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AerospaceIss forced to an emergency maneuver in order to avoid the collision with an Italian satellite
Washington, Usa - The two astronauts forced to change the orbit
American Ed Lu and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, two astronauts on board the Iss, have been forced to a manual maneuver in order to change the orbit to avoid the impact with an Italian telecom satellite Megasat... more
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AerospaceNasa will finance with USD 4m a cable system able to launch satellites in orbit
Washington, Usa - The investigators are leaded by an Italian astrophysical
Nasa has decided to finance with USD 4m the researches for realization of a cable system able to launch satellites in orbit, studied by an Us group of researchers, leaded by Italian scientist, Enrico Lorenzini.... more
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AerospaceNasa changed attitude about flights security one of the causes of Columbia crash
Washington, Usa - This is the opinion of the investigating Committee
"Some persons have shown a change of attitude and they passed on demonstrate that a flight was sure to demonstrate that a flight was to risk", yesterday declared admiral Hal Gehman, head of the investigating... more
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AerospaceIt will be launched on June 7 the Us AMS-9 satellite
Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Problems to the rocket have postponed the delivery
It has been postponed June 7 the launch of the American satellite AMS-9, because of a problem to the booster of the Russian rocket Breeze-M, the carrier that would have launched it in orbit. The construction... more
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AerospaceEgnos first signal in space will be relayed on June 6
Paris, France - Since April its first signal transmission tests
Egnos (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) system started its first signal transmission tests in April, and the first signal in space of the satellite system will be relayed from the first... more
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AerospaceFree way for Ariane
Paris, France - It has been decided by European Council of Minister of Esa's country
The Council of the 15 European Ministers has adopted in Paris a first resolution "In order to replace on the right way the Arianes carriers system", has announced today Esa's General Manager, Antonio... more
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AerospaceEurope has reached an agreement for Galileo (3): the first satellite in orbit on 2005
Paris, France - News has been revealed by Esa Director of the applications
European Space Agency's Director of the applications, Claudio Mastracchi, has reported today, from Paris, that the first satellite of the future European satellite system of navigation Galileo will be... more
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AerospaceNasa has created a team of outer experts for the control of shuttles re-entry
Washington, Usa - It will be leaded by an astronaut of Gemini and Apollo programs
Thomas Stafford, astronaut of Gemini and Apollo programs, will lead a team of experts outer Nasa, that will control shuttle's re-entry on next launch. The decision has been taken by Nasa, after February... more
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AerospaceEurope has reached an agreement for Galileo (2): the sheet
Brussels, Belgium - Galileo
Developed by Esa and the Eu on the basis of equal co-funding, Galileo is designed to provide a complete civil system. Scheduled to be operational by 2008, it will offer to the citizens of Europe and the... more
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AerospaceEurope has reached an agreement for Galileo
Brussels, Belgium - News communicated by Esa
"European Spaces Agency now is able to finalize the conditions for the participation in Galileo browser program, and in order to approve the foundation that is the base of Galileo and that will be signed... more
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AerospaceIn Paris, Europe and Canada will meet for Ariane' s relaunching
Paris, France - The summit will concern also Iss and relations between Esa and the Eu
The Ministers responsible for space activities in the Member States of the European Space Agency and Canada will meet in Paris on 27 May, at Esa's Head Office, to take decisions on the restructuring of... more
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AerospaceChina launched a third satellite for navigation
Beijing, China - News communicated by press agency Xinhua
Chinese press agency Xinhua communicated yesterday that China launched Long March 3-A rocket, with on board the third satellite for navigation. Launch operated by Xichang's space center, in Sichuan, in... more
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AerospaceA technical problem caused the anomalous landing of Soyuz
Moscow, Russia - Russian Commission has published the conclusions of the inquiry
