Space WeeklySpace Weekly .comWildBlue-1 satellite ready- November 29, 2006 WildBlue-1 satellite is ready for its December 8 launch on Ariane 5 The integration process has been completed for WildBlue Communications' WildBlue-1 as the upper passenger on Arianespace's fifth and final Ariane 5 launch of 2006. This year-ending flight -- scheduled for December 8 -- will carry WildBlue-1 and SES AMERICOM's AMC-18 spacecraft. See their photo report from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, which details WildBlue-1's integration procedure in the Ariane 5 Final Assembly..http://www.spaceweekly.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2144 ROCKET MOTOR TEST HELPS SHUTTLE AND ARES 1- November 28, 2006 NASA's Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a reusable solid rocket motor Thursday, Nov. 16, at a Promontory Utah facility. The two-minute test provided important information for nighttime shuttle launches and for the development of the rocket that will carry the next human spacecraft to the moon. The static firing of the full-scale, full-duration flight support motor was performed at 6 p.m. MST at ATK Launch Systems Group, a unit of Alliant Techsystems Inc. in Promontory, Utah, where the..http://www.spaceweekly.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2143 Andrew Yau probes the stormy Sun-Earth relationship- November 27, 2006 Dr. Yau has spent much of his career probing the behaviour of plasma in outer space and he's leading the development of the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe, ePOP. It will be launched on Canada's small, but powerful and versatile CASSIOPE satellite in 2008. Read more; http:www.space.gc.caascengsciencesandrew_yau.asphttp://www.spaceweekly.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2142 |