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Thales Alenia Space Wins Nilesat-201 Satellite Contract
Cannes, France (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Thales Alenia Space has announced the signature of a contract with Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite company, to provide the Nilesat-201 broadcasting communication satellite and associated services and ground stations. As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space will be in charge of the design, manufacturing, test and in-orbit acceptance of the satellite. In addition, Thales Alenia Space will ... more Cassini Sees Collisions Of Moonlets Into Saturn F Ring 
London UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2008A team of scientists led from the UK has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations. Their results are reported in Nature (5th June 2008). Saturn's F ring has long been of interest to scientists as its features change on timescales from hours to years and it is probably the only location in the solar system where large sca ... more Phoenix Captures Highest Resolution Images Ever From Surface Of Mars 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 06, 2008A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet. The mission's Optical Microscope observed particles that had fallen onto an exposed surface, revealing grains as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. "We have images showing the diversity of mineralogy on Mars at a scale th ... more Simulations Predicted Mars Lander Would Hit Subsurface 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jun 06, 2008University of Michigan simulations correctly predicted that the pulsed jets of the Mars Phoenix lander would strip the soil to the subsurface ice or rock as the craft touched down. Photos of the area beneath the craft on Friday revealed a hard surface that scientists say may be ice. It could also be rock, and researchers won't know until the Phoenix can dig into the dirt. But it's clear th ... more Independent Panel To Investigate Ariane 5 Software Glitch 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 06, 2008A software programming glitch discovered during final checks of last Friday's planned Ariane 5 ECA mission is under review by an independent group of experts, and will be fully solved before the dual-payload flight is rescheduled. The Ariane 5's flight software is regularly updated to incorporate data from recent launches, and a routine pre-liftoff validation before the planned May 30 miss ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 06, 2008NASA has set no earlier than June 11 as the new target launch date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT. NASA initially had targeted June 7 for the GLAST launch aboard a Delta II rocket. Additional time was needed to replace the rocket's flight termination system ... more Canada Lagging Behind G8 In Space Capabilities 
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Jun 06, 2008The Canadian Auto Workers union and the Rideau Institute have released a report that outlines the key investments for Canada to rebuild its lagging space capabilities. "This report outlines investment opportunities that could yield significant economic return to Canada, and ensure the sustainability of our high tech space sector," said Carol Phillips, assistant ... more SpaceX And NASA To Improve Mission Critical Software Systems 
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA's Independent Verification and Validation (IV and V) Facility at Fairmont, West Virginia, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission- and safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX's Dragon spacecra ... more GLAST telescope launch scheduled for June 11: NASA
Washington (AFP) June 5, 2008A NASA spokesman on Thursday said that the launch of its GLAST space telescope, which will allow scientists to look deep into the universe, has been delayed until Wednesday June 11 at the earliest. It is the third time the GLAST launch had been delayed, this time due to a battery in the system that would destroy the rocket in case it deviates from its course, said NASA spokesman George Dille ... more Astronauts open space station's 'beautiful' Japanese lab 
Washington (AFP) June 4, 2008Astronauts on Wednesday opened the International Space Station's newest and biggest room, a bus-sized Japanese laboratory providing the Asian power its first manned space facility. Capping a busy day in space that included repairs of a faulty station toilet and long preparations for the lab's inauguration, Japanesea stronaut Akihiko Hoshide smiled as he inaugurated his country's Kibo facility. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 3, 2008Astronauts have attached a bus-sized Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station, giving the orbiting outpost its biggest room and providing Japan with a key foothold in space. Japanesea stronaut Akihiko Hoshide and American colleague Karen Nyberg used the station's robotic arm to slowly pull the 15-tonne lab out of the cargo bay of shuttle Discovery, which docked on Monday, and atta ... more Raytheon-Led Team Successfully Fires Enhanced Patriot Missile 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Raytheon has led a team in the launch of the Patriot's newest interceptor, the Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) version of the PAC-3 missile, during a recent test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The firing was conducted using a Patriot Configuration-3 fire unit with engineering upgrades to the Post Deployment Build-6 system software. This mission was the second in a series of live-fire ... more Raytheon Standard Missile-2 Intercept Shows Near-Term, Sea-Based Terminal Capability 
Kauai, HI (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Two Raytheon built Standard Missile-2 Block IV missiles successfully intercepted and destroyed a short-range ballistic missile target above the Pacific Ocean June 5. The successful engagement demonstrated a near- term, sea-based capability for stopping threat ballistic missiles in their terminal or final phase of flight. The short-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Mobile ... more Aegis Destroys Ballistic Missile In Terminal Phase 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 06, 2008An Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a short- range unitary ballistic missile target in the terminal phase of its trajectory during a recent test at the Pacific Missile Range off the coast of Hawaii. This mission was the first to use the latest version of the Aegis BMD weapon system - Aegis BMD 3.6.1. - which adds to the prov ... more Northrop Grumman To Modify CERES Sensor For NPOESS Prep Mission To Improve Climate Data Payload 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by NASA Langley Research Center to make modifications to a sensor that helps determine the influence of clouds on the Earth's temperature. The sensor will be integrated onto the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Mission (NPP), scheduled for launch by NASA in 2010. The Clouds and the Earth's R ... more
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