Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jan 12, 2010 - New Mexico State University's fledgling, but rapidly growing aerospace engineering program, gained approval in December to begin offering master's and doctoral degrees. The graduate program will accept its first students in fall 2010.
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Jan 11, 2010 - The third launch pad planned at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, is going to be something special.
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 11, 2010 - The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
New Dehli, India (SPX) Jan 11, 2010 - The last 50 years of space have been fantastic while the next 50 years will be spectacular, remarked Prof. U R Rao, former chairman ISRO, delivering his lecture on Challenges in Space in the 97th Indian Science Congress.
Rohnert Park CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2010 - Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made the discovery in less than three months. Such a jump in the pace of locating these hard-to-find objects holds the promise of using them as a kind of galactic GPS to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth.
Paris. France (SPX) Jan 06, 2010 - Arianespace is entering its 30th year of commercial activity with the business and operational tools to retain the company's industry leadership role - especially during challenging market conditions and amid strong competition among launch service providers.
McLean VA (SPX) Jan 05, 2010 - Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a $38.4 million Launch and Test Range System (LTRS) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) contract, which provides support to the Los Angeles-based Spacelift Range Group (LRRG), Launch and Range Systems Wing (LRSW), Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
Shanghai (XNA) Jan 04, 2010 - Construction of a 65-meter-diameter radio telescope started Tuesday in Shanghai, an official from one of funders said Wednesday. The telescope, a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy, will be used in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes including Chinese astronomical projects like Chang'e lunar probe, YH-1 Mars exploration and other deep space explorations, said Zhan Wenlong, deputy dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jan 04, 2010 - The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has selected a contractor to provide construction services for the flight apron at the Spaceport America site. After reviewing proposals from several contractors, the NMSA Board of Directors awarded construction of the apron to David Montoya Construction, Inc., of Alameda, NM.
Arnold AFB TN (AFNS) Dec 30, 2009 - A high-visibility test on a second-stage developmental rocket motor set a new record in the Arnold Engineering Development Center's J-6 large-rocket motor-testing facility Dec. 9.
Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2009 - NASA has named low-cost missions to Venus, the moon and an asteroid on a shortlist to become its latest space adventure, as the US agency faces astronomical political pressure to cut costs.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 30, 2009 - International Launch Services (ILS), a leading mission and launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the DIRECTV 12 satellite into orbit today for DIRECTV of El Segundo, California, on an ILS Proton. This was the seventh and final commercial launch of 2009 for ILS and the 56th ILS Proton launch overall.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 30, 2009 - At Kennedy Space Center (KSC), USA, Florida, the specialists from S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia started the next stage of prelaunch processing for Mini-Research Module MRM1 (Rassvet), which is to be delivered in the Shuttle payload compartment to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2010 for its subsequent operation as part of the ISS Russian Segment.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2009 - The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 30, 2009 - NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth's formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet. The proposed missions would probe the atmosphere and crust of Venus; return a piece of a near-Earth asteroid for analysis; or drop a robotic lander into a basin at the moon's south pole to return lunar rocks back to Earth for study.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 30, 2009 - The final Ariane 5 launch for 2009 lifted off Dec 18s from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. Flight V193 was the seventh Ariane 5 launch of 2009 and used the last of the GS version of the launcher.
