Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Dateline May 16, 2006: Space News from the Internet

NASA News

International Space News

  • Shin Sat to launch broadband services in China. It is expected to server 1 million of the 64 million Chinese broadband users.
  • ESA awards broadband satellite contract - The European Space Agency awarded EADS Astrium a contract Monday to develop and build an innovative communications satellite. HYLAS, for Highly Adaptable Satellite -- is to will provide interactive high definition television and interactive broadband services from its orbital position over the United Kingdom, covering 22 nations in western and central Europe.

New Space News

  • Photos of Daisuke Enomoto and his backup Anousheh Ansari training in Russia for their trips to the ISS.
  • SpaceDaily explains why NASA isn't talking about who made the COTS cut.



Anousheh Ansari Climbing In.

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