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| December 09, 2008 |  |
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 Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Dec 09, 2008 
The launch of an Ariane 5 carrier rocket with two telecoms satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana has been moved to December 21, French media said on Monday. The sixth launch this year of an Ariane 5 rocket had been planned for December 11 between 12:35 and 1:45 a.m. Moscow time (21:35-22:45 GMT December 10). The launch is now scheduled for 12:51-1:50 a.m. Moscow time (21 ... read more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2008Based on the results of recent blue-ribbon panels and commissions it is clear that the US approach to providing national security through space assets is not working effectively. Complex space programs are taking too long to develop, cost too much and are not providing the performance needed to do the job. The situation is further exacerbated by developing international competition and tig ... more
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Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Dec 09, 2008The Ciel Satellite Group has announced that the launch of Ciel II is on schedule for Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 13:43 (GMT) aboard the International Launch Services' Proton M and Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Built by Thales Alenia Space, the Canadian BSS geosynchronous satellite will be operated by Ciel at 129 degrees West and deliver services throughout North America. ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2008A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. The picture provides some of the best examples yet of the ripples of gas, or bow shocks, that can form around stars in choppy cosmic waters. "The stars are like rocks in a rushing river," said Matt Povich of the Universit ... more  
London (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Four teddy bears, fully decked out in custom-made spacesuits, were launched to the edge of space this week as part of a British university experiment. Blasting off from Cambridge University's Churchill College on Monday, they were attached to a helium balloon and fitted with multiple cameras, a GPS receiver, flight computer and radio for the two-hour nine-minute flight, which saw them rise ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2008The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, team based at The University of Arizona have released 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Other Mars-orbiting cameras have taken 3D views of Mars, but the HiRISE camera - the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet - can resolve features as small as one me ... more |
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Beijing (UPI) Dec 6, 2008 China, for the first time, has launched and recovered a hybrid rocket, the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Bejing says. The Beihang-2 was fired Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province, with the head of the rocket parachuting to the ground for recovery about 15 minutes later, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, reported Saturday. ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Russia on Friday signed landmark accords with its traditional ally India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as well as a cooperation accord on manned space flight. Russia becomes the ... more 
Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2008 The U.S. space agency has set May 12 as the target launch date for space shuttle Atlantis' mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The final servicing mission to Hubble was delayed in September when a data-handling unit on the telescope failed. But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said engineers have since created a spare unit. The 11-day flight will featur ... more |
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