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AerospaceWATER PRESENCE ON MARS SURFACE CONFIRMED
., It could be a further possibility of a life presence on the "Red Planet" the confirmation from Mars Global Surveyor probe, which is trnasmitting images from planet's surface, that several million of... more
AerospaceFOR THE SECOND TIME, RUSSIAN LAUNCHED A CIVIL SATELLITES FROM A SUBMARINE
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, For the second time, Russian have launched a civil satellites from a nuclear submarine, the Boris Soglebsk, sailing in the Barents Sea. The satellite, Russian made, is an experimental one,... more
AerospaceNEW SPACE WALK FOR ALPHA STATION ASTRONAUTS
USA, Mike Gernhardt and Jim Reilly, two astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis, conducted their second spacewalk of the scheduled mission to hang two of four high-pressure gas tanks on Alpha. The remaining... more
AerospaceSPACE SHIELD MISSILE INTERCEPT TEST FAKE WARHEAD
USA, A target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, a Minuteman II booster with a simulated warhead, has been intercepted during a test, costed 100 USDm, in which a interceptor missile, launched... more
AerospaceRTEMIS SATELLITE SENT INTO WRONG ORBIT
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, The satellite Artemis, launched from Kourou base in French Guiana, was sent into a wrong orbit and now it is in much lower orbits than the geostationary positions they were meant... more
AerospaceATLANTIS SHUTTLE: A ''PERFECT'' LAUCH, ALSO IS THREATEN BY BAD WEATHER
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Atlantis Shuttle lauch has been performed "perfectly", as reported by a Nasa spokesman whch has also declared that the launch has been threatened by the bad wether condisiton in... more
AerospaceONLY ACCIDENTS FEAR BLOCKS THE NUCLEAR ROCKETS USE
USA, According to Nasa sources, is only the fears of crashes and accidents causing possible serious environmental contamination has led the strenght opposition to the use of nuclear booster which could... more
AerospaceALTITUDE RECORD ATTEMPT FOR NASA SOLAR POWERED WING
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, With its new giant solar-powered wing Helios, Nasa will attempt to break the previous altitude record for such aircrafts. THe Helios, a 82 meter span all-wing aircraft, is powered... more
AerospacePRECISION CASTPARTS CORP. SIGNS LONG-TERM AGREEMENT WITH FIATAVIO
PORTLAND, "Precision Castparts Corp. has signed a five-year agreement with FiatAvio of Turin, Italy, to manufacture aerospace and aeroderivative investment castings, valued at approximately $130 million... more
AerospaceMAP LAUNCHED SATURDAY TO MONITOR BIG BANG AFTERGLOW
CAPE CANAVERAL, Nasa's MAP, Microwave Anisotropy Probe, blasted off at 3:46 p.m. EDT Saturday aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The probe will look for the oldest... more
AerospaceNASA ASK FINANCIAL AIDS TO ESA AND JAPAN SPACE AGENCY.
LE BOURGET, PARIS, Nasa sources revealed that has been requested a financial aid to Esa, European Space Agency and to Japanese Space Agency in order to pay to Boeing the modules which Seattle-based industry... more
AerospaceNEW ''ECOLOGIC'' MISSILE ENGINE BY BOEING
LE BOURGET, PARIS, Boeing Aerospace sources informed that Seattle based industry have developed a new high-power missile engine for Delta IV booster, which utilizes simply only liquid hydrogen and liquid... more
AerospaceRUSSIA HAS NO MORE OBSERVATION SATELLITES
LE BOURGET, PARIS, According to rumours at the Le Bourget Air Show, seems that Russia has lost all of its observation satellites, after that the last two have lost orbit due to lack of fuel. After the... more
AerospaceNEW SHUTTLE NOZZLE DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNED TO AEROJET
SACRAMENTO, USA, U.S. aerospace research and development company Aerojet won a USD5m contract from NASA to study the feasibility of developing a channel wall nozzle to replace the tube nozzle in the Space... more
AerospaceCARGO SHIP PROGRESS M1-6 DOCKS WITH ISS
MOSCOW, The cargo ship Progress M1-6 moored with ISS at the ISS at 4:24 a.m. Moscow time, as reported by a spokeswoman for Mission Control. The cargo brought fuel, food, water and parcels for the crew,... more
AerospaceANOTHER ITALIAN ASTRONAUT WILL JOIN A MISSION TO ISS
ROME, Roberto Vittori will be the second italian astronaut to join a mission to the International Space Staion after Umberto Guidoni. Vittori, cosmonaut of European Space Agency, will go into space with... more
AerospaceRUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED THE SPACECRAFT WHICH WILL DELIVER COMPONENTS AND FOOD TO ISS
MOSCOW, Russia has launched last night the Progress-M1 transport spacecraft from the Baikonur launching ground in Kazakhistan. The spacecraft will dock the ISS on wednesday to deliver air components, equipment... more
