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| December 29, 2013 |
 Russia launches upgraded Soyuz rocket Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 29, 2013 - Russia launched an upgraded version of its Soyuz rocket on Saturday, successfully delivering a scientific satellite into space. The Soyuz-2.1v light class rocket includes a new engine design. "The operational crew at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (in Russia's Arkhangelsk Region) has successfully conducted a unique launch of a light-class Soyuz-2.1v rocket carrier with Volga upper stage and Aist ... more |  |
 Soyuz-2.1v rocket successfully puts Aist satellite into orbit Plesetsk, Russia (VOR) Dec 29, 2013 - Russia's Soyuz-2.1v light-weight launch vehicle, which blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region of northwestern Russia on Saturday, has successfully delivered the latest Aist satellite into orbit. The satellite separated from the rocket's Volga upper stage and reached its designated orbit at 6:09 pm Moscow time (0209 pm GMT), the Russian Defense Ministry said. ... more |  |
 Beidou to cover world by 2020 with 30 satellites Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - China is planning to expand its homegrown Beidou navigation system by 2020 and make it accurate to within centimeters. Currently the system can reach an error margin as low as 5 meters in trials and can be further improved to within centimeters to compete with the dominant US Global Positioning System, officials said yesterday. The navigation system has been providing accurate and st ... more |  |
 Space trips open to Chinese travelers Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - Chinese travelers will be able to take space trips by the end of 2014 thanks to an agreement signed on Friday in Beijing between a Chinese travel agency and Netherlands-based space tourism firm Space Expedition Corporation (SXC). Travelers will pay a minimum of 580,000 yuan (about 95,000 U.S.dollars) to board the Lynx Mark I spacecraft produced by the U.S. private aerospace company XCOR, s ... more |  |
 Russian cosmonauts Kotov and Ryazansky complete ISS spacewalk Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 29, 2013 - Two Russian cosmonauts who last month carried the Olympic torch into open space for the first time finished a spacewalk on Saturday to replace equipment on the outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk began on Friday afternoon and lasted 8 hours 10 minutes. The cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, installed equipment on the hull of the space station including high- ... more |  |
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 Russian Anti-Gravity Observation Satellite Delayed Until 2015 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 29, 2013 - A Russian satellite to study anti-gravity forces by observing clusters of galaxies has been delayed until 2015 due to problems with a German-built telescope, a science official said Thursday. The satellite, to view galaxy-emitted X-rays in an attempt to unlock the secrets of so-called dark energy, a force believed to propel objects away from one another, had been previously expected to be ... more |  |
 Russian Rocket Puts Telecoms Satellite Into Orbit Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 29, 2013 - A Russian Proton-M heavy-lift rocket put a government communications satellite into orbit on Thursday in the final launch of the year for the Russian space industry. The rocket lifted off at 2:50 p.m. Moscow time from the Baikonur space center in a televised broadcast. Its payload, a 3.4-ton Express-AM5 communications satellite, was successfully placed into a parking orbit nine minutes lat ... more |  |
Work on NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Progresses as Engineers Pivot to 2014 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 29, 2013 - Orion's first mission, Exploration Flight Test-1, or EFT-1, is less than a year away now, and the team building the spacecraft is meeting milestones left and right as they prepare the vehicle for its debut. The Orion crew module that will fly 3,600 miles above Earth on the spacecraft's first mission is continuing to come together inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kenned ... more |  |
 NASA and JAXA Announce Launch Date for Global Precipitation Satellite Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 29, 2013 - Environmental research and weather forecasting are about to get a significant technology boost as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to launch a new satellite in February. NASA and JAXA selected 1:07 p.m. to 3:07 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 27 (3:07 a.m. to 5:07 a.m. JST Friday, Feb. 28) as the launch date and launch window for a Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the G ... more |  |
 Hubble Eyes Galaxy as Flat as a Pancake Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 29, 2013 - Located some 25 million light-years away, this new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 373-8. Together with at least seven of its galactic neighbors, this galaxy is a member of the NGC 2997 group. We see it side-on as a thin, glittering streak across the sky, with all its contents neatly aligned in the same plane. We see so many galaxies like this - flat, stretched-out pancakes - that our ... more |  |
