
Ariane 5’s Launch With ASTRA 3B And COMSATBw-2 Is Postponed
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 29, 2010 - The year-opening Ariane 5 mission was delayed after an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem during final countdown operations.
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 29, 2010 - The year-opening Ariane 5 mission was delayed after an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem during final countdown operations.
Mar 29, 2010

Washington (AFP) March 26, 2010 - The US space agency NASA on Friday gave its thumbs up for the April 5 launch of the shuttle Discovery, which will take a seven-member crew, including a Japanese astronaut, to the International Space Station (ISS).
Mar 26, 2010

Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 - When astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor docked with the International Space Station on Feb. 10, more than 200 miles above the Atlantic west of Portugal, part of their mission was to collect a sample from an experiment conducted by University of Arizona College of Engineering researchers.
Mar 26, 2010

Denver CO (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 - Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems have entered into a strategic teaming agreement to offer launch services utilizing upgraded and modernized Athena rockets. These vehicles, based on the flight-proven Athena I and II, are designed to provide reliable access to space for small payloads to a wide range of orbits.
Mar 26, 2010

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 - Arianespace is ready for the start of a record operational year with the go-ahead for Friday's heavy-lift Ariane 5 launch, which will orbit SES ASTRA's ASTRA 3B commercial telecommunications satellite and Germany's COMSATBw-2 secure military relay platform.
Mar 26, 2010

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 - Crews at Launch Pad 39A finished installing the STS-131 payload into space shuttle Discovery's cargo bay as launch preparations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida reach the final stretch.
Mar 26, 2010

The German Aerospace Center connects every first-time flyer to measuring equipment on each parabolic flight.
Mar 25, 2010

Perugia, Italy (RIA Novosti) Mar 25, 2010 - Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, who is due to fly to the International Space Station (ISS), will test an Italian-designed sensor, a national news agency reported on Tuesday.
Mar 25, 2010

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 25, 2010 - China's fourth space center, Wenchang, will be put into service between 2014 and 2015, not in 2013 as it was previously announced, the CCTV channel reported on Tuesday.
Mar 25, 2010

Seoul, Korea (XNA) Mar 25, 2010 - South Korean food products designed to be consumed in space have received certification from a Russian laboratory, the state-run Korea Food Research Institute (KFRI) said Wednesday.
Mar 25, 2010

Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2010 - The second ground test of a full-scale attitude control motor for the launch abort system, designed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, was conducted March 17 at Alliant Techsystems' facility in Elkton, Md. It was the seventh in a series of ground tests of the control motor system.
Mar 25, 2010

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 24, 2010 - Arianespace has set for March 26 its initial Ariane 5 mission of 2010, which will carry SES ASTRA's ASTRA 3B commercial telecommunications satellite and the COMSATBw-2 secure relay platform for the German armed forces.
Mar 24, 2010

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 24, 2010 - The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) will be boosted by 1.7 kilometers (about a mile) on March 24, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said on Tuesday.
Mar 24, 2010

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 24, 2010 - Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, has announced that the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have successfully completed a second hypersonic flight at the Woomera Test Range.
Mar 24, 2010

London (AFP) March 23, 2010 - Britain launched its own space agency Tuesday with the help of home-grown astronaut Major Timothy Peake, aimed at boosting the country's multi-billion-pound space technology industry.
Mar 23, 2010

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 - The Board of Directors of Arianespace met on Monday, 22 March 2010 in Evry, near Paris. It congratulated the company on its technical performance and record order book, and decided to give it the resources needed for development by bolstering its financial structure.
Mar 23, 2010