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SpaceX Completes Primary Structure Of Falcon 9 First Stage Tank
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2007SpaceX completed the primary structure for the Falcon 9 first stage tank. This tank will be shipped to our Texas Test Facility for proof testing, integration of the propulsion system, and a full stage firing to occur later this year. Production of the second unit will begin early next month. SpaceX has six Falcon 9 flights contracted. The first is a demonstration flight for a US government ... more ISS Ready For Crew Change Over 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 16, 2007The crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy this week with handover operations from the Expedition 14 residents to the newly arrived Expedition 15 crew. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived at the station Monday after a Saturday launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. With them on their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft was ... more Go Flagship Class By Jove 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2007In my last chapter, I suggested one type of New Frontiers-cost mission to study Europa if NASA balks at funding a full-scale Flagship-class "Europa Explorer" to orbit that moon. That fallback mission would be a "Galileo 2" craft to orbit Jupiter and make repeated flybys of the four big moons as the first Galileo did -- but with improved instruments and an emphasis on Europa. It could carry out ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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India Set For First Commercial Launch Of Foreign Satellite
Bangalore, India (AFP) Apr 12, 2007India's space agency is to launch an Italian satellite by a home-built rocket this month, its first foreign commercial contract from an overseas customer, a spokesman said Thursday. "April 23rd is the tentative date of the launch," said S. Krishnamurthy, spokesman for the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO ... read more NOAA And NASA Restore Climate Sensor To Upcoming NPP Satellite 
Silver Spring MD (SPX) Apr 13, 2007NASA and NOAA Wednesday announced a plan to restore a key ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb will be returned to NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite set to launch in 2009. The NPOESS partners will give conditional authority to Northrop Grumman Space Te ... more A Feather-Light Touch Needed For Darwin Frictionless Optics 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 13, 2007ESA's Darwin mission will look for extrasolar planets and signs of life. The Agency's Technology Research Programme has sponsored the development of critical optical components whose frictionless mechanism can respond to the touch of a feather. ESA's Darwin mission aims to discover extrasolar planets and examine their atmospheres for signs of life, particularly for the presence of certain ... more Chandra Sees Remarkable Eclipse Of Black Hole 
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Apr 13, 2007A remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole and the hot gas disk around it has been observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This eclipse has allowed two key predictions about the effects of supermassive black holes to be tested. Just as eclipses of the Sun and moon give astronomers rare opportunities to learn about those objects, an alignment in a nearby galaxy has provided a ... more MORE HEADLINES
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NASA Shows Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2007For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. This accomplishment marks a dramatic step forward for missions like the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder, designed to hunt for an Earth twin that might harbor life. Trying ... read more EMS Technologies Announces Anti-Jam Antenna Solutions For Commercial Satellite Customers 
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2007EMS Technologies announced at the 23rd National Space Symposium that its Defense and Space Systems (D and SS) Division will offer anti-jam antenna solutions to the commercial space sector. EMS D and SS, which specializes in providing beam-forming networks that enable and protect communication channels to and from communications satellites, now sees a demand for its military style anti-jam beam m ... more Bill Gates Eyes Flight To Space 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2007The world's richest man, Bill Gates, is considering a flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from the International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague and space tourist Charles Simonyi. "Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space," cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told journalists during a video link-up from the space station, broadcast on state television ... more One Year At Venus Makes For Some Express Science 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 12, 2007One year has passed since 11 April 2006, when Venus Express, Europe's first mission to Venus and the only spacecraft now in orbit around the planet, reached its destination. Since then, this advanced probe, born to explore one of the most mysterious planetary bodies in the Solar System, has been revealing planetary details never caught before. Intensively visited by several Russian and Ame ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Water Identified In Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 11, 2007 
For the first time, water has been identified in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. Through a combination of previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, Lowell Observatory astronomer Travis Barman has found strong evidence for water absorption in the atmosphere of transiting planet HD209458b ... read moreSome Earth-Like Worlds May Have Foliage Of Colors Other Than Green 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2007In the next decade, when scientists are able to study Earth-sized worlds around other stars, they may find that foliage on some of the planets is predominantly yellow--or orange, or red. It all depends on the color of the star the planet orbits and the stuff that makes up the planet's atmosphere. That's the conclusion of researchers from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, a NASA-funded init ... more To Land Or Orbit Is The Question About Europa 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2007In my last chapter, I talked about a possible augmentation of the Europa Explorer to first make multiple flybys of Io before orbiting Europa -- something not currently in its flight plan (although multiple flybys of Ganymede and Callisto already are). But whether this is done or not, the Explorer will be quite an expensive mission -- certainly over $1.3 billion, maybe rising to $2.5 billion if ... more GPS Significantly Impacted By Powerful Solar Radio Burst 
Ithica NY (SPX) Apr 11, 2007During an unprecedented solar eruption last December, researchers at Cornell University confirmed solar radio bursts can have a serious impact on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other communication technologies using radio waves. The findings were announced in Washington, D.C., at the first Space Weather Enterprise Forum -- an assembly of academic, government and private sector sci ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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