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Two Plus One Equals A Return To Flight
Cape Canaveral (SPX) Mar 07, 2005What do two Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters plus one External Tank equal? Together, the fuel in the boosters and tank can generate 6.5 million pounds of thrust - enough to power Space Shuttle Discovery on its Return to Flight mission. Progress At The Station 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2005The focus for the International Space Station crew this week was the arrival of the Progress cargo spacecraft. Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov spent some of the early part of the week preparing for the Wednesday docking of the unpiloted Russian cargo carrier, and much of yesterday and today unloading it. Rosetta Performs Closest Earth Fly-By 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 07, 2005The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft yesterday performed ESA's closest-ever Earth fly-by, gaining an essential gravity boost in its ten-year, 7.1 billion kilometre flight to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. |
Test Marks Fifth Successful Intercept for Aegis BMD Team
El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2005The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System with the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target outside the earth's atmosphere during its descent phase of flight test last Thursday. Lockheed Martin Completes Key Component Of SBIRS High Program 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Lockheed Martin has achieved a major milestone with completion and delivery of a sophisticated, high-performance communications subsystem integral to the infrared payload of the first Space-Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite. Russia Developing New Space Radars 
Moscow (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Russia will orbit an entire constellation of high-resolution space radars in the next few years, reports RIA Novosti. Several enterprises and laboratories are busy developing these spacecraft, but the Arkon-2 multi-role satellite will probably eclipse everything else in its class. |
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Astronomers Measure Slowest Motion Across The Sky
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Astronomers have reported that they have measured the slowest ever motion of a galaxy across the plane of the sky. This distant whirlpool of stars appears to creep along despite its actual speed through space because it is located so far from the Earth. NASA Study Suggests Giant Space Clouds Iced Earth 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Eons ago, giant clouds in space may have led to global extinctions, according to two recent technical papers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Institute. GeoVantage Brings High-Resolution Digital Orthophotography To NorthWest 
Swampscott MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2005GeoVantage has announced the delivery of a 540,000 acre imagery project to Olympic Resource Management. |
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Weapons Drop From Proteus UAV
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Northrop Grumman successfully demonstrated the ability to release a weapon from a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV demonstrator during flight-testing conducted Feb. 24 over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The Promise Of Modular Launch Vehicles 
Prague (SPX) Mar 07, 2005It is not necessary to solve a problem EELVs versus HLLVs. The best solution is to connect both systems in a modular concept. At the present time, there exist four possible modules suitable for such concept: India Increases Science Budget By 24% 
New Delhi, India (SPX) Mar 07, 2005Scientists in India just received a huge 24% boost in government funding, according to the Science and Development Network website. |
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