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AerospaceToday the definitive test for the space tourism
Washington, Usa - Also Paul Allen challenges in order to win the "Ansari X-prize"
Paul Allen, the Microsoft former-father, will finance the team that will try to gain the USD 10m offered by the "Ansari X-prize" for who first will send in the space a shuttle with three persons on board... more
AerospaceSoyuz: still sent back the launch
Washington, USA - Previewed for October 11, already it had been sent back those fixed for October 9
The Space Federal Agency would have communicated that the rocket Soyuz-Tma5 launch which next October 11 would have had to transport the new crew on board ISS, the International Space Station, has been... more
AerospaceICBM as space carriers?
Moscow, Russia - The hypothesis to turn the ballistic missiles into space rockets would be under consideration by engineers and privates
Using intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) as space cargo carriers for the transport of supplies and satellites: an idea not considered as completely new but that would be anyway catching on in Russia,... more
AerospaceISS: a failure affected the main oxygen generator
Washington, USA - Without supplies, the two astronauts on board would be forced to go back to the Earth by the space lifeboat
The situation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) appears a delicate one. Starting from the last weekend, the two astronauts on board would have found the existance of a serious failure for the... more
AerospaceFirst tests for the experimental satellites destinated to the Galileo system
London, UK - The two models subjected to tests on the ground to be put into orbit by the end of next year
ESA (European Space Agency) would have got the ground testing activities started for the instruments and devices scheduled for the first two satellites destinated to the Galileo European global positioning... more
AerospaceIss: restored the oxygen generator
Washington, USA - It is the device transforming drainage waters in air, that in the last days has created many problems aboard orbiting Station
Nearly two weeks to localize and eliminate the breakdown apparently repaired for the ninth Expedition shipment aboard the International Space Station (ISS): on Friday it seems that in fact they are successful... more
AerospaceThe USA bound to space supremacy and dominance
Washington, USA - It is the next important goal US Government should try to achieve, according to to experts in this sector
The United States intend to remarkably increase their efforts in the aerospace sector, considered as a whole (satellite systems, rocket-carriers, orbital stations, space-ships, probes, exploring missions,... more
AerospaceFound a part of the Columbia cockpit
Lufkin, USA - It was discovered in Texas: it would be a rest of the cabin with a window
NASA communicated that approximately two weeks ago it would have been recovered a cockpit piece of Columbia crashed on February 1st 2003, causing the dead of 7 astronauts: it seems a biologist who was... more
AerospaceISS: perhaps the crew change previewed in October 9, will come postponed
Washington, USA - Breakdown in the Soyuz-Tma5 shuttle could extend for some day the stay of the ninth shipment
The Soyuz-Tma5 space shuttle with the tenth shipment of the International Space Station (ISS) new crew had to be launched the next October 9. But a Russian Space Agency spokesman has illustrated the possibility... more
AerospaceAerospace engineering graduating are working on the new Unisat-4
Rome, Italy - The students will participate to all space mission stages: from the plan to the satellite launch until the orbital data management
In December 2005 it will come launched the Unisat-4, the new plan of micro-satellite that the students of the aerospace engineering faculty of "La Sapienza" University in Rome will elaborate in the next... more
AerospaceTechnical table in order to define the Lazio plan for ISS
Rome, Italy - The Space mission that should have to leave the next April, with the Italian astronaut Vittori participation
Yesterday in Rome is re-united for the first time and will finish today the technical table that will consider the Lazio space mission plan, which the Italian astronaut, Roberto Vittori, will participate,... more
AerospaceISS: resumed the oxygen generator
Washington, USA - The made Russian device was blocked the last week, but the crew has not run dangers
The oxygen generator that the last week aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was blocked, has resumed to work yesterday. It was remained offline overnight after that first shut down last Wednesday:... more
AerospaceSaturno: new ring and perhaps two new moons
Washington, USA - The images sended from the Cassini probe the last June 21, would reveal it
