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AerospaceEads asks a restructure of Arianespace
Munchen, Germany - More institutional or military launches are necessary
Eads, the European group of defence and aerospace, has asked a greater engagement of Europe for the restructure of Arianespace, the Arianes carrier. As the market is in free fall, "Arianespace cannot... more
AerospaceChina has chosen the astronaut to go into space
Beijing, China – The name is Chen Long
Will be Chen Long, the first Chinese national to go into space. Chinese authorities have released a picture of him in training at the time of the Shenzhou 4 launch in January 2003. According to the Hong... more
AerospaceThe new base of European Space Agency has been inaugurated
Sydney, Australia - It will be specialized in the search of possible space life
New Norcia, locality far 150 km from Perth, has become the new base of European Space Agency. The base, inaugurated on March 6 from Geoff Gallop, Premier of Western Australia, costed EUR 27m and will... more
AerospaceLeft undercarriage’s tires explosion is an hypotheses of the Columbia tragedy’s
Washington, Usa - Theory is of the Independent Commission but there are too many doubts
"We believe that it is possible that the wheels of the left part are exploded", said Roger Tetrault, a member of the Independent Investigating American Committee, that is inquiring about Columbia’s tragedy. S... more
AerospaceRussia asks for more money to the Usa for space missions
Moscow, Russia - Now only Russia can assure the connections
The encounter held on last Monday between the representatives of the Russian Aerospace Agency and some Italian governmental exponents, has been the occasion for the Director of the Russian agency, Yuri... more
AerospaceAriane 5 will launch in orbit Sles
Paris, France - The first launch will be on 2005
The Orbital Recovery Corporation has chosen the carrier Ariane 5 in order to launch in orbit the Spacecraft Life Extension System (Sles), a rescue space system for telecom satellites. The agreement with... more
AerospaceChina wants to conquer the Moon
Beijing, China - In autumn Beijing will launch an astronaut in orbit
According to Beijing’s daily newspaper, Beijing Youth Daily, within three years China will be launch to the conquest of the Moon. At first a satellite will be sended in order to explore the lunar surface a... more
AerospaceImportant agreement signed today between Italy and Russia in aerospace cooperation
Rome, Italy - An EUR 500m accord
With the consent signed today between by the Italian Deputy Industry Minister, Adolfo Urso, and by his Russian peer, reinforces that cooperation between Rome and Moscow in the field of the aerospace, believed... more
AerospaceOne year block for Nasa flights
Washington, Usa - The internal investigation about Columbia crash goes on
The tragedy of Columbia shuttle, happened on February 1 (as published by AVIONEWS the same day), provoked a stop of one year to the shuttle flights. It's what emerges from Nasa. In the meantime, internal... more
AerospaceAn ER-2 searched for shuttle Columbia's debris
Edwards,Usa - The aircraft flew over Western Texas for seven hours
On February 22, an ER-2 research aircraft flew over west Texas sky to search for the space shuttle Columbia debris. The ER-2, civil version of the U-2, operated at 20.000 and 70.000 feet of altitude. Images... more
AerospaceUE Commission grants Galileo services in concession
Brussels, Belgium - If granted to privates, it will generate revenues beyond EUR 500m in 2020
UE Commission has identified substantial markets for Galileo services. It estimated that the system will generate revenues for the operator rising from EUR 66m in 2010 to EUR 500m in 2020. A Commission... more
AerospaceRussia will assure the next flights towards Iss
Moscow, Russia - The crew will be reduced to two astronauts
A formal agreement has been reached between the Russian Government and the American one about the connections that must be assured with the Iss (International Space Station): the next missions will be... more
AerospaceAustralia could enter in the American plan of the " Spaces Shield"
Sydney, Australia - The Australian Government would be studies the possibility
"Our first responsibility is to investigate the ways to protect Australia against the dangerous behaviors of states as Iraq and North Korea. It is not an offensive, but a defensive system. The spread of... more
AerospaceThe European probe Mars Express will be launched on May 23
Paris, France - Russian carrier Soyuz-Fregat will launch orbit the probe
It will be Russian carrier Soyuz-Fregat to launch in orbit Mars Express, European Space Agency probe. The launch has been fixed on May 23, from Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakistan. Mars’ ground geologic m... more
AerospaceNasa engineers previewed Columbia’s tragedy
Houston, USA - Nasa has rendered public e-mails and notes
Last January 31, William Anderson wrote: "Why are we speaking about these things the day before landing and not the day after the launch? If there were signs that the shuttle has lost pieces, I would... more
AerospaceAn insulating tile could be the key of Columbia’s investigations
Houston, USA – Technicians have become suspicious by the unusual color of the part
A Shuttle’s insulator tile, with an unusual orange color, could be the key's inquiry about the tragic Columbia’s incident, exploded in flight last February 1. Orange is the insulating foam color. A min... more
AerospaceWildBlue-1 satellite will be sent in orbit by Ariane 5
Paris, France – Satellite will be launched in 2005
American company WildBlue Communication, specialized in the supply of telecommunication services in wide band, has entrusted to Arianspace the WildBlue-1 satellite launch. A launcher Arianes 5 will carry... more
