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Space Travel Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Travel Editorial Team produces Space Travel's coverage of human spaceflight and access to space. We report on launch, crewed missions and space tourism, and the propulsion, vehicles and human factors of getting people to space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Travel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

Spaceway 3 Is Delivered To The Spaceport For Its Mid-August Ariane 5 Launch

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 16, 2007 - The first satellite for Arianespace's mid-August dual-payload mission with Ariane 5 is now at the Spaceport after landing at Cayenne's Rochambeau International Airport aboard a chartered cargo aircraft. Hughes Network Systems's SPACEWAY 3 satellite was delivered yesterday (July 10) on a Ukrainian-built Antonov An-124 freighter operated by the cargo specialist Volga-Dnepr.

Jul 16, 2007
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European Markets For Image Guided Surgery And Surgical Navigation

Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 16, 2007 - As minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) gradually phase out open invasive surgeries, image guided surgical (IGS) systems will experience greater uptake among surgeons. These devices provide surgeons an unbeatable advantage by aiding real-time navigation and offering a 3D virtual representation of a specific organ. IGS systems include fibre optic guides, internal video cameras, endoscopes and ultrasonography to track the surgical instruments inside the human body during surgery.

Jul 16, 2007
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Russian Space Firm Signs 14 Deals For Commercial Rocket Launches

Plesetsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2007 - A leading Russian space company said Sunday it had signed 14 deals for the commercial launches of its Proton carrier rockets. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center produces Proton boosters that are widely used for the commercial launches of foreign spacecraft and within the framework of the International Space Station, the world's sole orbiter.

Jul 15, 2007
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Space Station Crew Gets Rid Of Trash

Houston (UPI) Jul 13, 2007 - The International Space Station crew is preparing for the arrival of another Russian cargo spacecraft by discarding no longer needed items. The discarded hardware and miscellaneous items are being loaded into the Progress 24 cargo craft that will be cast off Aug. 1, to eventually be incinerated when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. With all trash gathered and stowed from the U.S. side, cosmonaut Oleg Kotov is now collecting and stowing waste from the Russian segment.

Jul 13, 2007
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Sea Launch To Resume Zenit Launches In October

Washington DC (RIA Novosti) Jul 13, 2007 - The first launch of a Zenit rocket under the Sea Launch project following a January explosion that damaged a launch platform has been scheduled for October, a company spokesperson said Thursday. A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded shortly after liftoff from an oceangoing platform in the Pacific January 31. The Odyssey Launch Platform suffered only minor damage.

Jul 13, 2007
Legacy Reports

Pratt And Whitney PW308 Engine To Power Virgin Galactic Suborbital Spaceship

Ongueuil, Quebec (SPX) Jul 12, 2007 - Pratt and Whitney Canada Corp.'s PW308 turbofan engine has been selected by The Spaceship Company (TSC) - a jointly-owned Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites company - to power the White Knight II (WK2) launch aircraft for the world's first commercial passenger suborbital spaceship SpaceShipTwo (SS2). Virgin Galactic is the launch customer for the SS2 system, having ordered five SS2 spacecraft with options for a further seven-plus WK2 carrier aircraft. Pratt and Whitney Canada (P and WC) is a United Technologies company.

Jul 12, 2007
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Kalam Calls For Development Of Reusable Space Transportation System For India

Hyderabad (ANI) Jul 12, 2007 - President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday called on international experts to develop a single-stage-to-orbit fully reusable, safe, affordable aerobic space transportation system. Kalam said scientists from partnering nations should use each other's competence for designing a system capable of launching multi-purpose mission including new orbiting space stations, space habitat and Space Solar Power Station.

Jul 12, 2007
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Progress Spacecraft To Bring Computer Equipment To ISS In August

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 11, 2007 - The Progress M-61 space cargo ship will deliver additional equipment to the International Space Station (ISS) August 2 to ensure the stable work of the onboard computer network, a Russian space corporation said Tuesday. Final preparations for fuelling and placing deliverable hardware and cargo on board the spacecraft are under way, the Energia space corporation said in a statement.

Jul 11, 2007
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Rocket Tests Move NASA Closer To The Lunar Vision

Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 11, 2007 - A liquid oxygen-hydrogen pump fed engine developed to demonstrate advanced rocket technologies for future space vehicles achieved a major technical milestone in throttling capability. The engine was designed to demonstrate successful throttling from full power down to 10 percent of its thrust. This flexibility to control the flow of fuel through an engine is necessary for a lunar lander, allowing the spacecraft ample propulsion, yet enough control to land gently on the moon's surface.

Jul 11, 2007
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Moved To Launch Pad

Washington (AFP) July 11, 2007 - The US space shuttle Endeavour was rolled out Wednesday to its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of liftoff slated for August 7, NASA said. Endeavour, attached to its external fuel tank flanked by two solid rocket boosters, was moved out of its hangar overnight for the more than six-hour trip over 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) to the launch pad on Florida's east coast.

Jul 11, 2007
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NASA Shuttle Endeavour Set To Launch August 7

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2007 - Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are scheduled to continue the next phase of International Space Station assembly with an August 7 launch and an 11-day mission to the orbital outpost. The mission, STS-118, will deliver another truss (backbone) to the station and mark the first flight of mission specialist Barbara Morgan, a teacher-turned-astronaut whose association with NASA began more than 20 years ago.

Jul 11, 2007