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AerospaceNEAR PROBE IS TRANSMITTING
U.S., Against every forecast the Near probe has succeeded to land on the Eros asteroid without, apparently, having received damages. Before impact (comparable, according to the scientists, in that of a... more
AerospaceASTRONAUTS ENTER DESTINY FOR FIRST TIME
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TEXAS, The space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts, arrived Friday to the international station Alpha to 225 miles from Earth, entered yesterday for firdt time in the scientific laboratory... more
AerospaceFIRTS ITALIAN MILITARY SAT IN ORBIT
FRENCH GUYANA, Italian sat for military telecommunicationses, Sicral, was launched from the European space base of Kourou, French Guyana, by an Ariane rocket. On the rocket there was also the British sat... more
AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS IN ORBIT
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA, The space shuttle Atlantis has been sent in orbit to the sunset yesterday, carrying the most expensive module of the international space station, the "Destiny" science laboratory,... more
AerospaceEADS TO ACQUIRE STAKE IN FINNISH AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
UK, The european group today said it is to take a 26.8 per cent stake in Patria, Finland's state-owned aerospace and defence company. EADS didn't provide any detail about the economic transaction. The... more
AerospacePUTIN VISITS UKRAINE
MOSCOW, Russian President Vadimir Putin will visit next Sunday and Monday Ukraine and will meet Ukranian President Leonid Kuchma: together will visit Yuzhmash aerospace factory. Kuchma was director of... more
AerospaceFINMECCANICA TO FOCUS ON SPACE AND DEFENSE
MILAN, Giuseppe Bono, Finmeccanica SpA chief executive, speaking in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore, said the company is to focus on the core business of aerospace and defense in the near future. This... more
AerospaceMARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR COMPLETES MAPPING MISSION
PASADENA, CA, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is close to finishing its main mission, after having gathered tens of thousands of images of the red planet. The robotic probe began mapping the planet in 1999,... more
AerospaceNASA SPACE PROBE WILL LAND ON ASTEROID
U.S.A., Next 12 February will be the first attempt to make to come down one space probe on an asteroid: NASA realized "Near Shoemaker", that it will be to come down on the rock surface of Eros, an celestial... more
Aerospace"DONATELLO" LEAVED FOR CAPE CANAVERAL
TORINO, ITALY, The module MPLM "Donatello", the last one of the three Italian Space Agency pressurized modules realized by Alenia Spazio, leaved yesterday for Cape Canaveral from Torino-Caselle airport... more
AerospaceNASA CHOOSES CREWS FOR NEXT LAUNCHS
USA, Monday, NASA released the two flight crews names for missions later this year: one for the space shuttle, the other for the International Space Station. A captain in the U.S. Navy, Dominic Gorie,... more
AerospaceMIR DISMANTLING STARTED
RUSSIA, After 15 years of "honourable service", in which however, many troubles have marked its life, "Mir" Russian space station starts to be dismantled, as it is to be destroyed piece after piece. The... more
AerospaceRUSSIAN AEROSPACE IN INCREASING
RUSSIA, Russian scientis plan to make seven space launches between next February and April: for the plan Proton-M, a modified launch vehicle of the heavy class, developed by the Khrunichev Space Centre,... more
AerospaceATLANTIS WILL BE LAUNCHED ON FEBRUARY, 7
CAPE CANAVERAL, Nasa announced that "Atlantis" space shuttle will be lauched from Cape Canaveral on february, 7 following a delay period need to verify systems on board. The launch was scheduled for... more
AerospaceALSO ON VENUS THERE WAS THE WATER
U.S.A., According to planetary researchers hot, dry Venus might have once been a wet, cool world like Earth and ancient Mars. The new evidence comes from a series of experiments documenting the chemical... more
Aerospace3.554 METEORITES FOUND IN ANTARTICA
TOKYO, During a three-week search in Antarctica Japanese scientists have found 3,554 meteorites which could yield clues about the rest of our solar system or the possibility of any traces of life on other... more
Aerospace'RINGED MOLECULE' FOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SPACE
SPAIN, Terrestrial life requires carbon atoms that form ringed-shaped molecules. Now for the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of similar atomic structures in interstellar space. Using... more
Aerospace''PROGRESS'' IN ORBIT, IT WILL DESTROY MIR
MOSCOW, The space shuttle "Progress" has been launched from the Baikonur's base, Kazakhstan, to destroy, towards the March end, the orbiting station Mir, in the space since 1985. The destruction is necessary... more
AerospaceE.T., WHERE ARE YOU?
