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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 208.05 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. July 27, 2003
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* NASA has chosen the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle
provided by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, Inc.
as the launch system for the proposed Pluto New Horizons
mission. The mission is scheduled for launch to Pluto in
January 2006. As proposed, the Pluto New Horizons mission is
a scientific investigation to obtain the first
reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon, a binary planet system.
[NASA News]
* China is on schedule to launch its first manned spacecraft
in October, becoming only the third nation to send a human
into orbit, officials involved in the program said Wednesday.
[Space Daily]
* Russia could build a space craft and sell it to a private
company offering tourists flights to the International Space
Station but only for a very high price, a Russian space agency
official said Tuesday. "We can sell a spaceship. They have to
understand, however, that it will cost not 20 million or 40 million
dollars, but much more," Rosaviakosmos spokesman told Interfax.
[Space Daily]
* Is there life on other worlds or is planet Earth the only place
in our Solar System where living organisms have evolved? ESA is
inviting European and Canadian industry to participate in its exciting
ExoMars mission in order to provide an answer to this age-old question.
[Space Daily]
* SpaceDev to Design Lunar Dish Observatory Mission
SpaceDev has been awarded a contract by Lunar Enterprise of California
(LEC) for a first phase project to begin developing a conceptual mission
and spacecraft design for a lunar lander program. The unmanned mission
will be designed to put a small dish antenna near the south pole of the
Moon. From that location it will be in near-constant sunlight for solar
power generation, and should be able to perform multi-wavelength astronomy
while communicating with ground stations on Earth.
Full story: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030724/lath060_1.html
[Greg Beat gregory.beat@comcast.net]
[ANS thanks the sources for the above information]
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