Endeavour z Nadzieją poleciał w kosmos

Amerykański prom kosmiczny Endeavour z siedmioosobową załogą i modułem, któremu japońska agencja kosmiczna JAXA nadała imię Kibo (jap. Nadzieja), wystartował  zgodnie z planem: 11 marca 2008 r. o godzinie 2:28 (o 7:28 czasu polskiego) z Przylądka Canaveral na Florydzie ku Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej (ISS). Start odbył się w Centrum Lotów Kosmicznych imienia Johna F. Kennedy'ego (Kennedy Space Center) z platformy startowej 39A.

Misja Endeavoura jest kontynuacją programu budowy Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej, rozpoczętego w 1998 r., ale wstrzymanego po katastrofie Columbii.

Na pokładzie znajduje się męska siedmioosobowa załoga, pod dowództwem Dominica L. Gorie, składająca się z Japończyka Takao Doi oraz Amerykanów: Richarda M. Linnehana, Gregory'ego H. Johnsona, Roberta L. Behnkena, Garretta E. Reismana i Michaela J. Foremana.

Misja wahadłowca Endeavour STS-123 jest 122. misją amerykańskiego programu lotów wahadłowców i 21. misją wahadłowca Endeavour. Celem misji jest przetransportowanie i zamontowanie na ISS pierwszej części modułu Kibo ("Nadzieja") japońskiego laboratorium i kompleksu naukowo-badawczego przygotowanego przez Japońską Agencję Kosmiczną (JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's) kosztem około 10 mld dolarów oraz kanadyjskiego robota-manipulatora: Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, mającego pracować w przestrzeni kosmicznej, a także zaopatrzenia, towarów, części zamiennych, sprzętu i innych zapasów.

Endeavour zabrał tylko pierwszą część laboratorium, którą zainstaluje na stacji siedmioosobowa załoga. Cylinder wielkości autobusu oraz dźwig zostaną dostarczone w maju, a ostatni człon poleci w marcu 2009 r.

Kibo będzie największym laboratorium Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej. Prowadzone w Kibo eksperymenty biologiczne, medyczne i telekomunikacyjne będą miały kluczowe znaczenie dla przyszłych misji na Księżyc i Marsa.

W niedzielę w stronę Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej poleciał europejski statek transportowy Jules Verne. Na dokowanie przy stacji będzie musiał jednak poczekać do kwietnia.

Jest to już druga misja wahadłowca z sześciu planowanych w tym roku, w tym pięciu w kierunku ISS i jednej do Teleskopu Hubble'a (STS-125).

Misja STS-123 to jak do tej pory jedna z najdłuższych misji amerykańskich wahadłowców i potrwa 16 dni (najdłuższa misja do tej pory to lot promu Columia STS-80, trwający dokładnie 17 dni, 15 godz, 53 min i 18 sek). W tym czasie załoga promu pięciokrotnie wyjdzie w otwartą przestrzeń kosmiczną.

By dokończyć rozbudowę stacji, NASA powinna przeprowadzić jeszcze dziewięć wypraw promów kosmicznych. Wahadłowce po ukończeniu stacji zostaną wycofane z eksploatacji. Obecnie NASA ma do dyspozycji trzy wahadłowce: Atlantis, Endeavour i Discovery.

Firma Lockheed Martin pracuje nad nowym statkiem kosmicznym Orion, jednak będzie on gotowy do najwcześniej w 2014 roku.


Space Shuttle Endeavour's launchpad struck by lightning delaying launch

The launch of Endeavour has been delayed at least 24 hours after the shuttle's launchpad area was struck by lightning at least 11 times this afternoon. According to NASA, technicians are currently evaluating the incident, but so far there appears to be no major damage.

"Sensors indicated there were 11 lightning strikes within 0.35 miles, which is inside the launch pad's threshold," said a statement on NASA's website. "The Mission Management Team will meet at 8:00 a.m. (EDT) Sunday to evaluate the latest data," it added.

