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AerospaceGALILEO PROJECT, CONCERNS AND IRRITATIONS FOR EU INACTIVITY
BRUXELLES, BELGIUM, In surrounding interested to Galileo European GPS project, concerns and irritations raise for the project's future, as European Union seems have no definite interest to go-ahead. Swedish... more
AerospaceARIANE LAUNCHED TWO SATELLITES
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, An European Space Agency official said that European new generation Ariane-5 rocket placed two communications satellites into orbit after a launch from the European Space Agency... more
AerospaceMOODY'S RATES EADS WITH ''A2''
USA, It was the first Moody's rating of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. The "A2" rating reflects the company's positive financial situation and the important role it plays in the world... more
AerospaceDISCOVERY BLASTS OFF
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, The space shuttle Discovery lifted off to deliver a new crew to the international space station (SS). Expedition One astronauts will return to earth next week. The primary objective... more
AerospaceRUSSIA WILL LAUNCH SATELLITES FOR NIGERIA
LAGOS, Russia is to launch three satellites to be used to monitor the atmosphere and environment of a region covering Nigeria: the three satellites are part of a new high-tech program, which Russia plans... more
AerospaceMIR (2): THE SPACECRAFT INSURED FOR $200 MLN
MOSCOW, After months shrugging off foreigners' protests that the Mir space station could come crashing down on a populated area, Russia is negotiating a $200 million insurance policy against any damage... more
AerospaceMIR DUMPING ONCE AGAIN POSTPONED
MOSCOW, The earliest date of Mir's dumping is March 6, but the most likely dates are between March 13 and March 18 or possibly later. The station is currently circling about 257 kilometers above the Earth,... more
AerospaceCUTS ON NASA FINANCIAL AIDS FOR ISS
WASHINGTON D.C., Bush administration reduced financial aids for International Space Station of 4 USDbn, about Nasa requests for U.S. participation to production of station systems. Cuts will have effects... more
AerospaceITALIAN-BUILT MODULE LEONARDO TO BE LAUNCHED ON THURSDAY
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, Space shuttle Discovery is to be launched after tomorrow from Kennedy Space Center on a mission named STS 102. Discovery will have to deliver a relief crew to Space Station Alpha... more
AerospaceWHERE ITALY WANT TO GO ABOUT GALILEO?
BRUXELLES, BELGIUM, The future of the planned new European Global Positioninig System (GPS) named Galileo, for which Italy, with a law, allocated about 310 EURm, is not clear about its definition. In... more
AerospaceNASA TO CANCEL X PROGRAMS
USA, The five-year 4,5 USDbn Space Launch Initiative program is undergoing heavy cuts. The X-33 and X-34 rocket planes have been cancelled last week and a third program, the X-38 lifeboat for space station... more
AerospaceRUSSIA REALIZES FIRST SPACE SAILSHIP PROTOTYPE
MOSCOW, Probably the famous italian skipper Soldini never will race with it in a offshore regatta, but the space sailship is now a reality. Developed by Russian laboratories, in collaboration with U.S.... more
AerospaceFEAR IN GERMANY FOR MIR RETURN
BERLIN, GERMANY, The distruction of the space station Mir, planned for March, 9th, is causing fear in Germany, as there is the risk that some major parts, not completely burned in Earth's atmosphere, could... more
AerospaceMETEOR FALLS IN ENGLAND
YORK, GREAT BRITAIN, According to specialists, it would be unlikely that a noticeable meteor could fall in the next times on the Earth. But, some days ago, a woman working in a farm of Hopgrove, near... more
AerospacePROGRESS FASTENS SPACE STATION
MOSCOW, The Russian shuttle-cargo Progress accomplished without difficulties its mission of refueling to the International Space Station: left monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian nation... more
AerospaceANCIENT MARS LIFE FOUND
WASHINGTON, "Spaceflight Now" reported that crystals of the mineral magnetite, embedded within a famous Martian meteorite, have provided scientists with the latest evidence that primitive life once existed... more
AerospaceNASA ABANDONS AUSTRALIAN BALLOON EXPERIMENT
SYDNEY, NASA will not attempt to relaunch its experiment to gather information on cosmic radiation after aborted balloon journey in Central Australia. An ultra-long-duration-balloon carrying a million-dollar... more
AerospaceALPHA ASTRONAUTS SOON ON THE EARTH
MOSCOW, The crew of Russian space station Alpha, the Russian Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev and American Bill Shepherd, will be back soon on the earth after four months of space stay. They have repositioned... more
AerospaceARTEMIS : EUROPE'S ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE TO BE LAUNCHED SOON ON ARIANE 5
ROME, Artemis, the most advanced telecommunication satellite ever developed by the European Space Agency, is now slated for launch on a European Ariane 5 launcher sometime between June and August 2001.... more
AerospaceATLANTIS LANDING TODAY
FLORIDA, Atlantis Shuttle would have to land today at 12.27 p.m. EST (two days after it had originally been scheduled to touch down) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, barring accidents: this shuttle returns... more
AerospaceAN AN-124 FOR SATELLITE LAUNCHES
MOSCOW, According to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" the Russian aerospace industry is currently transforming one An-124-100 plane into a flying cosmodrome. The unique Russian-Ukrainian Air Launch system will... more
