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Hyperbola has now got its own Youtube channel and that can be found here on Youtube

During the coming weeks many videos previously only found on www.flightglobal.com and previously unseen video will find their way onto Hyperbola's FlightHyperbola Youtube channel

credit: Khrunichev Space Center

Space Newsbites returns with a few quick items about things spaceflght orientated...

Progress continues with Russia's new Angara rocket (see picture above). Khrunichev Space Center has posted this report about preparations for a test firing of its universal rocket module 

credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JAXA has released images of its International Space Station Kibo laboratory's Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section being delivered to NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after being shipped from Japan's Tsukuba Space Center, in September 2008

Credit: JAXA

The images in this blog are from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) presentation given at the European Space Agency's Integrated Architecture Review held from 7-8 July at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands

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credit: JAXA

If you are one of the sub-human fools who thinks that the Apollo Moon landings were faked then you're conspiracy believing days are numbered

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has posted pictures of what it calls the "halo" generated by the Apollo 15 lunar module engine exhaust plume when it blasted off the Moon. The blast area was detected in its SELenological and ENgineering Explorer(SELENE)/Kaguya orbiter's Terrain Camera images

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unveiled a new website for its Space Exploration Center that includes a lunar outpost team webpage

The website blurb says: "Human Lunar Systems Team works for the conceptual system study on the future human lunar outpost. Based on the achievements and lessons learned from the International Space Station Program, system architecture on the basis of the international cooperation and the way of Japan's contribution are discussed continuously."

credit: JAXA

Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon and Blue Origin fame better get a move on with his New Shepard vehicle or the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be putting him in the shade

Above is an artist's impression of the proposed JAXA reusable vertical take-off, vertical landing sounding rocket that would travel to 100km (185nm) and back for microgavity experiments. But the experiments must be pretty big, just look at the tanker truck next to it! The rocket is a follow on to JAXA's Reusable Rocket Vehicle Tests from 2001 and to get more detail on the new VTVL booster click through to the extended part of this posting

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Go here for the latest news on Space Shuttle Endeavour's flight STS-123, also known as International Space Station assembly mission 1J/A, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Endeavour has delivered the first section of JAX's Kibo, its stowage module, the Experiment Logistics Module-Pressurized Section (ELM-PS)

For more information on JAXA's Kibo go here

NASA's schedule for its television coverage of the mission can be found here

NASA's press kit for STS-123 can be found here

Endeavour is also delivering the last element of the ISS's mobile servicing system provided by the Canadian Space Agency and called Dextre

Hobbyspace has some news about Japanese involvement in the upcoming Personal Spaceflight symposium

It also has more stuff on space based solar power - where's the Bond-esque industrialist villain I ask?

Selenian Boondocks has a welcome few thoughts about engineering and reliability re: project constellation

More Kaguya lunar probe updates from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

NASASpaceflight.com is reporting that Space Shuttle Discovery might have to be rolled back from launch pad 39A to the vehicle assembly building because of issues with reinforced carbon-carbon tiles, potentially delaying the launch for mission STS-120 for weeks. It was scheduled for a 23 October launch

Meanwhile according to Space.com United launch Alliance is working towards its latest Atlas V launch four months after a failure by an upper stage engine valve placing payloads in the wrong orbit

Spaceref.com has a copy of an email from NASA's Constellation manager Jeff Hanley about how he feels about being part of the return to the Moon programme. All gooey apparently

The Space Review (no you're not a journal) has a series of entries by various guest writers dealing with subjects like the alleged weaponisation of space and the European satellite navigation project Galileo

Check out this photo report at S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia's website about Soyuz TMA-11, the next manned launch to the International Space Station

More news has emerged from the 58th International Astronautical Congress about India's co-operation with Russia and Japan's plans for more Moon probes following the successful launch of its Kaguya mission on 14 September

The Soyuz docked at International Space Station has done a little dance in preparartion for the forthcoming crew

MSNBC has a report about poor troubled Rocketplane

Hobbyspace.com has a link to a newspaper interview with software entrepreneur and rocket developer John Carmack

Meanwhile Arianespace is apparently going to market India's launchers. Seems a bit odd considering the Indian rockets are serious compeitition for the likes of Soyuz in French Guiana.

And for absolutely on reason whatsoever, other than the shear hell of it, here is a link to Alan Boyle's MSNBC Cosmic Log blog...

And finally it seems that US Democrat party candidates are all pretty gung-ho for space.