"We've seen nothing so far that shows anything affected any of the systems. We need to be 100 percent confident that we have a good system across the board," said chairman of the pre-launch Mission Management Team, Mike Moses. None of the strikes hit the external fuel tank or the rocket boosters, but "there were strikes to the lightning mast and water tower," added NASA. Two of the strikes were strong enough to trigger an evaluation by engineers just to make sure all of Endeavour's systems are ready for flight. Although early evaluations showed no problems, engineers wanted more time to make sure they have checked everything correctly.

A new launch date is set for Sunday evening at 7:13 p.m. (EDT). The shuttle was previously scheduled to lift off at 7:39 this evening after two previous delays in June which were caused by a hydrogen fuel leak.

The mission, STS-127, will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Astronauts will attach a platform to the outside of the Japanese module that will allow experiments to be exposed to space.


STS-127 : Le lancement est encore reporté

Le lancement de la navette spatiale américaine Endeavour est reporté d'une journée pour la 3e fois, à cause d'un orage vendredi dont l'un des éclairs a frappé le pas de tir. La NASA évalue donc en ce moment, pour des raisons de sécurité, les dégâts.

La prochaine tentative est prévue pour dimanche à 13 h 13 (GMT).

Le lancement a déjà été reporté 2 fois en raison d'une fuite d'hydrogène dans le réservoir extérieur.

La mission STS-127, qui doit durer 16 jours dont 11 amarrés à l'ISS, devrait installer le troisième élément du laboratoire spatial japonais Kibo d'un poids de 1,9 tonnes.


SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docks with International Space Station

On Sunday, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station in orbit around the Earth.  Although the Crew Dragon was carrying only cargo and a mannequin equipped with sensors, this was the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011 a United States spacecraft capable of carrying humans has made it to the station.

Most of the docking process was automatic by the capsule, though the crew of the ISS were able to send the capsule commands to perform simple movements.  Previous SpaceX pods have relied on the station's own robotic arm apparatus to take hold of them.

At 2:49 a.m. local time (7:49 a.m. UTC) on Saturday morning, the Crew Dragon was launched via a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida in the southeastern United States.

Crew Dragon has enough room for seven people but on this occasion carried only a mannequin, nicknamed "Ripley" for Sigourney Weaver's character in the film Alien.  The Crew Dragon is scheduled to remain at the station during the week and return to Earth on Friday.

Bill Gerstenmaier of NASA spoke of the collaboration between his agency and SpaceX: "It's fun working with a new partner that approaches the problem in a slightly different way. They don't carry the same background that we did in NASA, and they don't approach the design exactly the same way we do. [...] And that's cool. I mean, that's really neat."

"To be frank I'm a little emotionally exhausted because that was super stressful. But it worked — so far," SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the press after the launch. "We have to dock to the station, and we have to come back, but so far it's worked. [...] We've passed some of the riskiest items."

The short-term goal of NASA's Commercial Crew Program is to restore NASA's ability to send humans into orbit, which it has been unable to do since retiring the space shuttles in 2011.  Longer term, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, the goal is to render space accessible to many customers and, through commercial competition, do so at a lower cost than the space shuttle missions, which ran about US$1.5 billion apiece. Currently, NASA pays for Russian spacecraft to carry living people, at roughly US$80 million per astronaut.

NASA has selected two astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, for Crew Dragon's first manned mission, which NASA said might take place this summer.

The Boeing airframe company is also collaborating with NASA on human-crewable spacecraft and its Starliner craft is scheduled to undergo flight test this spring.  NASA's contract with Boeing is currently valued at US$4.2 billion.  The contract with SpaceX is valued at US$2.6 billion.

Last year, SpaceX tested its Falcon Heavy rocket by launching company founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla convertible into space.


SpaceX lanceert eerste Crew Dragon op onbemande testvlucht

SpaceX heeft op 2 maart om 8:49 (CET) zijn eerste testvlucht van de Crew Dragon, de bemande variant van de Dragon 2, gelanceerd. De nog onbemande eerste testvlucht gaat naar het ISS en wordt zoveel mogelijk als de voor later geplande bemande vluchten uitgevoerd. De lancering vond plaats met een Falcon 9-draagraket vanaf lanceercomplex 39A van het Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX nam bij deze vlucht tevens een van de controlekamers in het Launch Control Center van het Kennedy Space Center in gebruik. Van daaruit werden ook de lanceringen van Apollo en Spaceshuttle vluchten gecontroleerd.

