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Russian Proton Rocket Fails To Take Satellite Into Right Orbit
Moscow (AFP) March 15, 2008A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit, Russian space officials said. "The engine of the Briz-M booster failed to work for the whole of the scheduled time and the satellite could not be taken to the planned orbit," the Khrunichev space centre, which carried out the ... more United Launch Alliance Launches Delta 2 For US Air Force GPS Replacement Satellite 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 16, 2008United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch vehicle today from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 2:09 a.m., EDT carrying the Air Force's GPS IIR-19(M) satellite. This launch marks the first mission for the Air Force from the cape in 2008. Following a nominal 1 hour and 8 minute flight, the rocket deployed the GPS IIR-19(M) spacecraft, the sixth modernized NAVSTAR G ... more Spacewalkers begin Canadian robot assembly 
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2008Two astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station Saturday to put together a Canadian-made robot that will take over human tasks and help reduce the need for risky spacewalks. Mission Specialists Richard Linnehan and Mike Foreman, who arrived last week aboard shuttle Endeavour, embarked on a seven-hour spacewalk using socket wrenches and drills to bolt the Dextre robot's two 11- ... more Astronauts Enter Japanese Station Module; Power To Robot Restored 
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2008US and Japanese astronauts have entered for the first time a newly-installed Japanese module as engineers restored power to a Canadian-made robot that is key to future work in building the International Space Station. Marking the beginning of Japan's scientific work aboard the station, ISS Commander Peggy Whitson and Japanese astronaut Takao Doi opened the module at 0123 GMT ... more Modernized GPS Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Successfully Launched From Cape Canaveral 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 16, 2008A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle. The satellite, designated GPS IIR-19M, is the sixth in a line of eight GPS IIR satellites that Lockheed Martin Navigation Systems, Valley Forge, P ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 16, 2008On March 11, 2008 S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hosted the enlarged field working meeting of Expert Board on legislative support to develop Defense - Industrial Complex, of which the Chairman of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Federal Council is in charge. Opening the meeting, S.M. Mironov, the Chairman of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Federal Council, ... more Spanish Chair For ESA Council 2008-09 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008Maurici Lucena, Director General of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency, which belongs to the Ministry of Industry Tourism and Trade) will chair the ESA Council for the next two years effective from 1 July. Lucena was unanimously elected Chairman of the ESA Council at the 199th ESA Council meeting held at ESRIN, ESA's European Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati, Italy, on 13 and 14 March. ... more Rocket Wreckage Removed From Siberian Shepherd Land 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2008Part of the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd, local officials said on Friday. Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos traveled to the farm in the Altai Republic, "cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter," a spokesman for the local administration said ... more Artemis Provides Communications For Jules Verne ATV 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008ESA's Artemis data relay satellite, controlled from Fucino (Italy) and with its mission control centre and Earth terminal located at Redu (Belgium), is providing communications between the Jules Verne ATV and the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse (France). Jules Verne ATV was launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 05:03 CET on 9 March. First contact between Artemis and the ATV was est ... more Maxwell Systems Releases Next Quest Earthwork 
King Of Prussia PA (SPX) Mar 17, 2008Maxwell Systems is proud to announce Maxwell Systems Quest Earthwork 7.5, the latest release of its powerful earth-measuring software. This version of Maxwell Systems' cut and fill program contains a significant new enhancement-the incorporation of machine control capabilities. "Quest Earthwork 7.5 enables Maxwell Systems' sitework customers to use our software in conjunction with today's ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) March 16, 2008Israel last week test-fired a missile capable of intercepting short-range rockets like those fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, Channel 10 television reported Sunday. "This weapons system will be operational in 2010," said General Dany Gotlib, who is in charge of research at the Israeli defence ministry. Television showed pictures of the test-firing which it said took ... more US wants to 'clarify' missile plans in Russia talks: Rice 
Santiago (AFP) March 14, 2008The United States will try to "clarify" to Russia its plans to develop an anti-missile defense system in talks next week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Her two-day trip to Moscow next Monday with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be "to see wether or not we can clarify and develop some of the ideas that we have put on the table" concerning the system and changes to ... more Great Splitting Icebergs 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. A huge fissure was spotted running south to north through the berg on 1 March by C-CORE, the Canadian ice-tracking service, while studying satellite images collected from Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument ... more UN warns climate change melting glaciers at alarming rate 
Zurich (AFP) March 16, 2008The world's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, the UN said Sunday, calling for immediate action to prevent further constraints on water resources for large populations. "Millions if not billions of people depend directly or indirectly on these natural water storage facilities for drinking water, agriculture, industry and power generation during key parts of the year," said Achim Stein ... more After catastrophic blasts, smoke covers Albanian village in rubbles 
Gerdec, Albania (AFP) March 16, 2008A pall of thick black smoke hung over the village of Gerdec on Sunday, reduced to rubble by deadly explosions at a nearby military depot, killing seven people and leaving more than 240 injured. Although the booming of blasts from the depot could still be heard, several villagers braved the dangers to return to home only to find their houses razed to the ground and fire still smouldering in ... more
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