|
Home > News > Tags > Columbus
|
|
30
The Columbus module was the first outpost the Europeans ever sent to orbit, and it also constituted the most important contribution they made to the International Space Station (ISS)'s scientific program. Launched on February 7th aboard the Atlantis shuttle, the expensive and crucial payload finished the final d... |
12 February 2009
08:51 GMT |
 |
|
The fifth and the final orbiter vehicle of NASA, Endeavor, was cleared yesterday for the liftoff which is scheduled to take place on March 11. It will be the second flight of the space shuttle Endeavor since the Columbia disaster in 2005, which disintegrated during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Endeavor ... |
1 March 2008
05:19 GMT |
|
|
On Earth we are protected from radiation by the planet's magnetic field and its thick atmosphere, however astronauts in Earth's orbit are not so lucky, and may receive doses of radiation while in space higher than if they were supposed to remain on the surface of the planet. Though not lethal on short perio... |
13 February 2008
08:26 GMT |
|
|
Well, it's sixteen years plus a few days later, but it has made it. Columbus goes into a new voyage, through space this time. Astronauts on board the International Space Station have been successful in docking the European Space Laboratory to the ISS, after a spacewalk eight hours long, one and a half hour more ... |
12 February 2008
05:50 GMT |
|
|
Nobody's made out of stone and unpredictable events do happen from time to time, when you less expect them, even if you work for NASA. The Columbus module installation has been delayed with one day, due to certain medical issues experienced by European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel, who is to be replaced ... |
11 February 2008
03:04 GMT |
|
|
Engineers evaluating the space shuttle's Atlantis readiness said yesterday that it will most likely launch tomorrow, in order to deliver the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station. The launch is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 2:45 ET. However, trou... |
6 February 2008
03:30 GMT |
|
|
No more delays, says NASA! The space shuttle Atlantis will liftoff on Thursday 7 February from the Kennedy Space Center at 20:24 CET, and will dock to the International Space Station two days later, on 9 February at 18:23 CET. Atlantis is scheduled to return back to Earth of February the 18th, somewhere around 15:57 ... |
28 January 2008
03:33 GMT |
|
|
The already busy schedule of building the International Space Station is about to get busier soon, due to British scientists and engineers proposal to launch two separate habitable modules by the year 2011. However, the ISS partnership between NASA, ESA and a few other countries has not approved the project so far, n... |
18 January 2008
05:24 GMT |
|
|
I didn't think it would take so long, but here we are. The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis was delayed with more than two months. After refusing to schedule the next launch attempt, in the outcome of the external fuel tank sensor test, the Atlantis space shuttle program flight manager revealed that the it w... |
12 January 2008
05:50 GMT |
|
|
The inevitable happened! What seemed to be a quick fix, in order to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on the 10th of January, turned into an extensive repair operation that will involve replacing the entire engine cutoff system, which has been haunting NASA's space shuttles for more than two years. During the t... |
28 December 2007
03:52 GMT |
|
|
Faulty external liquid fuel tank sensors have been haunting the space shuttles for more than two years now; however, is seems NASA did not give much attention to such detail until now. Upon testing them during a fill up of the external tank this Tuesday, engineers have detected a problem with a bad connector. Nevert... |
20 December 2007
09:41 GMT |
|
|
Big disappointment for ESA officials, as last week's scheduled launch was prevented because of certain glitches in the fuel gauges of the liquid fuel external tank. With just a few hours before the liftoff, which should have taken place on December 6th, technicians verified the last details and realized that th... |
12 December 2007
08:55 GMT |
|
|
After the aborted liftoff on the 6th of December, NASA had to cancel the second launch attempt that was scheduled to take place yesterday. The glitch in the fuel sensors was apparently fixed until the filling of the external liquid fuel tank began and one of the gauges started giving false readings again.Due to the f... |
10 December 2007
03:14 GMT |
|
|
A few hours before the launch, scheduled for 4:31 pm EST, engineers completing a final check up of the space shuttle Atlantis spotted a sensor glitch, or a possible problem with the fuel indicator gauges that show the level of fuel in the shuttle's external tank. As a result, the launch has been delayed until to... |
7 December 2007
04:30 GMT |
|
|
Atlantis will lift-off today, with seven astronauts on board, in order to deliver the European space module Columbus, which will be docked to the Harmony module and will act as a laboratory. The shuttle will launch from the launch pad, located of the seaside at the Kennedy Space Center, somewhere around 21:31GMT, and... |
6 December 2007
10:51 GMT |
|
|
Right on schedule, the space shuttle Atlantis has been cleared for take off on the 6th of December, in a mission destined to fly the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station. The spacecraft will be commanded by Stephen Frick and will have a total of seven astronauts on board. This will be the... |
3 December 2007
09:04 GMT |
|
|
Sometimes you can get a little soft and actually believe that the taxes you pay your government are used to create something useful. Well, that's not always the case. For example, in 1995, NASA commissioned the building of a device that was going to explore the origins of the universe. Said and done. However, th... |
3 December 2007
06:39 GMT |
|
|
The third and last spacewalk related to the connection of the International Space Station Module Harmony has been completed on Saturday, thus making the European module fully operational and ready to receive the Columbus module which will be flown by the space shuttle Atlantis next month.The Harmony module serves as ... |
26 November 2007
03:44 GMT |
|
|
The spacewalks scheduled for this week, to connect the power and fluid lines to the Harmony module, were carried out on Tuesday, to keep the program on track, and prepare for the arrival of the space shuttle Atlantis, which will deliver the European space module Columbus, that will be connected at one of the docking... |
21 November 2007
05:05 GMT |
|
|
After inspecting the controversial spacesuits, NASA decided to lift the imposed ban, which allows them to continue with the scheduled program. Due to the incident which took place last Friday, when a Russian trainee smelled smoke, coming from the EMU unit, NASA decided to stop all activity regarding the usage of the ... |
16 November 2007
05:45 GMT |
|
|
Columbus Geographic Systems recently announced it has successfully completed the premier stage of implementing a brand new project with Motorola, world leader in providing embedded electronic solutions and integrated communications solutions. The pilot project was implemented in a Motorola subsidiary company that pro... |
9 November 2007
10:39 GMT |
|
|
From the end of the 8th century till the end of the 10th, the Norsemen caused tremendous terror among those living on the shores of Western Europe, from Baltic Sea to Scotland, Ireland and northwestern France. Their ships went to Spain, North Africa, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and by the 11th century, Vikings detained l... |
14 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
|
|
Columbus may have been proud to discover the New World in 1492, but we clearly know that he was not the first European to have stepped on American land. 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors-warriors were roaming northern Africa, eastern Eu... |
9 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
|
|
|
|