De belangrijkste mijlpaal van de vlucht is het volautomatisch aan- en afkoppelen bij het ISS. Deze techniek hebben zowel SpaceX als NASA nog niet eerder toegepast. Een eerdere vracht-variant van de Dragon kon dat niet en werd handmatig met behulp van een robotarm aan het ISS gekoppeld. De Crew Dragon zal naar verwachting op 8 maart worden ontkoppeld en in de Atlantische Oceaan voor de kust van Florida landen.

NASA subsidieert sinds 2010 de ruimtevaartindustrie om zelf ruimteschepen te ontwikkelen. NASA zal deze bedrijven inhuren om hun vluchten naar het ISS uit te voeren. De vluchten met de “ruimtetaxi’s” SpaceX Crew Dragon en Boeing Starliner die dankzij dit Commercial Crew-programma tot stand kwamen, zijn daardoor veel goedkoper dan eerdere spaceshuttle- en Sojoez-vluchten. NASA was sinds 2011 afhankelijk van de Sojoezcapsule voor het vervoer van bemanning naar het ISS. In oktober 2018 mislukte nog een Sojoez-vlucht. Een ander voordeel is dat de Commercial Crew-voertuigen een bemanningslid meer kunnen vervoeren.

Later dit voorjaar zal ook Boeing zijn eerste onbemande testvlucht maken. Beide bedrijven hopen deze zomer een bemande testvlucht uit te voeren. NASA-directeur Jim Bridenstine (en) is ervan overtuigd dat er nog dit jaar een missionaire Commercial Crew-vlucht wordt gelanceerd.


Корабль Crew Dragon компании SpaceX пристыковался к МКС

Американский космический корабль Crew Dragon компании SpaceX успешно пристыковался к Международной космической станции 3 марта 2019 года. Корабль был отправлен в космос ракетой-носителем Falcon 9 утром 2 марта с Космического центра Кеннеди во Флориде.

Стыковка завершилась около 06:00 по времени восточного побережья США. Она осуществлялась автономно со спускаемого аппарата корабля Crew Dragon, в то время как за ней наблюдали три астронавта на борту МКС.

На борту корабля не было людей, только испытательный манекен по имени Рипли — намёк на главного персонажа фильма «Чужой». Корабль, построенный и управляемый коммерческой компанией, доставил на орбитальную станцию запасы и испытательное оборудование. В течение пяти дней, пока он будет пристыкован к станции, астронавты проведут испытания и проверят кабину корабля.

Это первый за восемь лет американский корабль, пристыковавшийся к МКС. НАСА прекратило свои полёты в 2011 году после закрытия программы «Шаттл». С тех пор США приходится полагаться на Россию в деле доставке астронавтов на МКС кораблями «Союз». Россия получает за каждый полёт около 80 млн долларов. Контракт НАСА и Роскосмоса действует до конца 2019 года.

НАСА выделило миллионы долларов компаниям SpaceX и Boeing на создание и эксплуатацию спускаемого аппарата для запуска астронавтов на орбиту с американской территории до конца года. Пока неясно, будет ли достигнута эта цель. Роскосмос поздравил НАСА с успешной стыковкой.

Компания SpaceX принадлежит предпринимателю Илону Маску, который также является исполнительным директором компании по производству электромобилей Tesla.

Маск поблагодарил в твиттере за поздравления президента Дональда Трампа, а также на русском языке ответил пользователю из России: «Спасибо за добрые слова!».

3 марта 2019 года


SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts Elon Musk's personal Tesla into solar orbit

At 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Eastern Time (2045 UTC), the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. Its cargo: a US$100,000 Tesla sportscar, the personal property of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, which he hopes will soon be in its own orbit around the Sun. This is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V of Project Apollo was retired in 1970. The rocket is meant to follow a course called a Hohmann transfer orbit.

