GOOGLE EARTH'S NEW SATELLITE SENDS ITS FIRST IMAGE - Google Earth's new satellite, GeoEye-1, has provided a high resolution picture of Pennsylvania-based Kutztown University campus, which als o happens to be its first picture. The satellite took the picture on Tuesday when it was in a 423-mile-high orbit over the East Coast of the U.S. More (Source: Economic Times - Oct 11)
ORBITAL COMPLETES WORK ON NSS-9 COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - Orbital Sciences Corporation has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced today. Orbital's engineering team completed all pre-shipment procedures late last week for the NSS-9 satellite, which will be stored at the company's Dulles, VA facilities until the company is notified of the launch date. More (Source: Orbital - Oct 11)
ACCOMPANYING SATELLITE BEGINS ORBITING SHENZHOU-7 SPACESHIP ON SUNDAY - hinese scientists on Sunday successfully directed the accompanying satellite BX-1 to begin circling the Shenzhou-7 spaceship, on an elliptical track of 4 kilometers multiplying 8 kilometers. It is the first time that China has succeeded in maneuvering this kind of space orbiting, official sources say. The accompanying satellite began orbiting the orbital capsule of the Shenzhou-7 at 18:14 pm, under the close monitoring and precise control of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. More (Source: Xinhua - Oct 6)
HUBBLE TELESCOPE FAILS; NASA TO DELAY SHUTTLE - NASA said Monday that it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit. Space shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to blast off in just two weeks, but an unexpected problem with the Hubble appeared Saturday night, when the telescope stopped sending science data. More (Source: CNN - Sep 29)
CHINA CELEBRATES AS SPACE HEROES RETURN TO EARTH - Awkwardly, his huge white space boots fumbling for gravity on the steppes of Inner Mongolia, the first Chinese taikonaut to walk in space returned to Earth today in a picture-perfect voyage hailed by the Communist Party as a triumph for the nation. Zhai Zhigang, commander of the Shenzhou VII – or Divine Vessel – spaceship and China’s first man to step out into space, emerged from the heat-charred craft after 68 hours spinning around the globe. More (Source: TimesOnline - Sep 28)
CHINA SPACE WALK: TAIKONAUT'S 'SMALL STEP' HAILED AS GIANT LEAP FOR THE COUNTRY - Waving a red national flag at the cameras, a People's Liberation Army colonel stepped out of his orbiter 213 miles above the earth and into the hearts of his nation, becoming the first Chinese man to take a walk into space. It was "a small step by Col. Zhai Zhigang, but a historical leap in China's space dreams," the official commentary said, in a deliberate echo of Neil Armstrong's words as he became the first man to set foot on the Moon. More (Source: New York Times - Sep 28)
CHINA'S MANNED SPACECRAFT SHENZHOU-7 BLASTS OFF ON SPACE WALK MISSION - China launched its third manned spacecraft on Thursday with three astronauts on board to attempt the country's first-ever space walk. The spaceship Shenzhou-7 blasted off on a Long March II-F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province at 9:10 p.m. after a breathtaking countdown to another milestone on China's space journey. More (Source: Xinhuanet - Sep 25)
CHINA TO LAUNCH SHENZHOU-7 SPACECRAFT ON THURSDAY - China will launch its third manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in the northwest on Thursday, a spokesperson with China's manned space program said on Wednesday. The spacecraft, carrying taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng, was to blast off between 9:07 p.m. to 10:27 p.m.(Beijing Time), said Wang Zhaoyao. One of the major tasks of the mission would be extravehicular activity (EVA), or known as space walk, the first of its kind attempted by Chinese astronauts, Wang said. More (Source: Xinhuanet - Sep 25)
US TELECOMS SATELLITE PUT INTO ORBIT - The Russo-Ukrainian rocket Zenit on Wednesday put the US telecommunications satellite Galaxy-19 in orbit, Russia's space flights regulator said. "The Galaxy-19 satellite was launched at 0928 GMT and successfully put into orbit," the agency's spokesman Valeri Lyndine told AFP. The satellite, manufactured by the California-based firm of Space Systems/Loral, has a wide footprint covering the United States, the Caribbean region as well as Canada and Mexico, he said. More (Source: SpaceDaily - Sep 25)
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