http://spacepragmatism.net Spacepracmatism.com, launched in 1999, is the world’s most popular source for news of astronomy, sky watching, space exploration, commercial spaceflight and related technologies. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:07:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the Kennedy Space Center reporting cloud cover, showers and gusty winds and with forecasters calling for more of the same for the rest of the week, flight controllers decided to bring Endeavour home to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base later today. Two opportunities to land ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/sts-100-status-report.html 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 ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/managers-delay-sts-104-launch.html "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 ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/nasa-is-considering-third-outdoor-use-to-repair-the-iss-cooling-system.html 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 ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/reusable-launch-vehicles.html Eads Launch Vehicles spans all technologies needed to produce launch vehicles, developed through its lead role on all French ballistic missile programmers. The company has also played a critical role since the beginning of the Ariane programmed, which was launched in the 1970s. Technical expertise developed for ballistic missiles helped ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/ariane-5-programme-improvments.html 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 ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/the-launcher-ariane-5.html HTML clipboardSpitzer Space Telescope (NASA's Spitzer) recorded the signs of a collision at high speed of the two planets in the system of young stars. One was the size of Mercury, the other - with our moon. The event happened a few thousand years ago. Artists from ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/moon-to-mercury.html Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision with Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 in XXII century. According to new estimates, a celestial body could meet the Earth with the probability of one chance in a thousand. Details of how scientists determined the probability of collision, are shown in a press ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/astronomers-have-increased-the-chances-of-a-collision-of-earth-with-an-asteroid-in-2182.html HTML clipboardAnnounced for the first time about a week ago, a helicopter Sikorsky Firefly (Firefly), which uses electricity to move through the air, July 26, was shown at the annual aviaforume AirVenture in Oshkosh (Oshkosh), Wisconsin. The implementation has been around in the air the idea of ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/08/firefly-the-first-electric-helicopter-from-sikorsky.html In a few days astronomy enthusiasts will gather again in the largest gathering of observers from Europe, the Reencounters Astronomical Spring.They are already about 500 have made an appointment of 13 to 16 May in Capone sure Arson, a small town in Haute-Loire, which will host the twelfth edition of ... http://spacepragmatism.net/2010/05/the-twelfth-meeting-astronomical-spring-approaching.html