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Seven Chinese apply to be space tourists
Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2007Seven Chinese have applied to become space tourists on a planned commercial flight in the United States in 2009, state media reported Friday. Six men and one woman have put their names forward in the hope of becoming the first two Chinese tourists to travel to space in "SpaceShipTwo," run by British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company, said the Beijing Morning Post. Acc ... more Astronauts enter new module for first time 
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2007Astronauts entered a newly delivered International Space Station module for the first time Saturday as their colleagues prepared for a second spacewalk of the mission. Italian Paolo Nespoli and space station commander Peggy Whitson of the United States opened the hatches to the Harmony module at 8:24 am (1224 GMT) Saturday and began preparing it for future work. "For today, the biggest ... more NASA crew set for new space walk 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007Astronauts hunkered down in an airlock ready for the second space walk of NASA's latest shuttle mission on Sunday, to install more hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of miles above Earth. The six-hour venture into space was due to start just before 1000 GMT, when US astronauts Scott Parazynski and Daniel Tani will begin moving a truss that supports a set of the station's key solar pane ... more Dawn Checks Out As Outbound Cruise Progresses 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2007Dawn's checkout phase continues to go very well. The spacecraft is healthy as it and Earth travel their separate ways, separating at almost 1 light second (nearly 300,000 kilometers, or 186,000 miles) per day. In our last report, thruster #3 of the ion propulsion system had been operated for 25 hours. Dawn's mission control team at JPL commanded the probe to conduct additional tests on Oct ... more DMCii Satellite Imaging Helps Dramatically Reduce Deforestation Of Amazon Basin 
Guildford UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2007The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has placed a contract for a third year with DMC International Imaging Ltd., (DMCii) to acquire high-resolution satellite images of the entire 5 million square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest. Since 2004 INPE's programme to monitor deforestation has dramatically reduced the rate of logging from 27,000 sq.km. per year to about 10,000 s ... more |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Breaking new ground in the history of space exploration, women are at the helm of the International Space Station and the space shuttle at the same time, as they orbit the Earth. Pamela Melroy, a 46-year-old retired US Air Force colonel, was in the commander's seat when shuttle Discovery blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday. She is only the sec ... more Chinese media trumpet space launch 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 25, 2007China's rise as a space power poses no threat to the rest of the world, official media said Thursday, as it celebrated the successful start of the nation's efforts to send a man to the moon. "The country has long before made clear that its space programmes are for peaceful purposes," said an editorial in the English-language China Daily, a newspaper used by the government to express its view ... more Ariane 5 arrives In French Guiana For Arianespace's Sixth Mission Of 2007 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 25, 2007The launch vehicle for Arianespace's record sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2007 has been delivered to French Guiana, maintaining the company's sustained mission pace in response to growing customer demand for its Service and Solutions commercial offer. Completing a trans-Atlantic voyage from Europe, the Ariane 5 GS vehicle arrived yesterday (October 23) aboard the MN Colibri - one of two roll-on/roll- ... more Successful Planck RF Telescope Test At 320 GHz 
Cannes, France (SPX) Oct 25, 2007This article reports on the recently concluded Planck Radio Frequency Qualification Model (RFQM) test campaign in the Thales Alenia Space Compact Antenna Test Range (CATR) facility, Cannes, France. The campaign gave to engineers and scientists confirmation that the planned RF verification method of the alignment of the Flight Model (FM) telescope is completely operational and can be performed wi ... more China's Lunar Orbiter, The Story Behind "Moon Lady" Chang'e 
Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007China's first moon orbiter which is likely to be launched at around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday from a southwest launch center, has been named after "moon lady" Chang'e, a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon. Chang'e and her husband Hou Yi, an outstanding archer, are the subjects of one of the most popular of Chinese mythological legends. According to one version of the story, Chang'e was the ... more |
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Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 25, 2007Stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies behave in a way that suggests the galaxies are utterly dominated by dark matter, University of Michigan astronomers have found. Astronomy professor Mario Mateo and post-doctoral researcher Matthew Walker measured the velocity of 6,804 stars in seven dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way: Carina, Draco, Fornax, Leo I, Leo II, Sculptor and Sextans. They found ... more NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Gets Spacewired 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2007NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use a new advanced technology network interface called "SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more efficiently and more reliably with each other. SpaceWire is a standard for high-speed communication links between satellite components. Originally developed by the European Space Agency, SpaceWire has been adopted and improved b ... more Japan warns US over North Korea 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 25, 2007A senior Japanese official has warned the United States that relations will suffer if Washington removes North Korea from a list of terrorist states, amid stepped up efforts to end Pyongyang's nuclear drive. Relations between Tokyo and Pyongyang remain tense in part because of the communist state's kidnappings of Japanese civilians, an issue that arouses deep emotion in Japan. "If the US ... more US can't do anything more for Russia on missile defense: Gates 
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2007The United States has gone as far as it can to allay Russian opposition to US missile defense plans in Europe, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Gates' comments came after Moscow rejected US concessions on its plans for missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic, including an offer to delay making the sites operational until an Iranian missile threat is p ... more Outside View: The case for JASSM 
Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2007 Theodore Gaillard's two-part critique of the U.S. cruise-missile arsenal does a disservice to the nation's armed forces and particularly to the war fighters who count on the capabilities of weapons such as the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. Gaillard cites two principal points to support his premise that further work on JASSM and other subsonic cruise missiles should be halted in ... more
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