Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2008 - China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television.
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2008 - DestinySpace Enterprises (DSE) has announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Mojave-based rocket manufacturer and launch provider Interorbital Systems (IOS) to market IOS' low-cost commercial orbital space tourism and satellite launch services.
Denver (UPI) Feb 26, 2008 - The U.S. space agency has added an interactive program to its Web site, allowing users to discover some of the space technologies that now impact daily life.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2008 - The rumbling of space shuttle engines and the view of a spectacular liftoff cause excitement as they capture the imagination of the world. Support systems in the tunnels beneath Launch Pads 39A and 39B are not so glamorous, but are extremely important to the success of those launches.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2008 - If you have the stomach for it, Vinnie LaFiura has an amazing view to show you. But to see it, you must be willing to go out on a 30-inch-wide painter's platform some 52 stories above the ground.
Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2008 - The U.S. space agency has issued a draft environmental assessment on potential impacts resulting from the space shuttle's retirement in 2010.
Moscow (ESA) Feb 25, 2008 - When the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is launched in early March it will use several key spacecraft hardware items such as the docking and refuelling systems, and the Kurs radar, procured in Russia. European and Russian engineers have worked together to adapt them from their previous use on the Russian spacecraft Progress and Soyuz to the much larger 20-tonne ATV vessel.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 25, 2008 - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries expects to win its first orders for commercial satellite launches with its H-2A rocket from foreign companies, its president said in an interview published Monday.
Newark DL (SPX) Feb 25, 2008 - Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as the getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza. In fact, the final frontier could begin showing up in travel guides by 2010, they predict.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 23, 2008 - Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2008 - China hopes to launch its second moon-orbiting satellite in 2009, state media reported Friday, as the country steps up its space programme.
Beijing (XNA) Feb 22, 2008 - China has passed initial ground tests for its Shenzhou VII spaceship airlock module and an extravehicular spacesuit, Thursday's China daily quoted a top scientist as saying. Both the airlock module and the extravehicular spacesuit passed the tests, which simulated the zero-gravity environment of space, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008 - NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to develop and demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services that could open new markets and pave the way for contracts to launch and deliver crew and cargo to the International Space Station.
United Nations (AFP) Feb 21, 2008 - A United Nations flag is to be flown to the International Space Station in April before returning to earth to be displayed at a space exhibition in Vienna, the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs said Thursday.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 21, 2008 - Ariane 5's largest payload ever has been integrated on the launch vehicle, taking Arianespace's upcoming historic mission with the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) one step closer to its March 8 liftoff. The integration process at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana began late last week, and was concluded with the spacecraft's power-up this weekend atop the launcher.
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 20, 2008 - When the United States aims to shoot down one of its wayward top-secret spy satellites this week, a global group of 20 hobbyists keen to unearth heavenly mysteries will be watching.