The Cassini probe, came into the Saturno planet orbit the last July 1st, thanks to the NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and ASI (Italian Space Agency) collaboration, would have sended some images that... more
AerospaceMission Genesis: maybe all is not lost
Washington, USA - At least one disc containing solar particles would be whole
Maybe all is not lost for the space mission called Genesis (see for details AVIONEWS). The probe arrived in the atmosphere carrying little solar particles microgrammes and crashed on the ground in the... more
AerospaceNorthrop Grumman lays the foundation for the future space explorations
Washington, USA - The aerospace company to attend to design effective and economically sustainable solutions for the travels towards Mars
NASA selected Northrop Grumman for the programme related to the space exploration activities that the United States intend to perform during the next decades. Such programme schedules in fact new travels... more
AerospaceEADS: a new satellite control center for the Arabsat systems
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Astrium group to increase the satellite network efficiency for the Arab country
EADS Astrium will attend the improvement of the satellite network belonging to Saudi Arabia. Arab country's Government has in fact granted to the European aerospace group (especially to its segment dedicated... more
AerospaceEspi: the first General Secretary is the French Serge Plattard
Vienna, Austria - The Institute was created in 2003 in Vienna from ESA and the Austrian Space Agency
From the September 1st, the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), founded in Vienna in the 2003 from ESA(European Space Agency) and ASA (Austrian Space Agency) has a General Secretary: he is the French... more
AerospaceGalileo: Ukraine ready to join the satellite programme
Brussels, Belgium - The number of the potential partners for the European project is constantly rising
The European global positioning satellite system named Galileo appears more and more about to gain new partners for its development. After the announced participation by Israel (see for details AVIONEWS)... more
AerospaceIss: the Alenia Spazio Cupola module is ready
Turin, Italy - It's been delivered yesterday to ESA: it is equipped by 7 windows that will concur of having a good external environment visibility
Yesterday the Alenia Spazio has delivered to ESA, European Space Agency, during a ceremony kept in Turin, the Cupola module (see news AVIONEWS) for the International Space Station (Iss): it would be a... more
AerospaceIss: accomplished the 4th spacewalk
Washington, USA - Astronauts have replaced one valve, installed some antennas and executed an immobility test
On Saturday, September 4, the 4th spacewalk have been carried out by the Russian Gennady Padfalka and the American Mike Fincke, the astronauts couple who from 5 months operates in the International Space... more
AerospaceAlien hypotheses: intercepted signal to 1000 light-years from the Earth
San Juan, Portorico - The scientific plan Seti@home researchers do not exclude nothing, and will continue to study the phenomenon
A mysterious signal would have been picked up from the radio telescope Arecibo in Portorico, coming from a distance of 1000 light-years from the Earth: between all the signal intercepted by the astronomers,... more
AerospaceThe first launch of the new Soyuz-2 programmed for October 29
Moscow, Russia - The rocket will take off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in the north of Russia
The next October 29, will be effectuated the first launch of the new Soyuz-2 rocket from the base of Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in the north of Russia. It has announced by the Roskosmos spokesman, the Russian... more
AerospaceRussians and Belorussians together to increase the competitiveness of the space facilities
Minsk, Belorussia - The implementation of the Russian-Belorussan program will start in October
The implementation of the program "Space of the Union State" will start the next October. The Belorussian National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency have worked to a plan on... more
AerospaceSatcoms: 270 new commercial systems to be put into orbit by 2013
Washington, USA - Even Governments and armed forces would be among the main customers
At least 270 commercial communications satellites will be put into orbit by 2013. It is what has been unveiled by a recent survey carried out by Forecast International. According to the studies on this... more
AerospaceESA: the development stage of the observation cupola for the ISS has been completed
Brussels, Belgium - The role of Alenia Spazio appears a major one for the production of the new structural section destinated to the orbital station
