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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 15, 2008 
Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station at 4:01pm US CDT (2201 GMT), marking another flawless day for the world's most experienced space agency. The Station was then placed in free drift to help dampen out the motions that ripple through the Station after a spacecraft docks. The Endeavour mission will be to repair the station's power-generating solar arrays and expand its living quarters to accommodate bigger crews. ... read more 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Nov 14, 2008In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today (November 14, 2008) with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon's surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday. The modern Indian space programme was initiated in 1962 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India. The point of MIP's impact was near the Moon's South Polar Region. ... more
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2008Astronomers for the first time have taken snapshots of a multi-planet solar system, much like ours, orbiting another star. The new solar system orbits a dusty young star named HR8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. Three planets, roughly 10, 10 and 7 times the mass of Jupiter, orbit the star. The size of the planets decreases with distance from the ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 17, 2008A Soyuz-U carrier rocket bearing a military satellite was launched on Friday from the Plesetsk space center in north Russia, an aide to the Russian Space Forces commander said. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said the launch, carried out for the Russian Defense Ministry, had gone ahead without any difficulties. The Soyuz-U rocket is designed to orbit Soyuz and Progress manned and cargo spacec ... more  
Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2008Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite this week at the Payload Processing Facility at Sea Launch Home Port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals this month of associated hardware and personnel, preparations for launch operations are now underway in support of this mission in January 2009. Sea Launch will be inserting the SICRAL 1B communications s ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 17, 2008Imagine how difficult it is to control a spacecraft thousands of miles away, ensure it arrives at the right location and then get the scientific and photographic equipment up and running. To do this highly sophisticated software is needed; software that can also be used on Earth to manage equally complex TV terrestrial broadcasting. British company SciSys has provided software for a number ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Nov 15, 2008India rejoiced Saturday over the landing of a lunar probe on the moon's surface that vaulted the country into the league of space-faring nations like the United States, Russia and Japan. The TV set-sized probe, painted in the green-white-and-orange colours of the Indian flag, made a "precise-to-the-second" landing on the lunar surface late Friday after being released from the unmanned moon-orbiter ... more 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 17, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that em24, a digital business- and lifestyle channel, will start broadcasting on the ASTRA satellite system. The new channel will broadcast its German language programme free-to-air from ASTRA's 19.2 degrees East orbital position. em24 is operated by Luxembourg-based EuproMedia. The programme, a mix of information, educational programmes and entertainment, will also ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 17, 2008A historic event took place at ESA sites across Europe - the flag of the Czech Republic was hoisted alongside those of ESA's other Member States, officially symbolising the country becoming ESA's 18th Member State. The Agreement on the Czech Republic's accession to the ESA Convention was signed on 8 July in Prague, by Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA, and Mirek Topolánek, Prim ... more |
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