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Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spacelinerLos Angeles (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 Richard Branson unveiled Monday a commercial spaceliner offering tourists a cheaper chance to experience the thrill of weightlessness and view the splendor of the Earth from space. The British billionaire hopes to offer tickets aboard his spacecraft at a cost of 200,000 dollars each, giving adventurous, well-heeled travellers a chance to experience space for a fraction of the cost of a seat on a NASA shuttle or Russian spaceship. Announcing the roll-out of the Virgin Galactic spaceliner in California's Mojave desert, Branson said he planned to be on the craft's first passenger flight some 18 months from now, accompanied by his family and the American designer of the space ship, Burt Rutan. ... read more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 08, 2009An extensive study made with ESO's Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightness of about one third of all Sun-like stars during the latter stages of their lives still remain unexplained. Over the past few decades, astronomers have offered many possible explanations, but the new, painstaking ... more  
Remagen, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2009atrexx has introduced an innovative service that enables point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connectivity via satellite through Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) technology. The company has already seen an upturn in demand for services that connect geographically dispersed office locations with their headquarters, especially in regions such as Africa and Middle East, where there are ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Arianespace's seventh and final Ariane 5 launch of 2009 has been given the green light today, clearing this mission for a mid-day liftoff on December 9 with the French Helios 2B military observation satellite. The flight's go-ahead was granted after today's launch readiness review, which is held before every Ariane mission to validate the Ariane 5's status, along with its payload, the ... more |
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  Opportunity Investigates 'Marquette' And 'Islington Bay'   WISE Sky-Surveying Spacecraft Ready For Launch Dec. 11   365 Days Of Astronomy Podcast To Continue In 2010 |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009NASA has teamed up with the Dubai-based Arab Youth Venture Foundation to provide students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the chance to work on NASA missions, the US space agency said Monday. Under the program, up to 12 engineering students from the UAE will each year join US students to work on a research project at the US space agency's Ames Research Center in California. The ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has delivered eighteen SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the USA to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites. SSTL's SGR-10 is a spacecraft orbit determination sub-system designed for small and large Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite applications. The SGR-10 provides GPS standard ... more 
Copenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 The U.S. space agency says its Earth science research and educational programs are in Copenhagen, Denmark, for this week's U.N. climate change conference. The 12-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change began Monday and NASA is one of several U.S. government agencies supporting the first-ever U.S. Center -- an outreach initiative housed in Copenhagen's Bella Conference ... more |
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  Astronomy Question Of The Week: How Is A Black Hole Discovered  Spirit's Diagnostic Wheel Tests Continue   Geminids Meteor Shower: Nature's 'Holiday Light Show' |
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