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EUROPEAN CARGO MISSION TO SPACE STATION ENTERS FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR LAUNCH EUROPEAN CARGO MISSION TO SPACE STATION ENTERS FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR LAUNCH - Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to service the International Space Station is entering its final preparation phase for a planned launch this spring from French Guiana on Arianespace's Flight VA213, the company announced on Friday. Arianespace is a commercial launch service company based in France. Named after Albert Einstein, the ATV is being processed in the Kourou spaceport's S5 payload preparation building, where it was transferred Thursday from the facility's S5C large preparation hall into its S5B high-bay area.    More
(Source: Examiner.com - Apr 1)


ORBITAL'S PRIVATE LAUNCH MAY SHOW WHETHER NASA MADE RIGHT CALL - On the face of it, the planned mid-April launch of a new commercial rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia won't be one for the record books. A number of barriers for commercial space companies already have been broken - for instance, SpaceX has flown to the International Space Station - and the maiden flight of Antares, a two-stage rocket built by Orbital Sciences of Virginia, is expected to do little more than prove it can put a dummy payload into orbit.    More
(Source: Houston Chronicle - Apr 1)


CHINA TO LAUNCH EARTH-OBSERVATION SATELLITE - China will launch its first satellite for a high-resolution system for Earth observation in April, a government agency said Thursday. Examinations of the satellite and its carrier rocket -- the Long March 2D -- have been completed and the satellite is now in the launch stage, Xinhua quoted the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SATIND) in a statement.    More
(Source: Zee News - Mar 30)


RUSSIAN SPACESHIP DOCKS WITH ORBITING INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RUSSIAN SPACESHIP DOCKS WITH ORBITING INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six. Chris Cassidy of the United States and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin traveled six hours in the capsule before linking up with the space station's Russian Rassvet research module over the Pacific Ocean, just off Peru, at 02:28 GMT. "It's such a beautiful sight, hard to believe my eyes," the 59-year-old Vinogradov, who had been in space in 1997 and 2006, was heard saying on NASA TV.    More
(Source: Fox News - Mar 29)


SOYUZ LAUNCHED ON FOUR-ORBIT FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION SOYUZ LAUNCHED ON FOUR-ORBIT FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION - A veteran Russian spacecraft commander, a rookie cosmonaut and a Navy SEAL-turned-astronaut rocketed into space Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, kicking off on an abbreviated four-orbit flight to the International Space Station. By the light of a nearly full moon, Soyuz TMA-08M commander Pavel Vinogradov, flight engineer Alexander Misurkin and shuttle veteran Christopher Cassidy blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:43:20 p.m. EDT Thursday (GMT-4; 2:43 a.m. Friday local time).    More
(Source: CBS - Mar 28)


RUSSIA LAUNCHES MEXICAN SATELLITE FROM KAZAKHSTAN RUSSIA LAUNCHES MEXICAN SATELLITE FROM KAZAKHSTAN - Russia launched a rocket carrying a Mexican telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space center on Tuesday, according to Russia's RIA Novosti, which cited the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. China Radio International said the take-off took place around 11 p.m., Moscow time and the Satmex-8 communications satellite is due to separate from Russia's Proton-M rocket and enter orbit early Wednesday.    More
(Source: GlobalPost - Mar 28)


SPACE STATION CAPSULE SPLASHES DOWN IN PACIFIC OCEAN SPACE STATION CAPSULE SPLASHES DOWN IN PACIFIC OCEAN - A private capsule carrying equipment, experiments and scientific samples splashed down Tuesday in the Pacific Ocean, completing a successful, 23-day round trip to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon capsule's parachute-assisted return to Earth concluded at about 12:34 p.m. ET. "That's great news," U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn said when Mission Control told the space station crew that the Dragon spacecraft had completed a 10-minute engine firing that dropped it out of orbit.   More
(Source: USA Today - Mar 27)


LEGO TOYS RETURNING FROM SPACE STATION ON PRIVATE CARGO SHIP LEGO TOYS RETURNING FROM SPACE STATION ON PRIVATE CARGO SHIP - For the astronauts living on the International Space Station, it's time to put away their toys. Hundreds of LEGO toy bricks will soon be Earth-bound after spending two years circling the planet as part of an educational partnership between the Danish toy company and NASA. The astronauts have packed the iconic multi-color toys aboard SpaceX's Dragon, an unmanned commmercial cargo spacecraft, which is scheduled to leave the space station and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday (March 26).    More
(Source: Space.com - Mar 26)


WEATHER FORCES ONE-DAY DELAY OF DRAGON’S SPACE STATION DEPARTURE WEATHER FORCES ONE-DAY DELAY OF DRAGON’S SPACE STATION DEPARTURE - The threat of inclement weather has forced the departure of the SpaceX Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS) to be delayed until Tuesday morning, NASA officials announced on Friday. According to Mara D. Ballaby of Florida Today, the return voyage was originally scheduled to take place on Monday, but was delayed by one day due to anticipated poor conditions near its Pacific Ocean splashdown site.    More
(Source: RedOrbit - Mar 24)


SPACE STATION CAPSULE TO RETURN MONDAY TO EARTH SPACE STATION CAPSULE TO RETURN MONDAY TO EARTH - International Space Station managers gave the OK Thursday for SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule to head back to Earth early Monday. Station managers and SpaceX officials met Thursday to discuss preparations for the flight home, including a review of thruster problems the spacecraft experienced shortly after its March 1 launch from here atop a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX engineers overcame the problems, and the Dragon arrived at the station March 3, a day later than planned.    More
(Source: USA Today - Mar 22)

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