ESA (European Space Agency) has recently released the accomplishment of the development stage related to the new observation cupola destinated to the International Space Station (ISS), with reference to... more
AerospaceSpace Shuttle: more safety for the space flights by December 2004
Washington, USA - 5 out of the 15 scheduled technical improvements would have been completed waiting for starting launches again in 2005
NASA will have to complete the designing and the implementation on the Space Shuttle, by next December 2004, of the 15 scheduled improvements, aimed to warrant a significant safety rise for the US space... more
AerospaceFound the "Super-Hearth", a planet like ours
Santiago del Chile, Chile - It is in the "Mu Arae" system and it is composed by rock and fitted with atmosphere
The Hars spectroscope installed some months ago on the ESO (European Southern Observatory) telescope in Chile, allowed founding a planet very like Hearth, which would be outside solar system, in the "Mu... more
AerospaceNasa: Discovery again on a mission the next year
Washington, USA - It will be set up by new and progressive safety measures
Yesterday it has been communicated that the Discovery space shuttle, between March 16 and April 18 in 2005, would be on a mission again, after the Columbia’s incident in February 2003. NASA, American S... more
AerospaceArcaSpace: it will test the first hybrid fuel rocket
Bucharest, Romania - Demonstrator 2B is the unmanned missile which will be launched for the experiment
Demonstrator 2B launch, will take place in September 8, from the Air Force launch site, on the Black Sea shore: it is the unmanned missile designed by the ArcaSpace (Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian... more
AerospaceThe first observatory against the NEO threat in Europe to be built in Sicily
Trapani, Italy - The Near Earth Objects as the asteroids in the collision course with the Earth could be so detected in time in order to counteract
The first astronomic observatory in Europe exclusively dedicated to search and identify the potential threats coming from the space towards the planet Earth will be built in Sicily, by the next five years.... more
AerospaceGenesis mission: NASA to deepen the study of the Solar System's origin
Washington, USA - A special capsule to perform the re-entry procedure in the Earth atmosphere preventing solar emissions' samples for research
NASA would be completing an important experiment aimed to understand in a deeper manner the origin of the Solar System. The related space mission was named Genesis not by chance. A probe for research activities... more
AerospaceAn Autumn rich in space missions for Russia
Moscow, Russia - Launches to be performed between September and November should be 27
The space launches to occur between September and November 2004 from Kazakhstan's territory will be 27, according to what has been scheduled by Rosocosmos, the Russian Space Agency. At least ten carriers... more
AerospaceISS: the first Malay astronaut to arrive in 2007
Moscow, Russia - He will be trained in Russia starting from the end of this summer
Russian Space Agency would have recently announced that the launch of the first Malay astronaut towards the ISS (International Space Station) should occur, thanks to the technical and training support... more
AerospaceThe future of aerospace communications depends on the laser
Washington, USA - A US Air Force's study has started and Northrop Grumman will put forward its solution for military use
US Air Force has started a research programme aimed to perform an important step forward in the communications sector, and that could be able to achieve important results both for the defence sector and... more
AerospaceCassini: two new moons for the "rings' planet"
Washington, USA - The aircraft found them: now planet satellites are 33
The Cassini aircraft, since the last July 1 in the planet orbit, discovered 2 new moons of Saturn. They are 3,2 and 4 km in diameter and they are placed between the largest Mimas and Enceladus orbits.... more
AerospaceA new parachute for landings on Mars
Washington, USA - Boeing to attend to its production after the requests put forward by NASA
The NASA's space programmes regarding the carrying on of the exploring activities on Mars need a new descent and protection system for probes and ships, in particular a new parachute. Boeing will provide... more
AerospaceThe Indian programme for Moon manned landing is in doubt
New Dheli, India - The project appears excessively expensive when considering the socio-economic exigencies of a large part of the population
An important debate has recently started within the Indian scientific and political environments regarding the national aerospace sector. India would be planning to perform its first Lunar disembarking... more
AerospaceNASA: robot idea for Hubble Space Telescope