"It'll be a really huge downer if it blows up," Musk told the press the day before the launch, but went on to say, "If something goes wrong, hopefully it goes wrong far into the mission so we at least learn as much as possible along the way. I would consider it a win if it just clears the pad and doesn't blow the pad to smithereens. That's four million pounds of TNT equivalent so there's probably not going to be much left if that thing lets loose on the pad." The car was equipped with a fully space-suited dummy, cameras to monitor its trip into space, a copy of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a radio blasting Space Oddity by David Bowie.

The Falcon Heavy has a total of 27 engines and stands 230 feet (70 m) tall. According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy uses three boosters, the same kind as the company's smaller cargo rockets. After the rocket exited the Earth's atmosphere, two of these boosters detached from the main body of the rocket and, in a first for space technology, were successfully guided back down to the landing pad about ten minutes after launch. The third was to have landed on a drone ship, but missed by around 100 yards (about 90 meters) and hit the ocean "at around 200 miles per hour," according to Musk. The reusability of the boosters makes an enormous difference in the cost of the launch.

Even the relatively heavy-hauling U.S. Space Shuttle program, which was closed in 2013, did not rely on rockets as powerful as those used in Project Apollo, the program in which NASA, the U.S. Government space agency,  sent manned missions to the Moon in the 1960's and 70's. Most recent space projects have focused on smaller, lighter machinery, such as Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne in 2004, which reached space after being carried part of the way by a carrier jet instead of launching from the ground. As of last week, the most powerful rocket in use was the Delta IV, operated by the United Space Alliance. It costs about US$435 million per launch, while SpaceX says the Falcon Heavy will cost US$90 million per launch.

NASA is also working on a heavy-duty rocket, the Space Launch System, but there have been delays.


Succesvolle lancering SpaceX’ Falcon Heavy

Succesvolle lancering SpaceX-raket

Ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX heeft met succes hun zwaarste raket tot nu toe, de Falcon Heavy, gelanceerd. Gisteren, om 21:45 uur Nederlandse tijd, werd de raket gelanceerd vanaf lanceerplatform 39A op Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dit is hetzelfde lanceerplatform dat ook gebruikt werd voor de eerste succesvolle maanmissie met de Apollo 11 in 1969.

Elon Musk, CEO en oprichter van zowel SpaceX als Tesla, heeft ervoor gekozen om voor deze demonstratievlucht zijn eigen rode Tesla Roadster als vracht te lanceren. Na deze succesvolle lancering zal de Roadster in een elliptische baan om de zon terechtkomen, die langs Mars en Aarde leidt en miljarden jaren in een baan om de zon blijven rondcirkelen. In de cabriolet zit een mannequin gekleed in een SpaceX ruimtepak genaamd Starman. De radio speelt David Bowie's Space Oddity af. Het beeldscherm van de boordcomputer geeft de tekst "Don't panic' weer. Deze beelden worden live op YouTube gestreamd, maar Bowie is niet hoorbaar doordat er geen lucht in de ruimte aanwezig is.


இசுபேசு எக்சு விண்கலம் தெல்சா காரை விண்ணுக்கு செலுத்தியது

இசுபேசு எக்சு நிறுவனம் தன்னுடைய ்பால்கன் கனரக விண்கலம் மூலம் தெல்சா காரை விண்ணுக்கு செலுத்தியது.

இந்நிறுவனத்தின் தலைவர் எலோன் முசுக் அவர்களின் செர்ரி சிவப்பு பந்தைய காரை விண்கற்கள்(சிறுகோள்கள்) சுழுலும் வட்டபாதைக்கு புளோரிடாவின் கென்னடி ஏவுதளத்திலிருந்து அனுப்பினார். செவ்வாய்க்கும் சூபிட்டர் விண்கோள்கள்களுக்கும் இடையில் இது நிலை நிறுத்தப்படும்.

இந்த விண்கலன் 64 டன் எடையை புவி கீழ் வட்டப்பாதைக்கு கொண்டு செல்லும் திறனுடையது. கனரக பால்கன் இதற்கு முந்தைய அதிக எடையை ஏற்றிச்செல்லும் டெல்டா 4 விண்கலனைவிட இருமடங்கு எடையை ஏற்றிச்செல்ல வல்லது.

