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To infinity or the bank?
Lump of cash or trip of a lifetime? IT people, it seems, would take themoney. Cambridge-headquartered software company Red Gate has had possibly tens ofthousands of entries to its competition, open to database administrators, towin a suborbital flight with...
Vega on track for January launch
Preparations are well underway in Kourou, French Guiana for the maiden flight of the European Space Agency's new light launcher, Vega, on 26 January. According to ESA, installation of the 100 tonne solid propellant first stage on the pad began earlier this week, and...
Phobos-Grunt doesn’t quite make it
Russia's first planetary science mission in the 21st century is ambitious enough -- land a probe on Mars moon Phobos, take a soil sample ('Grunt' is Russian for 'soil'), and return it to Earth. After a fully successful launch the spacecraft entered its first orbit,...
Back from Mars, safe and sound
One of the more unusual chapters in humanspaceflight history has come to an end with the return to Earth of thefirst-ever manned mission to Mars. Or, at least, with the formal end of a "full-length,high-fidelity simulation of a human mission to our...
China and Fear
On 31 October, a Long March IIF launched from the Jiuquan launch site in western China. The successful launch carried a Shenzhou 8 capsule, which, though capable of carrying taikonauts, was empty. On 2 November the capsule docked with Tiangong 1, a space station test...
Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on US Satellites
You knew something like this had to happen some day. Bloomberg has the scoop, citing a draft of the annual US-China Economic and Security Review, itself citing closed briefings from the US air force. Excerpt below, and link here. A Landsat-7 earth observation...
VEGA launch date set – 26 Jan 2012
Vega, the European Space Agency's new light launcher, has now got its maiden flight date set, for 26 January 2012. ESA had been hoping to launch during 2011, but the critical parameter was to get Vega launched between the 20 October launch of Soyuz and the beginning...
TAM Panel: Our Future in Space
If you're interested in the future of spaceflight, it's worth taking the time to watch this video from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 2011. Lightly moderated by Phil Plait of the blog Bad Astronomy, the panel features Bill Nye (the science guy), famed astrophysicist Neil...
Galileo satellite separation live video
Following this morning's successful Soyuz launch from French Guiana, the mission's payload - the first two Galileo navigation satellites - are due for separation at 16:20 CEST/14:20GMT. The European Space Agency will provide live streaming from 15:40 CEST/14:40GMT:...
Soyuz Guiana update
According to launch operator Arianespace, this morning's Soyuz countdown abort was caused by a leak in a launch pad pneumatic system that activates the pre-planned disconnection of fueling lines to the rocket's third stage, before the vehicle lifts off. The problem...
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