AerospaceBOEING POSTPONES OF ONE DAY DELTA II LAUNCH
CALIFORNIA, USA, Boeing announced that it will delay of one day the launch of the Delta II rocket due to leakes in a hose, during rocket's first-stage engine. The rocket will take the geosynchronous satellite... more
AerospaceNASA DECLARES THAT THE EARTH IS GETTING CLOSER TO MARS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, NASA declared that the Earth is getting closer to Mars, but it will never catch its orbit. Dr. Tony Phillips, an astronomer at NASA, calculated that the Earth is travelling towards... more
AerospaceTHE RUSSIAN SPACE AUTHORITIES TALK ABOUT CONVERTING A SOYUZ TO SPACE TOURISM
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, The Russia space authorities are evaluating the possibility of converting a Soyuz spacecraft, the same as the one which took Dennis Tito on the ISS, into a tourist spacecraft, in order... more
AerospaceNASA: MAYBE THE MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS ABOUT GRAVITY ARE TO BE REVISED
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Nasa scientists are puzzled about the not calculated slow-down in probes as far apart as Pioneers 10 and 11, which are on opposite sides of the solar system. Experts have ruled... more
AerospaceSCIENTISTS URGE FOR AN IMMEDIATE ASTEROID ACTION TO SAVE EARTH
COLORADO, USA, A group of scientists are urging governments to take an immediate decision relatively to a defensive action in the case of an asteroid or a comet menacing our planet. In a 19-page report... more
AerospaceDENNIS TITO GOES BACK TO RUSSIA TO SEE HIS ''SPACE'' FRIENDS
MOSCOW, RUSSA, The American multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the first space tourist in history, returned to Russia, and more precisely to Star City training center, where he prepared himself together with... more
AerospaceGERMANY INVESTS IN SPACE RESEARCH
BERLIN, The german government is to invest almost $4 million in a space research program by 2005. The project will focus on telecommunications, astronomy, environment and ecosystem. It will permit Germany... more
AerospaceRUSSIA: LAUCHED THE AMERICAN SATELLITE PANAMSAT 10
BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN, The American satellite PanAmSat 10, designed and built by Boeing, has been lauched into orbit today from the Russian Baikonur space settlement, in Kazakhstan, aboard a Russian built... more
AerospaceRUSSIA: CONTACT RESTORED WITH THE FOUR MILITARY SATELLITES
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, The contact with the four military satellites, of which the Russian armed forces had lost control following the fire burst in Kurilovo's control headquarters, a hundred kilometers from... more
AerospaceNASA'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES FLOODED: LOST THOUSANDS OF SPACE PHOTOGRAPHS
GREENBELT, MARYLAND, A damaged water conduit caused the flood of Nasa's photographic archives, in Greenbelt, Maryland, where thousands of space photographs, relative to space exploration, were kept. more
AerospaceNASA: MAN WILL ARRIVE TO MARS WITHIN 2020
WASHINGTON, USA, A Nasa's official declared that man will be capable to arrive to Mars within 2020 and visit other planets of the solar system in the following decades. Daniel Goldin, National Aeronautics... more
AerospaceEADS: CONTINUED WEAKNESS OF THE EURO AGAINST THE US DOLLAR TO RAISE ITS SALES FORECASTS FOR THE YEAR
LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN, The European defence and space company Eads declared that the continued weakness of the Euro against the american Dollar, will raise it sales forecasts by a fifth. The Franco-German... more
AerospaceFIRE IN MOSCOW: THE CONTACTS WITH FOUR MILITARY RUSSIAN SATELLITES ARE INTERRUPTED
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Fire broke out in the technical sector of the control headquarters of the Russian military satellites, not far from Moscow. The Head of the Space Russian forces, Perumov, declared that... more
AerospaceTITO GETS BACK TO LOS ANGELES AND SPURS ON NASA TO REPEAT SUCH SUCCESS
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Dennis Tito, the first space tourist in history, returned to Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, welcomed at the airport by the mayor and by a hearty crowd. Tito, which... more
AerospaceLAUNCHED THE SECOND AMERICAN XM ''ROLL'' SATELLITE
USA, As already announced by WAPA, the second American radio satellite XM "Roll" has been launched successfully yesterday, from the sea-platform situated in the equatorial Pacific Ocean zone at 154 degrees... more
AerospaceTHREE SMALL AEROSONDES COMPLETED ALASKA'S COASTAL SEA ICE MAPPING
ALASKA, Three tiny, unmanned, aerosondes completed Alaska's coastal sea ice mapping, providing important datas about the atmospheric and environmental changes. The small aircrafts, three-foot-long and... more
AerospaceDENNIS TITO RETURNS FROM HIS ''FANTASTIC'' TRIP
