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Europe Faces Crunch Decision Over Mars Rover Mission
Paris (AFP) Jan 17, 2007Members of the European Space Agency face a looming tough decision over whether to cut back a planned unmanned mission to Mars or stump up extra cash, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain has warned. Heads Of Space Agencies Meet In Paris 
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 18, 2007On 23 January, ESA's Headquarters in Paris will host an 'ISS Heads of Agency meeting' at which Heads of space agencies involved in the International Space Station programme (ESA for Europe, NASA for the USA, CSA for Canada, JAXA for Japan and Roskosmos for Russia) will take stock of the status of the ISS and look at the follow-on activities. Fabio Mussi, Italian University And Research Minister, Visits ESRIN 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 18, 2007Visiting ESA's Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati yesterday, the Italian University and Research Minister, Mr Fabio Mussi, confirmed the importance that the Italian government gives to ESA and stressed his intention to continue to contribute in an adequate manner to the Agency's activities. |
Sea Launch Prepares For NSS-8 Mission
Long Beach, CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2007The Sea Launch team is preparing for its first mission of the year on January 25, with the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES NEW SKIES. Liftoff is planned at the opening of a 37-minute launch window beginning at 3:22 pm Pacific Standard Time (23:22 GMT). The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander are currently sailing to the launch site, at 154 degrees West Longitude on the Equator, to begin launch operations. New Progress To Launch To Space Station 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jan 18, 2007A new Progress is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station a little after 9 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 17, with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, oxygen, other supplies and equipment aboard. The station's 24th Progress unpiloted cargo carrier will bring to the orbiting laboratory more than 1,720 pounds of propellant, about 110 pounds of oxygen, and 3,285 pounds of dry cargo - a total of 5,115 pounds. ISS Turn Into Spaceport Full Of Plants And Labs 
Moscow (SPX) Jan 18, 2007Research and industrial facilities will emerge based on the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti reported referring to Nikolay Sevastianov, chief of RSC Energia. |
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The COTS Enigma
Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 16, 2007NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program has been widely hailed by the alt.space community as a breakthrough in US launch policy, but the numbers just don't add up. New Details Of First Major Urban Battle Emerge 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 18, 2007New details in the tragic end of one of the world's earliest cities as well as clues about how urban life may have begun there were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by the University of Chicago and the Syrian Department of Antiquities. US Mission To Planet Earth Facing Funding Shortfall 
Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2007Scientists concerned that Earth is threatened by global warming have a further worry: the US satellites tracking climate change are threatened by poor funding. The orbiting satellites that track shrinkage of arctic glaciers are themselves victims of shrinking federal funds, they warned in a new report that calls for an infusion of 7.5 billion dollars. |
Northrop Grumman Follows Up On C-RAM
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2007The US Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a $71 million contract to continue their support in system engineering, integration, and installation for the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar program. Iran Ready But Says Strike On Nuclear Sites Unlikely 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 17, 2007Iran believes a military strike against its nuclear installations is highly improbable but has nonetheless taken the necessary precautions in case it is attacked, top officials said on Wednesday. Israel Facing Critical Decision On ABM Roadmap 
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2007Israel's defense establishment is about to bite the BMD bullet of deciding what kind of ballistic missile defense system to develop against the very short range, low-tech Qassem missiles that Hamas has been firing into Israel the past 18 months. |
Swedish Space Corporation Appoints New CEO
Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 18, 2007Lars Persson has been appointed as the new President and CEO for Swedish Space Corporation as from February 16. Lars Persson previously served as CEO for Marratech AB and will replace Claes-Goran Borg who is going into retirement. LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Test Phase About To Start 
Ottobrun, Germany (SPX) Jan 18, 2007The first test article of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, the Development Model of the On Board Computer has arrived at the prime contractor facilities of Astrium Ltd, Stevenage, UK in the last week of December 2006. This model has been manufactured by Astrium GmbH in Ottobrun, Germany and is capable to support all the test activities at Real-Time test bench level. Delft Nano-Detector Very Promising For Remote Cosmic Realms 
Delft, Holland (SPX) Jan 18, 2007A miniscule but super-sensitive sensor can help solve the mysteries of outer space. Cosmic radiation, which contains the terahertz frequencies that the sensors detect, offers astronomers important new information about the birth of star systems and planets. |
James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Backplane Prototype Passes NASA Space Readiness Tests
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2007A prototype structure that holds the primary mirrors for the optical element of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) passed a key readiness milestone after undergoing a series of rigorous cryogenic tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Hot Windy Nights 
Tacoma WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2007New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant -- and blazing hot -- from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each planet always faces its sun and the other is in darkness. Moon May Be More Like Earth Than Thought 
Knoxville TN (UPI) Jan 18, 2007A U.S. astronomer says a new moon-rock study suggests the satellite has an iron core and might be more like the Earth than thought. Larry Taylor, director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, told National Geographic News the findings add weight to the theory the moon formed from debris thrown off when a Mars-size object collided with a young Earth. |
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