STORMS DELAY SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH TO HUBBLE - Space shuttle Atlantis' launch on a final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed because of tropical storms, NASA said on Friday. Atlantis' target launch date was pushed back two days to October 10, although more delays were possible with Hurricane Ike and Tropical Storm Josephine swirling in the Atlantic. More (Source: Reuters - Sep 6)
ESA’S ATV SUCCESSFULLY UNDOCKS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - At the end of a flawless six-month mission, Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle, undocked from the International Space Station today at 23:29 hours CEST. The ATV has now embarked on the last leg of its journey in space, which will end with a controlled destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere on 29 September. The hatches between the ISS and the ATV were closed by the Station crew on 4 September following ATV preparation for automated undocking. More (Source: ESA - Sep 6)
JULES VERNE PREPARES FOR ISS DEPARTURE - In just a few days time, the historical Jules Verne mission will draw to an end. After the ATV Control Centre commands the opening of the Automated Transfer Vehicle hooks, ESA's first resupply and reboost vehicle will perform a fully automated undocking with the International Space Station on 5 September at 23:30 CEST (21:30 UT). More (Source: ESA - Sep 4)
NASA HOLDS SPACE SHUTTLE MOVE FOR TROPICAL STORM - NASA is holding off on moving the space shuttle Atlantis to its Florida launch pad this week to ensure it is not threatened by Tropical Storm Hanna, the agency said Tuesday. While the shuttle could make the 3-mile (4.8-km) trek to the seaside launch pad as early as Thursday, it's more likely to move on Saturday after Hanna has passed, said NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Fla. More (Source: Space.com - Sep 3)
FIVE RAPIDEYE REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES LAUNCHED - The Dnepr rocket, a weapon of war converted for peaceful applications, bolted out of an underground silo early Friday and delivered five German agricultural imaging satellites to orbit. The 111-foot-tall booster lifted off at 0715:58 GMT (3:15:58 a.m. EDT) Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Dnepr's third stage later released the five satellites nearly 400 miles above Earth More (Source: SpaceFlightNow - Sep 1)
GOOGLE MAPS TO GET BETTER SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM GEOEYE - Search giant Google signed a deal with Dulles, Va. startup GeoEye to use imagery from its newest satellite after it launches in September of this year. This is not the first time Google has dealt with GeoEye. It already uses images from its IKONOS satellite, as well as from other sources including DigitalGlobe. As part of the new deal, GeoEye would exclusively provide its imagery to Google. More (Source: BetaNews - Aug 30)
SPACE STATION DODGES ORBITAL JUNK - The International Space Station fired its rocket engines to dodge space junk for the first time in five years on Wednesday. According to a daily NASA status report, the European-built cargo ship Jules Verne docked at the station’s aft end fired its rocket engines in a 5-minute, 2-second maneuver to avoid the potential collision with a piece of orbital trash. More (Source: LiveScience - Aug 29)
HURRICANE COULD DELAY SHUTTLE LAUNCH - he long-anticipated Hubble Telescope repair mission could be delayed by Hurricane Gustav, watchful NASA officials told ABCNews.com. he Space Shuttle Atlantis is supposed to roll out to the launch pad just after midnight Saturday, but not if bad weather is headed anywhere near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More (Source: ABC News - Aug 27)
IRAN PLANS TO LAUNCH TELECOMS SATELLITE - Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads. Iran said last Sunday it had put a dummy satellite into orbit on a domestically made rocket for the first time, although U.S. officials said the attempted launch was a failure. More (Source: Reuters - Aug 24)
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