Spaceflight
Orbital lands sounding rocket deal
Orbital Sciences Corp. will continue to handle NASA's sounding rocket programme under a $125m contract awarded 30 July. The total potential value of... [Read more]
Italy has sights - and budget - set firmly on the cosmos
As a public body, the Italian space agency (ASI) might have expected lean times ahead as governments across Europe set austerity budgets. However, at the Farnborough air show, Rome underscored its determination to build on the momentum driving its space programme, which is enjoying a high profile as a key partner to NASA. [Read more]
FARNBOROUGH: Mars missions boost chopper safety
Mars missions boost chopper safety This radio-controlled helicopter is being offered as a prize by Italian safety equipment manufacturer Aero... [Read more]
FARNBOROUGH: Italian space agency set to escape budget cuts unscathed
As a public body, the Italian space agency, or Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) (hall 3, stand SZA), might have expected lean times ahead as governments across Europe, including Italy, outlined austerity budgets. However, it appears that the agency's 10-year, €7 billion ($8.8 billion) development will survive largely intact. [Read more]
This Week briefing
The US National Transportation Safety Board has determined the captain of Continental Airlines flight 1404 that ran off the runway at Denver International airport on 20 December 2008 did not properly control the Boeing 737-500 for crosswind gusts of up to 45kt (83km/h) during the take-off run [Read more]
FARNBOROUGH: Boeing, Bigelow to build space station by 2015
Boeing and Bigelow Aerospace are teaming up to build a commercial space station system, with a 2015 target for a fully operational station in low Earth orbit... [Read more]
Earthrise
An SSTL Minisatellite could orbit the moon in 2001. The first minisatellite, the UoSAT 12, will be launched this year to demonstrate the potential of low-Earth and geostationary-orbit Earth observation and communications missions, as well as to act a technology demonstrator. SSTL plans to employ the mini-satellite for potential co-operative interplanetary missions of which the lunar flight, designated Earthrise, will be the first The firm plans to offer this and other missions at a total cost of less than $15 million, far less than the "smaller, faster, better, cheaper", $150 million-class NASA missions. The Earthrise could operate a science payload weighing 32kg in 100km circular lunar orbit. To get there, the spacecraft would first fly into geostationary transfer orbit, taking advantage of a piggyback launch with a commercial communications satellite. The Earthrise spacecraft would perform two phasing orbit burns using its own rocket motor to gradually incr [Read more]
Sirius Launch
Sirius Satellite Radio will introduce its radio services to three US cities on 14 February but does not intend to extend the broadcasts until the third quarter of the year. The company says it has $375 million - enough to fund operations until the third quarter of next year. [Read more]
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