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China on Monday began construction of its new space launch center in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013. The Hainan Space Satellite Launch Center, the fourth and the lowest latitude one in China, only 19 degrees north of the equator, would allow China to take part in more international commercial space ... read more 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station. "Now they bring water back on the space shuttle and analyze it on the ground. The problem is there is a big delay. You'd like to be ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2009A tempest that erupted on Saturn in January has become the Solar System's longest continuously observed lightning storm, astronomers reported on Tuesday. The storm broke out in "Storm Alley," a region 35 degrees south of the ringed giant's equator, researchers told the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, near Berlin. Thunderstorms there can be as big as 3,000 kilometers ... more  
Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2009 NASA says it is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts. Space agency officials said the artifacts represent significant spaceflight technologies, processes and accomplishments of the shuttle program. NASA officials said there are partnering with the General Services ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Delivering connectivity where it's needed most, SES WORLD SKIES has announced it has signed a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Artel will use four full Ku-band transponders (144 megahertz) on the ASTRA 3B satellite, set to launch early next ... more |
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Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2009Intelsat General has been selected as the first preferred distributor in the United States of X-band and UHF communications services on satellites operated by Paradigm Secure Communications. UK-based Paradigm was established specifically to provide satellite communication services to the UK Ministry of Defence and its allied military forces around the world. Paradigm operates the Skynet ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 15, 2009As members of the media visit IABG's spacecraft test centre in Germany to learn more about ESA's CryoSat mission and view the satellite, a new target launch date of 28 February 2010 has been announced. The slip, from the planned launch date of December this year, is due to the limited availability of facilities at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, which is particularly busy at the ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 14, 2009China began the construction of its fourth space launch centre Monday as the nation gears up for future manned space flights aboard a new generation of carrier rockets, state media reported. Work started on the Wenchang Space Satellite Launch Centre on southern Hainan island, which will become China's first coastal launching pad when completed in 2013, the Hainan Daily reported. ... more |
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