New York, USA - It would start already in 2007 to repair urgent damages and upgrade
NASA has selected a Canadian-made robot for an unmanned mission, after Columbia crash (see news AVIONEWS), to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The robot mission would start already in 2007,... more
AerospaceWild Fire: the Canadian alternative solution for the X-Prize competition
Toronto, Canada - The "barrel-shaped" space-ship should take off on next October 2
The Canadian alternative solution for the X-Prize programme aimed to concretely start space commercial flight activities and the so called "space tourism" will fly on next October 2. An interesting proposal... more
AerospaceESA: the next spacemen will put into hibernation
London, United Kingdom - A research financed by European Space Agency have to find the way to miss in lethargy astronauts to cut expenditures
ESA, European Space Agency, requested a research in order to find the way to hibernate spacemen during space missions, which can extend over several years: it seems in fact the best solution to face problems... more
AerospaceThe Congress aid is necessary to send Shuttle in the space
Washigton, Usa - It needs USD 900m to make safe the next space shuttle missions
Nasa said that new funds are necessary to implement all the safety systems essential to send again in the space the Shuttle, after the Columbia’s incident, occurred in February 1 2003, when the shuttle r... more
AerospaceRussia: "The USA must share the costs for deploying the Soyuz"
Moscow, Russia - Russian Space Agency would not be willing to carry on its pinning of travel's costs towards the ISS
After the disaster which involved the Columbia Space Shuttle in 2003, the United States had to face several problems in order to carry on their own space activities, and the next launch of a US-made space-ship... more
AerospaceEsa is searching for women for a space experiment
Paris, France - 60 days no-stop in a bed kept under observation for the sake of knowledge
After China, (see news AVIONEWS)ESA, European Space Agency, is searching for a cosmonaut and women so that take an experiment financed by NASA and Canadian Space Agency, about the weightless effects on... more
AerospaceThe difficulties of Japanese aerospace sector
Tokyo, Japan - The Asian country does not succeed in carrying on really innovative programmes
Japan does not appear able to open a far-reaching aerospace programme in order to fill the gap produced by China during the last years. Efforts aimed to achieve higher and more significant results in space... more
AerospaceSpace tourism: USD 30.000 will be "sufficient" in ten years to perform a sub-orbital trip
Washington, USA - US analysts would appear convinced of it
Recent estimates with reference to costs for the future so called "space tourism" appear quite confident. US analysts in fact, especially regarding the X-Prize programme (see for details AVIONEWS), would... more
AerospaceAfter 36 years a probe to explore Mercury
St. Louis, USA - Today the Messenger mission begins, it will complete in 2012
Today began the first mission in 36 years to explore the planet Mercury: from Boeing Delta II Heavy at 2:15am was launched Messenger, a Nasa probe. The launch would be occured yesterday, but it is postponed... more
AerospaceSwitzerland intends to increase its own role in the aerospace sector
Zurich, Switzerland - National industry would have asked Government for encouraging a larger participation to ESA's programmes
Swiss aerospace industry is asking for Government help in order to increase sector competitiveness when considering the partecipation to several ESA's (European Space Agency) programmes. The main Swiss... more
AerospaceAfter the first man in space, China is searching for a cosmonaut, but not before 2005
Beijing, China - In the meantime, it goes on preparing the Shenzhou VI's mission
China is successfully carrying on its evolution in aerospace sector with relevant steps forward. After launching its first man towards space (see for details AVIONEWS), and becoming the third worldwide... more
AerospaceRussia to train the first Malaysian astronaut
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The launch to reach the ISS to occur on 2007
Malaysia aims more and more to grow in the aerospace sector and the national space agency is scheduling to put into orbit the first Malaysian astronaut, thanks to the technical and training support by... more
AerospaceGalileo: EU and Israel to collaborate for the new satellite system
Brussels, Belgium - An agreement has been signed last Tuesday between the related institutional representatives
The European Union and Israel have signed lst Tuesday a cooperation agreement for the development of the new Galileo global positioning satellite system. This agreement will encourage a higher collaboration... more