W hen NASA announced last summer that it would streamline its bureaucracy into something better-suited for the president’s new space exploration vision, the biggest immediate change was the decision to merge the Earth science and space science enterprises more than a decade after they had been split apart.
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ESA Science Chief Says Europe Needs Its Own Space Nuclear Power Options
Europe will have no choice but to develop nuclear-powered satellites if it wants to continue to explore the outer solar system, European Space Agency (ESA) Science Director David Southwood said.
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ESA Gets 10 Percent Budget Hike for 2005
PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) has been granted a 10 percent budget increase for 2005 to finance continued investment in launch vehicles and to pay for large new bills coming from its space-station program.
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NASA May Accelerate GPM Mission, Drop Composite Satellite
WASHINGTON — One year after NASA postponed until 2012 the launch of the key spacecraft in a proposed constellation of rain-measuring satellites, the U.S. space agency is now talking about launching the core satellite in 2010.
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JAXA To Launch Laser Satellite on Dnepr Rocket
TOKYO — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will use a Ukrainian Dnepr rocket to launch a long-delayed experimental laser communications satellite this summer, according to documents released Dec. 27 by Japan’s Space Activities Commission .
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Studying Space Radiation
NEW YORK — A team of researchers is looking to the M oon to develop the tools future astronauts may need to ward off potentially life-threatening levels of space radiation.
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Cuts in Japan’s Space Budget To Force Launch Delays
TOKYO — Japan’s 2005 space budget will be 260.3 billion yen ($2.5 billion), 4.7 percent less than the current budget. As a result of the budget cuts and some technical problems, a number of satellite launches will be delayed, according to Japanese space officials.
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New U.S. Space Transportation Policy Emphasizes EELV Rockets
WASHINGTON — A new U.S. government space transportation policy throws its weight firmly behind the two rocket families that were developed under the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.
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Napkin Sketch
Sometime in the s pring or s ummer of 1991, I was enjoying one of the great burgers and fries that you could get at The Outpost Tavern, not far from the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, and having a conversation with the head of JSC’s Exploration Project Office. He was bemoaning the poor prospects for funding programs for “Capital-E” Exploration.
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This Was The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off
WASHINGTON — The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