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Dennis Tito, the American multimillionaire and first space tourist, landed yesterday morning on the Kazakh steppe with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft with the two Russian astronauts Musabayev... more
AerospaceNASA UNVEILS THE PROJECT OF ITS NEW MORPHING AIRCRAFT
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Dan Goldin, Nasa administrator, communicated, yesterday, the project of the new morphing aircraft, which will be carried on in the next twenty years. The aircraft will have wings and... more
AerospaceNASA ASKS RUSSIA TO REFUND TITO'S TRIP EXPENCES
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, According to the latest news, NASA would ask Russia to pay for the costs of Tito interfering with the American astronauts. Musabayev, who commands the Russian mission that brought... more
AerospaceDENNIS TITO, THE FIRST SPACE TOURIST, IS ENTHUSIASTIC WITH HIS EXPERIENCE
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Dennis Tito, the American 60-year-old multimillionaire and first space tourist, is enthusiastic with his trip on the ISS. Tito reported he was thoroughly happy in space, not suffering... more
AerospaceUSA: STUDENTS PREFER SCIENCE TO SPACE TOURISM
USA, A survey of 3,000 young students, carried out during the Space Day (May 3), revealed that most would not want to go to space as Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, but as scientists or pilots.... more
AerospaceTHE SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR LANDED YESTERDAY AT EDWARDS BASE
CALIFORNIA, The space shuttle Endeavour landed yesterday at Edward's Air Force base in California and not as scheduled at Cape Canaveral in Florida because of the bad weather. The mission, started on April... more
AerospaceDENNIS TITO ENTERS IN THE ISS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Dennis Tito, the 60-year-old American multimilionair, has entered the International Space Station ISS, arriving on the Russian Soyuz TM32 spacecraft, which docked this morning... more
AerospaceNEW ENGINE FOR SHUTTLE ATLANTIS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, A new main engine has been installed on the space shuttle "Atlantis" to make it safer during the climb to orbit, scheduled for June 14. Built by Boeing Rocketdyne in Canoga... more
AerospaceON TITO'S TRAIL MANY COMPANIES PLAN ORBIT HOLIDAYS
USA, Dennis Tito's trip could only be the first of a long series. Many companies are planning to give adventourous turists orbit experiences. The "CSpace Adventures", the company which organized Tito's... more
AerospaceRUSSIA VALUES NEW POSSIBLE SPACE TURISTS NOMINATIONS
RUSSIA, After having concluded positively the launch of the first space turist, the American multimilionair Dennis Tito, Russia is planning new space trips for those who can pay for a different "holiday",... more
AerospaceDISCOVERED THE BIG BANG'S SOUND
WASHINGTON, USA, During the American Physical Society's congress, which took place yesterday, an international group of research workers, led by the Italian Paolo de Bernardis, from Rome's La Sapienza... more
AerospacePIONEER 10, LAUNCHED ON MARCH 2 1972, HAS BEEN DETECTED
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, The Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched on March 2 1972, and of which signals hadn't been heard since Agust 19, has been found. Its signal was detected by a radio antenna outside Madrid,... more
AerospaceNASA ASKS 48 HOUR DELAY FOR THE SPACE TURIST'S LAUNCH
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, NASA asked the Russian Space Agency to postpone of at least 48 hours the launch of the Russian spacecraft that will bring the American multimilionair Dennis Tito on the International... more
AerospaceCONTRASTS FOR THE ESA PROPOSAL OF MANAGING ''GALILEO''
BRUSSELLS, BELGIUM, The proposal made by ESA, European Space Agency, for the assumption of the management of the "Galileo" development program, relative to the European Satellite Positioning System (GPS),... more
AerospaceNASA: NO ''PARKING'' PROBLEMS ON THE ISS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, After the news that the Russian flight with the "space turist", the American multimilionair Dennis Tito, will take off as scheduled, NASA said there will not be any problems for... more
AerospaceTHE AMERICAN MULTIMILIONAIR WILL GO INTO SPACE AS SCHEDULED
BAIKONUR, KAZAKISTAN, According to the Russian Space Agency spokesman, Viatcheslav Mikhailitchenko, the departure of the American Multimilionair, Dennis Tito, from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhistan, will... more
AerospaceTHE SECOND AMERICAN XM SATELLITE CROSSES THE PACIFIC OCEAN TO BE LAUNCHED ON MAY 7
USA, The second American radio satellite XM "Roll" is now aboard the Sea Launch platform, on its way from Long Beach, California, to the equatorial Pacific Ocean zone at 154 degrees West longitude, for... more