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NASA SATELLITES TO PROBE EARTH'S HARSH RADIATION BELTS NASA SATELLITES TO PROBE EARTH'S HARSH RADIATION BELTS - A pair of spacecraft in suits of armor will brave one of the toughest environments in space when they launch later this month to study radiation around Earth. NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) will fly through the thick belts of charged particles that encircle our planet to try to understand these dynamic environments. To withstand the damage such harsh radiation can inflict, the satellites are shrouded in strong layers of shielding.    More
(Source: NBCNews.com - Aug 12)


RUSSIAN PM ANGERED BY FAILED RUSSIAN SPACE LAUNCH - Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that this week's failed space launch has dented the nation's prestige and that those to blame must be held responsible. A Proton-M booster rocket launched Monday failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits, a mishap that followed several other botched launches. An official investigation is under way.    More
(Source: Businessweek - Aug 11)


INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION VISIBLE THE NEXT FEW NIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION VISIBLE THE NEXT FEW NIGHTS - Stargazers will get a treat the next few nights as the International Space Station makes a few passes. The space station will be visible from the tri-state the next several nights, including Wednesday night at 8:42 or 10:22 cdt. The ISS will approach from the north/northwest sky. Other times for viewing include Thursday night at 9:29, Friday night at 8:35 and 10:13 and Saturday night at 9:19.    More
(Source: 14 News WFIE Evansville - Aug 9)


RUSSIA SUFFERS ANOTHER EMBARRASSING FAILURE IN SPACE RUSSIA SUFFERS ANOTHER EMBARRASSING FAILURE IN SPACE - A few hours after the U.S. robot explorer Curiosity successfully landed on Mars and began transmitting images of the Red Planet, America’s Russian collaborators in the International Space Station project suffered another setback in their battered space program with the potential of endangering the station itself.   More
(Source: Los Angeles Times - Aug 8)


ATLAS 5 LAUNCH SLIPS TO AUG. 14 ATLAS 5 LAUNCH SLIPS TO AUG. 14 - An Atlas 5 rocket’s next try for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base won’t come until Aug. 14 at the earliest after mission managers were forced to scrub the first countdown. A new launch time was not yet available. The delay of more than a week gives Western Range crews more time to resolve a problem with instrumentation deemed mandatory for the flight.    More
(Source: Lompoc Record - Aug 4)


THREE FIRMS SHARE $1.1 BILLION OF NASA SPACE TAXI WORK THREE FIRMS SHARE $1.1 BILLION OF NASA SPACE TAXI WORK - NASA will pay more than $1 billion over the next 21 months to three companies to develop commercial spaceships capable of flying astronauts to the International Space Station, the agency said Friday. The lion's share of the $1.1 billion allotted for the next phase of NASA's so-called ?"Commercial Crew" program will be split between Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies, a privately held firm run by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk.    More
(Source: Reuters - Aug 4)


AVANTI ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF ITS HYLAS 2 SATELLITE AVANTI ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF ITS HYLAS 2 SATELLITE - Avanti Communications Group plc, the satellite operator, announces the successful launch of HYLAS 2 from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Ariane Flight VA208 at 5.54pm local time (9.54pm UK time). The Ariane 5 launch was perfect, injecting HYLAS 2 into the correct orbit precisely on schedule. HYLAS 2 separated from the Ariane 5 on time and telemetry was received at the control centre at the European Spaceport.    More
(Source: Space Daily - Aug 4)


INDIA TO LAUNCH THREE SATELLITES NEXT MONTH - India will launch three satellites next month and two more by the end of this year, said a senior official here. "We will be launching Spot-6, a French satellite and a small Japanese satellite on board PSLV-C21 (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket, next month," P.S.Veeraraghavan, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), told .    More
(Source: Zee News - Aug 4)


RUSSIA TESTS NEW SPACE ROUTE AND SETS RECORD TIME RUSSIA TESTS NEW SPACE ROUTE AND SETS RECORD TIME - A Russian spacecraft has slashed the usual time taken to reach the International Space Station. The achievement has set a new record and standard for future missions. Six hours was all it took for the ISS to welcome its newest guest, fresh from its Earthly takeoff. Using a new approach maneuver, the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress docked at the ISS slightly ahead of schedule.    More
(Source: Deutsche Welle - Aug 3)


SPACE FREIGHTER UNDOCKS FROM SPACE STATION SPACE FREIGHTER UNDOCKS FROM SPACE STATION - A Russian spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station for a three-week scientific mission before it is buried in the Pacific, officials said. The Progress M-15M unmanned cargo spacecraft undocked early Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported. "The undocking was carried out at 01.16 Moscow time," Russia's Mission Control said. "The spacecraft will conduct a series of scientific experiments under the Radar-Progress project."    More
(Source: UPI.com - Aug 2)

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