20:36 p.m. CET, 14:36 p.m. EST). SES-4 is a 20-kilowatt satellite with 52 C-band and 72 Ku-band transponders. It has C-band beams serving the eastern hemisphere of Europe and Africa, ... more |
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