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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 26, 2008The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace said Saturday it would make a bid to launch 26 satellites from French Guyana to kickstart the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation programme. The European Parliament on Wednesday signalled its green light for the deployment of Galileo, seen by space experts as a challenge to the US-administered GPS global positioning system ... more NASA faces long odds in shuttle schedule 
Washington, April 25, 2008 The United States' three-ship space shuttle fleet faces "significant challenges" in its future orbiter work, the U.S. government has warned. The Government Accountability Office told Congress that completing construction and continuing operation of the $31 billion International Space Station raised the possibility of severe cutbacks, the Houston Chronicle reported from Washington. ... more Microsoft takeover deadline looms for Yahoo 
San Francisco (AFP) April 26, 2008Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo blinked Saturday hours before a deadline for the internet services company to respond to the software giant's 44.6-billion-dollar offer to be bought or face a hostile takeover. After eight weeks of jousting via public statements, letters and blog postings, Microsoft was waiting to see if Yahoo responded to its ultimatum to accept its February 1 offer by April 26 o ... more Plan To Identify Watery Earth-Like Planets Develops 
Erie PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii. "We are looking for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their star, a band not too hot nor too cold for life to exist," says Darren M. Williams ... more SES Negotiating To Sell AMC-14 To US Government Agency 
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2008The fate of geo stationary satellite AMC-14 that failed to achieve its desired orbit in March continues to cause problems for the Luxembourg-based SES group and its underwriters. SpaceDaily has learned that SES has backtracked on their original plan to ditch the Lockheed Martin built A2100 satellite, and is trying to offload the spacecraft to a US government agency before an SES competitor or even one of its own customers buys it from the underwriters. ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Apr 25, 2008The Explorers Flight will be launched on board a Falcon 1 rocket from the Marshall Islands, which are located in the Western Pacific. Launch is projected to occur in early June 2008 (no earlier than June 10). As has been our practice in conducting our six previous launches, when we believe that we are approximately one month from launch we will e-mail you an invitation to the launch, providing ... more Prisma Satellites To Be Launched In June 2009 
Solna, Sweden (SPX) Apr 25, 2008The Swedish Space Corporation has signed a contract with the Russian space company Kosmotras regarding launch of the Prisma satellites. The satellites will be launched onboard a Dnepr launcher in June 2009, either from Baikonur in Kazakhstan or from Yasni in southern Russia. The French climate research satellite Picard will probably be launched on the same launcher. ... more India to blast satellite into space 
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 24, 2008An Indian rocket will next week launch an advanced remote-sensing satellite that will help plan and implement urban and rural development projects, the space agency said Thursday. Cartosat-2A, an all-weather, reconnaissance satellite, will be lifted into space on Monday morning from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India, the Indian Space Research Organisation said. "The launch ... more Galaxies Gone Wild 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures. Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on oth ... more EU Galileo satnav project gets final greenlight 
Strasbourg (AFP) April 23, 2008Europe's long-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system passed its final legal hurdle on Wednesday after the European Parliament gave the flag-ship project its green light. In an almost unanimous vote, members of the European Parliament set in stone the legal basis for the system, which has been plagued in the past by technical problems and infighting among EU nations, at a plenary session ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2008Despite a slight increase in atmospheric opacity caused by dust, Spirit is still enjoying higher-than-expected energy levels for this time of year. Solar array input has been approximately 240 watt-hours per Martian day, or sol (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour). Clear skies have had the unfavorable effect, however, of causing a drop in ... more KAGUYA Captures First Successful Shooting Of A Full Earth-Rise 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2008The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the "Full Earth-Rise"*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA " (SELENE) on April 6, 2008 (Japan Standard Time, JST, all the following dates and time are JST.) The KAGUYA is currently flying in a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 10 ... more NASA official says no major problem with Russian capsule 
Washington (AFP) April 23, 2008The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died. "I don't see this as a major problem, but it is clearly something that should not have occurred," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations. He added: "I think there is inherent reliability ... more Space Systems/Loral Selected To Provide Satellite To DISH Network 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2008Space Systems/Loral has announced that it was selected to provide a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS) for DISH Network. The new satellite, which is based on SS/L's space-proven 1300 platform, will support the expansion of DISH Network's programming and services. EchoStar XV is planned for launch in 2010. It will be the eighth SS/L satellite built for EchoStar. "Both DISH Network and ... more NASA Selects Contractor For Landsat Data Continuity Mission Spacecraft 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 23, 2008NASA has selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. Under the terms of the $116,306,179 delivery order, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will be responsible for the design and fabrication of the LDCM spacecraft bus, integration of the government furnished instruments, satellite-level testing, on-orbit ... more
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