செவ்வாய், பெப்ரவரி 8, 2022


SpaceX launches fifth resupply rocket to International Space Station

Space transport services company SpaceX launched their fifth Dragon resupply vehicle to the International Space Station  yesterday. The spacecraft — containing more than 2,200kg (5,000 pounds) of food, experiments, and spare parts — successfully decoupled from the launch rocket and should reach the station early tomorrow.

The launch was postponed from Tuesday because of a technical issue on the second stage of the rocket. The shipment includes replacements for cargo aboard the spaceship Cygnus, destroyed during a failed launch in October. Cygnus belonged to the rival Orbital Sciences Corporation.

SpaceX tried unsuccessfully to land the Falcon 9 delivery rocket for reuse. The rocket reached an unmanned  barge in the Atlantic, but landed too hard. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the landing "bodes well for the future, though". The attempted salvage of the rocket was experimental, using new retractable fins. Next time they will add extra hydraulic fluid, Musk said.

The ship's support equipment was damaged but, according to Musk, the barge is intact. Last year saw two successful SpaceX splashdowns but landing on such a small target as a ship is unique.


SpaceX-Start zur ISS gelingt, Rückkehrversuch endet mit harter Landung

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Vereinigte Staaten), 20.01.2015 – Am 10. Januar 2015 um 11.47 Uhr MEZ gelang der US-amerikanischen Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX der Start ihrer Rakete „Falcon 9” zu ihrem fünften Versorgungsflug für die Internationale Raumstation ISS. Der Flug ist Teil eines Vertrages, mit dem die US-Weltraumbehörde NASA insgesamt zwölf Versorgungsflüge zur ISS von SpaceX eingekauft hat.

Nach dem Abkuppeln der „Dragon”-Versorgungskapsel sollte die Transportstufe, eine „Falcon 9”-Trägerrakete auf die Erde zurückkehren, um später wiederverwendet zu werden. Wie beabsichtigt, trat die „Falcon 9”-Trägerrakete in die Erdatmosphäre ein und flog in Richtung des vorgesehenen Landungspunktes, einer unbemannten Plattform im Atlantik. Es gab aber eine harte Landung, wobei einige Ausrüstungsgegenstände beschädigt wurden. Nach Aussage von SpaceX Mitbegründer Elon Musk ist die Wiederverwendung der Rakete ein wichtiger Meilenstein in der weiteren technischen Entwicklung.

Erster Raketenstart des privaten Weltraum-Unternehmens „SpaceX“ gescheitert (26.03.2006)


SpaceX launches first Falcon 9 rocket

Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket for the first time at 1845 UTC ( 2:45 pm EDT) from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States.

The Falcon 9, second in the Falcon series of rockets, has a first stage that is powered by nine Merlin 1C engines, and a second stage powered by one Merlin vacuum engine. Today's inaugural launch carried the Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU), a boilerplate version of the Dragon capsule. The Dragon is intended to take cargo — and possibly people — to the International Space Station through NASA's COTS program. The program is intended to help develop commercial space transportation, a goal that fits with President Obama's recent change of direction for NASA. Under President Obama's new plan, NASA would hand over the mundane task of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) launches to private companies, and instead concentrate on new technology development.

However, no private firms yet have the capability to independently launch humans into space, without NASA assistance. SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk hopes that the Falcon 9 will eventually fill the void in human rated commercial rockets, but he also recognizes the inherent risk and danger of rocket launches. "There's nothing more fear and anxiety-inducing than a rocket launch," said Musk.

Not everyone agrees with President Obama and Elon Musk. Republican Senator Richard Shelby doesn't think private firms are ready for the challenge of taking humans into space, preferring that government funding be directed to NASA instead. "Today the commercial providers that NASA has contracted with cannot even carry the trash back from the space station, much less carry humans to or from space safely," the Senator said.

Although today's launch succeeded, Musk had said earlier neither the success nor failure of the Falcon 9 would be the ultimate arbitrator of the fate of NASA's new commercial-friendly direction. "They sort of focus everything on us and try to create a situation where our first launch of Falcon 9 is somehow a verdict on the president's policy, which is not right," he said.


