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Subj: This Week's News in Brief
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 235.05
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. August 21, 2004
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** NASA has decided to try to save the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope
by possibly sending a Canadian-made robot to fix it, agency officials
said. Nasa Administrator Sean O'Keefe has told researchers at the
agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland about the plan and
instructed its engineers to begin serious work to put the robotic
mission into space in 2007. It will cost at least US$1 billion ($1.7b)
and possibly US$1.6b to save the telescope, which has peered back to the
very beginnings of the universe, found planets outside our solar system
and taken dramatic pictures of stars being born. Scientists who have
used the telescope to explore the origins of the cosmos and look for
places that extra-terrestrial life might exist are delighted by the
decision. --Electric New Paper
** The Americom-15 (AMC-15) satellite of SES Americom, an SES Global
Company, has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to be prepared
for its scheduled September 24 launch aboard a Proton launch vehicle.
The A2100AX model spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin Commercial
Space Systems (LMCSS) will feature one of America's first operating
Ka-band payloads, carrying 12 -125 MHz Ka-band spot beams, along with 24
- 36 MHz, 140 watt Ku-band transponders. --SpaceDaily.com
** One of NASA's Mars rovers has sent pictures relayed by the European
Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter for the first time, demonstrating
that the orbiter could serve as a communications link if needed. The
link-up was part of a set of interplanetary networking demonstrations
paving the way for future Mars missions to rely on these networking
capabilities. The American and European agencies planned them as part of
continuing efforts to cooperate in space exploration.
--SpaceFlightNow.com
** The majority of US Internet users now connect using broadband,
according to a report by Nielson/NetRatings. There are 63 million
broadband users (51%) and 61 million (49%) dial-up users in the US.
Broadband was most prevalent among people ages 18 to 20. --NetworkWorld
Fusion
** A private-sector consortium led by Itochu Corp. says it plans to put
two earth observation satellites into orbit in fiscal 2009. The group
intends to sell images taken by the satellites to domestic and foreign
government agencies and companies, which will use the images to monitor
forests and search for mineral resources, among other things. The
satellites are capable of taking clear images of objects as small as
about 1 sq. meter from altitudes of between 500 kilometers and 800 km.
They will be the first commercial satellites launched by private-sector
companies in Japan. Each satellite will carry a Hyper-Spectral Sensor,
the world's first sensor capable of distinguishing objects by material
rather than by their color and shape. --asahi.com
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