The Russian Commission, created in order to discover the reasons of the anomalous landing of space capsule Soyuz, last May 4, has published the conclusions of the inquiry. According to the Commission,... more
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AerospaceSpain is stopping Galileo
Brussels, Belgium - Esa 's President has sent a letter to Madrid
"The situation is still in stall, the risk is elevated", asserted Esa's spokesman, Franco Bonacina, about Galileo, European satellite navigation plan. Spain, in fact, is stopping an agreement in the European... more
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AerospaceNasa has pubblished the first picture of the Earth taken from Mars
Washington, Usa - Image has been sended by space probe Mars Global Surveyor
"Taking this picture we have the chance to change perspective and to obtain a more panoramic image of our 'quarter', and to see ours planet among a lot", declared Michael Malin, of Malin Space Science... more
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AerospaceMars Express' count-down is running
London, United Kingdom - The launch will be on June 2
Lord Sainsbury, British Minister for the Scientific Search, activated at the Royal Society a gigantic digital clock, for the countdown of the European space probe Mars Express'launch, on June 2 from the... more
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AerospaceEsa to send its astronaut in Iss expedition
Moscow, Russia - It will blast from Russian cosmodrome on October 18
It has been signed yesterday a contract between Esa and the Russian space agency for the next mission tied to the Iss plan, to which a Spanish cosmonaut would have to participate as well. Esa (European... more
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AerospaceShuttle's designer has asked their substitution
Washington, Usa - According to Faget they are too much old and inadequate
Max Faget, a space shuttle's planner and for 20 years Chief designer of Nasa's manned space vehicles, denounced the inadequacy of Us space agency's shuttle. During an interview released to the Us daily... more
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Aerospace"Sars Emergency": there are not risks for the first Chinese manned space mission
Beijing, China - Chinese Government has taken all measures to avoid risks
Sources in the aerospace community in Beijing declared rumour of the cancellation of the launch due to the Sars outbreak was "Entirely a speculation from people who were not knowledgeable". According... more
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AerospaceInvestigating Committee on Columbia's tragedy does not see impediments in new Shuttle's flights
Cape Canaveral, Usa - The launches could run before the end of the year
"Commission does not see impediment for new shuttle's fly", declared yesterday Admiral Harold Gehman, Chief Investigating Committee on Columbia's tragedy, the shuttle exploded in flight last February... more
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AerospaceGreek satellite Hellas-Sat is in orbit
Cape Canaveral, Usa - Yesterday in the evening the launch from Cape Canaveral
The Atlas V Nasa's rocket has been launched yesterday at 6:10pm EDT (22:10 GMT), from Cape Canaveral space base, placing the Hellas-Sat spacecraft in a supersynchronous transfer orbit 31 minutes later.... more
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AerospaceA private aircraft in able to flying beyond the atmosphere has been showed in California
Mojave, Usa - Designer is the same of Voyager
In Mojave's desert, in California, it has been showed the SpaceShip One, the first aircraft constructed by private, in order to carry the man beyond the atmosphere's borders. Aircraft has been designed... more
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AerospaceGreek satellite Hellas-Sat's launch suspended yesterday
Cape Canaveral, Usa - New launch could be already today
A problem with an instrumentation has yesterday caused the launch's suspension of a Lockheed Martin Atlas-5, with on board the Greek satellite Hellas-Sat. When it will be in orbit, the satellite will supply... more
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AerospaceIndia has launched in the space a telecom satellite
New Delhi, India - Within a week it will take position in the definitive orbit
Yesterday India has launched in orbit Gsat-2, a telecom satellite. The operations have been leaded by the Space search Organization's technicians, from the base of Hassan, in the Southern state of Karnataka.... more
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AerospaceWilliam W. Parson is the new Shuttle program's Chief
Washington, Usa - Former Director Dittemore had discharged last month
William W. Parson, Director of Nasa's Mississippi space center, is the new Shuttle program Chief, taking the place of Dittemore, discharged last month. Dittemore previewed to discharge himself after Columbia's... more
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AerospaceIt could be impossible to know the exact cause of Columbia's tragedy