AerospaceNasa has lost the contact with the probe Pioneer 10
Washington, USA - It had been launched in 1972 and now will be a space garbage
It was the first probe to transmit Saturn and Jove’s images, but NASA has announced to have lost the contact with Pioneer 10. Probe was launched in orbit in 1972, it was conceived for a 21 months mission, b... more
AerospaceNasa is studying new aircraft to replace the shuttle
Palmdale, Usa - Reliability and safety are the new Nasa requirements
The nation's next manned spacecraft must hold at least 4 astronauts and be safer and easier to launch than the space shuttle. The Orbital Space Plane, this is its name, must have the flexibility needed... more
AerospaceShuttle: Nasa does not believe to the theory of the tank’s fragments as tragedy cause
Houston, Usa – According to the agency Administrator it’s only an hypothesis
During an interview on the American network Cnn, Sean O' Keefe, Nasa’s Administrator has declared theory of the detached fragments of Columbia’s external tank, that would have hit the wing, is one of... more
AerospaceIn March, Japan will launch its first spy satellites
Tokyo, Japan - Other two satellites could be launched in summer
According to the Japanese daily newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, two spy satellites would be launched from Japan on next March 28, from Tanegashima island. Until now, Japan did not have technology in... more
AerospaceAgreement between British Government and Bae Systems
London, Great Britain - State covers part of losses tied to a military supply
British Government has caught up with the Bae Systems an agreement in order to share the unexpected costs regarding the supply of three propulsion nuclear submarines and 18 reconnaissance planes, assigned... more
AerospaceRussia will send two astronauts on the Iss in May
Moscow, Russia - They'll relieve the 3 cosmonauts on the space station
In a declaration released today in Moscow, the director of the Russian Space agency Yuri Koptev has asserted that a crew of two Russian astronauts will leave for the Iss (International Space Station) about... more
AerospaceChina is training 14 astronauts
Beijing, China - Men who will leave in autumn with Shenzhou V are among them
They are training in Beijing’s suburb, are all under the 30 years, are approximately one meter and 70 tall, around the 65 Kg weigh and have 1.000 hours of flight. They are the 14 war pilots that China i... more
AerospaceColumbia re-entered in the atmosphere with devastating leak
New York, USA – The Investigating Committee has formulated the first conclusion
In the re-entered Columbia brought a devastating leak. Inside the left wing and probably also in the left wheel, air entered in high temperature. The temperature’s increases inside the shuttle would h... more
AerospaceStill postponed Ariane-4 launch
Kourou, French Guayana - Once again the extreme weather the cause of the postponement
For the third time in three days the bad weather has overtaken the technology and therefore from the base of Kourou it has had to suspend the launch of the space carrier Ariane-4, that would have to carry... more
AerospaceThe Columbia’s undercarriage would have been damaged during the launch
Houston, USA - Hypothesis is in an e-mail
The hypothesis of a Columbia’s undercarriage breakdown is an e-mail object, sent during the mission of the Shuttle, among Nasa’s technicians, than circulated yesterday in the American space agency env... more
AerospaceIss’ astronauts remember with anguish the Columbia’s tragedy
Houston, USA - They have declared to be disposed to remain a year in the space
Yesterday was the first time that Iss’ (International Space Station) astronauts have spoken about the Columbia’s tragedy. During the press conference the three astronauts have told the shock tried at... more
AerospacePostponed the Ariane 4 launch, to try again tomorrow
Kourou, French Guayana - Too strong the wind to perform the launch
Because of the strong wind the launch of Ariane 4 previewed for this morning has been sent back but it will be tried again tomorrow, always from the launch site in Kourou, in the French Guayana. This... more
AerospaceThe Columbia inquiry commission is hunting the private films
Washington, USA - An enormous image mosaic is being constructed
"What we are making is to create an enormous image mosaic, films and telemetric datas that follow the Shuttle’s way from when it has flown over the California coast until we have lost the contacts". T... more
AerospaceA Russia-Esa agreement has been signed to launch Soyuz from the Kourou European base
Paris, France – Yesterday in Paris the sign
An agreement, signed yesterday in Paris by the Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov and by the European Space Agency (Esa) General Manager, Antonio Rodotà, has established that in future the Russian's... more
AerospaceWaste water vent was the probable cause of the Columbia tragedy
Houston, USA - The experts do not exclude the hypothesis
It would be the "Waste water vent", a mixture of urine and water expelled by Shuttle and created by the solar cells, the mysterious object recorded by Nasa’s instruments near the Shuttle, before the t... more
AerospaceThe Shuttle’s left wing and one of the 300 control system box have been recovered
Houston, USA – The fragments found are 12.000
Yesterday, one of the 300 Columbia’s control system and a part of Shuttle’s left wing has been recovered. The fragments exploded in the tragic incident on February 1. Initially Nasa's experts had spo... more
AerospaceToday official ceremony for Ilan Ramon, tomorrow the burial in Galilea
Tel Aviv, Israel - All the highest charges of the state were present