Espace : premier lancement réussi du lanceur Falcon 9

Le lanceur américain Falcon 9, développé par la société privée SpaceX, a réussi hier son premier lancement depuis la base militaire de Cap Canaveral, en Floride. Roby Ringuette, directeur des programmes de lancement de SpaceX, a annoncé qu'« en fin de compte, ça a été un bon jour pour SpaceX et une avancée prometteuse pour les programmes spatiaux américains ». SpaceX a signé un contrat avec la NASA pour assurer une partie du ravitaillement de la Station spatiale internationale à compter de 2010, en utilisant le lanceur et le cargo spatial SpaceX Dragon. Falcon 9 doit être partiellement réutilisable afin de limiter les coûts de lancement.

Le lancement a eu lieu à 14 h 35 (heure locale, 18 h 35 GMT) après une tentative échouée plus tôt dans l'après-midi, alors que le compte à rebours avait pris fin.

La charge utile du lanceur était constituée d'une maquette du cargo spatial SpaceX Dragon. Malgré un roulis important non prévu, le second étage solidaire de sa charge utile s'est placé sur une orbite à peu près circulaire de 250 km avec une inclinaison de 34,5° correspondant presque parfaitement à l'objectif fixé. Le premier étage, dont la réutilisation doit contribuer à la réduction du cout de lancement, s'est brisé en retombant.

« Quel qu'en soit le résultat, cette première tentative de lancement de la fusée Falcon 9 représente une étape clé pour SpaceX et les vols spatiaux commerciaux », avait déclaré les responsables de SpaceX avait le lancement, en ajoutant que leur « principal objectif est de collecter autant de données que possible durant le vol ».


SpaceX rocket successfully orbits on fourth attempt

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) successfully launched and sent into orbit a Falcon 1 rocket, which was launched yesterday at 23:15 UTC from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

This was the fourth attempt to launch this class of rocket, and the first vehicle to be successfully launched by private spacecraft developers.  Previous attempts to launch this vehicle ended in failure due to engineering errors.  Perhaps the most critical part of this flight occurred during the stage separation between the first and second stages of this rocket.  In this flight, unlike previous attempts, the separation was without incident and the second stage maintained the planned trajectory into orbit.  The rocket achieved an orbit at an altitude of 135 miles above the Earth after approximately ten minutes of powered flight.

The main technical difference between the third and fourth attempts was an adjustment in the timing between shutting down the first stage rocket engine and when the stage separation takes place.  On the third attempt, the first and second stages collided into each other immediately after stage separation, which in turn damaged the second stage engine and resulted in a mission failure.  For this fourth attempt, the stage separation occurred without any problem, and was greeted with loud cheers and applause by SpaceX employees who were watching a live telecast of the launch at the Hawthorne, California, USA manufacturing plant.  This telecast was also released as a live video feed on the SpaceX website during the launch.

While other rocket companies have been successful at sending vehicles into orbit before, this is the first vehicle that has been designed from scratch without any components that came from previous government-sponsored vehicles.  This is also the first privately developed liquid-fueled vehicle that has achieved orbit.

Elon Musk, founder, primary investor, and CEO of SpaceX, congratulated his employees upon reaching this milestone, saying "That was frickin' awesome! There's only a handful of countries on Earth that have done this. It's usually a country thing, not a company thing. We did it."  He also said later on, "Definitely one of the best days of my life."

The payload of this rocket consisted of a 360 pound engineering test object made of aluminum, which was also fabricated by SpaceX in their Hawthorne manufacturing facility.  Called the Ratsat, it was decorated with a logo of a rat by the SpaceX team that built it.  Elon Musk estimates that it will remain in orbit for between five and ten years before burning up in the atmosphere.

Additional milestones accomplished by SpaceX on this flight included a successful deployment of parachutes on the first stage of this rocket, where SpaceX hopes to be able to recover this stage and be able to re-use that portion of the rocket on a future flight with some refurbishing.  The second stage also performed an additional test by restarting its engine and moving to a higher orbit at between 300 to 450 miles (500 to 700 km) above the Earth with an inclination of 9.2 degrees, passing above the International Space Station during the maneuver.