Washington, Usa - This is the declaration of Nasa's Director
"I would like to know the definitive answer: what is happened, for which reason? With all the embedded information, without ambiguity or contradictions. But it is not simple", yesterday said Sean O' Keefe,... more
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AerospaceJapan has launched Muses-C space probe
Kagoshima, Japan - It will reach "1998 Sf-36 " asteroid about 300 million km far from the Earth
From the space base of Kagoshima, in Southern Japan, Tokyo has yesterday launched a carrier with Muses-C space probe. Probe would have to reach "1998 Sf-36" asteroid about 300 million km far from the Earth,... more
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AerospaceAriane-5 to launch on June an Australian satellite for military and commercial purposes
Sydney, Australia - Lower costs, same functionality
It will blast off from the launching pad Ela-3 in French Guyana cosmodrome at the beginning of June thanks to the rocket Arianes-5, a satellite for the Australian communications that has the particular... more
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AerospaceIt will be launched on June 8 the Russian vessel Progress
Moscow, Russia - It will bring supplies and food for the two astronauts
The spokesman of the Russian space agency, Rosaviakosmos Sergei Gorbunov, has announced yesterday the vessel cargo Progress will be launched on next June 8 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.... more
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AerospaceThermal covering's damage, during takeoff, the cause of Columbia's tragedy
Washinghton, Usa - First conclusions for investigating committee
The first conclusions of the independent investigating committee instituted after the Columbia's tragedy, published in Washington, said that thermal covering's damage, during takeoff, was the cause of... more
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AerospaceRussian space agency wishes to take part to Nasa tenders
Moscow, Russia - It will be set a cooperation between the two most important subjects of the field
Although the American laws hamper the participation of other foreign industries in contracts that have a strategic importance for America, as the field of the defense for example, it seem that it is taking... more
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AerospaceEverything is set fot the European mission Mars Express
Baikonur, Kazakhstan - It will be blasted off by a Russian rocket
The European team of scientists and technicians who are working briskly for the program to send the Mars Express probe on the Red Planet have finally resolved all the problems, and therefore could announce... more
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AerospaceUsa and Russia look at Mars after the first spacial experiences together
Moscow, Russia - Though a last-minute proposal there's the will of both
Sure the last mission on the Iss (International Space Station), concluded with the change of Russian-American team and re-enter of this last one on Earth, has contributed to a revitalization of the space... more
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AerospaceThe two Japanese spy satellites have not secrets
Tokyo, Japan - Some amateur astronomers put on internet their orbit map
About a month since their launch, two Japanese spy satellites, gathering information on North Korean nuclear weapons, have not secret. Satellites have themselves been spotted, photographed and had their... more
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AerospaceSoyuz' return, 440 km off the fixed zone
Astana, Kazakhstan - Safe and sound the three crew mission members, after 161 days in the space
They were many the technicians to be worried for this re-enter, both those Russians and those Americans, because it was the first time that a team returned from the Iss (International Space Station) after... more
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AerospaceThe worms for the experiments the only Columbia's "survivors"
Washington, Usa - Nasa's technicians has been surprised
The worms for the experiments survivored to the Columbia's crash, happened in flight last February 1, to the friction's heat provoked by atmosphere re-enter and to a free fall of tens kilometers. News... more
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Aerospace1,20 m diameter space scrap of the "Atlas 2" has crashed in a Guatemalan village
City of the Guatemala, Guatemala - Fortunately no damage for the persons
Yesterday a rural village of Estern Guatemala has seen crashed a 1,20 m space iron scrap iron. Fortunately the scrap has not provoked damages for the persons, but only fear. Eddy Sanchez, director of Guatemalan... more
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AerospaceThey're Russian the most reliable spacecraft ever-built
Moscow, Russia - In every stage the crew's safety is assured
