The Chinese team flight home receives U.S. Space Achievement Award
The Chinese manned space flight Shenzhou-7 mission important to the Chinese space program, was honored March 30 by a "Space Achievement Award of the American Foundation for the space.
A Chinese delegation, led by Dr. Zhou Jianping, chief designer of outer space and Taïkonaute Zhai Zhigang, received the award at the opening ceremony of the 25th symposium "National Space", sponsored by the Foundation for Space. This annual gathering of the global space community was held in Colorado Springs. Dr. Zhou has also participated at this conference in a panel discussion on April 2, which were discussed bothLand on the Moon : A historic anniversary
A model to explain the young supernovas
A team of astronomers led by Dr Bo Wang of Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a new model that explains the training of young supernovae type 1A. In an article published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. Wang Bo and [...]
The activities of the Japanese Space Agency in 2009
HTML clipboardThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) issued on 8 April its plan for fiscal year 2009, which began on 1 April. This year will be especially marked by the completion of the Japanese module of the International Space Station (ISS) and the first launch of the new heavy launch vehicle [...]
Beginning of the experiment in module FACET Japanese
The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has just started a new experience in the Japanese module of the International Space Station (ISS). The experiment entitled “FACET” should better understand the mechanisms involved in the growth of faceted crystals. During this experiment, several samples of solutions (Salole / butanol) are arranged [...]
Programmed to launch a new satellite service
HTML clipboard A satellite phone presented by Terre Star to the International CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas will soon been marketed. As a regular phone, it might interest those who are currently excluded from the terrestrial networks in North America.
This follows the announcement by Terre Star and [...]
Launch of LRO-cartographer-the Moon in June
HTML clipboard NASA announced last week that the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will be postponed until June due to delays on the pad from Cape Canaveral by the takeoff of a military satellite last Friday. LRO is sent as a scout to prepare for manned missions back to the [...]
The National Intelligence is a modernization of the fleet of satellite imagery
HTML clipboard Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence - who coordinates the activities of 16 federal agencies in terms of information - announced Tuesday 7 April a plan to modernize imaging for U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
The strategy is to design a line of “spy satellites” next-generation managed by the NRO [...]
Successful launch of the Herschel infrared telescope
HTML clipboardThe Sterrenkunde Instituut voor de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) provided the “Photo detector Array Camera & Spectrometer” PACS (spectrometer and camera network photo detectors) designed to study the infrared radiation in space.
To carry out its mission, the Herschel space telescope loads on board the PACS instrument, a camera bolometers [...]
Samples Liege foam in microgravity during the mission Oasiss
HTML clipboard Among the various experiments to be conducted during the mission Oasis, one is from Liege to study the behavior of foam in microgravity conditions. The experience is to lather on board the Columbus module, five plates, each containing a dozen liquid samples.
The project entitled “Foam Stability” was designed [...]
A new digital map of land topography
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NASA, in collaboration with Japan, has released a new digital map representing the topography of the Earth with a blanket never equaled. The map was produced from 1.3 million images collected by the Japanese ASTER radiometer flown on Terra, a spaceship from NASA. NASA and the Japanese Ministry [...]
First images of the Moon - The Monster celebrate planetary mission “LRO”
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On 2nd July 2009 were received the first pictures of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the spacecraft launched on 18 June 2009 from Cape Canaveral (Florida). Dr. Harald Hiesinger of the Institute for Planetology, University of Münster in charge of one of the six experiments aboard the LRO spacecraft is a [...]
Charles Bolden trust senators to meet the challenges of NASA
Proposed by Barack Obama for the post of administrator of NASA in late May, Charles Bolden was greeted enthusiastically by members gathered at his confirmation hearing Wednesday 8 July in the Senate. The appointment will be formalized by a vote in plenary session of the Senate, but the [...]
The cluster of excellence Bavarian “Universe” joined the German consortium for the GLOW LOFAR telescope
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At the last meeting of the consortium GLOW (German Long Wavelength Consortium) on 3 July 2009, the cluster of excellence “Origin and Structure of the Universe” from the Technical University of Munich has officially joined the German group for the LOFAR telescope ( Low Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy). [...]
The Planck space telescope is now operational
The instrument french HFI (High Frequency Instrument) of the mission of space astrophysics “Planck of the ESA, has reached its temperature of a system is an increasing function of the degree of thermal agitation of particles, c that is to say …) Nominal Operating: 0.1 degree above absolute zero, or -273 ° C. It is [...]
