Archive for the 'European Space Agency' Category

PARIS, FRANCE–(Marketwire - June 20, 2007) - Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast has awarded contracts totalling $12.7 million US to six companies on the island of Ireland. The announcement was made today at the Paris Airshow where Bombardier and some of the suppliers are participating.
Contracts, valued at just under $10 million US over a three-year period, have […]

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Posted By: littlec | Jun 20th

MERRITT ISLAND, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — April 30, 2007 — KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Italy’s SPACELAND group, which organized the world’s first non-governmental zero gravity research flight in 2005, broke its own record for the oldest microgravity test subject when it flew 93-year-old Cesare Massano aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s (ZERO-G) G-FORCE ONE on April […]

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Posted By: littlec | May 1st

SAN JOSE, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — April 03, 2007 — Representing a milestone for both the aerospace and embedded industries, LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced it has been selected to provide the real-time operating system (RTOS) for the European Space Agency’s […]

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Posted By: littlec | Apr 3rd

X-ray images taken from a new international spacecraft show that the sun’s magnetic field is much more turbulent than scientists knew, NASA reported Wednesday.
They saw twisting plumes of gas rising from the sun’s corona and reacting with the star’s magnetic field, a process that releases energy and may power solar storms and coronal mass ejections, […]

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Posted By: froosh | Mar 23rd

WASHINGTON, March 1 /PRNewswire/ — Arianespace announced today that it will launch the SPACEWAY 3 communications satellite for HughesAn Ariane 5 launch vehicle will deliver SPACEWAY 3 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit from Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, in August of 2007.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) will operate the all Ka-band […]

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Posted By: littlec | Mar 1st

Space exploration is no longer a US-USSR affair:
A European spacecraft executed a close flyby of Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.
Applause broke out in the European Space Agency’s mission control center in western Germany as the Rosetta […]

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Posted By: froosh | Feb 26th