Aerospaceguide.net: Newsletter 43, Saturday 20th, August, 2005

Hi Everyone,

In this newsletter new pages on Crew Exploration Vehicle, Canadian
Arrow, PlanetSpace with space news on the discovery of the 10th
Planet, private space travel around the Moon for $100 million and
more.

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6th birthday of AeroSpaceGuide.net on the 1st August 2005.

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WHAT's NEW?

* Crew Exploration Vehicle
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceexploration/crew_vehicle.html

The Crew Exploration Vehicle is a modular multi-purpose space
transport system that maybe used to carry crews to the International
Space Station, the Moon, Mars and beyond. It is NASA's next-
generation human space transportation system and may replace the
Space Shuttle.

* Apollo DVD
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/dvd/apollo.html

Added: 'From the Earth to the Moon'. Chronicles the entire history
of NASA's Apollo space program from 1961 to 1972.

* Canadian Arrow
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/launchvehicles/canadian_arrow.html

Canadian Arrow is a privately developed sub-orbital vehicle which is
based on the World War 2 V-2 rocket design. The first unmanned
launch into space by Canadian Arrow may happen in 2006. The Canadian
Arrow will send crews of two pilot astronauts on each of the early
manned test flights.

* New Space Book Release
http://aerospaceguide.net/spacebook/index.html

New addition: 'On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World' by
Dr. Frank Crossman and Dr. Robert Zubrin.

* PlanetSpace
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spacebusiness/planetspace.html

PlanetSpace is a space tourist company which is a 50-50 venture
involving Canadian Arrow and Dr Chirinjeev Kathuria, former founding
director of MirCorp.

* X- Prize Competition
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/x-prize.html

This page has a brief history of the x-prize and lists the X Prize
Competitors. Awarding the $10,000,000 Ansari X-Prize was not the end
of the X-Prize. A new event has commenced called the X Prize Cup.

SPACE NEWS IN BRIEF

* Liverpool's Spaceport, the space themed centre opened on 26 July,
2005. It is located in the banks of the world famous River Mersey in
Liverpool, England, UK. Visitors can take a virtual journey through
space at the 10 million pound Spaceport through an array of
interactive exhibits and space information including a Space Dome
and an area dedicated to the UK's Starchaser comercial rocket
programme.

* The joint NASA/ESA Soho (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
spacecraft is approaching a major milestone, discovering 1000
comets. As of 6 July 2005, 990 comets have been discovered using the
Soho.

* Shenzhou 6, the second manned Chinese spaceflight maybe launched
in September 2005. The week long flight will include a transfer into
the spacecraft's orbital science module for the first time. The
first chinese spacewalk will be made during Shenzhou 7 in 2006.

* The Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a solid
propellant M-5 rocket from Kagoshima on 10th July carrying the
1590kg Astro E2 astronomical satellite, Suzaki. The satellite's X-
ray Spectrometer is the coldest object ever launched into space. It
will study black holes, neuton stars and supernovae.

* NASA's second New Frontier's mission will be called Juno. It will
study Planet Jupiter from an elliptical polar orbit. Juno will probe
into Jupiter's deadly radiation belts, pasing 5000km at the closest
approach. The mission is managed by JPL and will be built by
Lockheed Martin.

* A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying
regions of the solar system. The planet was discovered using the
Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego,
California. The discovery was announced on 29 July 2005 by planetary
scientist Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena, California whose research is partly funded by NASA.

The planet is a typical member of the Kuiper Belt, but its sheer
size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be
classified as a planet. The planet is the farthest-known object in
the solar system, the third brightest of the Kuiper belt objects and
is about 97 times further from the sun than the Earth.

The planet's temporary name is 2003 UB313. A name for the new planet
has been proposed by the discoverers to the International
Astronomical Union, and they are awaiting the decision of this body
before announcing the name.

* Venus Express is the first ever mission to Venus by ESA. It will
be launched on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket on 26 October 2005. Venus
Express is a follow on from the Mars Express mission. Many of the
instruments are simply upgraded versions of those on the Mars
Express platform. It will enter Venusian orbit in April 2006. The
last probe to visit Venus was NASA's Magellan which completed its
mission in 1994.

* The next Space Tourist maybe Gregory Olsen and may fly to the
International Space Station in October 2005.

* The next space shuttle flight will be in March 2006 so NASA can
fix the external tank foam insulation problems of shuttle
Discovery's mission. NASA had planned to launch Atlantis on STS-121
during a launch window in late September.

* Space Adventures announced on 10 August 2005 plans for a mission
that will send space tourists to the far side of the moon at the
cost of $100 million per person. The mission could launch as early
as 2008 and will be conducted in co-operation with the Russian
Federal Space Agency (FSA) and the Russian space design bureau
Energia.

If you have a friend or colleague that is interested in Space and
Astronomy, please send them a copy of this newsletter.

See you in the next newsletter.

Regards,
Vic Stathopoulos
Web Master

Aerospaceguide.net
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