The Ancient Sands Golf Resort in El Gouna, Egypt commissioned Satellite Imaging Corporation to acquire a new QuickBird Satellite Image, at a resolution of 0.6m, for the El Gouna resort in Egypt, supporting the design and monitor construction of the new Ancient Sands Golf Resort. [url=http://www...
Doug Stricker jokes there are no plants in the planetarium at Malabar Middle School. But there are opportunities. "We can take you to any spot on the planet Earth and show you the nighttime stars. We can also show you the daytime stars that you can't see." [url=http://www.mansfieldnewsj...
Budding astronomers are being encouraged to visit large telescopes being set up in northern Tasmania this afternoon. The Astronomical Society of Tasmania is holding its annual state meeting at Evandale's historic Clarendon homestead tonight. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/20...
Asteroid searcher hopes his discoveries won't produce direct impact Rich Kowalski is a jovial fellow who loves his job but approaches it with a certain sense of dread. Kowalski doesn't want to be the guy who finds the asteroid headed for Earth that will wipe out our species. But that's pretty much his...
Europe's flagship Kopernikus mission faces potential delays. An ambitious European proposal to launch an orbiting Earth-monitoring system called Kopernikus is facing possible delays to the launches of its component satellites after Italy and France demanded that costs be cut. A flurry of neg...
A United Launch Alliance Delta II (7420-10C) rocket is to launch the third Italian COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation) 3 radar Earth-imaging satellite from SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base at 02:28 GMT, 25th October 2008. The rocket will...
Planets at the University Observatory Whilst I was testing out the setup (for spectroscopy) at the University of Birmingham observatory last week I got a few minutes to point the telescope at Jupiter. Now the problem with Jupiter with a large and very sensitive telescope is that it is rather bright,...
Financial crisis threatens plans to build space ships The financial crisis could jeopardise the top Russian spacecraft-making company's ability to build spaceships for the international space station, the head of the state-controlled company said today. RKK Energiya has failed to receive vi...
The Chagos Archipelago (formerly, Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands roughly in the centre of the Indian Ocean. The Chagos lies about 500 km due south of the Maldives, its nearest neighbour, 1600 km southwest of India, half way between Tanza...
China has successfully launched two satellites with a Long March-4B carrier rocket early Saturday morning. A Long March-4B rocket carrying two 03 Group Shijian-6 research satellites blasted off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, in north China's Shanxi Province, on Oct...
Russian Space Forces launched a RS-18 (UR-100NUTTH, SS-19 Stiletto) intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo launcher at Baikonur at 11:35 UTC on November 9, 2006.
"The ICBM was test-fired from a silo as part of an RS-18 service life extension program" - Alexei Kuznetsov, Spac...
Lunar Lander Teams To Compete For $2 Million NASA Prize Nine teams with rocket-powered vehicles will compete for $2 million in NASA prize money during the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, Oct. 24-25, at Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico. [url=http://presszoom.com/st...
The Astra 1C satellite which was launched on the 12th May 1993 from the Kourou launch site has been decommissioned. TLE Data ASTRA 1C 1 22653U 93031A 08298.77581502 .00000005 00000-0 10000-3 3247 2 22653 002.0070 081.2492 0003548 134.1355 099.4691 01.00273353 51690 Period: 1437.5...
