IAF NEWS Monday 6 April 2009

IAF NEWS Monday 6 April 2009
A daily roundup of space news brought to you by the International Astronautical Federation


ILS to launch Intelsat spacecraft

International Launch Services announced that it was agreed to launch
an Intelsat spacecraft later this year that had previously been scheduled to
be launched by a competitor. A Proton M will launch the Intelsat 16 satellite in the fourth quarter of this year. The 2,500-kilogram spacecraft is under construction by Orbital Sciences Corporation and will operate from 58
degrees west in GEO.
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Idea Hatched to Grow First Flower on the Moon

Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the "Lunar Oasis" project.
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Space Tourist’s Return Put Off by a Day

A billionaire American space tourist in the middle of his second stay aboard the International Space Station will return to Earth a day later than planned because of flooding at the landing site, Russian officials have said.
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