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Virgin Galactic announces its first contract in the world to send researchers into suborbital space on their flights

(Image, Credit Virgin Galactic)

SPACE NEWS: - not only for business tourism as a sub-orbital space flight, Virgin Galactic. The company of Sir Richard Branson has announced today that it has concluded the first contract in the world to fly into space scientists with the aim to perform scientific experiments.

The contract was signed between Virgin Galactic and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct experiments in microgravity (biology, climate, astronomy).

SwRI has already "booked" two places for the next sub-orbital space flight, Virgin Galactic. The agreement providing for 6 more, for a total cost of 1.6 M USD.




SwRI is an independent nonprofit research and development in applied engineering and physical sciences. He has more than 3000 employees engaged in activities for both industrial and government customers.
addition to bringing and conduct scientific experiments developed internally SwRI also plans to assist other American scientific institutions who have no experience of space flight to create and fly their payload sub-orbital missions and their staff.

The words of George Whitesides, President and CEO of Virgin Galactic: "This agreement marks the enormous scientific potential of the Virgin spaceflight system. Virgin Galactic will be able to offer space flights to researchers that are unprecedented in frequency and cost ...".

It 's the turn of Dr.Alan Stern, associate vice president of SwRI's Space Division and former NASA Associate Administrator for Science: "We are very excited about SwRI this agreement. Initially, two of our payload specialists will fly with Virgin Galactic to conduct biomedical monitoring, image detection and atmospheric experiments in microgravity on planetary regolith ...".

Data Source, Virgin Galactic.

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Launch of a new Russian Glonass satellite, photos and video!

AREA NEWS : - recall the failed launch of the Russian last December of three Glonass-M satellites that have completed the constellation to provide global satellite navigation sevices.

This time things went as planned. Last Saturday it was successfully launched a new satellite Glonass-K from Russian Plesetsk space center on board a Soyuz-2.


Glonass-K has an operational lifetime of 10 years. It is able to send five navigation signals, four bands L1 and L2, and a bank in the "civilized" L3.

For global coverage, the Glonass constellation must have 24 operational satellites plus some backup.

Currently, Russia has 22.

A new launch three Glonass-M is expected later this year.

Below is the video of the launch

Pictures, Roscosmos credit.

Source data Ria Novosti .

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Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133, docking to the ISS, the video!

(Image, credit NASA TV)

SPACE NEWS: - At 2:14 pm EST (20:14 eng) Yesterday the Space Shuttle Discovery STS- 133 has engaged the International Space Station. Two hours later took place the opening of access doors to the station.

After handshakes and welcoming ceremony are now started joint activities.

The Discovery Space Shuttle was the first to engage in a space station, MIR Russia in June 1998 on STS-91. Discovery was also the first to engage the International Space Station on STS-96, May 1999.

An hour before docking the Orbiter performed the operation 'backflip', nine minutes when the Shuttle has rotated 360 degrees to allow the station to resume astronuati high-resolution photos of the shuttle's heat shield American. The images are then analyzed to verify the integrity of the Orbiter.

Just the Shuttle Discovery was the first to perform this maneuver (STS-114), as part of security measures introduced after the Columbia tragedy.

Scheduled for tomorrow, the first of two extravehicular activities (EVA) provided by the mission. In the meantime, let us meet these spectacular video

Backflip

Docking

Access Station