September 2005 Space News |
- New US-Russian Crew Heads for Space Station VOA 30 Sep 2005 -- A new crew will soon be on its way to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spaceship.
- International Cassini Mission Photographs Two Saturn Moons Washington File 30 Sep 2005 -- The Cassini spacecraft performed back-to-back flybys of Saturn moons Tethys and Hyperion September 24-26, coming closer than ever to each of them, according to a September 29 NASA press release.
- US Businessman Gregory Olsen Becomes Third Space Tourist VOA 30 Sep 2005 -- The latest civilian to join a space station crew is U.S. businessman Gregory Olsen. He will launch on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan Saturday with cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and U.S. astronaut William McArthur.
- PATRIOT III PURCHASE SHOULDN'T BE AFFECTED BY REFERENDUM: OFFICIAL CNA 29 Sep 2005 -- The purchase of Patriot III anti-missile batteries was approved in 1998 during President Lee Teng-hui's term of office and therefore should not be affected by the 2004 referendum, Deputy Defense Minister Tsai Ming-hsien said Thursday.
- Air Force successfully launches GPS satellite AFPN 26 Sep 2005 -- The Air Force’s 45th Space Wing, its mission partners and Boeing successfully launched a Global Positioning System satellite into orbit on a Delta II space launch vehicle at 11:37 p.m. Sept. 25.
- Transcript: Speech given by Senator Wayne Allard September 23, 2005 23 Sep 2005 - NDIA Space Policy & Architecture Symposium
- NASA Temporarily Transfers Space Station Control to Russia Washington File 23 Sep 2005 -- NASA closed Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, September 21 because of the threat posed to the area by Hurricane Rita and transferred primary flight control of the International Space Station to the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside Moscow.
- NASA Orbiter Finds Mars More Active than Scientists Had Believed Washington File 21 Sep 2005 -- The discovery of gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 on a Martian sand dune is among many new findings made by NASA’s Mars global surveyor.
- US Spacecraft Sees a Changing, Dynamic Mars VOA 22 Sep 2005 -- The planet Mars is giving scientists some new surprises. A U.S. spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet has shown that despite its barrenness, it is not a static place. Instead, its face is changing, possibly because of quakes and global warming.
- World: U.S. Moon Program Marks Starting Point For New Space Exploration RFE/RL 21 Sep 2005 -- The U.S. space agency NASA has unveiled a $100 billion program to put astronauts on the moon again by 2018.
- New Spaceship Designed for Travel to Moon and Mars VOA 20 Sep 2005 -- United States has released plans for manned spacecraft to return to the moon by 2020.
- Cassini Radar Images Show Dramatic "Shoreline" on Titan Washington File 19 Sep 2005 -- Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan show evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere.
- NASA Releases Plans for Next-Generation Spacecraft Washington File 19 Sep 2005 -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on September 19 released a plan for the next generation of spacecraft to take humans back to the moon and to Mars.
- NASA Unveils Plans for New Spaceship to Return Humans to Moon by 2018 VOA 19 Sep 2005 -- The U.S. space agency has released its plans for returning humans to the moon.
- Vandenberg tests Minuteman III AFPN 14 Sep 2005 -- Vandenberg Airmen successfully conducted the final force development evaluation launch of the year from North Vandenberg Sept. 14 at 1:01 a.m.
- NASA Satellite Detects Explosion from Edge of Visible Universe Washington File 13 Sep 2005 -- Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite and international ground-based telescopes have detected the most distant explosion yet, a gamma-ray burst from the edge of the visible universe.
- Scientists Observe Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded VOA 12 Sep 2005 -- Astronomers have detected the most distant explosion ever witnessed in the heavens
- Two NASA Centers Suffer Damage from Hurricane Katrina Washington File 12 Sep 2005 -- NASA has accounted for all civil servants and most contractors at two facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and the agency is evaluating the storm's effect on the Space Shuttle Program.
- Cassini Mission Reveals New Details About Saturn's Rings Washington File 12 Sep 2005 -- Scientists from the international Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn have made unexpected findings in analyzing images of Saturn's rings, according to a September 5 press release from the Space Science Institute in Colorado.
- FIRST ONLINE GLOBAL PARLIAMENTARY HEARING WILL FOCUS ON SPACE SECURITY -- On September 14 the US Congress will be the scene for a new departure in international politics. A group of democratically elected legislators from ten countries will hold a joint parliamentary hearing, webcast live to enable participation from journalists worldwide.
- Russian Supply Ship Docks at International Space Station VOA 10 Sep 2005 -- An unmanned Russian supply craft transporting food and scientific equipment has docked at the International Space Station, two days after taking off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
- AFWA monitors record solar flare AFPN 08 Sep 2005 -- A large group of sunspots is being tracked by Air Force Weather Agency space weather technicians here.
- NASA's July 4 Comet Mission Produces Surprising Findings Washington File 08 Sep 2005 -- After the fireworks produced by the crash of NASA’s Deep Impact probe into comet Tempel 1, mission scientists are filling in important new pieces of a cometary picture that is still far from finished.
- Power outages across Gulf Coast AFPN 01 Sep 2005 -- The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was captured by an Air Force meteorological satellite from the Air Force Weather agency here as it flew over the southeastern United States.
- NASA Robotic Rover Spirit Sends New Images from Mars Washington File 01 Sep 2005 -- Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA's Spirit robotic rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes filled with evidence of past environments.
- Mars Probe Returns New Pictures VOA 01 Sep 2005 -- NASA's Mars exploration rover, Spirit, has reached the summit of a hill it first spied in the distance when it landed on the red planet in January 2004.
- CHINA AGAINST TAIWAN'S INCLUSION IN ANY NATION'S MISSILE DEFENSE CNA 01 Sep 2005 -- Beijing opposes the inclusion of Taiwan in any nation's missile defense system and does not support those countries that want to supply such systems to the island, a ranking Chinese official for arms control affairs said Thursday.
