Europe’s ATV – the Jules Verne – ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific.Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts.
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The space industry is one of today’s most powerful technology innovation drivers. New programmes such as space missions to Mars and the moon push the boundaries of technology development. Aimed at industry, the second European Technology Transfer Conference will present technology spin-off opportunities during the Materialica tradefair in Munich, 13-14 October.
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At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
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The 59th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2008, is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, visited IAC 2008 and opened the exhibition at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).
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School children aged 6-12 are invited to take part in a competition to design a t-shirt for ESA astronaut Frank De Winne to wear during his mission to the International Space Station next year. The winner, and all their classmates, will get to talk to De Winne in space.
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SPACE.com – GLASGOW, Scotland NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffindefended his agency’s determination to establish a lunar colony beforeembarking on a manned Mars mission Sept. 30, arguing that those who prefer tofocus only on Mars are overestimating what is known about the Moon andunderestimating the difficulties of going to Mars.
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2008 October 1
The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral Credit: GRIN,NASAA new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper 2. Shown above, the Bumper 2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 kilometers, higher than even modern Space Shuttles fly today. Launchedunder the direction of the General Electric Company, the Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the upper atmosphere. Bumper 2 rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and cosmic ray impacts. Seven years later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and Sputnik II, the first satellites into Earth orbit. In response in 1958, 50 years ago today, the US created NASA.astronomical angst
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: the Bumper V-2. V-2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a , the Bumper V-2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the . Bumper V-2 rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and
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, theACS NearbyGalaxy Survey Treasury, a program to explore ouryoung suns
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Reuters – A NASA spacecraft will whiz over Mercury’s crater-scarred surface next Monday, getting a look at the third of the planet closest to the sun that has never been seen close-up before.
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