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, Early next year a new telescope, with an 1.8 metre Optical, designed to search for messages from aliens will start scouring the entire northern sky. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial... more
AerospaceATLANTIS SHUTTLE LAUNCH POSTPONED
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., Yesterday night Nasa decided to postpone the Atlantis Shuttle launch to Feb. 6 for additional booster inspections. NASA made the decision few hours before the countdown, when the... more
AerospaceGIANT TELESCOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, South Africa is building a new giant telescope: this notice is very important because of the country's science programs are desperately in need of excitement. This telescope,... more
AerospaceTWO NEW PLANETARY SYSTEMS DISCOVERED
USA, Scientific planet hunters have found two new planetary systems, neither of them much like ours and one of them downright bizarre, researchers said. One star has two planets locked in harmonic... more
Aerospace10 NEW MOONS DISCOVERED AROUND JUPITER
USA, Ten new satellites have been spotted around Jupiter, bringing the total number of known moons around the gas giant in the solar system to 28, astronomers announced this week: they are much smaller,... more
AerospaceCHINA LAUNCHES SECOND UNMANNED SPACECRAFT
BEIJING, The unmanned spacecraft in the seconf test flight was launched today from the base of Jiuquan, in the Gobi desert. It would return in a few days and it will conduct experiments in physics and... more
AerospaceASTRONOMERS FIND HUGE CLUSTER OF STARS IN DISTANT UNIVERSE
SAN DIEGO, CA, Astronomers have found what may be the largest structure in the observable universe -- an immense concentration of quasars and galaxies clustered across more than 600 million light years.... more
AerospaceNASA SELECTS FINALISTS FOR NEXT DISCOVERY MISSION
U.S.A., NASA has narrowed the choices for an upcoming Discovery space exploration mission to three proposals: a space telescope that would search for terrestrial planets, a probe that could look inside... more
AerospaceFIRST STAR-TOURIST TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
USA, A U.S. businessman who planned a trip to the doomed Russian space station Mir will instead fly to the international space station, according to an Interfax News Agency report. Dennis Tito, 60-year-old,... more
AerospaceBOEING WINS CONTRACT WITH US AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON, With the $160.3 million contract the U.S. air force has awarded Boeing to build three communications satrellites which will be equipped with a high-capacity communications satellite system... more
AerospaceCHINA WILL PUT ON IN ORBIT A SECOND SPACE VEHICLE
CHINA, China is in order to put on in orbit a new unmanned space vehicle in the next days, the second of a program that will carry a Chinese astronaut in the space in the near years. It is unknown the... more
AerospaceRUSSIA TO SCHEDULE 29 SPACE LAUNCHES IN 2001
MOSCOW, Sergei Dervyashkin, spokesman for Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces, said 22 rockets will be launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan and will send into orbit some satellites. Two... more
AerospaceNEW PICTURES BY JUPITER
U.S.A., Scientists at Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are proclaiming victory in today's flyby of Jupiter by the unmanned spacecraft Cassini. The spacecraft worked in concert with... more
AerospaceRUSSIA IN FAVOUR OF DEPLOYMENT OF AN ANTIMISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM WITH EU
MOSCOW, The russian Strategic Rocket Force Commander, Gen. Vladimir Yakovlev, said he wishes to open negotiations with european partners to "experiment and deploy an antimissile system". It is still not... more
AerospaceSPACE BIKE FOR ASTRONAUTS
ORANGE, CA, Astronauts may soon be able to participate in a Tour de Space of sorts. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have developed an exercise bicycle to be used in the zero-gravity... more
AerospaceRUSSIA: SIX SATELLITES LOST
MOSCOW, The six satellites, launched from Plisetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia with a Ukranian-made Cyclone-3 rocket, were lost soon after they were blasted into space. A spokeswoman for the Plisetsk... more
