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Soyuz Docks With Space Station In Perfect Maneuver Houston TX (SPX) Apr 1, 2006 
Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian astronaut, has been working aboard the International Space Station, ever since he and fellow Expedition 13 crew members Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams arrived at the orbiting facility late Friday night, Central Time. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Spirit Team Gives Up On Front Wheel
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 2, 2006NASA mission controllers have determined that Spirit's right-front wheel is permanently faulty, so they have decided to stop trying to use the wheel's drive motor - and from now on the rover will run on five wheels instead of six. MRO Begins Adjusting Orbit And Collecting Data 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 1, 2006NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began a crucial six-month effort Thursday intended to shrink its orbit gradually into a path mission scientists think is best for the spacecraft's science work. Venus Express On Final Approach 
Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Apr 2, 2006ESA's Venus Express spacecraft is closing in on Earth's veiled neighbor after a five-month, 400-million-kilometer (250-million-mile) journey, which began last Nov. 9. The spacecraft is expected to enter orbit on April 11. |
NASA Announces Open Communications Policy
Washington (UPI) Apr 03, 2006In what is being described as a new "commitment to openness -- NASA's administrator in Washington issued a new communications policy. GAO Report Foresees Weather Satellite Gap 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 2, 2006A U.S. Government Accountability Office report on a new polar-orbiting environmental satellite program has concluded that cost overruns and procedural difficulties could create a gap in important national weather data derived from the satellites. Sea Launch's Pacific Pad Set For April Mission 
Washington DC (RIA) Apr 03, 2006The Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket will launch the United States JCSat-9 satellite from a platform in the Pacific Ocean in April, the Sea Launch company said Friday. The Zenit-3SL launch vehicle will put the U.S. telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit to serve Asian countries. |
The Challenge Of Fueling The Chinese Replicator
Vienna (UPI) Apr 03, 2006China has shown a considerable appetite for resources over the past 10 years. The demand covers energy, but also metals, ore, cement, steel, copper, platinum and aluminum. Oil and gas are atop the global agenda. China still relies on coal for some two-thirds of its energy. Russia Takes Lead Position In Space Tourism 
Moscow (UPI) Apr 03, 2006At sea, in air, and in most remote deserts, tourism has long become a gold mine. Now the farthest and the most dangerous desert of all, outer space, is poised to open its doors to tourists an inch. And the Russians are making the keys. GLONASS To Be Made Available For Civilian Use 
Moscow, Russia (RIA) Apr 03, 2006The restrictions on precise satellite definition of on-land coordinates will be lifted by yearend, a senior military official said Friday. Lieutenant-General Valery Filatov said the location of geographical objects at accuracy of up to 30 meters would be available for civilian use from the Russian GLONASS satellite system and the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). |
Alliance Subsystems And Vision Composites Merge
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 2, 2006Two Southern California aerospace companies - each with active hardware on Mars - have announced their agreement to merge effective July 1. Alliance Spacesystems Inc. of Pasadena and Vision Composites of Signal Hill are merging to "provide aerospace customers with a single resource for the design and fabrication of composite space structures," the companies said in a joint statement. Ball Aerospace Wins Space Test Satellite Contract 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 03, 2006Ball Aerospace and Technologies has been selected as the prime contractor by the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for the Space Test Program's Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV). AeroAstro Transponders In ST5 Microsatellites 
Ashburn VA (SPX) Apr 03, 2006AeroAstro is celebrating NASA's successful launch on March 22 of its Space Technology 5 (ST5) satellites. Each of the three birthday-cake-sized microsatellites is equipped with an AeroAstro-built X-band transponder that provides telemetry, tracking (Doppler), and command communications that are critical to mission success. |
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