AFP – US astronomers have discovered the biggest black hole orbiting a star 1.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, with a record-setting mass of 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, NASA said Tuesday.
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AP – China will build a new family of rockets, state media said Wednesday, a move that would boost the country’s capabilities to put satellites and space stations in space.
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AP – Abandoning its secrecy claims, NASA promised Congress on Wednesday it will reveal results of an unprecedented federal aviation survey which found that aircraft near collisions, runway interference and other safety problems occur far more often than previously recognized.
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AFP – Two astronauts will try to fix a torn solar panel on the International Space Station during a space walk that has become crucial for the orbiting laboratory’s mission, NASA said.
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Reuters – NASA sketched out plans on Wednesday for a hastily choreographed spacewalk with an astronaut dangling at the end of an extension boom to try to save a critical power wing of the International Space Station.
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SPACE.com – HOUSTON – Astronauts aboard the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) said today that they are ready for any repair work neededoutside the orbital laboratory, even as NASA delayed a planned spacewalk inorder to fix a torn solar wing.
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AFP – The head of NASA on Wednesday said he was sorry the agency refused to release a major survey of commercial aviation safety, on the grounds it might scare passengers and hit airline profits.
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SPACE.com – HOUSTON – NASA mission managers todayannounced a risky new plan to fix an injured solar wing at a distant end of theInternational Space Station (ISS).
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AP – NASA canceled Thursday’s spacewalk to inspect a snarled joint for a set of solar panels and instead instructed its orbiting astronauts to go out a day later to try to fix a torn solar wing.
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ESA PR 32-2007. The International Space Exploration Conference 2007 (ISEC 2007) taking place in Berlin (D) from 8 to 9 November will welcome 500 high-level representatives of stakeholder groups from political institutions, the scientific community, industry and applied research organisations, public organisations and the general public.
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