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ENDEAVOUR SHUTTLE LAUNCH DELAYED ENDEAVOUR SHUTTLE LAUNCH DELAYED - The launch of space shuttle Endeavour has been cancelled due to a hydrogen leak, Nasa officials have announced. Endeavour was due to take off from Cape Canaveral with seven astronauts at 0717 local time (1117 GMT), but launch was cancelled several hours beforehand. The problem was discovered during fuelling, before the astronauts had donned their spacesuits. The shuttle was to deliver equipment for space experiments, as well as drop off a new station crew member.    More
(Source: BBC News - Jun 13)


‘UNANIMOUS GO’ FOR A SHUTTLE LIFTOFF SATURDAY - Just a month after the successful repair and renovation of the Hubble Space Telescope, another ambitious space shuttle mission is set to lift off Saturday morning. Forecasters said there was a 90 percent chance of favorable weather for the launching of the Endeavour, scheduled for 7:17 a.m. Eastern time from the Kennedy Space Center, and mission managers said the countdown was proceeding smoothly.    More
(Source: New York Times - Jun 12)


NASA COUNTS DOWN TOWARD SATURDAY SHUTTLE LAUNCH NASA COUNTS DOWN TOWARD SATURDAY SHUTTLE LAUNCH - NASA began counting down Wednesday toward the weekend launch of space shuttle Endeavour, on track for a space station construction mission. Forecasters put the odds of good launch weather Saturday morning at 90 percent. The flight comes less than three weeks after NASA's last shuttle trip involving the successful overhaul of the Hubble Space Telescope. The highlight of this 16-day mission will be the completion of a huge Japanese lab. Endeavour was on standby as a rescue ship throughout the Hubble mission. Severe thunderstorms prevented NASA from moving Endeavour from one pad to the other on time and, in fact, kept the Hubble crew from landing in Florida.    More
(Source: The Associated Press - Jun 11)


TRACKERS OF ORBITING JUNK SOUND WARNING - Space is a mess. There are 19,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth. They travel at about 17,000 miles per hour, fast enough for a relatively small piece of junk to destroy a satellite or even the space shuttle. There are 300,000 pieces of debris the size of a marble or larger, according to Paul Graziani, chief executive of Analytical Graphics, Exton, Pa., a maker of software for the space and defense industries.    More
(Source: Defense News - Jun 11)


UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 'PICOSATELLITE' TO BE LAUNCHED FROM SPACE SHUTTLE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 'PICOSATELLITE' TO BE LAUNCHED FROM SPACE SHUTTLE - In an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month from Space Shuttle Endeavour. In the process, the students will try to accomplish what only multi-million-dollar space missions have attempted: the autonomous docking and rendezvous of satellites. In this case, they'll be using picosatellites, named for being very compact and lightweight.    More
(Source: University of Texas News - Jun 10)


TERRESTAR-1 DELAYS LAUNCH TO TEST S-BAND PAYLOAD - TerreStar Networks Inc. has pushed the launch of the TerreStar-1 satellite from late June into early July to perform further testing of the S-band payload, the company announced June 8. The launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket has been scheduled for June 24, but TerreStar requested “additional time to ensure that an on-orbit anomaly that occurred recently on another operator's satellite has no bearing on the flight worthiness of TerreStar-1,” the company said.    More
(Source: Satellite Today - Jun 10)


PLANCK SATELLITE MANEUVER AIMS AT L2 ARRIVAL - Beginning June 5, ESA's Planck satellite will carry out a critical mid-course manoeuver that will place the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, early in July. The manoeuvre is scheduled to begin at 19:28 CEST on 5 June 2009, and will last for up to 30 hours.   More
(Source: Science Daily - Jun 6)


U.S. AIR FORCE SET TO LAUNCH SPACE PLANE U.S. AIR FORCE SET TO LAUNCH SPACE PLANE - It has been a long haul to the launch pad, but the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B – an unpiloted military space plane, SPACE.com has learned. Tucked inside the shroud of an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), the winged craft will be boosted out of Cape Canaveral, Fla., orbit the Earth and then make an auto-pilot landing in California.    More
(Source: Fox News - Jun 5)


NASA CLEARS SPACE SHUTTLE FOR JUNE 13 LAUNCH - NASA has cleared space shuttle Endeavour for a June 13th launch to the international space station. Top managers settled on the date Wednesday following a daylong flight review at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The meeting coincided with a practice countdown by the seven astronauts assigned to the mission. If Endeavour flies on time, the mission will follow NASA's successful Hubble Space Telescope mission by just under two weeks. Endeavour will carry up the last part of Japan's science lab and a new resident for the orbiting complex. Five spacewalks are planned during the 16-day mission    More
(Source: Associated Press - Jun 4)


SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BACK HOME IN FLORIDA - he space shuttle Atlantis is back home in Florida. The shuttle made the trip from California on Tuesday anchored to the top of a Boeing 747. Atlantis landed in California on May 24 after a 13-day mission to repair and enhance the Hubble Space Telescope. The shuttle landed there because of poor weather at Kennedy Space Center. It started the trip home on Monday.    More
(Source: Associated Press - Jun 3)

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