When it comes to making a long-distance call, it is hard to top NASA's Deep Space Network DSN. This article describes the features of NASA's DSN, which is the system that NASA uses to communicate with its many spacecraft exploring other worlds. The challenge facing the DSN is an impressive...
PARIS AFP — The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency ESA said on Wednesday. On July 23, the unmanned craft will...
PARIS AFP — Water bathed the surface of southern Mars for millions of years, helping to create an environment theoretically capable of nurturing life, according to a new study into the planet's mysterious oceans. Scientists at Brown University in Rhode Island used an instrument aboard a US spacecraft,...
ASTRA 1N scheduled for launch in 2011 BETZDORF, Luxembourg -- SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that it awarded the construction of a new satellite, ASTRA 1N, to the European satellite manufacturer Astrium. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2011 and will be positioned...
MOSCOW AFP — Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station made a new space walk to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said. ISS commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko remained outside the space station for...
MOSCOW AFP — Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station ISS began a new space walk Tuesday to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said. ISS commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko will remain outside the...
WASHINGTON AFP — Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station spent six hours in space Wednesday to retrieve an explosive bolt believed the cause of the Soyuz spacecraft's dangerously high-speed descent and landing on two recent missions, NASA said. While US flight engineer Greg Chamitoff monitored the...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-10 July 2008-Space Systems/Loral to provide communications satellite to HISPASAT GroupC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and a provider of high-power commercial satellites, announced on Wednesday (9 July) that the company has been awarded a contract to manufacture...
MCLEAN, Va. -- Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services AGS announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to host an experimental sensor on board a commercial spacecraft. The three year $65 million firm fixed price contract was signed on June 30th...
WASHINGTON AFP — Volcanic activity played a key role in shaping the planet Mercury's crater-riddled surface, and not asteroid impacts as previously theorized, according to US research published Thursday. Scientists based their conclusion on numerous images transmitted by the US spacecraft Messenger, which on January 14 flew near...
MOSCOW AFP — The Russian space agency has sealed a deal with a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for tourist hire and operational in 2011, a statement said Wednesday. "We have concluded an agreement with an investor to begin financing such a Soyuz vessel with...
Southwest Research Institute: Event: <"Titan after Cassini-Huygens" symposiumDate: <July 7-11, 2008Location: <Omni Hotel Bayfront Tower; Corpus Christi, TexasContact: <Melody Cherry * 210-522-3745 * melody.cherry@swri.org Just as NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn begins a two-year extension that...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mirion Technologies Imaging Systems Division announces the sale of imaging equipment to Lockheed Martin to assist with testing NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. Mirion's IST-Rees branded camera systems were able to fill a unique requirement for testing the Lander in stringent thermal vacuum conditions prior to launch. ...
AEROSPACE U.S. AEROSPACE SALES are rocketing - up 8 percent last year to $198.8 billion, and projected to rise to $211 billion this year. But manufacturers face a potentially crippling manpower shortage, one that could affect both commercial and military production. The Aerospace Industrial Association AIA estimates...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin announced today that the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal vacuum testing at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities. The U.S. Air Force's AEHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable...
ATLANTA -- Video Display Corporation (Nasdaq: VIDE) announced that its BEAR Power Supplies division (www.bearpwr.com) has received a design contract to create a custom 420-Watt AC/DC power supply for L-3 Communications' Cincinnati Electronics Division. Among other custom features, the rugged power supply will feature an RS-232 interface for controlling on/off...
LOS ANGELES -- Mojix today announced the receipt of distinguished engineering honors for two members of the Mojix Technical Advisory Board. The Board is comprised of a group of experts in pioneering communications technologies including coding and information theory, antenna and array design, and RFIC design, who work closely with...
- Agreement allows the finalization of the spacecraft design and commencement of work on the construction of Satmex 7 - Programmed to be launched in 2011 MEXICO CITY, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Satelites Mexicanos S.A.B. de C.V. Satmex today announced that it has issued an...
ON 11 AUGUST 2007, a pair of Russian Tu-95 bombers flew from eastern Russia, skirted the coast of Japan, turned south, and headed for Guam, where US forces were conducting Exercise Valiant Shield, which involved over 280 aircraft, 30 ships, and more than 20,000 service members. Although the Russian bombers...
After a nerve-wracking but carefully choreographed seven-minute descent, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on the Red Planet at 7:38 p.m. EDT on May 25. The first spacecraft to land on the northern polar region of Mars, the craft's mission is to dig into the frigid topsoil for evidence...
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