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- NASA’s Space Shuttle Processing Status Report
Mission: STS-122 - 24th International Space Station Flight - Columbus laboratory Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104) Location: Launch Pad 39A Launch Date: Targeting Feb. 7 Crew: Frick, Poindexter, Schlegel, Eyharts, Love, Melvin, Walheim Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles Launch Pad 39A - Engine cutoff (ECO) sensor external feedthrough connector installation is complete - Aft ECO instrumentation wiring removal and retest was completed - [...]
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:55:08 +0000 - Goddard Kicks Off 2008 with a ‘Poster Party’
(NASA) - It seems that Goddard employees have made a New Year’s resolution to celebrate and appreciate the center’s achievements in 2008. The Science Poster Party Blowout on January 16 was the first opportunity to do just that. Image: Goddard’s Laurie Leshin, Rich Mushotzky and Mark Schoeberl listen on as Steve Kempler explains how to visualize [...]
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:28:19 +0000 - Marshall Center’s Steve Cook, ‘Rocket Boy’ Homer Hickam Launch Ares I Scale Model Rocket
Left, Ares I artist concept. Right, successful launch of a 1:100 scale model of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (NASA) – Steve Cook, right, manager of the Ares Projects Office at the Marshall Center, and Homer Hickam, center, a former NASA engineer who is the author of the bestseller [...]
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:23:27 +0000 - Media Briefing On NASA’s Earth Science Program: 21 Missions Worth
WASHINGTON, (NASA) - NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 12:30 p.m. EST, to discuss the agency’s Earth science program and preview major activities planned for 2008, including the launch of two new Earth-observing missions and a weather satellite. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters’ James E. Webb [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:05:47 +0000 - NASA Deputy Administrator Visits Seattle for Future Forum
SEATTLE, (NASA) - On Friday, Jan. 25, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address at 8:45 a.m. PST, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The event focuses on how space exploration benefits the state of Washington’s economy and kicks off a yearlong Future Forum series celebrating NASA’s 50th anniversary. The series [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:04:25 +0000 - STS-122: Foam Work, Launch Preps Continue
(NASA) - With a replacement external connector installed on space shuttle Atlantis’ external tank, workers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center continue reapplying foam insulation to that portion of the tank as the agency targets a Feb. 7 launch date for mission STS-122. All the work associated with replacing the connector and insulation is expected to [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:14:50 +0000 - Zenit rocket to orbit Israeli satellite in March
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti) - The launch of a modified Zenit rocket to put an Israeli communications satellite into orbit has been scheduled for March 2008, a Baikonur space center official said on Friday. Russia started preparations for the launch of a Zenith-3SLB rocket with an Israeli AMOS-3 satellite on board from the space center in [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:12:49 +0000 - Astrium and ESA sign contract for Mercury probe
(EADS Astrium) - BepiColombo to head for the innermost planet in 2013 Extreme temperatures – a challenge for the engineers Astrium continues its successful series of planetary probes Friedrichshafen – Astrium is set to build the Mercury probe BepiColombo on behalf of the European Space Agency, ESA. In Friedrichshafen today, representatives of ESA and of Astrium, Europe’s [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:10:24 +0000 - High-flying asteroid scouts
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Kislyakov) - It looks as though the international space-monitoring community is in for fresh reinforcements, although not a new James Bond. On the agenda are plans to set up a ground- and space-based deep space search network, first on a regional and later on a global basis. Meanwhile, the [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:55:57 +0000 - ESTRACK welcomes Santa Maria station
(ESA) - The new 5.5m tracking station on Santa Maria island was formally inaugurated into the ESTRACK network yesterday. The station will be used to track Ariane launch trajectories and will also be capable of tracking Vega and Soyuz, as well as ongoing Earth observation missions, including ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat. The Santa Maria station [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:54:07 +0000 - TerraSAR-X goes into operation
(DLR) - The German radar satellite, TerraSAR-X, went into operation on 7 January 2008 . The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Infoterra GmbH, the company responsible for commercial marketing, decided on this date following the successful outcome of the operational readiness review in December. Scientists and engineers from DLR and EADS Astrium have spent the past [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:52:06 +0000 - Ariane 5 is readied for its February launch with the Automated Transfer Vehicle
Ariane 5’s EPS upper stage is installed atop the vehicle inside the Spaceport’s Launcher Integration Building. (Arianespace) - The launch vehicle for Arianespace’s upcoming milestone mission has completed its basic buildup at the Spaceport in French Guiana as preparations move ahead for Ariane 5’s first ever flight with a human-rated payload. Teams from prime contractor Astrium [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:41:14 +0000 - Public Invited to Celebrate Anniversary of Explorer 1
A half-century ago, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Explorer 1 spacecraft became America’s first Earth-orbiting satellite when it sailed into space on Jan. 31, 1958. In honor of the historic achievement that launched the United States into the space age, JPL and Caltech invite the public to the premiere of a new documentary chronicling the story [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:12:45 +0000 - NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves in Science Community
PASADENA, Calif. – A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In one study, published last fall in Geophysical Research Letters, researcher Y. Tony Song of NASA’s Jet [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:10:16 +0000 - Messenger Views Mercury’s Horizon
(NASA) - As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft acquired this image showing a variety of surface textures, including smooth plains at the center of the image, numerous impact craters and rough material that appears to have been ejected from the large crater to the lower right. MESSENGER [...]
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