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ATK wins USAF space propulsion contract
Minneapolis (UPI) Sep 14, 2007 - Alliant Techsystems has won a U.S. Air Force contract to develop a propulsion system for small spacecraft.
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Northrop Grumman KEI Team Completes Fourth Rocket Motor Test
Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 13, 2007 - On the heels of a successful Stage 1 test burn just three months ago, and with its eye on a booster flight test next year, the Kinetic Energy Interceptors (KEI) program team fired another powerful Stage 1 rocket motor yesterday, its fourth consecutive test in the past 18 months. Under contract to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is the KEI prime contractor, with Raytheon Company as the principal subcontractor.
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Getting A Taste Of Space
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 13, 2007 - Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near-Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft -- exposing them to the extreme conditions found in space. The Foton-M3 capsule will be launched by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday 14th September at 12 noon BST (1700 local time). After 9 minutes of propelled flight the Foton will reach a low-Earth orbit where it will remain for 11.8 days before the re-entry capsule will return to Earth.
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More Teachers Get A Lesson In Weightlessness
New York NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007 - The Northrop Grumman Foundation launched 57 teachers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania into weightlessness today as part of the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery program. The goal: To inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers -- critical areas where the U.S. has fallen behind globally.
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Foton Satellite Launch To Go Ahead Despite Proton Crash
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2007 - The recent crash of a Russian Proton-M rocket will not affect the launch of a Foton bio-satellite piggybacked on a Soyuz rocket, since the two rockets are entirely different, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency said Tuesday. A Proton-M rocket with a Japanese communications satellite on board crashed September 6 shortly after launch from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
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STS-120 To Deliver Harmony Node To ISS
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2007 - A series of recent shuttle missions have added to the International Space Station's exterior with new elements for its main truss. Now, Discovery will take into orbit a connecting module that will increase the orbiting laboratory's interior space. October's STS-120 mission will bring the Harmony module, christened after a school contest, that will provide attachment points for European and Japanese laboratory modules. Known in technical circles as Node 2, it is similar to the six-sided Unity module that links the U.S. and Russian sections of the station.
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Russia To Launch UAE Spacecraft In 2008 From Baikonur
Abu Dhabi, UAE (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2007 - The chief of Russia's space agency said Monday Russia would launch a spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2008 from the launch site in Kazakhstan. We plan to launch a remote sensing satellite for the UAE in 2008, Anatoly Perminov said, adding that a related agreement had been signed on the sidelines of President Vladimir Putin's first visit to the Arab state.
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World Space Expo At Kennedy Space Center Celebrates 50 Years In Space
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2007 - Kennedy Space Center plays host to the inaugural World Space Expo, celebrating NASA's 50 years in space exploration. World Space Expo will take place from Thursday, November 1, 2007 through Sunday, November 4, 2007 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex east of Orlando, Florida.
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Partners Sought For Singapore Space Venture
Singapore (AFP) Sep 11, 2007 - A proposed Singapore spaceport, announced last year, has yet to get off the ground because the company is still looking for local partners to finance it, a US space travel company said Tuesday. Eric Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Space Adventures, said his company has received interest from potential space travellers across the region -- including Japan, China and Malaysia -- but the Singapore project has yet to take flight because the company still needs local partners.
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Indonesian Papua To Accommodate Russian Satellite’s Launching In 2010
Jakarta, Indonesia (XNA) Sep 10, 2007 - Frans Kaisiepo Airport in Biak Numfor district, Papua province of Indonesia, has been designated as the location from where a Russian satellite will be launched in 2010, Indonesian Antara News Agency reported Saturday. The Russian satellite will be launched using an air launch system. And this will certainly require a huge investment, Biak Numfor, District Chief Yusuf Melianus Maryen, was quoted as saying.
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Voyager At 30: Looking Beyond And Within
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2007 - A mission that was supposed to last just five years is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall. Scientists continue to receive data from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as they approach interstellar space. The twin craft have become a fixture of pop culture, inspiring novels and playing a central role in television shows, music videos, songs and movies from the 1980s and 1990s. Many of these fictional works focus on what would happen if an alien race were able to locate Earth via Voyager's famous golden records, which include sounds and images of Earth.
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Russian Proton-M Rocket With Japanese Satellite Crashes On Launch
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 07, 2007 - A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite exploded shortly after lift-off early Thursday, a space agency spokesman said. The rocket, which was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 2:43 a.m. Moscow time (10:43 p.m. GMT Wednesday), experienced an engine malfunction and second-stage separation failure 139 seconds into its flight, and came down in the central Kazakh steppe, 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, the spokesman said.
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Bill Dana – Rocket Pilot
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 07, 2007 - Checklist pages floated mid-air, suspended as if by magic. NASA X-15 test pilot William H. Bill Dana looked past them, focusing on the instrument panel to keep the rocket plane on track as it crested at an altitude of 59 miles before re-entry began. A magnificent view of the earth emerged, spreading out before Dana as he pushed the rocket plane's nose down.
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South Korea Chooses First Astronaut For Space Trip
Seoul (XNA) Sep 06, 2007 - A 30-year-old computer vision engineer has been chosen as South Korea's first astronaut to make a trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft early next year, the local news agency Yonhap reported Wednesday. Ko san, a researcher at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will go into space on the Soyuz spacecraft in April 2008 and spend seven to eight days on the space station orbiting the Earth, the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Cardiovascular System Gets Lazy In Space
Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Sep 06, 2007 - On Earth, we all know gravity affects everything around us. But did you know gravity also influences what goes on inside our bodies? Every time we stand up, gravity pulls blood into parts of the body that are below the heart. A simple experiment you can do to prove this is to let your hand hang down for a short time then examine the veins in the back of your hand.
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JCSAT-11 Satellite Ready For Launch From Baikonur
Newtown PA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007 - The JCSAT-11 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the JSAT Corporation (JSAT) of Japan, is ready for its scheduled launch on Sept. 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Proton/Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services.