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Starchaser Industries Wins European Space Agency Contract For Tourism Study Manchester, UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2007 
Starchaser industries has been awarded a study contract from the European Space Agency for the detailed assessment of their Thunderstar / Starchaser 5A space tourism reusable launch vehicle to verify its technical feasibility and ability to meet future space tourists expectations. The study will also refine the Starchaser Business Plan to demonstrate that space tourism can be sustained in a wholly commercial environment. This 150,000 euro contract is part of ESA's Survey of European Privately-Funded Vehicles for Commercial Human Space Flight, which was designed to identify European space tourism ventures, evaluate their feasibility, and assess their associated technologies. |
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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Russia And Europe Join Forces In Space
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 15, 2007Russian and European firms are pursuing a joint program to develop heavy-duty launch vehicles. The program, known as Oural, is financed equally by both parties. The European Space Agency, as its spokesmen are wont to say, is "Europe's passport to space." Today it comprises 15 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Britain, Norway and others. For a long time the Old World's space program was way behind that of the United States, but measures taken by the ESA in recent years have improved its situation. Russia In Talks To Build 12 Spacecraft For NASA And ESA 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 15, 2007Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia is in talks with NASA and ESA on contracts to build 12 rocket carriers for the U.S. and European space agencies, the head of the corporation said Thursday. Europe Forges Long-Term Strategy For Space Exploration 
Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Jan 09, 2007Representatives from the UK and other European political, industrial and scientific sectors, together with members of the general public are helping to shape the future direction of space exploration. |
Assuring Vital Interests Drives US Space Policy
Colorado Springs, CO (SPX) Jan 11, 2007Good afternoon. I would like to thank Ambassador Roger Harrison and the Center for Space and Defense Studies, as well as Steve Flannigan and the National Defense University, for this opportunity to discuss and explain the President's recently released National Space Policy -- the first issued in over 10 years. Cartosat-2 Camera Tested 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jan 15, 2007The Panchromatic camera (PAN) on board ISRO's latest remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-2, was switched on at 10.05 am IST today (January 12, 2007) through a series of commands issued from the Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at Bangalore. Russia Celebrates 100th Birthday Of Space Pioneer 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 12, 2007Russia marked Friday the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet space programme founder Sergei Korolev, the man behind iconic breakthroughs in space exploration including the Sputnik satellite and the first man in orbit. A concert was held at the Korolev ground control centre just outside Moscow and flowers laid at the space pioneer's grave, which lies alongside those of other prominent Soviet men under the Kremlin's wall on Red Square. |
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Gravity Mission To Benefit From QinetiQ Precision
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 15, 2007QinetiQ has conducted the final testing of its T5 ion thrusters that will enable a European space mission to measure and map the Earth's gravity field in far greater detail than ever previously achieved. QinetiQ's T5 ion thrusters will provide high precision drag compensation for the European Space Agency (ESA) GOCE spacecraft, due for launch later this year. The data captured by GOCE will contribute significantly to our understanding of the Earth's structure, climate and the impacts of climate change. Spirit Continues To Test New Computer Smarts 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2007Spirit spent much of the past week studying a layered rock exposure known as "Montalva." During the study, the rover used the brush on the rock abrasion tool, the microscopic imager, the alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer that collects information about elemental composition, and the Moessbauer spectrometer that identifies iron-bearing minerals. Geologists Discover Origin Of Mysterious Black Diamonds 
Upton NY (SPX) Jan 15, 2007If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar space. In a paper published online on December 20, 2006, in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists Jozsef Garai and Stephen Haggerty of Florida International University, along with Case Western Reserve University researchers Sandeep Rekhi and Mark Chance, claim an extraterrestrial origin for the unique black diamonds, also called carbonado diamonds. |
Weather Forecasting Satellite Begins Operation
Beijing (Xinhua) Jan 15, 2007China Meteorological Administration (CMA) received the first set of images from the recently launched Olympic weather forecasting satellite Fengyun-2D(FY-2D) on Friday afternoon. CMA Deputy director Zhang Wenjian said the geostationary orbit meteorological satellite had successfully connected with ground control and was operating normally. He said the FY-2D would form at win-star observation system with Fengyun-2C, the country's first geostationary orbit weather satellite launched in 2004. Launch Window To Open At Poker Flat Research Range 
Fairbanks, AK (SPX) Jan 15, 2007Five NASA rockets are scheduled to launch from Poker Flat Research Range this month. The launch window opens on Jan. 10, at 10 p.m. AST, and runs until 4 a.m. AST, each night through Wednesday, Jan. 27. The five rockets will launch in two separate campaigns. Marc Lessard is the principal investigator of the first campaign, dubbed ROPA, short for Rocket Observation for Pulsating Aurora that will send a large Black Brant XII sounding rocket through pulsating aurora north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Comet McNaught Makes For Stellar A First Light Present For STEREO Telescope 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2007This image of Comet McNaught comes from the Heliospheric Imager on one of the STEREO spacecraft, taken Jan. 11, 2007. To the right is the comet nucleus, so bright it saturates the detector creating a bright vertical band in the image. The comet's dynamic tails extend up and to the left. |
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