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| January 14, 2009 |  |
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 Tokyo (SPX) Jan 14, 2009 
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to launch the Korea Multipurpose Satellite-3 (KOMPSAT-3). The transaction, which Mr. Hideaki Omiya, President of MHI, signed the agreement in Korea on January 12, represents the first satellite launch services order placed to MHI by an overseas customer. The launch is slated to take p ... read more 
Guildford UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2009EADS Astrium has acquired Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), the innovative University of Surrey spin-out company which specialises in the design and manufacture of small satellites and subsystems. This acquisition follows the approval of the European Commission in December 2008 and was announced by EADS CEO Louis Gallois today at his January briefing for the media. "This is great ... more
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Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2009A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been selected by NASA to be a founding member of the agency's new Lunar Science Institute. The new Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE) will help build fundamental knowledge of the history of the Moon and, by inference, the Earth and the rest of the Solar System. CLOE is one of seven teams selected by NASA as the first members o ... more  
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps of the edge of the heliosphere, the region of space influenced by the Sun. IBEX is using energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging to create the first global maps of interactio ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 13, 2009Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Tuesday it hoped to receive more satellite launch orders for its H-2A rocket after it won a South Korean contract, its first deal with a foreign customer. The industrial giant aspires to compete with European consortium Arianespace and Boeing-led Sea Launch but had previously only had business from inside Japan. "With this order as a start, ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 14, 2009XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class of stellar zombie - each one the dead heart of a star that refuses to die. There are just five so-called Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) known, four in the Milky Way and one in our satellite g ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered meteorites may rewrite the book on how some asteroids form and evolve. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maryland, and the University of Tennessee repo ... more 
Chateau de Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 14, 2009SES ASTRA, an SES company has announced that TNTSAT, the French digital terrestrial free-TV offer via the ASTRA satellite system has further extended its reach. Only 16 months after its launch more than one million TNTSAT receivers have already been distributed to French households. The ASTRA satellite system serves more than five million French direct-to-home households, including TNTSAT ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 14, 2009Four teams of postgraduate students have been selected to fly their experiments during a new ESA programme called 'Fly Your Thesis!'. This exciting programme, launched by the ESA Education Office in 2008, offers a rare opportunity for students to design, build, and eventually fly, a scientific experiment that requires an investigation to be performed in microgravity, as part of their Maste ... more |
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