Israel President Moshe, Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, beyond numerous Armed Forces exponents have gone in Lod military base, near Tel Aviv, to give the extreme salute to Ilan Ramon. It was as Israel has... more
AerospaceColumbia’s door has been found
Houston, USA - The fragment was in Nacogdoches (Texas)
According to Nacogdoches sheriff, in Texas, the Shuttle's door and its hydraulic mechanism of opening would be intact. The NASA experts have found, in the little town of Texas, the access door for Columbia’s c... more
AerospaceA new crew is going to begin the training for next Shuttle launch
Houston, USA - The shuttle would have to leave after the summer
"My job is to prepare well my group, without remembering about what was happened. We cannot allow to make it. I have to be ready for Nasa ok and when a new Shuttle will be ready to take off". This is... more
AerospaceShuttle tragedy: the supposition of a crash against a space detritus is reinforcing
Houston, USA - A Nasa relation puts in guard against the risks of the "space garbage"
"We have catalogued about 9000 objects of land origin that turn over our head. There are fragments of the diameter from ten centimeters and over , for those smallest ones we are not able to characterize... more
AerospaceThe seven Columbia victims remains have been recovered
Houston, USA – The statement has been comunicated by Nasa
"The remains will be given to their families soon". This is Frederick Gregory’s declaration, Nasa vice administrator. The American space agency, in fact, said that all the seven Columbia astronaut’s rem... more
AerospaceColumbia crew knew their fate
Washington, USA- Probably the space garbage has been the tragedy cause
According to the reconstruction supplied from NASA to Eliezer Wolferman, Israeli Ilan Ramon’s father, the astronaut died in the Columbia’s tragedy, the shuttle crash could have been provoked by a small met... more
AerospaceThe Columbia tragedy has not been provoked by tank’s detritus
Houston, USA - The Nasa program space leader excludes Hipotesys
"It is not sense that a detritus has been the cause of the loss of Columbia and its crew. There is a lacking connection, but we think there is other ". This is the Ron Dittemore’s declaration, the Nasa s... more
AerospaceA new comet for "Rosetta" probe
Rome, Italy - The launch will not take off before an year
The launch towards the Wirtanen comet, previewed for half January, is sent back for problems to the Arianes 5 vector, but the interplanetary probe "Rosetta" will have a new objective. The list of the comets... more
AerospaceIn 1989 three aliens flew over a Russian atomic polygon
Moscow, Russia - The statement is in the secret Kgb archives
According to the Russian daily newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", the aliens exist and often with their spaceships they have flew over Russia. The documents published by the daily newspaper come from Kgb... more
AerospaceRecovered the remains of Israeli astronaut
Houston, USA- This morning Nasa has informed the Israeli defense
" This morning, Nasa’s authorities have informed the representatives of the Israeli forces of defense that the body of Ilan Ramon, the pilot died in the Columbia disaster, has been identified". This i... more
AerospaceNasa knew the vulnerability of the Shuttle’s wings
Houston, USA – A 9 years ago study underlined the danger
According to Paul Fishbeck, an engineering professor of Carnegie Mellon University, who had headed a study on the damages caused by detritus in the first fifty shuttle launches, Nasa knew the relative... more
AerospaceThe image of Columbia’s wing is not reliable
Milan, Italy - The Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni has doubts about the photo
"I have doubts that it is the Columbia’s wing of and I believe that those are not leaks. I believe that to launch in appraisals with insufficient images without details, is not easy. I’m in the opinion tha... more
AerospaceThe carrier that brought refuelling to the Iss has docked with success
Moscow, Russia - The cargo will guarantee an autonomy of various weeks
According to the sources of the Russian space control center Rosaviakosmos in Koriolov, the dock maneuver of the Russian carrier Progress, that carried refuelling to the Iss, has happened at 14,50 GT.... more
AerospaceThe image of Columbia’s wing is not reliable(2): the confirmation by the Iss experts
Milan, Italy - Italian Space Agency responsible for Iss has communicated the news
The doubts manifested by Italian astronaut, Umberto Guidoni, about the photo that shows the presumed leaks on Columbia’s wing and that is going around the world, have found confirmation from the Iss e... more
AerospaceAfter Columbia crash, Iss is in risk
London, United Kingdom - The International Space Station could pay the harder consequences of the Shuttle crash
According to the British newspaper "Guardian" Nasa would risk to lose also the International Space Station (Iss), orbiting about 180 miles far from the Earth. This hypothesis would be the consequence of... more
AerospaceColumbia's fate already set? (2): sceptical former Italian astronaut
Roma, Italy - Too little the proofs, but it's going ahead
According to some declarations of the Italian former-astronaut Maurizio Cheli, who participated in 1996 to a Columbia mission, there would be serious doubts care the responsibilities on the incident of... more
AerospaceColumbia's fate already set?
Washington, Usa - A crack on the left wing, maybe Nasa knew
It was known that something was wrong at the moment of the launch, than the left wing of Columbia space shuttle was damaged while taking off, because of a material block that has been detached from the... more