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Ariane 5 Is In The Launch Zone With JCSAT-10 And Syracuse 3B
Paris (SPX) Aug 11, 2006An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off in French Guiana on Friday and successfully placed a Japanese television and a French military satellite into orbit, the company said. The JCSAT-10 satellite successfully separated 27 minutes and seven seconds after liftoff from the Kourou space centre, followed by the French Syracuse 3B satellite at 32 minutes and 50 seconds. Scrap The Stick Now 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Aug 11, 2006There seems to be general agreement that the Vision for Space Exploration is in deep trouble. Recently both the staid number-crunchers at Government Accountability Office (GAO)and the wild-eyed libertarians at the Space Frontier Foundation have issued reports questioning the viability of the program. Everything But The Liftoff 
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 13, 2006Golden twilight sunshine welcomed the STS-115 astronauts on Monday as they swooped into Kennedy Space Center, Fla. for an intensive week of training and a realistic launch rehearsal to get them ready for their upcoming mission. |
Shuttles Ready To Complete ISS
Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2006NASA said Friday it was ready to resume regular space shuttle flights to complete construction of the International Space Station after three years of trying to eliminate safety flaws which led to the 2003 Columbia disaster. Opportunity Recovers from Brief Operational Anomaly 
Pasadena (JPL) Aug 13, 2006While Opportunity was collecting images with the panoramic camera on the rover's 902nd Martian day, or sol (Aug. 7, 2006), a spacecraft anomaly at 11:19 a.m. local solar time caused the rover's fault protection software to interrupt operations, place the rover in a safe state, and reboot the flight software. Applicants From 16 Countries Seek To Join Simulated Mars Flight 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2006Over 70 people, including six women and a married couple, from at least 16 countries have applied to take part in a marathon simulated flight to Mars, a Russian scientist said Friday. The Institute of Medical and Biological Issues in northern Moscow is the venue for the Mars-500 experiment, which will last 520 days. |
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Ex-Microsoft Whizz-Kid Passes Space Flight Medical
Moscow (AFP) Aug 10, 2006Renowned software developer Charles Simonyi has passed the medical test needed to become a "space tourist", the Space Adventures company that arranges private space travel said Thursday. "We at Space Adventures congratulate Charles and look forward to his launch," Space Adventures said in a statement. Pioneering Astrophysicist James Van Allen Dies 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2006NASA is remembering pioneering astrophysicist James Van Allen, who died Aug. 9 at the age of 91. "James Van Allen was one of the greatest and most accomplished American space scientists of our time and few researchers had such wide range of expertise in so many scientific disciplines," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. SIA Launches Guide To Satellites For Disaster And Emergency Responders 
Orlando FL (SPX) Aug 11, 2006The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) used the occasion of the 72nd Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International Conference and Exposition to release a new publication touting the critical importance of satellites as a component of emergency and disaster communications solutions and the unique resource satellites bring to the field of public safety communications. |
Soccer Food/Bio Crystals - Hard Work In Orbit
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 13, 2006This week on the International Space Station crew members refurbished their exercise treadmill, prepared areas inside and out for an imminent expansion of their home and took a couple of special calls to discuss soccer and food in space. SNAP Wins NASA Support for Joint Dark Energy Mission 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2006NASA has announced that it will support an advanced mission concept study for the SNAP experiment, proposed by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley for NASA and DOE's Joint Dark Energy Mission. 1000th Sungrazing Comet Discovered By SOHO 
Paris (ESA) Aug 11, 2006Polish amateur comet hunter Arkadiusz Kubczak recently discovered his third comet in SOHO LASCO coronagraph images, but this one was special: the 1000th SOHO comet discovery in the Kreutz group of sungrazing comets. While there is no formal definition of a 'sungrazing comet,' the term typically refers to the Kreutz-group comets, which have a perihelion distance of less than 0.01 of an Astronomical Unit, or some 1460000 km. |
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