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China's BeiDou satellite system expected to achieve global coverage by 2020 Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - China will launch upgraded satellites and expand its regional BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) to global coverage by 2020, a spokesman for the system said on Friday. "BDS's general performance is expected to be improved by one to two times the current level and its positioning accuracy could be upgraded to the meter or even sub-meter level" by 2020, BDS spokesman Ran Chengqi said a ... more |  |
China to take free navigation system global Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - The world can expect to use China's "reliable" global positioning and navigation services for free by 2020, the director of the country's satellite navigation office said on Friday. "The Beidou Navigation Satellite System is committed to providing services to the whole world - currently for the Asia-Pacific - for free," said Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation Office. ... more |  |
 Express AM5, a New Russian Communication Satellite, Placed into Orbit Moscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 29, 2013 - Express AM5, a Russian communication satellite was orbited on 26 December 2013. The Proton M launch vehicle with this satellite aboard blasted off at 14:49:56 Moscow Time. The new spacecraft of the AM5 heavy-lift family is to be drifted to GSO 140 deg E slot to offer services across the Far East and Siberia. Express AM5 is built for Russian Space Communications Company (RSCC) by Reshetnev ... more |  |
Bolivia's telecom satellite fixes position in orbit Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - Bolivia's China-made communications satellite has fixed its position in geostationary orbit at 87.2 degrees west longitude, according to the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) on Friday. The right to observe and control the satellite was transferred to Bolivia at 9:00 p.m. on Friday, according to the CGWIC. China sent the satellite into orbit with its Long March-3B carrier ... more |  |
China to strengthen its own GPS system Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2013 - After a year in orbit, China's homegrown Beidou system is offering greater precision in positioning services. The country also plans to launch more satellites in 2014 to build its own global system. China's homegrown Beidou system is ready to compete with GPS. After being put into commercial use late last year, the system has improved its positioning accuracy to five to seven meters ... more |  |
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Russian dark energy satellite's launch pushed back to 2015 Moscow (UPI) Dec 27, 2013 - A Russian satellite to study dark energy forces by observing galaxies has been delayed due to problems with a German-built telescope, a science official said. The satellite, designed to observe cosmic X-rays in an attempt to unlock the secrets of so-called dark energy - a force believed to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, - was to have been launched next year but now wil ... more |  |
The Athena-Fidus satellite is readied for Arianespace first heavy-lift mission of 2014 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 26, 2013 - The multi-role Athena-Fidus satellite has completed initial checkout at the Spaceport as it is readied for a dual-payload, geostationary transfer orbit launch on Arianespace's first flight in 2014. To be lofted January 23 from French Guiana along with the ABS-2 spacecraft aboard a heavy-lift Arianespace Ariane 5, this mission will commence a very busy 2014 - with 12 to 14 launches in prepa ... more |  |
 Rocket Rokot brings 3 Russian military-purpose satellites on orbit Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 2013 - The rocket Rokot has brought three Russian military-purpose satellites on the orbit. The satellites were given the numbers Kosmos-2488, Kosmos-2489 and Kosmos-2490, representative of the press service of the Russian Defence Ministry and the Aerospace Defence Troops Colonel Dmitry Zenin said on Wednesday. "The satellites were successfully brought on the designated orbit at the scheduled tim ... more |  |
 Images show N. Korea efforts to restart nuclear complex Seoul (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Satellite imagery suggests North Korea is making "wide-ranging, extensive" efforts to fully reactivate its main nuclear complex, a US think tank said Tuesday, in line with Pyongyang's vows to strengthen its weapons programme. Recent images show work at the Yongbyon nuclear compound apparently aimed at producing fuel rods to be used in a plutonium reactor, Johns Hopkins University's US-Korea ... more |  |
 Curious Results from Mars Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars with dramatic style in August, 2012. Now that the rover has spent more than a year exploring the martian surface, scientific data from the mission is starting to make its way into journals and popular news here on Earth. In fact, there is so much data coming back from the rover that it is sometimes hard to understand what all of the different fin ... more |  |
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