January 04, 2007 | our time will build eternity |
New Horizons in 2007 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 What a memorable year for New Horizons! After a last few ground preparations and flight approvals, we launched at 1900 GMT on 19 January. I will never forget the sight of the giant, 210-foot tall "A train" leaving Florida for the Kuiper Belt, and how filled with pride I was for everyone who worked to see this milestone come to pass. Launch was all we could have ever wished for. As a result, following launch, we only needed tiny trajectory correction maneuvers to put us on course for the Pluto aim point at Jupiter. On the way there, the New Horizons team undertook a series of virtually flawlessly executed, multi-month spacecraft and instrument payload checkouts, an unexpected small asteroid flyby, and a long series of behind the scenes preparations for our Jupiter encounter-which begins this month! |
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Moon shots: China, Japan in '07; U.S., India in '08 Beijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2007 The moon is going to be a busy site for space exploration in 2007 as two Asian countries take aim at Earth's natural satellite with the intent of launching robotic survey lunar orbiters. The first moon reconnaissance follows an April lift-off by China -- its first ever -- then Japan's mega-powerful moon craft in the summer. Spirit Rests During Dust Storm Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 A sudden dust storm cut short Spirit's investigation of a volcanic rock and kicked enough dust into the Martian atmosphere to drive solar power levels to an all-time low. Spirit's team of scientists and engineers decided to move the rover to a spot where the solar panels would be tilted toward the sun to increase the amount of electrical power available. 1000th Orbit For The Cluster Mission Paris, France (ESA) Jan 04, 2007 29 December 2006, marks the 1000th orbit around the Earth of the four ESA satellites composing the Cluster mission. Launched in the summer 2000, these spacecraft are delivering a unique harvest of in-situ scientific data of the Earth environment, from 25 000 to 125 000 kilometres altitude. |
Titan Has Liquid Lakes Scientists Reports Nature Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 04, 2007 Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan in this week's journal Nature cover story. Radar imaging data from a July 22, 2006, flyby provide convincing evidence for large bodies of liquid on Titan today. A new false-color radar view gives a taste of what Cassini saw. Some highlights of the article follow below. Black Hole Boldly Goes Where No Black Hole Has Gone Before Paris, France (ESA) Jan 04, 2007 Astronomers have found a black hole where few thought they could ever exist, inside a globular star cluster. The finding has broad implications for the dynamics of stars clusters and also for the existence of a still-speculative new class of black holes called 'intermediate-mass' black holes. Digitalglobe Announces Ball Aerospace Is Building Worldview 2 Satellite Longmont CO (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 DigitalGlobe has announced that Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation is building WorldView 2. WorldView 2, the third satellite in DigitalGlobe's constellation of spacecraft, offers the highest collection capacity of Earth imagery, and is the only next generation system to be built independent of U.S. Government financing. |
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HisdeSat To Provide Communications Services For The Belgium Defence Ministry Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 HisdeSat Servicios Estrategicos, S.A. (HisdeSat) has entered a contract with the BELGIUM MoD/Direction Generale Material Resources for the provision of X-band communications services using the XTAR-EUR and SPAINSAT satellites. Under the terms of the contract, the Belgium MoD ordered a "fix capacity" for an initial period of time and reserves the right to also order an additional "on call" capacity at the agreed price. The contract will be tacitly renewed yearly for an indefinite numbers of years. Boeing GOES-N Satellite Completes On-Orbit Testing St Louis MO (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 Boeing has reported announced that GOES-13 (GOES-N), the first of three Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that will support more accurate prediction and tracking of severe storms and other weather phenomena, has completed on-orbit testing and has been accepted by NASA. Northrop Grumman To Develop System Requirements For USAF Alternate Infrared Sat System Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 Northrop Grumman will develop system definition requirements for the U.S. Air Force's Alternate Infrared Satellite System (AIRSS) that would provide uninterrupted space-based early missile detection. |
To The Space Station And Beyond In High Definition New York NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 Images from the world's first HDTV broadcast from space will again flash across TV screens around the world, as the Discovery Channel replays "Space Station Live: HD," beginning at 9 p.m. on Jan. 3. The program features additional footage that highlights accomplishments attained since the orginal progam aired on Nov. 15, 2006. On that day, NASA made history with the first live HDTV broadcasts from space, in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Discovery HD Theater and Japanese broadcast network NHK. Draper-Developed Trajectory Maneuvers ISS Without Using Propellant Houston TX (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 A new method developed by Draper Laboratory for performing large angle rotations of the International Space Station (ISS) was flight tested successfully on November 5. Boeing Secures Role In US-Australian Hypersonics Research Program St Louis MO (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 Boeing has secured a key role in a $54 million hypersonics research program called HIFiRE (Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation) jointly established by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). |
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