Managers Delay STS-104 Launch
NASA Managers announced that Space Shuttle Atlantis and its five-member crew will not launch before early July to begin STS-104. The extra time will allow the International Space Station Program time to evaluate a problem with the station's new robotic arm, Canadarm2.
The station arm will be used to lift STS-104's primary cargo, the Joint Airlock, out of Atlantis's payload bay and attach it to the station. Managers will meet in mid-June to evaluate a new launch date for STS-104. Meanwhile, Atlantis transferred from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, Tuesday night. It will be attached to the External Tank in the
ISS cooling system considering by NASA
"The questions for the day tasks were only partially fulfilled," said NASA is using on its website. According to ISS Manager Michael Suffredini expected a third deployment in space is necessary. Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson began their spacewalk at 13.19 BST clock. They spent eight hours and three minutes outside the space station. They succeeded this does not remove a faulty pump. According to NASA, it was not to solve the pump of the ammonia lines. When a valve came out of toxic ammonia, then had the repair work will be interrupted. According to the U.S. space agency experts to advise the mission control on
Reusable Launch Vehicles
The faultiness ARD flight, launched by Ariane 5, confirmed EADS LAUNCH VEHICLES ’s know-how with a capsule that is the forerunner to a future reusable vehicle.
With other demonstrators under study, it will allow Europe to master atmospheric re-entry - which is vital for future programs. The acquisition of competence in atmospheric re-entry is a necessary [...]
The Launcher Ariane 5
The launch of Ariane marked the qualification of this new-generation heavy launcher, paving the way for its successful commercial career. It was also a major milestone for the European space industry. The new launcher was developed to keep pace with trends in the commercial launch market, especially larger and heavier satellites. The baseline version of [...]
NASA probe the borders of the solar system “enraged” by aliens?
While the experts of the American aerospace agency NASA are trying to decipher suddenly changed data from an interplanetary probe Voyager 2, located on the border of the solar system, the German scientist seriously suggested that the most incredible, but the most obvious explanation for UFO enthusiasts: probe captured by aliens and now they are [...]
More than 600 scientists, who consider themselves denigrated, calling the organization of a real debate on climate
Published April 10, 2010
Stephanie Foulard
Source: THE WORLD
Size of article: 475 words
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Attached to their petition, they identify errors and Vincent Courtliest Claude
Herschel Telescope: first results of its tracking the star formation
For nearly a year since the telescope European Space Herschel was launched. The first phase of observations gives way to the first scientific results was presented May 6, 2010 at a press conference ESA’S European Space Research and Technology Center Norwalk in Holland. Thanks to them,
Three black holes at the heart of a galaxy
The telescope spatial Chandra has revealed two black holes intermediaries in the center of the turbulent galaxy M 82. They stand as they can in super massive black hole that we already knew.
In NASA successfully tested a system to rescue the ship “Orion”
Employees of NASA conducted a successful test of the system of salvation, being developed for spacecraft Orion. More information about the tests reported in the press release of the American space agency. Here can be seen made during the test photos.
Astronomers explained bands on Jupiter
Astronomers explain what mechanism is responsible for the formation on the surface of Jupiter characteristic bands. Article scientists accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters; briefly on the portal wrote Science now.
Scientists have ceased to understand the message from the Voyager 2
Researchers have found faults in the spacecraft Voyager 2 “(Voyager 2), launched more than 30 years ago. More problems are described on the site of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA.
Broken down spacecraft NASA
Employees of NASA discovered a problem with the spacecraft Voyager 2, which has been in orbit for more than 30 years, according to the site’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA.
Herschel Telescope found in the Milky Way giant protostar
This facility has received an astronomical designation RCW 120, was photographed by a telescope cameras just days before the first anniversary of the beginning of his work.
Comet McNaught was really huge
Taking advantage of the passage of space probes in the
environment of certain comets , British scientists have found a new method to
measure the size. C/2006 P1 which is topped their charts, a star who lit up the
sky hair three years ago.
So far we evaluated the importance of comets by measuring the size of their
tails [...]
European scientists want to develop energy Earth from orbit
Specialists from EADS Atrium, Europe’s largest aerospace
company, plans to put into orbit a few dozen satellites that would collect solar
energy, concentrating it into a powerful laser beams,
