Tuesday, 10 March 2009

IAF Daily News


Ariane 5 ECA Travels To French Guiana For TerreStar-1

The latest Ariane 5 ECA arrived Wednesday March 4th, aboard the MN Colibri, one of two roll-on/roll-off vessels used to transport launch vehicles from their production sites in Europe to French Guiana. This new vehicle will carry TerreStar-1 on a mission planned for the Spring.
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Elusive Binary Black Hole System Identified

Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona, have found what looks like two massive black holes orbiting each other in the center of one galaxy. It has been postulated that twin black holes might exist, but it took an innovative, systematic search to find such a rare pair.
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India’s Sun mission Aditya set for 2012

ISRO’s Sun mission Aditya is set for 2012. India will send its space mission to the Sun to find out answers for how and why solar flares and solar winds disturb the communication network and play havoc with electronics back home on Earth.
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