All Space articles – Page 209
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ESA plans more for less
Budget cuts have forced Europe's "frustrated" scientists to make "drastic" decisions to amend the European Space Agency's (ESA) science programme, the agency's science chief Roger Bonnet said yesterday. Despite the cuts and the cancellation of some long-term plans, the programme still retains some exciting missions and has even ...
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Space & missiles
Winner: Surrey Satellite Technology Location Guildford, UK Achievement Pioneering of microsatellites to give more nations affordable access to space. Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) was formed in 1985 by Professor Martin Sweeting, a UK pioneer of affordable microsatellite technology at the University of Surrey. His ...
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Spacewalkers picked
A cadre of 14 Space Shuttle astronauts has begun intensive training in preparation for the spacewalks required for initial in-orbit construction of the International Space Station (ISS). "It is important for us to begin work now to train the crews who will support Space Station assembly flights," says ...
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Israel and US booster link targets commercial market
Israel Aircraft Industries has linked up with the USA to develop and launch a version of Israel's Shavit satellite booster for the commercial market. It has joined with Coleman Research, a rocket company in Orlando, Florida, to provide launches from the USA for a range of potential commercial customers, ...
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Tug delivers goods
One of the new space products being introduced by Russia at the Show is a Space Tug from Khrunichev. The automatic Space Tug could deliver 4,940kg of equipment to a space station after launch on a Proton. It is being promoted for work supporting the International Space Station, delivering fuel, ...
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Thiokol to power Spain's first satellite launcher
US company Thiokol will supply the Castor 4B solid rocket motor for the first stage of Spain's first satellite launcher, the Capricornio, the company announced at the show yesterday. Spain's Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) will be supplied with motors for the first two launches of the ...
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Pegasus set to fly
Pegasus set to fly Orbital Sciences (OSC) says it will build four, one-stage versions of its Pegasus air-launched booster for the NASA Hyper-X project. The second and third stages of the standard satellite launcher - featured in Hall 3 - will be removed and a new ...
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Baker contract
When the joint NASA-ESA Cassini/Huygens mission blasts off on its seven-year journey towards the Saturn moon Titan in October, technology pioneered by British firm Martin Baker will be central to ensuring the probe's safe landing in 2004. The partnership mission will map out several milestones in space - ...
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Saturn 5 engine to power Shuttle fly-back booster?
Boeing engineers are considering the use of the F-1 first stage engine of the giant Saturn 5 booster that launched Apollo to the Moon to power a new fly-back booster for the Space Shutle. The company's Space Systems division - formerly Rockwell Space - has been awarded a ...
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Russian module signals call
Khrunichevof Russia is showcasing its star product at Le Bourget - a full-size mock-up of the 20tonne module that will be the first element of the international space station (ISS). Called the Functional Energy Block (FGB), it will be launched aboard a Russian Proton booster in June next ...
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Starsem close to finalising contract with ESA
The Starsem consortium is close to finalising its contract to launch four Cluster science satellites for the European Space Agency. Starsem is a consortium comprising Aerospatiale, Arianespace, the Russian Space Agency (RKA) and the Samara space centre to market the Russian Soyuz booster for commercial launches, mainly into ...
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Spaceport Florida set for first launch
Nasa's Lunar Prospector moon reconnaissance orbiter should be the first spacecraft to be launched from Spaceport Florida's new $8million pad at Cape Canaveral this September, a spokesman said at the Show yesterday. Spaceport Florida is a state agency created to boost commercial space enterprises in the state. ...
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Le Bourget filled to capacity - again!
The "Complet" sign is up on the Paris International Air Show - with more than 1,700 exhibitors from 43 countries, the 42nd edition of this venerable exposition is sold out. Organisers are expecting about 300,000 visitors over the eight days of the show at Le Bourget. ...
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Ariane wins four launch contracts
Arianespace has won four new launch contracts, maintaining its lead in an increasingly competitive commercial market. The company says it has 42 satellites in its orderbook and claims a 50% market share. Arianespace will launch the Swedish communications satellite Sirius 3 in 1998. This Hughes HS376 ...
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ESA catches the Express to Mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has approved studies of a mission, called the Mars Express, to land a craft on the surface of the planet Mars to analyse its soil for signs of life. The international frenzy over "life on Mars" has meant that the Mars ...
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Act of faith
A full-scale model of Russia's 20t Functional Cargo Block (FGB) module and its Proton launcher will be among the highlights of the space displays at the Paris air show, demonstrating that the International Space Station (ISS) programme is still alive. The real FGB will be the first ISS ...
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NASA aims to cut drag with control-surface research
NASA has begun test flights of an adaptive control-surface experiment which it hopes could lead to drag reductions of up to 3% for commercial aircraft, worth roughly $140 million a year in reduced fuel savings. The tests are taking place on the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operated by Orbital ...
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Cooperation is the answer
Sir - It is a pity that there is not more co-operation within the aviation industry worldwide. In the case of the "super jumbo", for example, world co-operation could transform the flat bed of the Antonov An-225 into an almost-ready-to-work "super jumbo". Similarly, co-operation on the Russian Energia ...
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Over the Moon as Galileo...
Over the Moon as Galileo spots Jupiter NASA has released a montage of images of Jupiter, the giant Great Red Spot and the planet's four major moons, taken from the orbiter Galileo. From top to bottom, the moons are: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto. Source: Flight International
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Orbital will launch hypersonic vehicles
ORBITALSCIENCES IS to produce four modified Pegasus air-launched boosters for NASA's Hyper-X hypersonic test programme. The Hyper-X is a small, unmanned, research vehicle powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) and designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 10 and altitudes of up to 100,000ft (30,500m) after launch ...