Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Mar 19, 2007 - Taking out the trash is no simple chore on the International Space Station, where some junk is carefully hurled into the Earth's atmosphere to burn. It's really only a measure of last resort, Nicholas Johnson, head of NASA's orbital debris program told USA Today of the space trash technique. We don't want to create debris even if it's short-lived, unless it's overwhelmingly necessary.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 16, 2007 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is surrounded by service platforms in highbay 1 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Technicians continue repairs on the external tank from the hail damage caused by a severe thunderstorm that passed through the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 area in late February.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2007 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming dual-payload mission has completed its initial build-up as preparations continue for an early May launch with the Astra 1L and Galaxy 17 satellites.
El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2007 - Against the backdrop of preparations for next week's test launch of its Falcon 1 vehicle, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) today announced the appointment of Dr. Jeff Ward as Vice President of Avionics, Guidance and Control.
Moscow (AFP) March 16, 2007 - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully corrected on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported. Igor Panarin, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roskosmos, was cited as saying the engines on the cargo vessel Progress docked on the ISS fired up for the expected time and raised the station's orbit by about five kilometres (3.1 miles).
San Diego, CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2007 - A team led by General Atomics (GA) successfully tested a new method for generating electrical power on board a hypersonic vehicle. A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator was operated to produce electrical power using the exhaust stream from a prototype hypersonic scramjet combustor simulating flight at Mach 8 conditions.
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 15, 2007 - Later this year, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will serve as Mission Specialist on the STS-120 mission to the International Space Station. Together with the rest of the Shuttle crew, Nespoli is training intensively ahead of this complex ISS assembly mission.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 15, 2007 - 1962 is the official date of the establishment of a women's group in the first division of cosmonauts. Five people were selected from more than a thousand applicants: engineer Irina Solovyova, mathematician and programmer Valentina Ponomaryova, textile worker Valentina Tereshkova, teacher Zhanna Yerkina and shorthand secretary Tatyana Kuznetsova.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 15, 2007 - The International Space Station's orbit will be adjusted March 16 to prepare for the docking of a Russian spacecraft, Russia's mission control said Wednesday.
Moscow (AFP) Mar 14, 2007 - Russia's Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday. Our authorities have received the official confirmation on this from Moscow, a spokesman for the governor of the Amour region, where the centre is based, told the Interfax news agency.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 14, 2007 - Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a custody order for a Russian aerospace engineering firm head facing charges of transferring sensitive technology to China, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Wednesday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 14, 2007 - An unsuccessful rocket launch under the Sea Launch project in late January was caused by engine failure, the press secretary of Russia's federal space agency said Tuesday. A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded shortly after liftoff from an oceangoing platform in the Pacific on January 31.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 13, 2007 - On 11 March 2007, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 13, 2007 - The construction site of the Soyuz launch base in French Guiana was officially opened today by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Yannick d'Escatha, President of CNES, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Director General of Arianespace, and Anatoly Perminov, Head of Roscosmos. The ceremony took place in the presence of many French authorities and representatives of all the European and Russian entities contributing to the startup of the project.
Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2007 - The government has unveiled an ambitious blueprint for developing space science that includes the launch of the country's first astronomy satellite and more extensive international cooperation. The astronomical satellite will carry a hard X-ray modulation telescope, which is being developed by Chinese scientists for launch in 2010, according to the Space Science Development Plan.
Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2007 - Final checks have begun on the Canadian Anik F3 telecommunication satellite due to be launched into space by a Russian rocket next month, the rocket's makers said on Monday. The satellite, which weighs 4,600 kilograms (10,140 pounds), will supply telephone and Internet services and transmit television and radio signals across Canada and the United States.
