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| November 10, 2008 |  |
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 Bangalore, India (AFP) Nov 8, 2008 
India's first unmanned spacecraft entered lunar orbit Saturday, 18 days after an Indian-built rocket transported it into outer space, officials here announced. "The motor on board Chandrayaan-1 was fired at 5:15 pm (1145 GMT) for 805 seconds, which successfully put the spacecraft into lunar orbit," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Director S. Satish announced. "This was an ... read more 
Kiev, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 10, 2008Ukraine and Indonesia have signed an intergovernmental space cooperation agreement, Unian news agency said, citing Ukraine's National Space Agency. Areas of cooperation will include space research, rocket technology, satellite launches, earth remote sensing, and other uses of space for peaceful purposes. "The agreement will create a legal framework for mutually beneficial cooperation ... more
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Superior CO (SPX) Nov 10, 2008Outer space is a busy thoroughfare of satellites operated by numbers of nations. Earth orbits are crowded with active spacecraft, as well as dead or dying satellites - and countless bits of hazardous space debris. Work is now underway to begin blueprinting a civilian space situational awareness system - a step toward global space traffic management. A recently held international meeting ... more  
Laurel MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2008The New Horizons spacecraft has a new "audience" for the electronic signals it beams back to Earth. In a successful September demonstration of its growing capabilities, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) detected transmissions from New Horizons while the spacecraft was more than a billion miles from home. The ATA is a radio interferometer used for astronomical research and searches for signal ... more  
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 10, 2008Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has agreed to pay 100,000 rubles (about $4,000) in compensation to a villager in southwest Siberia after a rocket fragment fell on his land, the local administration said on Friday. Boris Urmatov, a shepherd in the Republic of Altai, earlier demanded 1 million rubles in compensation for the February 5 incident, when a three-and-a-half-meter (11 ft) fragment ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 10, 2008After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. His statement is prompted by an October flurry of sunspots. "Last month we counted five sunspot groups," he says. That may not sound like ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Nov 10, 2008Although there are still arguments about whether humans are destined for space, we have had a permanent human presence in Earth's orbit since the first crew occupied the International Space Station eight years ago, and the technology for private space flight is in the making. But, if people leave Earth in large numbers, what will we do? More importantly, who will we be? These questions and ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2008A blind engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., had the vision for a solution to a problem that ultimately required him to fly to Europe to obtain potentially important data on the flight of a Soyuz capsule returning two International Space Station crew members and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott to Earth. Marco Midon is an electronics engineer in the ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 10, 2008The first Ariane 5 for Arianespace's launch activity next year is taking shape at the Spaceport in French Guiana, joining another heavy-lift launcher that is nearing completion for Arianespace's final mission of 2008. The newest vehicle is being assembled in the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building, where its cryogenic core stage was erected and positioned over one of two operational ... more |
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