"This is a great day for SpaceX and the culmination of an enormous amount of work by a great team," said Elon Musk,  "The data shows we achieved a super precise orbit insertion—middle of the bull's-eye — and then went on to coast and restart the second stage, which was icing on the cake."

SpaceX is offering future flights of the Falcon 1 to the public for a price of about $7.9 million USD each, although Mr. Musk estimated that the total cost to test and develop this rocket, including the three previous failed launch attempts, came to about $100 million USD.

The next launch of the Falcon 1 is slated to happen sometime toward the end of the year, with a satellite that was manufactured and paid by the Malaysian government.  Also scheduled for early next year is the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, which uses a multiples of nine rocket engines that are identical to the engine that was used in today's launch as well as many of the other components that were used on the Falcon 1.  SpaceX is also under contract with NASA to develop a vehicle called the Dragon that will be supplying cargo to the International Space Station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.  This spacecraft is also intended to eventually be capable of manned spaceflight.


Falcon 1 im vierten Anlauf erfolgreich im Erdorbit

01.10.2008 – Im vierten Start hat die von SpaceX entwickelte Falcon 1 erfolgreich den geplanten Orbit erreicht. Die Rakete hob am 28.September um 23:16 UTC vom Startplatz auf der zum Kwajalein Atoll gehörenden Insel Omelek ab und startete in einen 350 bis 600 km höhen Orbit um die Erde bei einer Bahnneigung von 4°.

Die erste Stufe wurde nach einem fehlerfreien Flug nach etwa zwei Minuten und 42 Sekunden abgeworfen – ein Punkt, der bei dem dritten Flug nicht erreicht wurde. Damals kollidierte die erste Stufe durch einen unbeabsichtigten Restschub mit der zweiten Stufe, was zum Verlust der Rakete und den darin befindlichen Satelliten führte. Durch eine kleine Änderung in der Flugsoftware wurde diese Möglichkeit unterbunden und die Stufentrennung verlief dieses Mal fehlerfrei. Auch die zweite Stufe arbeitete fehlerfrei und brachte es auf die benötigte Orbitalgeschwindigkeit von 5,2 Kilometer pro Sekunde. Diese wurde bei dem zweiten Start des Raketentyps nur knapp nicht erreicht. Die Software für den Aussetzungsmechanismus erwies sich ebenfalls als funktionstüchtig, obgleich kein solcher Mechanismus in die Rakete eingebaut war und die 165 Kilogramm schwere Testnutzlast wie geplant mit der Rakete verbunden blieb.

SpaceX Gründer Elon Musk zeigte sich in einem Interview im Anschluss erfreut über den reibungslosen Flug und sieht nun mit Zuversicht auf den ersten Start der Falcon 9, der für das zweite Quatal 2009 geplant ist.


SpaceX successfully launches its first crewed spaceflight

SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed mission at 1922 UTC yesterday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket. This was the first launch of a crewed spacecraft from the United States since NASA's final Space Shuttle mission in July 2011 — a mission Hurley piloted.

SpaceX, backed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is the first private company to send astronauts into space. The company has engineered and operated reusable rockets, potentially reducing the overall cost of future space missions. Shortly after the launch, the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage disengaged and returned to an autonomous spaceport drone ship off the coast, to be refurbished and reused on a future mission. Behnken and Hurley are slated to catch up to the International Space Station (ISS) for a stay of one to four months, docking today at 1429 UTC.

The originally planned launch on Wednesday afternoon, local time, was scrubbed due to inclement weather conditions less than 20 minutes before scheduled launch time, with the schedule pushed back to yesterday. Unlike Wednesday's scrub, however, yesterday's launch proceeded without issue.  Hurley, on radio following the minutes-long ride to low Earth orbit, said, "It was incredible".

SpaceX's launch is the latest development in a program initiated in earnest by NASA's 2014 selection of SpaceX, along with Boeing, to be an initial commercial contractor providing transportation for NASA astronauts to the ISS. Boeing's first crewed mission is reportedly expected to launch next year. Since the retirement of the Space Shuttles in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to transport its astronauts to the orbiting space station.