AerospaceATLANTIS RETURNES HOME
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TEXAS, Shuttle Atlantis will return on the Earth Sunday: its mission has been successful completed. Last Friday it had left with its crew of 4 astronauts, to the International... more
AerospaceMIR DUMPING POSTPONED
MOSCOW, Russian Aerospace Agency announced that the dumping of the Mir space station, scheduled for around March 6, have postponed to an undefined moment between March 13 and 18, because of some problems... more
AerospaceSECOND SPACEWALK FOR ATLANTIS ASTRONAUTS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA, According to NASA two shuttle astronauts have floated out into space to put finishing touches on the International Space Station's new science lab. The astronauts used the shuttle's... more
AerospaceNEAR PROBE IS TRANSMITTING
U.S., Against every forecast the Near probe has succeeded to land on the Eros asteroid without, apparently, having received damages. Before impact (comparable, according to the scientists, in that of a... more
AerospaceASTRONAUTS ENTER DESTINY FOR FIRST TIME
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TEXAS, The space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts, arrived Friday to the international station Alpha to 225 miles from Earth, entered yesterday for firdt time in the scientific laboratory... more
AerospaceFIRTS ITALIAN MILITARY SAT IN ORBIT
FRENCH GUYANA, Italian sat for military telecommunicationses, Sicral, was launched from the European space base of Kourou, French Guyana, by an Ariane rocket. On the rocket there was also the British sat... more
AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS IN ORBIT
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA, The space shuttle Atlantis has been sent in orbit to the sunset yesterday, carrying the most expensive module of the international space station, the "Destiny" science laboratory,... more
AerospaceEADS TO ACQUIRE STAKE IN FINNISH AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
UK, The european group today said it is to take a 26.8 per cent stake in Patria, Finland's state-owned aerospace and defence company. EADS didn't provide any detail about the economic transaction. The... more
AerospacePUTIN VISITS UKRAINE
MOSCOW, Russian President Vadimir Putin will visit next Sunday and Monday Ukraine and will meet Ukranian President Leonid Kuchma: together will visit Yuzhmash aerospace factory. Kuchma was director of... more
AerospaceFINMECCANICA TO FOCUS ON SPACE AND DEFENSE
MILAN, Giuseppe Bono, Finmeccanica SpA chief executive, speaking in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore, said the company is to focus on the core business of aerospace and defense in the near future. This... more
AerospaceMARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR COMPLETES MAPPING MISSION
PASADENA, CA, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is close to finishing its main mission, after having gathered tens of thousands of images of the red planet. The robotic probe began mapping the planet in 1999,... more
AerospaceNASA SPACE PROBE WILL LAND ON ASTEROID
U.S.A., Next 12 February will be the first attempt to make to come down one space probe on an asteroid: NASA realized "Near Shoemaker", that it will be to come down on the rock surface of Eros, an celestial... more
Aerospace"DONATELLO" LEAVED FOR CAPE CANAVERAL
TORINO, ITALY, The module MPLM "Donatello", the last one of the three Italian Space Agency pressurized modules realized by Alenia Spazio, leaved yesterday for Cape Canaveral from Torino-Caselle airport... more
AerospaceNASA CHOOSES CREWS FOR NEXT LAUNCHS
USA, Monday, NASA released the two flight crews names for missions later this year: one for the space shuttle, the other for the International Space Station. A captain in the U.S. Navy, Dominic Gorie,... more
AerospaceMIR DISMANTLING STARTED
RUSSIA, After 15 years of "honourable service", in which however, many troubles have marked its life, "Mir" Russian space station starts to be dismantled, as it is to be destroyed piece after piece. The... more
AerospaceRUSSIAN AEROSPACE IN INCREASING
RUSSIA, Russian scientis plan to make seven space launches between next February and April: for the plan Proton-M, a modified launch vehicle of the heavy class, developed by the Khrunichev Space Centre,... more
AerospaceATLANTIS WILL BE LAUNCHED ON FEBRUARY, 7
CAPE CANAVERAL, Nasa announced that "Atlantis" space shuttle will be lauched from Cape Canaveral on february, 7 following a delay period need to verify systems on board. The launch was scheduled for... more
AerospaceALSO ON VENUS THERE WAS THE WATER
U.S.A., According to planetary researchers hot, dry Venus might have once been a wet, cool world like Earth and ancient Mars. The new evidence comes from a series of experiments documenting the chemical... more
Aerospace3.554 METEORITES FOUND IN ANTARTICA
TOKYO, During a three-week search in Antarctica Japanese scientists have found 3,554 meteorites which could yield clues about the rest of our solar system or the possibility of any traces of life on other... more
Aerospace'RINGED MOLECULE' FOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SPACE
SPAIN, Terrestrial life requires carbon atoms that form ringed-shaped molecules. Now for the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of similar atomic structures in interstellar space. Using... more
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