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18-Month Mars500 Mission Has BegunMoscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010 Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their 'spacecraft' and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year. The mood was serious and very determined in the Mars500 facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow this afternoon, as the crew talked to the press and then walked into the modules that will be the ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) June 2, 2010Thales Alenia Space has won a contract worth 2.1 billion dollars (1.7 billion euros) for a giant programme to build 81 communications satellites for US group Iridium, Iridium said on Wednesday. The European group beat US company Lockheed Martin in bidding for the work. The chief executive at Iridium Matt Desch said that the project marked a turning point in the history of the US company. ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Jun 2, 2010 India looks set to open competition for three radar-equipped aerostats, the Defense News Web periodical reported this week. The move comes after India's air force advised the defense ministry to prepare a request for information to BAE Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rosoboronexport and Thales. Defense News said that the request would be i ... more 
Raleigh NC (SPX) Jun 03, 2010The concept of a wind-powered vehicle that can be used to explore the surface of Mars - a so-called "tumbleweed rover" that would roll over the surface of Mars like a tumbleweed - has been around for more than 10 years, but so far there has been no consensus on exactly what that vehicle should look like. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a computer model t ... more |
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Baikonur Turns 55Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 03, 2010 Baikonur, the world famous launch pad from where the first Soviet and world cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was sent to space has turned 55 years. It was here that the voice of the Soviet Union's Chief Designer, Sergei Korolev boomed out loud and clear "I am Zarya. Can you hear me?" The decision to establish a testing range for inter-continental ballistic missile and the launching of earth satellites was taken on February 12th 1955. A month earlier, the first construction brigade had arrived in Tura-Tam, a ... read more |
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