All Space articles – Page 38
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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 ...
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: 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...
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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.
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EADS Astrium in a stable orbit
EADS has drastically restructured its spaceflight unit into one of the most non-partisan and united groups in its business
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India launches 5 satellites
India successfully launched five satellites into orbit 12 July, one of them a miniature satellite built by Indian university students, space officials say. India's...
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NewsBroken booster pump possible cause of failed Indian launch
A flaw in the fuel booster turbo pump was the cause of the failed 15 April launch of India's three-stage geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV),...
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This Week Briefing
Airbus delivered 250 aircraft over the first half of 2010, while the recent landmark Emirates deal for 32 A380s took its six-month gross order total to 131
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Progress supply ship docks with ISS on second attempt
After an aborted first attempt on 2 July, the Russian cargo ship Progress 38 successfully docked with the International Space Station on a second pass, say...
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This Week briefing
Investigators have determined a Qantas Airbus A330's weather radar had been degraded before the jet encountered severe turbulence approaching the northern coast of Malaysia in 2009
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Indian Space Research Organisation to push for GSLV flight next year
The three-stage geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV), which failed an 15 April mission, will under go flight-testing next year, says K Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
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NewsSpace station docking attempt aborted
The Russian resupply vehicle carrying food, fuel and new crew members failed to dock with the International Space Station on 2 July after a loss of communications...
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NASA pushes back final Space Shuttle launches
NASA's Space Shuttle programme will extend into 2011, the US space agency says. After several weeks of hinting there might be changes to the schedule,...
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New US space policy looks to international co-operation
The White House released the US national space policy on 28 June, laying out President Barack Obama's vision for continued space exploration, including the expansion of international partnerships in space and sending a crew of Americans to an asteroid by 2025.
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Nastar lights the candle on spaceflight simulation
Aspiring adventurers can test their aptitude and physical fitness for spaceflight in an FAA-approved centre in Philadelphia
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Russians deny fault in South Korean launch failure
The cause of the 10 June explosion that ended South Korea's second attempt to launch a satellite has yet to be determined - but the failure was not caused by the Russian-built first stage of the rocket, says the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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SpaceX seals biggest-ever commercial launch deal
Fresh off the launch pad from the successful 4 June test of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX has landed the largest-ever commercial space launch deal
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NewsSoyuz launch marks 100th trip to Space Station
In a scene Cold War space race veterans could have scarcely imagined, three new crew members for the International Space Station - two American, one Russian - aboard the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft were launched on 15 June from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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NewsVIDEOS: Armadillo's Mod completes in-flight restart test
A collection of YouTube videos dated 7 June show Armadillo Aerospace has had a successful in-flight restart test flight with its vertical take-off/vertical...
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ILA: Financial crisis ‘spares space’ - so far
European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has stressed that while many ESA member states' governments are facing financial strain and some...
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ILA: ESA boss: Falcon 9 ‘cause to reflect’
European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain says last Friday's successful launch to orbit from Cape Canaveral of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket...