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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 285.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. October 12, 2003
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** A Chinese space official confirms today that the launch date of
Shenzhou-5 (SZ-5) has been set for this week, and there will be live TV
coverage for the entire population in China, and perhaps worldwide
broadcasting. A message posted on an online aerospace forum said that
according to unconfirmed information from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch
Centre (JSLC) where SZ-5 would blast off, a favored launch date could be
Oct. 16, weather permitting. --SpaceDaily
** A team of astrophysicists have taken a kick at the conventional view
that the Universe is flat and endless, suggesting instead that the cosmos is
shaped like... a football. The notion of a Universe made of curved
pentagon-shaped panels is derived from a satellite mapping of the radiation
that was released by the Big Bang billions of years ago and which still
washes through space in the form of microwave energy. They suggest that
only a "dodecahedral" -- the posh word for a soccer-ball shape -- could
contain this kind of energy release. --SpaceDaily
** The Heinlein Prize, a major new award for practical accomplishments in
commercial space activities, was announced today at the 54th International
Aeronautical Congress underway in Bremen, Germany. Trustees of the Robert A.
and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust revealed that the first Heinlein Prize
award has been set at $500,000 USD. The Heinlein Prize may be given as
frequently as annually to one or more individuals who have achieved
practical accomplishments in the field of commercial space activities. The
Trustees emphasize that the award is for effort by an individual - not
corporate or government sponsored activities - and that the Heinlein Prize
is intended to be world-wide in scope. --SpaceDaily
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