Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2010 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement regarding President Obama's new National Space Policy:
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2010 - NASA senior managers met with their counterparts representing other space agencies at the National Harbor, Md., on June 23, to discuss globally-coordinated human and robotic space exploration.
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2010 - Arianespace has announced that it has signed the launch Service and Solutions contract with Argentine operator ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima) to orbit the Arsat-1 satellite by mid-2012.
Washington (UPI) Jun 29, 2010 - Advanced science and technology industries worldwide will have new opportunities in an overarching space policy unveiled by President Barack Obama as part of his strategy to boost investment and speed economic recovery.
Washington (AFP) June 28, 2010 - The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a business method can be patented, a significant ruling for software and biomedical industries, though the court did not issue a definition of which types of processes qualify.
Washington (AFP) June 28, 2010 - President Barack Obama on Monday laid out an overarching new US policy on outer space, calling for more international and private sector cooperation on exploration, climate change and orbiting debris.
Following the second successful Ariane 5 launch this year - six satellites built by Astrium have now been launched within a month: COMSATBw-2 and ASTRA 3B on…
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 28, 2010 - Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place the Arabsat-5A telecommunications satellite and the multi-mission COMS satellite into their planned transfer orbits.
Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) June 26, 2010 - An Ariane 5 rocket Saturday successfully placed two satellites in orbit, after twice delaying the launch for technical reasons this week.
Washington (UPI) Jun 25, 2010 - The crew of the International Space Station is preparing to move a docked Russian spacecraft to a different research module, a mission control official said.
Washington (AFP) June 25, 2010 - The two final US space shuttle missions before the shuttle program is phased out will likely be postponed, a NASA spokesperson told AFP on Friday.
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jun 24, 2010 - Astrium, Europe's leading space company, has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop key technologies for new re-ignitable upper stages for new launchers. Under the two-year contract, worth euros 20 million, Astrium will develop advanced technologies that will play a major role in enabling the engines of the cryogenic upper stages (fuelled by liquid hydrogen and oxygen) to be re-ignited.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 23, 2010 - The 51st Ariane 5 has rolled out to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport, clearing the way for tomorrow evening's (June 23) liftoff with a dual-passenger payload of the Arabsat-5A and COMS satellites.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jun 23, 2010 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials say they are considering changing the launch dates for the final two space shuttle missions.
College Park MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2010 - As you go about your day-to-day activities, tiny bubbles of nitrogen come and go inside your tissues. This is not a problem unless you happen to experience large changes in ambient pressure, such as those encountered by scuba divers and astronauts. During large, fast pressure drops, these bubbles can grow and lead to decompression sickness, popularly known as the bends.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2010 - The president submitted to Congress on Friday, June 18, a fiscal year 2011 budget amendment that targets up to $100 million toward spurring regional economic growth and job creation in the aerospace industry.
