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Aerospace''PROGRESS'' IN ORBIT, IT WILL DESTROY MIR
MOSCOW, The space shuttle "Progress" has been launched from the Baikonur's base, Kazakhstan, to destroy, towards the March end, the orbiting station Mir, in the space since 1985. The destruction is necessary... more
AerospaceE.T., WHERE ARE YOU?
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, Early next year a new telescope, with an 1.8 metre Optical, designed to search for messages from aliens will start scouring the entire northern sky. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial... more
AerospaceATLANTIS SHUTTLE LAUNCH POSTPONED
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., Yesterday night Nasa decided to postpone the Atlantis Shuttle launch to Feb. 6 for additional booster inspections. NASA made the decision few hours before the countdown, when the... more
AerospaceGIANT TELESCOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, South Africa is building a new giant telescope: this notice is very important because of the country's science programs are desperately in need of excitement. This telescope,... more
AerospaceTWO NEW PLANETARY SYSTEMS DISCOVERED
USA, Scientific planet hunters have found two new planetary systems, neither of them much like ours and one of them downright bizarre, researchers said. One star has two planets locked in harmonic... more
Aerospace10 NEW MOONS DISCOVERED AROUND JUPITER
USA, Ten new satellites have been spotted around Jupiter, bringing the total number of known moons around the gas giant in the solar system to 28, astronomers announced this week: they are much smaller,... more
AerospaceCHINA LAUNCHES SECOND UNMANNED SPACECRAFT
BEIJING, The unmanned spacecraft in the seconf test flight was launched today from the base of Jiuquan, in the Gobi desert. It would return in a few days and it will conduct experiments in physics and... more
AerospaceASTRONOMERS FIND HUGE CLUSTER OF STARS IN DISTANT UNIVERSE
SAN DIEGO, CA, Astronomers have found what may be the largest structure in the observable universe -- an immense concentration of quasars and galaxies clustered across more than 600 million light years.... more
AerospaceNASA SELECTS FINALISTS FOR NEXT DISCOVERY MISSION
U.S.A., NASA has narrowed the choices for an upcoming Discovery space exploration mission to three proposals: a space telescope that would search for terrestrial planets, a probe that could look inside... more
AerospaceFIRST STAR-TOURIST TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
USA, A U.S. businessman who planned a trip to the doomed Russian space station Mir will instead fly to the international space station, according to an Interfax News Agency report. Dennis Tito, 60-year-old,... more
AerospaceBOEING WINS CONTRACT WITH US AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON, With the $160.3 million contract the U.S. air force has awarded Boeing to build three communications satrellites which will be equipped with a high-capacity communications satellite system... more
AerospaceCHINA WILL PUT ON IN ORBIT A SECOND SPACE VEHICLE
CHINA, China is in order to put on in orbit a new unmanned space vehicle in the next days, the second of a program that will carry a Chinese astronaut in the space in the near years. It is unknown the... more
AerospaceRUSSIA TO SCHEDULE 29 SPACE LAUNCHES IN 2001
MOSCOW, Sergei Dervyashkin, spokesman for Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces, said 22 rockets will be launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan and will send into orbit some satellites. Two... more
AerospaceNEW PICTURES BY JUPITER
U.S.A., Scientists at Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are proclaiming victory in today's flyby of Jupiter by the unmanned spacecraft Cassini. The spacecraft worked in concert with... more
AerospaceRUSSIA IN FAVOUR OF DEPLOYMENT OF AN ANTIMISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM WITH EU
MOSCOW, The russian Strategic Rocket Force Commander, Gen. Vladimir Yakovlev, said he wishes to open negotiations with european partners to "experiment and deploy an antimissile system". It is still not... more
AerospaceSPACE BIKE FOR ASTRONAUTS
ORANGE, CA, Astronauts may soon be able to participate in a Tour de Space of sorts. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have developed an exercise bicycle to be used in the zero-gravity... more
AerospaceRUSSIA: SIX SATELLITES LOST
MOSCOW, The six satellites, launched from Plisetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia with a Ukranian-made Cyclone-3 rocket, were lost soon after they were blasted into space. A spokeswoman for the Plisetsk... more