Although the Russian space fleet is older than the American one, it turns out to be more reliable than the Us shuttle and than whichever other spacecraft ever-constructed. The reasons that have carried... more
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AerospaceUs billionaire stake on "space" tourism
New York, Usa - Shuttle would have to transport seven space tourists
According to the weekly magazine Newsweek, some Us billionaire would be running to invest on the space exploration. "In order to pursue his dream to establish a long human presence in the space - writes... more
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AerospaceEsa: Antonio Fabrizi is the new Director of Launchers
Paris, France - Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain will be Esa General Director
"Last Friday meeting at the Agency’s headquarters in Paris, the Esa Council appointed Mr Antonio Fabrizi, an Italian, to the post of Director of Launchers, for a four-year term". The news has been comunicated b... more
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AerospaceRussian space shuttle Soyuz has docked to the Iss
Moscow, Russia - News has been reported by Russian officials
The space shuttle Soyuz, with on board the Russian Commander, Yuri Malenchenko, 41, and the US engineer, Edward Lu, 39, has successfully docked on International Space Station (Iss). News has been reported... more
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AerospaceGalex will be launched on Monday, the Us satellite to search the space secrets
Cape Canaveral, Usa - A Pegasus carrier rocket will be used for the launch
It will be launched on April 28 Monday at 8:00 am local time the Nasa satellite Galex (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) from the space center of Cape Canaveral, on board of the carrier rocket Pegasus, going... more
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AerospaceThe mysterious object that flew beside the Shuttle was "T-seal "
Washington, Usa - Free way for a memorial for the victims of the outbreak of Columbia and Challanger
The mysterious object that Usaf radar saw flying beside Columbia, space shuttle exploded in flight last February 1, was the "T-seal", a fragment of the left wing. News has been communicated by Nasa's sources,... more
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AerospaceFriday the first manned module will reach Iss after the Shuttle tragedy
Moscow, Russia - A reduced crew, but several experiments will be done
Friday at 10:54 pm local time it will leave from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian shuttle Soyuz, that will carry on the Iss (International Space Station) 2 astronauts, the American Ed... more
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AerospaceDuring the next weeks the Shuttle program's responsible could leave Nasa
Washington, Usa - In 1977 Dittemore entered in Nasa
According to the Us daily newspaper "New York Times", Ron Dittemore, Chief of Shuttle's program during the next weeks will leave Nasa. Daily newspaper explains that Dittemore had previewed to discharge... more
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AerospaceNew security measures for space shuttle's missions
Washington, Usa - Investigating committee on the Columbia's tragedy imposes it
In the next space missions Nasa will have to constantly check, by photographies, all the shuttle in orbit and it will rigorously check the insulating tiles. These the security measures imposed by Investigating... more
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AerospaceEsa and Cnes will sign tomorrow a contract for the development of Atv Control Centre
Paris, France - Automated Transfer Vehicle launch is expected on September 2004
Tomorrow Jörg Feustel-Büechl, Esa Director of Human Spaceflight, will sign a contract with the French space agency Cnes for the development and operations of the Automated Transfer Vehicle Control Centre i... more
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AerospaceIt will be launched on April Sirtf, the US telescope to study the space deeps
Cape Canaveral, Usa - It will be an USD 1,2bn infrared telescope
Nasa has decided to postpone for April 27 the launch of the new space telescope that had been initially scheduled for this week: it will be performed at 4:25 am (8:25 GMT) from the space center of Cape... more
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AerospaceThe first microwaves carrier has been tested in Japan
Tokyo, Japan - Now it is micro prototype, but it has already revolutionized research
"We think possible to reach the construction of a microwaves carrier able to put in orbit satellites or part of satellites with weight of few hundreds of kilograms". This is the comment of the Japanese... more
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AerospacePutin assures more funds for the Iss program
Moscow, Russia - The announcement during Gagarin's first space flight anniversary
Saturday has been the occasion for the Russian President Vladimir Putin to announce Moscow will allocate ulterior funds in order to assure the next space missions linked to the Iss (International Space... more