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Space tourism ticket prices could dropHouston (UPI) Oct 25, 2010 Two space tourism companies say the price for a trip into space could drop from millions of dollars down to hundreds of thousands by late 2011. A brief trip into space featuring a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of the earth 62 miles below could be within reach of the merely well-off and not just the mega-rich, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. "Now, the sky is no longer the limit," said Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group is one the companies planning to offer commercial s ... read more |
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 Sony presses 'stop' on Walkman in Japan After three decades and more than 220 million units, Sony has stopped selling its Walkman cassette player in Japan, the company said Monday, admitting the gadget could not keep up in the digital age. ... more | .. |
  Astrium To Take Majority Stake In ND Satcom EADS subsidiary Astrium will purchase a 75.1 percent stake in SES ASTRA's satellite equipment provider and ground system integrator ND SatCom, based in Friedrichshafen, Germany. With this agre ... more | .. |
 Simulating Power Of Sun To Test Hardware For Space In the hostile environment of space, satellites could get burned by the ultra-hot sun in front of them and chilled by the frigid cold conditions of space behind them. Researchers at NASA's Mar ... more | .. |
 KVH Expands Coverage And Capacity Of European Mini-VSAT Broadband Network Next-generation satellite communications in Europe received a significant boost this week as KVH Industries, Inc., and its partner, ViaSat, Inc., increased the mini-VSAT Broadband network's capacity ... more | .. |
  Progress Freight To Undock For ISS Dump Run South Pacific The Progress M-05M cargo spacecraft will be undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, a spokesman for Mission Control Center said on Monday. The freighter will then be "bu ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Oct 26, 2010What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune with your favourite artists and your vital signs. Swiss technology-transfer company CSEM created the final prototype for their Pulsear device this year. A tiny unit embedded in a regular earphone uses in ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2010NASA satellites have watched as Richard went through a couple of life-transitions over the weekend. Richard developed into a tropical storm last week, intensified into a hurricane and made landfall in Belize and is now a tropical depression, poised to enter western Gulf of Mexico. Richard formed in the Caribbean Sea on 20 October 2010. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satelli ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2010Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDNET will offer technical data relating to its robotic Google Lunar X PRIZE landing mission, which in-turn will influence the development of future NASA human and robotic lander vehicles and exploration ... more |
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Inexpensive orbital launches describedWashington (UPI) Oct 25, 2010 A U.S. company says it wants to offer inexpensive launch capabilities to dozens of universities and organizations hoping to put small satellites into orbit. Currently, these mini-satellites must go as piggyback secondary payloads on large rocket launch missions, giving the satellite owners little choice over the timing of a launch or the final orbital positioning, SPACE.COM reports. "Getting reasonable cost access [to space] for small spacecraft is really critical," says Kris Kimel, pres ... read more |
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