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Herschel 'Service Module' Ready For Final Integration
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 11, 2006ESA's Herschel spacecraft is proceeding towards its industrial completion. The satellite's service module has passed its assembly and verification tests, and is now ready to move towards its final integration and test phases. Ariane 5 ECA Performs Perfectly As AMC-18 Launched From Kourou 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 08, 2006The Americom-18 (AMC-18) satellite was successfully launched Friday onboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the French Guiana Spaceport at 7:08 p.m. local time (5:08 p.m. EST.; 22:08 p.m. GMT). After 32 minutes, the spacecraft separated from the Ariane Upper Stage and was placed into geostationary transfer orbit and within moments the satellite sent an initial signal which was received at Lockheed Martin's Uralla, Australia facility. (6:08 p.m. EST; 23:08 GMT). New ESA Website Targeting SMEs 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 11, 2006Innovations from small high-tech companies are of high value to Europe's space industry, and since 1997 ESA has taken special measures to encourage this type of firm to get involved in its space programmes, and with this new program ESA now offers a dedicated website to further promote this initiative: the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) website. |
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like A Rocket Scientist
New York NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2006Now anyone can think like a rocket scientist. A professor of aeronautics and astronautics shows how, illustrating the methods in The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist. Written for the armchair thinker, there are no equations, no syllogisms, and no exercises with the solutions at the back of the book. Stringent Quality Check For GSLV Parts 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 08, 2006An expert committee probing the crash of a satellite launch vehicle on July 10 this year has recommended "very stringent" quality checks on the supplied components, Rajya Sabha was informed Friday. Minister of State in the Prime Minister Office, Prithviraj Chavan, said the explosion in Geo-Stationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which was to put INSAT-4C communication satellite into the orbit, resulted in a loss of Rs 256 crore. Launching the Alien Debates 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2006At the Astrobiology Science Conference last March, Astrobiology Magazine organized a debate about alien life. Using Peter Ward's book, "Life As We Do Not Know It" as a launching pad, the participants debated everything from how to define "life" to what kind of strange aliens we can expect to find in our explorations. In part one of this seven-part debate series, Peter Ward tells how he was booed at a science fiction convention, and Neville Woolf has a conversation with his computer. |
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Spacecraft Fleet Zeroing In On Martian Water Reserves
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 11, 2006The discovery of bright deposits on Mars could indicate that liquid water has recently flowed on a few locations on the planet. The new data help planetary scientists involved with several missions orbiting the Red Planet focus their quest to understand the Martian water cycle. Opportunity Reaches Six-Mile Mark At Bottomless Bay 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2006Opportunity is healthy and wrapping up imaging of "Bottomless Bay" (Bahia sin Fondo) at "Victoria Crater." On Sol 1016, Opportunity arrived at Bottomless Bay and began making science observations. Opportunity also performed step one of a series of checkouts of its new capability for more autonomous assessment of where it is safe to place its robotic arm. This test did not involve any arm motion. No Matter Their Size Black Holes 'Feed' In The Same Way 
Southhampton UK (SPX) Dec 11, 2006Research by UK astronomers, published December 7 in Nature, the study reveals that the processes at work in black holes of all sizes are the same and that supermassive black holes are simply scaled up versions of small Galactic black holes. For many years astronomers have been trying to understand the similarities between stellar-mass sized Galactic black hole systems and the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN). |
Which X-Treme Spacer Are You
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Dec 11, 2006There are many reasons for wanting more activity in space. But if you're an X-Treme Spacer, you know that there's one silver bullet -- the motivation that would have us halfway to the stars if people would just shut up and listen to you. 'Orbital Outfitters' to Provide Space Suits For Next Generation Private Space Travelers 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2006"Have Spacesuit -- Will Travel," from the famous Robert Heinlein novel, is also the tagline of a new company that intends to do just that -- make sure a new generation of commercial civilian Space travelers, adventurers and explorers fly in style and safety in Space suits like none designed before. Russia To Take First South Korean To Space 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 11, 2006South Korea will send its first cosmonaut to space in 2008 to visit the International Space Station (ISS) under a contract signed here Thursday with the Russian space agency, officials said. "The first South Korean cosmonaut will leave for the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket in April 2008," Igor Panarin, a spokesman for the Russian agency, said. |
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