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Ariane 5 Rolls Out To The Launch Zone At Europe's Spaceport
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Aug 14, 2008The ELA-3 launch zone at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is alive with activity for the fifth time this year, as the latest Ariane 5 is readied for its August 14 liftoff on a flight to orbit the Superbird-7 and AMC-21 telecommunications satellite payloads. Preparations for the mission entered their final phase this morning (August 13) after the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA was transferred ... more GeoEye's Next-Gen Satellite Launch Moves To September 4 
Dulles VA (SPX) Aug 14, 2008GeoEye has announced that United Launch Alliance (ULA) has initiated a change in the target launch date for GeoEye-1 from August 22 to September 4, 2008. This added time is needed to allow for the positioning of resources to support receipt of down-range telemetry from the Delta II booster vehicle after launch and initial flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. ULA has submitted ... more Intelsat Expands Capacity For NPR 
Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Aug 14, 2008Intelsat has announced that NPR (National Public Radio) signed a multi-transponder, multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity to support the distribution of public radio programming across the United States. NPR operates the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) on behalf of all public radio stations and program distributors. Through this satellite infrastructure, more than 32 ... more MIT Solves Puzzle Of Meteorite-Asteroid Link 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2008For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet. Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain, but a team from MIT and other institutions have now found what they believe is the answer ... more AsiaSat 5 Spacecraft Completes Reference Performance Testing 
Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 14, 2008AsiaSat 5 successfully completed Reference Performance testing of the Payload and Bus subsystems. The Spacecraft has been undergoing thermal vacuum testing for a month, and is in the process of completing the last thermal vacuum testing. Completion of Reference Performance and Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum (SCTV) testing is intended to debug any issue on the spacecraft, and to ensure the bus ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2008According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet. Ubiquitous on Earth, water also has been found in comets, on Mars and in molecular clouds in interstellar space. Now, scientists say this common fluid is not as well understood as we thought. "Water, as we know it, does not exist within our bodies," said Martin Gruebele, a William H. and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemist ... more Space Shuttle successor will not fly before 2014: NASA 
Washington (AFP) Aug 12, 2008NASA announced it has pushed back the launch of the Orion, the spacecraft designed to replace the agency's aging space shuttle fleet, by one year to 2014. "The window of opportunity for us to accelerate Orion (for a 2013 flight) has closed," said Orion program manager Jeff Hanley, speaking during the same conference call. NASA had been hoping to launch Orion on its first mission in Septem ... more Astrium Delivers ARABSAT's BADR-6 Satellite In Orbit 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 14, 2008The BADR-6 satellite built by EADS Astrium has been handed over to ARABSAT as part of the in-orbit delivery contract and has now entered commercial service. BADR-6 is the third spacecraft built by Astrium for ARABSAT, the communications satellite operator based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Astrium control centre in Toulouse began operating the BADR-6 satellite following its launch by ... more AsiaSat Appoints New General Manager China 
Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 14, 2008Asia Satellite Telecommunications has announced the appointment of Mr. Zhang HaiMing as its new General Manager China. Mr. Zhang will oversee all AsiaSat's marketing, sales and customer relations activities inthe Mainland China market, leading a strong team to continue driving business development and strengthening service support to customers in China. AsiaSat's Chief Executive ... more Yahoo Launches Fire Eagle 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008Yahoo! has announced the general availability of Fire Eagle, an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared. Fire Eagle gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers clear protocols for updating or accessing that information. Because ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2008A US C-17 transport plane flew relief supplies to war-torn Georgia Wednesday, kicking off a humanitarian airlift as the Pentagon mulled what it will take to rebuild the Georgian military. President George W. Bush announced the start of the airlift, warning Russia that it had to ensure that all airports, ports and roads remain open to humanitarian and civilian transit. "And in the days ... more World lashes Russia over Georgia conflict 
Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2008Russia faced a global blacklash Wednesday over its attacks on Georgia, as the United States and European nations began to review key military and diplomatic ties with Moscow. Leading world condemnation of Russia, US President George W. Bush warned US support for Russian entry "into the diplomatic, political, economic, and security structures of the 21st century" was "at risk." ... more Poland hoping to seal US missile deal: foreign minister 
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 13, 2008Poland said Wednesday it was hoping to seal a deal with Washington on hosting a controversial US missile shield, after the start of a new round of their long-running talks. "Our positions have got closer," said Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski after a meeting in Warsaw with US arms control negotiator John Rood. "Tomorrow we're going to negotiate all day. I can't predict the result, but ... more Pentagon confirms cancellation of naval exercise 
Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2008The United States has cancelled a naval exercise with Russia in response to the conflict in Georgia, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the August 15-23 FRUKUS naval exercise in the Sea of Japan involving ships from France, Britain, Russia and the United States "has been cancelled." "The United States cancelled it," he said. "It just wasn't appropriate ... more LockMart Achieves 12 Successful MDA Missions In A Row 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 14, 2008Lockheed Martin has announced that as of June 25 its team has launched a total of 12 target missiles, all successfully, since 2005 for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency under the Targets and Countermeasures Prime Contract. Under the Targets and Countermeasures Prime Contract, Lockheed Martin provides unarmed targets designed to represent adversary missiles to permit realistic testing of the ... more
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