First Internet-built Student Satellite
First Internet-built Student Satellite Successfully Launched (Science Daily)
SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, was successfully launched this morning at 08:52 CEST from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Kosmos 3M launcher. At 10:29 CEST this morning, the ground control centre at the University in Aalborg (DK) received the first signals from the satellite.
Reports: Russian satellite fails to enter orbit (CNN.com)
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — A Russian satellite has failed to reach its designated orbit, news reports said Friday in the latest is a series of mishaps that have dented the prestige of the country's space program.
VIETNAM AIMS TO LAUNCH FIRST SATELLITE IN 2008 (The Tocqueville Connection)
HANOI, Oct 29 (AFP) - Vietnam has resurrected its delayed project to launch a satellite and now plans to put one into orbit in 2008, government sources said.
Respond Consortium Making Maps Out Of Satellite Images To Support Pakistan Disaster Relief (Science Daily)
European and international aid agencies responding to the South Asia Earthquake have been supported by rapidly-produced crisis and damage maps based on satellite images.
U.S. firm see India as markets for satellite radio (Portsmouth Herald)
It’s one of the stranger consequences of globalization: in India, salesmen are going door to door selling satellite radios that receive, among other things, NPR’s "All Things Considered."
Europe's student-built satellite rockets into space (USA Today)
A student-built spacecraft rocketed into space alongside several other microsatellites early Thursday, riding a Russian booster skyward into space. The boxy SSETI Express satellite was built by more than 400 university students for the European Space Agency.
Iran's first satellite equipped to spy on Mideast, Israel (World Tribune)
MOSCOW — Iran has sent its first satellite into space in a move expected to provide the Islamic republic with reconnaissance capabilities over Israel and the rest of the Middle East.