Iran is going to be put into orbit six satellites
The Iranian authorities as part of its space program are going to run into an orbit between five and six satellites. The first launch is planned for 2011. It is reported by news agency FARS with reference to the statement by Minister of Telecommunication of Iran Reza Taciturn (Reza Taqipour). (more...)
A Japanese spacecraft SERVIS-2 delivered in Russia to prepare for the launch on a rocket-carrier Rokot
A Japanese spacecraft SERVIS-2 ("SERVICE-2") delivered to Russia to prepare for launch from Presets in the booster rocket Root. The plane of the spacecraft and support equipment landed today at the airport in Archangelsk chas.15 in 13 minutes. (more...)
European Space Agency supported the project unique spacecrafts
ESA has allocated 1 million euros, a British company Reaction
Engines to continue its work to create a system, the like of which has not been
in the history of technology.
Supertelescopes Herschel and Planck have gone into space
European telescope Herschel and Planck successfully launched
from Kourou on board the launch vehicle Ariane 5. Devices that cost Europe the
total amount of 1,9 billion euros, will bring much new information on the origin
and evolution of the universe and possibly find signs of the Multiverse and the
traces of events before the Big Bang.
During the Russian program of ISS crew members will proceed to the space in the new space suits
On Friday, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and cosmonaut
Gennady Padalka commit EVA on the Russian program and test the new skafandry.Ob
this official said Mission Control Center.
Launch Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled
Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch officially appointed on June
13, goda.Takoe decision was taken at a meeting of the American space agency.
According to NASA, space shuttle launch from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral
(Florida) to be held at 7:17 Eastern Time USA (14:17 on Kiev time).
Dropped from the shuttle Discovery astronauts’ urine excited Americans
Discovery, a little surprised and even forced to take care of
North America, which saw an unusual light in the sky, the newspaper said
Telegraph.Soobschaetsya that people see a glowing strip of light in a Wednesday
night last week, asked for clarification to the meteorologists and even
astrologers.
NASA: Solar System has reached a record number of galactic rays
The number of galactic cosmic rays, the flux of charged high
energy particles penetrating the solar system from outside, reached its highest
level in 50 let.Eti data were obtained by specialists from NASA probe ACE
(Advanced Composition Explorer), and explained they record a deep minimum of
solar activity.
Needs clear space strategy’ of UK
The UK risks falling behind other countries on space, the
report says. The UK government needs to Develop a more coherent strategy on
space, or risk falling behind countries other, a House of Commons Committee has
warned. But MPs did not support calls for the creation of a UK Space Agency.
ESA DG hopes
The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to obtain at least 9
billion in financial commitments from its 17 member states at the next
ministerial conference on 25 and 26 November in The Hague said on Monday the
director general of the ESA, Jean-Jacques Dordain.
(BBC / Amos) European space missions given cost warning
Europe’s scientists have presented the six space missions
dream they would like to fly before 2020. The concepts ranged from a quest to
map the "dark" components shaping the cosmos to a plan to find far-off planets
that most resemble Earth. The European Space Agency (Esa) will probably carry
just three or four of the ideas forward for further [...]
Mission Outline
In 1998 Carnegie Mellon University, in conjunction with LunaCorp, Inc., of
Arlington, Virginia, will conduct the first private lunar mission, landing a
pair of teleoperated robotic vehicles on the Moon’s surface. A central goal of
the mission is to provide the public its first opportunity to directly
participate in space exploration. Researcher’s at the Robotics Institute at CMU
in Pittsburgh, [...]
Visit of the Ambassador of France to the Swedish Space
On January 12, 2010, Ambassador Joel de Zorzi was received by Dr. Olle Norberg, Director General of Rymdstyrelsen (SNSB: Swedish National Space Board), representing Sweden in the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Astrophysical Institute Potsdam develops CCD sensors most powerful in the world
A new breakthrough in the field of observation of the stars was conducted by scientists from the Astrophysics Institute of Potsdam in partnership with the University of Arizona and California company STA. As part of the “Instrument wide spectroscopic and polarimetric Potsdam” (PEPSI, Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument) [1], researchers have succeeded in jointly [...]
Begin development of next launcher light JAXA
JAXA has started the development phase of its new solid rocket propellant for the placing on orbit for future scientific missions in Japan. The solid rocket propulsion “ASRL (Advanced Solid Rocket Launcher) receives for the first time an actual budget in 2010, with 2 billion yen (15 million).
