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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
 ESA Press Release:
Maps of the sea surface temperature around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean are being produced daily and are available online in full resolution in near-real time as part of the Medspiration project, an ESA-funded effort to represent the most reliable temperature of the seas on a global basis.
Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island have been integrated into Medspiration until 31 March in order to support the study of wildlife migration processes from the two islands as part of ESA’s new Diversity project, which kicked off in January 2007 to support the initiative of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
The sea surface temperature (SST) map around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island is one of the various Earth observation-based Diversity products ESA is developing to aid in the conservation and monitoring activities of the different actors involved in UNCBD in Central America – one of the main biodiversity reserves on our planet. Other services and products will include Mesoamerican biological corridor change detection maps, coral reef maps, ocean water quality monitoring services, mangrove maps as well as a map of dry lands. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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NASA Press Release: CLEVELAND - NASA's Glenn Research Center will conduct integrated environmental testing of the Orion crew exploration vehicle in the Space Power Facility at the center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The environmental tests are designed to demonstrate the ability of Orion hardware to meet specified performance requirements in simulated environmental conditions such as those experienced during launch, in-orbit operations and re-entry. Thermal, acoustic and mechanical vibration and electromagnetic compatibility testing will be conducted on Orion's full assembly. The launch abort system, crew module, service module and spacecraft adapter will be tested. The work is valued at approximately $63 million during a five-year period from 2007 to 2011. During this period, the Space Power Facility will be augmented with a number of capabilities, including a new acoustic chamber and a mechanical vibration test stand. Specialized equipment that will enable electromagnetic test capabilities also will be added to the thermal vacuum chamber. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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ESA Press Release: No.15-2007 - From Tuesday 3 April to Sunday 26 August, visitors to the 'City of Light' will have one more attraction to pack into their busy schedules. A stop at the Palais de la Découverte (http://www.palais-decouverte.fr) will allow them to take a closer look at our planet, as ESA and this renowned Parisian museum have teamed up to exhibit an amazing selection of views of our Earth, with a high science content, taken by ESA’s environmental satellite Envisat. A large 1:4 scale model of Envisat will be the centrepiece of the 280m2 exhibition, while videos and interactive demonstrations will show Envisat’s achievements over its five years of successful operation since launch aboard an Ariane 5 in March 2002. Huge 4 x 4m images, produced using data from the satellite's highly sophisticated imaging instruments, will highlight features of our environment as seen by Envisat, giving the visitor an impressive view of changes in the ice sheets, vegetation and rivers, together with a global picture of water-vapour content, sea temperatures, chlorophyll content and other such vital indicators of the state of our planet and of global change. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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On March 17, 2002 the first commercial Rokot with its upper stage Breeze-KM launched from Russia’s Plesetsk launch center. It carried the GRACE 1 and 2 satellites for Germany. The Rokot launcher is based on the Soviet SS-19 ICBM enforced with a third stage, the Breeze-KM. It stands 28.5 meters tall and weighs about 107 tons. The payload is about 2 tons in a low Earth orbit (LEO). The price tag for this launcher is estimated to $13-15 millions. It is developed and build by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center and commercially marketed by Eurockot Launch Services. The Rokot is one example of the post-Soviet Union successful conversions of ICBMs to satellite launchers. Another well-known conversion is the Dnepr rocket with a higher payload capacity. But not every former ballistic missile seems to work fine, especially submarine-launched rockets faced several failures. The currently last launch took place in July 2006 with the successful orbiting of the KOMPSat-II Earth observation satellite. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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Khrunichev Press Release: At Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, everything is on track for the first launch in this year of Proton M space rocket with Telesat Canada’s Anik F3 telecommunications satellite. The Anik F3 mission on Proton M vehicle entered a new phase, after Breeze M upper stage - which will be used on Proton M space rocket for the launch of the Anik F3 satellite - arrived early this morning (9:30 Moscow Time) in Jubileyniy airport, at its launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The load was delivered from a Moscow – based Khrunichev Space Center, manufacturer of Breeze M upper stage and Proton rocket itself, onboard a heavy transport airplane Antonov 124-100 “Ruslan” owned by the prime Russian carrier Polet. |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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March 20th 00:34 GMT (7:34 p.m. EST): SpaceX will recycle for 24 hours and will make a new attempt tomorrow at 23:00 GMT 00:27 GMT (7:27 p.m. EST): Rocket and launch site is saved and the detailed analysis of the launch abort is underway. When new information arises or the new launch date and window is known, you’ll get it on this page or in a new news article. 00:14 GMT (7:14 p.m. EST): Detanking the rocket, there will not be a launch today of SpaceX Falcon 1, another try could be made on Tuesday or Wednesday. 00:12 GMT (7:12 p.m. EST): Launch scrub procedure 00:08 GMT (7:08 p.m. EST): “At about a minute-and-a-half out of launch, we shift from communicating to the vehicle through the land lines to communicating through the Range RF (radio frequency). And it is possible we were just not picking up the Range RF signal. So that’s what I know so far,” says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development. |
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