AerospaceISS ASTRONAUTS COULD CELEBRATE 15 NEW YEAR'S DAY
., The three astronauts in the International Space Station could celebrate 15 New Year's Day in an only day, due to Earth's rotation not syncronized with ISS orbit. Celebrations probably will limited to... more
AerospaceMIR: NEW TROUBLES FOR THE ORBITING CRAFT
MOSCOW, Mission control said it lost radio contact and track of the Mir the other day. Then it regained firm control and the spokesman Valery Lyndin said they are mantaining full control of the station.... more
AerospaceANGRY SOLAR CYCLE AT ZENITH
USA, As the Sun's stormy season approaches its zenith, solar scientists have the best seat in the house, using the largest coordinated fleet of spacecraft and ground observatories ever assembled to observe... more
AerospaceSPACECRAFT MANOEUVERING PROBLEM HALTS JUPITER STUDIES
PASADENA, CA, NASA has temporarily suspended the Cassini spacecraft's observations of Jupiter because of a problem with a manoeuvering system. Cassini has benn sending back images and other scientific... more
AerospaceCHINESE ''GPS'' BECOME REALITY
BEIJING, CHINA, China ha completed its country's satellite positioning system by launching the second Beidou satellite employing a "Long March" A-3 rocket. According to national press agency Xinhua, this... more
AerospaceDELAYED SHUTTLE LAUNCH
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL, The launch of shuttle Atlantis, that will carry to the international space station the Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev and the American Bill Shepherd, was postponed... more
AerospaceFRENCH WOMAN ABOARD SPACE STATION
FRANCE, French Minister of Research annonced that Claudie Andre-Deshays will become the first astronaut from France to board International space station: the 43-year-old woman will begin training... more
AerospaceMARS EXPLORATION
U.S.A., The U.S. and its European partners are preparing to mount an ambitious campaing of Mars missions, including a critical 2007 launch opportunity that could serve as a trial run for a sample return... more
AerospacePLUTO BACK IN NASA PROJETS
U.S.A., NASA hasn't given up completely on tiny Pluto, the only planet in the solar system that has yet to be visited by spacecraft. Three months after cancelling a NASA-designed Pluto mission due to spiraling... more
AerospaceARIANE-5 ROCKET LAUNCHED TO PLACE TWO SATELLITES INTO ORBIT
FRENCH GUIANA, The rocket was launched from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch centre in Kourou on the north-east coast of South America. It placed two satellite into orbit, Astra 2D and Aurora... more
AerospaceASTEROID IMPACT CRATER RE-EXAMINED FOR CLUES TO DINOSAURS' DEMISE
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A., The rock and dust kicked up by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago were not enough to kill the dinosaurs, according to researchers, but the debris may have sparked a deadly global... more
AerospaceBOEING'S SAT WILL BE LAUNCHED FROM FRENCH GUIANA
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, Boeing Satellite System Inc. (BSS), a unit of the Boeing Company, annonced yesterday that the launch of ASTRA 2D, a Boeing 376 HP sat built for Societe Europeenne des Satellites... more
AerospaceUSA WORKING TO STOP OLD SATELLITES FALLING TO EARTH
USA, Pentagon is intervening on 74 old satellites about to fall out of orbit and scheduled to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over the next 14 months. They are owned by Iridium phone company and Pentagon... more
AerospaceNEC AND TOSHIBA TO PLAN JOINT VENTURE
TOKYO, The two japanese satellite makers today said they plan a joint venture by April 2001 to consolidate aerospace units and strenghten global competitiveness. The venture will be capitalized at $132... more
AerospaceSATELLITES TO BE LAUNCHED BY AN-124 PLANES
MOSCOW, The russian government approved the establishment of a private consortium, including the polish cargo carrier Poliot Airlines and many russian industrials, which intends to use four Antonov An-124... more
AerospaceNEW DELAY FOR EURASIASAT 1 SATELLITE LAUNCH
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, The satellite was due to have been launched aboard an Ariane-4 rocket late Monday from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch center in Kourou, French Guiana, but a technical... more
AerospaceGALILEO PROJECT: ITALY RISKS TO BE EXCLUDED
MILAN, According to the italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera", Italy could be out of Galileo project. The article explains that the bill allocating about $250 million for the project could be not approved... more
AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR RETURNED TO EARTH
CAPE CANAVERAL, The space shuttle Endeavour landed yesterday at scheduled time. The weather cooperated and there have been no problem in the touch down. The space agency planned six shuttle missions to... more
AerospaceENDEAVOUR SPACE SHUTTLE TO RETURN TO EARTH TODAY
CAPE CANAVERAL, The touch down at Kennedy Space Center is scheduled at 18,04 pm. The five astronauts, after accomplishing succesfully the mission on the International Space Center, spent sunday testing... more
AerospaceUSA'S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE CONTRACT FOR IRIDIUM SAT
WASHINGTON, USA, USA's Department of Defence purchased Iridium satellite's services for 24 months for $72 million: is possible to renew the contract until 2007.The Iridium, that offers state-of-the-art... more
AerospaceEUTELSAT TO INVEST ON INTERNET TRANSMISSION
PARIS, The Paris-based satellite operator plans to invest $879m in five satellites exclusively dedicated to internet transmission in orbit. They will be built by european manufacturers. The sharholders... more
AerospaceEURASIASAT-1 SATELLITE LAUNCH DELAYED TO NEXT WEEK
FRANCE, The launch of the telecommunications satellite produced by Arianespace, scheduled for tomorrow from the European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana, was delayed to next week after prelaunch... more
AerospaceENDEAVOUR ASTRONAUTS TO FACE REPAIR JOB ON SPACE STATION WING
USA, Nasa came up with a plan for Endeavour's astronauts to tighten a slack solar wing on the international space station. The tricky mission will be undergone by the two astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos... more
AerospaceBOEING BUILT SATELLITE COMPLETED INITIAL OPERATIONAL TEST PHASE
EL SEGUNDO, USA, Thuraya-1 satellite completed succesfully its IOT, Initial Operational Test. The solar wings, C-band antenna and L-nabd reflector were deployed and tested. During the next months Boeing... more
AerospaceTURKISH SAT IN ORBIT BETWEEN FRIDAY AND SATRUDAY
PARIS, Alcatel Space's EURASIASAT 1, a turkish sat, will be launched in orbit by an Ariane-4 rocket in the nigth between friday and saturday. This is third turkish sat launched by european rockets. EUROASIASAT... more
AerospaceMILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM CAPE CANAVERAL
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, U.S. Air Force lauched a military satellite from Kennedy space center near Cape Canaveral, using a Atlas 2A booster. The kind of missions that satellite will cover, requested by a... more
AerospacePOWER CABLES WRESTLED ON SPACE STATION ALPHA
USA, Two astronauts of the space Shuttle Endeavour, Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega wrestled with a pair of power cables to link the solar arrays they installed on Sunday with the station power grid. The... more
AerospaceISRAEL TO LAUNCH SATELLITE TO TAKE HIGH-RESOLUTION PICTURES
ISRAEL, The satellite, called Eros, will be launched today from a base of Siberia. It will use the technologies of OFEQ-3 spy satellite developed for israeli aircraft industry. It was produced by Imagesat,... more
AerospaceSECOND PANEL UNFOLDED ON SPACE STATION
USA, It took about two hours to unfurl the second solar panel on the International Space Station. The operation was directed by Cmdr. Brent Jett. Shuttle astronauts now will prepare for a more than six-hour... more
AerospaceISS: ASTRONAUTS FIXED THE FIRST WING
USA, Two astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour attached the first solar-power wing, which already begun to generate electricity. It took a seven-hour spacewalk to be fixed by the two astronauts. Two more... more
AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR LAUNCHED IN THE NIGHT
CAPE CANAVERAL, The space shuttle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will deliver two solar arrays to the International Space Station. Once activated, they will provide the orbiting... more
AerospaceREADY TO LAUNCH THE FIRST COUPLE OF GIANT SOLAR PANEL FOR ISS
SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, Will be launched with the next shuttle Endeavour, on november 30th, the first giant array of photovoltaic solar panels that, in conjuction with other six, that will be delivered... more
AerospaceIBM SOLD CALCULATOR TO US AIR FORCE
NEW YORK, International Business Machine (IBM)announced today that it sold to US Air Force a calculator to detect unidentified flying objects. The staff for space surveillance of the air force will use... more