November 2005 Space News |
- Symposium keys on space support AFPN 30 Nov 2005 -- The theme for this year’s Air Force Association National Symposium was “Space – Enabling the War Fighter.”
- Japanese Asteroid Mission May Be Stuck in Space VOA 29 Nov 2005 -- A Japanese probe that may be carrying the first-ever samples from an asteroid may be stranded in space.
- Japan Space Probe Set for Second Landing on Asteroid VOA 25 Nov 2005 -- A Japanese space probe is preparing to make a second attempt to land on an asteroid to collect samples for study.
- NASA Prepares Shuttle for Next Year's Return to Space VOA 23 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Space agency technicians continue their slow, meticulous examination of the space shuttle fleet to eliminate potentially threatening problems that doomed the 2003 flight of Columbia and which appeared on the last mission in July.
- Mars Orbiter Halfway to Red Planet VOA 21 Nov 2005 -- A U.S. space agency spacecraft is half way to Mars where it will examine the red planet in more detail than ever before.
- Defense Department Report, November 17: Missile Defense Update Washington File 18 Nov 2005 -- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced November 17 that the U.S. Navy successful tested its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System against a realistic target warhead that separated from its booster rocket.
- U.S. Says Antimissile Test Successful RFE/RL 18 Nov 2005 -- A U.S. missile defense system has successfully shot down a dummy warhead over Hawaiian waters.
- European Rocket Launch Delayed VOA 13 Nov 2005 -- Space officials have delayed the launch of a European Ariane rocket carrying two telecommunications satellites.
- Engineers Boost Space Station Orbit VOA 10 Nov 2005 -- Russian space engineers say they have boosted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS).
- Russia Launches European Venus Probe RFE/RL 09 Nov 2005 -- A European space probe blasted off today for the planet Venus.
- Space Station Crew Conducts Maintenance Spacewalk VOA 07 Nov 2005 -- The two International Space Station crewmen floated outside the complex Monday to perform some maintenance chores and help prepare it for the resumption of assembly when the space shuttle returns to flight.
- Space Station Crew Prepares for Monday Spacewalk VOA 06 Nov 2005 -- Two International Space Station crewmen will embark on a spacewalk Monday, their first since they took up their duties on the outpost one month ago.
- United States, Partners Mark Space Station's Fifth Anniversary Washington File 04 Nov 2005 -- The U.S. space agency and its international partners celebrated five full years of human occupancy of the International Space Station November 2.
- Cutting edge micro-satellite achieves milestones AFPN 03 Nov 2005 -- A 220-pound micro-satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here recently accomplished significant mission milestones when it rendezvoused with the upper stage of a Minotaur I launch vehicle at distances between 1.5 kilometers and 500 meters.
