SPACE.com – A boxyspacecraft and its Georgia-based design team are $25,000 richer after winning aninternational competition to devise the best plan for tracking a space rockthat will swing past Earth twice in the next 30 years.
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AFP – US space agency NASA confirmed it would launch the shuttle Endeavour on March 11 to deliver part of a Japanese space laboratory to an orbiting station, according to a statement Friday.
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It is vital that more youngsters opt for technical and scientific studies and careers, says an educational policy report recently issued by the Space and Education Forum of the Belgian Prince Philippe Fund, prepared in cooperation with the Belgian Science Policy Office and ESA.
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SPACE.com – WASHINGTON Several thousand NASA contractors in Florida and Louisiana could be out of workonce the space shuttle flies its last mission in 2010, the head of the U.S.space agency told a Senate panel Feb. 27.
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The first hot firing test of a reduced-scale demonstration version of a staged-combustion rocket engine has recently been achieved at the Lampoldshausen (Germany) test facility of DLR. This development work is part of ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme.
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ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts has activated the first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory. The WAICO experiment, which investigates the effect of gravity on plant root growth, has started inside the module’s Biolab facility.
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Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle, has been encapsulated in its huge fairing on top of the Ariane 5 launcher. With a total mass of about 19 360 kg, Jules Verne is the largest payload ever launched by Ariane 5. This historical mission with the first European space supplier for the ISS is scheduled for a night-time launch on 8 March at 04:23 UT.
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AP – NASA on Friday cleared space shuttle Endeavour for liftoff in less than two weeks on the longest space station visit ever. Endeavour is scheduled to blast off March 11 on a 16-day mission that could end up stretching by another day.
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SPACE.com – The plannedFriday launch of a new U.S. spy satellite has been delayed by space debris fromlast week’s destruction of its disabled predecessor, the mission’s launchprovider said Wednesday.
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ESA PR 11-2008. Europe is building its own satellite navigation system, Galileo, which will deliver a new, advanced global civil positioning service for the benefit of citizens in Europe and throughout the world.
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