Newtown PA (SPX) May 02, 2007 - The ASTRA 1L broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for SES ASTRA is ready for launch Thursday aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle provided by Arianespace. ASTRA 1L, which is scheduled to launch at 6:29 p.m. EST, will be located at orbital location 19.2 degrees East.
London (ANI) May 01, 2007 - The ashes of late Canadian actor James Doohan, known to all as Scotty in Star Trek, were blasted into space at a launch pad in New Mexico desert, on April 28. Fans thronged the ceremonial service for the actor, who died in 2005 July, in full Star Trek insignia, a day before SpaceLoft XL rocket was launched.
Houston TX (SPX) May 01, 2007 - The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams began the week with a couple light duty days after the busy handover operations with the former crew.
UP Aerospace has confirmed the success of its SL-2 Mission and the round-trip space flight of its SpaceLoft XL vehicle.
Burbank, CA (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 - Candy Feuer has developed a new design for a greenhouse on Mars. Her fellow students are working on lunar outposts and space exploration transfer vehicles as well as designs for other structures that would be habitable on the Martian surface.
Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2007 - An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom-a level of control far beyond the current state of the art for prosthetic limbs.
Ithica NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2007 - A robotic arm designed for spacecraft repair and maintenance will be put to the test next week in a near-weightless environment -- along with some of its Cornell student designers. Cornell's Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) Research Team, comprising graduate and undergraduate, mostly mechanical engineering students, is one of 34 schools selected by NASA for this year's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. The space agency invites students to experiment with engineering devices and principles aboard a nearly zero-gravity aircraft.
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 30, 2007 - Air Force Space Command approved today the granting of a 5-year license allowing SpaceX to operate at a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 45th Space Wing will grant the license to SpaceX to operate on Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40, which is a deactivated Titan IV launch pad.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2007 - Japan continues to play a key role in underpinning the commercial launch operations of Arianespace with a growing number of new Japanese commercial payloads to be orbited and launch services cooperation being developed. During a recent visit to Tokyo, Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall underscored the importance of Arianespace's relationship with Japan - which dates back to the company's establishment of an in-country office during 1986, and its launch of the first Japanese commercial satellite in 1989.
Hong Kong (AFP) Apr 27, 2007 - The United States has rejected a bid by a US-China venture to take private a Hong Kong-based satellite operator, invoking export approval powers dating back to the Cold War, a report said Thursday.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 27, 2007 - After working aboard the International Space Station since December, Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Suni Williams will come back to Earth aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, targeted for launch June 8. That shuttle mission, STS-117, will carry her successor, astronaut Clay Anderson, to the station to begin his duty as an Expedition 15 flight engineer.
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007 - Epsori Space Systems announced today that its Free Seeds Experiment will be flying aboard the Up Aerospace SL-2 launch, scheduled for Saturday, April 28 th 2007 . Epsori Space Systems will distribute the experiment to 2500 classrooms in the fall of 2007. The payload contains 22 ounces of mixed vegetable seeds.
McLean VA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007 - International Launch Services (ILS) will launch its sixth satellite for Telesat Canada on a Proton Breeze M vehicle, under a contract the companies announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed. Telesat's Nimiq 5 is scheduled for a Proton launch in 2009 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Proton vehicle is built by ILS' Russian partner, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
Middle Park CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2007 - A fascinating new study from the May/June 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology quantifiably measures the loss of strength and endurance in black bears during long periods of hibernation. T.D. Lohuis (Alaska Department of Fish and Game) and his coauthors find that black bears in hibernation lose about one-half as much skeletal muscle strength as humans confined to bed rest for similar periods of time do.
Pasadena, CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2007 - NASA's budget should be increased as was originally envisioned in order to restore its scientific underpinnings and to prepare for human exploration of the solar system, Louis Friedman, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, today testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) April 26, 2007 - Russia and Brazil have always seen eye-to-eye on such issues as the importance of a multipolar world and the United Nations' role in modern society, and this mutual understanding is a key factor in relations between the two countries in other areas, too.