AerospaceISS ASTRONAUTS COULD CELEBRATE 15 NEW YEAR'S DAY
., The three astronauts in the International Space Station could celebrate 15 New Year's Day in an only day, due to Earth's rotation not syncronized with ISS orbit. Celebrations probably will limited to... more
AerospaceMIR: NEW TROUBLES FOR THE ORBITING CRAFT
MOSCOW, Mission control said it lost radio contact and track of the Mir the other day. Then it regained firm control and the spokesman Valery Lyndin said they are mantaining full control of the station.... more
AerospaceANGRY SOLAR CYCLE AT ZENITH
USA, As the Sun's stormy season approaches its zenith, solar scientists have the best seat in the house, using the largest coordinated fleet of spacecraft and ground observatories ever assembled to observe... more
AerospaceSPACECRAFT MANOEUVERING PROBLEM HALTS JUPITER STUDIES
PASADENA, CA, NASA has temporarily suspended the Cassini spacecraft's observations of Jupiter because of a problem with a manoeuvering system. Cassini has benn sending back images and other scientific... more
AerospaceCHINESE ''GPS'' BECOME REALITY
BEIJING, CHINA, China ha completed its country's satellite positioning system by launching the second Beidou satellite employing a "Long March" A-3 rocket. According to national press agency Xinhua, this... more
AerospaceDELAYED SHUTTLE LAUNCH
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL, The launch of shuttle Atlantis, that will carry to the international space station the Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev and the American Bill Shepherd, was postponed... more
AerospaceFRENCH WOMAN ABOARD SPACE STATION
FRANCE, French Minister of Research annonced that Claudie Andre-Deshays will become the first astronaut from France to board International space station: the 43-year-old woman will begin training... more
AerospaceMARS EXPLORATION
U.S.A., The U.S. and its European partners are preparing to mount an ambitious campaing of Mars missions, including a critical 2007 launch opportunity that could serve as a trial run for a sample return... more
AerospacePLUTO BACK IN NASA PROJETS
U.S.A., NASA hasn't given up completely on tiny Pluto, the only planet in the solar system that has yet to be visited by spacecraft. Three months after cancelling a NASA-designed Pluto mission due to spiraling... more
AerospaceARIANE-5 ROCKET LAUNCHED TO PLACE TWO SATELLITES INTO ORBIT
FRENCH GUIANA, The rocket was launched from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch centre in Kourou on the north-east coast of South America. It placed two satellite into orbit, Astra 2D and Aurora... more
AerospaceASTEROID IMPACT CRATER RE-EXAMINED FOR CLUES TO DINOSAURS' DEMISE
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A., The rock and dust kicked up by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago were not enough to kill the dinosaurs, according to researchers, but the debris may have sparked a deadly global... more
AerospaceBOEING'S SAT WILL BE LAUNCHED FROM FRENCH GUIANA
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, Boeing Satellite System Inc. (BSS), a unit of the Boeing Company, annonced yesterday that the launch of ASTRA 2D, a Boeing 376 HP sat built for Societe Europeenne des Satellites... more
AerospaceUSA WORKING TO STOP OLD SATELLITES FALLING TO EARTH
USA, Pentagon is intervening on 74 old satellites about to fall out of orbit and scheduled to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over the next 14 months. They are owned by Iridium phone company and Pentagon... more
AerospaceNEC AND TOSHIBA TO PLAN JOINT VENTURE
TOKYO, The two japanese satellite makers today said they plan a joint venture by April 2001 to consolidate aerospace units and strenghten global competitiveness. The venture will be capitalized at $132... more
AerospaceSATELLITES TO BE LAUNCHED BY AN-124 PLANES
MOSCOW, The russian government approved the establishment of a private consortium, including the polish cargo carrier Poliot Airlines and many russian industrials, which intends to use four Antonov An-124... more
AerospaceNEW DELAY FOR EURASIASAT 1 SATELLITE LAUNCH
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA, The satellite was due to have been launched aboard an Ariane-4 rocket late Monday from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch center in Kourou, French Guiana, but a technical... more