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Subj: This Week's News in Brief
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 039.05 From AMSAT HQ
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** The European Union will pay Russian space companies 121 million euros
(152 million dollars) to fund the launch of Russian Soyuz vessels from the
European Space Agency (ESA) launch complex in French Guiana . --SpaceDaily
** Hitching a ride on the same B-52 mother ship that once launched X-15
research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's X-43A scramjet performed a captive
carry evaluation flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., January 26. The
X-43 remained mated to the B-52 throughout this mission, intended to check
its readiness for launch as early as February 21. --SpaceDaily
** The countdown to the launch this month of Rosetta, a billion-dollar
comet-chasing spacecraft, is proceeding on schedule, the European Space
Agency (ESA) said here Thursday. Rosetta is due to be launched on February
26 from ESA's space base in Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to
chase the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a laboratory probe on its
surface. --SpaceDaily
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