Hurley, along with his fellow crew members aboard the final Shuttle mission, had left a small U.S. flag aboard the ISS, to be retrieved when the U.S. space program was once again able to launch astronauts to the outpost. Hurley and Behnken, when they depart, plan to return this flag to Earth after a nearly nine-year hiatus to commemorate the milestone. The exact timing of their return is not set, however, as it depends on the continued performance of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, and on when the next Crew Dragon mission occurs, which NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said may be ready to launch by late August.

Bridenstine remarked of the remainder of the test flight, "I'm breathing a sigh of relief, but I will also tell you I'm not gonna celebrate until Bob and Doug are home safely." Hurley, for his part, paraphrased the first U.S. citizen in space, Alan Shepard, commenting before launch on the occasion of the United States' return to human spaceflight capability: "SpaceX we're go for launch. Let's light this candle."


En direct : suivez la nouvelle tentative de lancement de la fusée SpaceX

Publié le 30 mai 2020   À 15 h 22 (heure de la côte Est des États-Unis, 19 h 22 UTC, 21 h 22 en France,) le premier vol commercial spatial habité a été lancé depuis le centre spatial Kennedy en Floride. Les deux astronautes, Robert Behnken et Douglas Hurley, ont décollé à destination de la Station spatiale internationale. Ils ont utilisé le lanceur Falcon 9 et la capsule Crew Dragon développés par le secteur privé américain. La capsule s'est séparée du lanceur après 12 minutes de vol. C'est un moment historique pour les États-Unis ; depuis neuf ans et l'arrêt des missions de la navette spatiale, aucun vol habité n'avait eu lieu depuis le sol américain.

Les prévisions météorologiques, qui ont déjà été la cause du report du lancement qui devait initialement se tenir jeudi, étaient mauvaises, mais le lancement s'est finalement déroulé sans encombre.

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Succesvolle bemande lancering Crew Dragon

De Crew Dragon van het bedrijf SpaceX met twee NASA-astronauten aan boord, is succesvol vertrokken en onderweg naar het internationaal ruimtestation (ISS). Deze historische lancering gebeurde vanaf ruimtebasis Kennedy Space Center in Florida en vond plaats rond 21.22 uur Nederlandse tijd. Niet alleen vertrekt er voor het eerst sinds 2011 weer een bemande raket van Amerikaanse bodem vertrekt, het is ook de eerste keer dat een commercieel bedrijf mensen naar de ruimte brengt.

Vanwege het weer werd de lancering woensdag nog uitgesteld. Ook nu leek het er vanwege het slechte weer eerst op dat de lancering niet kon gaan, maar ongeveer een halfuur voor vertrek klaarde het op.  Als alles goed gaat komen de NASA-astronauten, Douglas Hurley (53) en Robert Behnken (49), zondag rond 16.30 uur (Nederlandse tijd) aan bij het ISS. Hurley en Behnken zullen 110 dagen in het ISS verblijven, ter voorbereiding op toekomstige missies.

De lancering van een bemande ruimtecapsule is een belangrijke volgende stap in het uiteindelijke doel van SpaceX-oprichter Elon Musk: de eerste bemande ruimtereis naar de planeet Mars vanaf Amerikaans grondgebied.


Stardust lands in Utah successfully

"All stations, we have touchdown," an announcer declared.

Stardust, a capsule carrying dust from Comet Wild 2, has landed safely in the Utah desert. It also is the first time in history that a space mission has brought back such material.

"The tiny particles that the Stardust mission is bringing back are the most scientifically exciting and technically challenging material that we have ever had the opportunity to study," said Monica Grady of the Planetary and Space Science Research Institute (PSSRI).

When the landing was complete, it drew cheers from excited scientists.

"It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission," said Carlton Allen of NASA's Johnson Space Center.

"Everything worked so well. What an exciting moment," said Allan Cheuvront, Stardust spacecraft engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

Many reports are stating from skywatchers, that sighted the speeding capsule as it shot across the sky over the western United States. "We saw it in the sky…it was great," said Paula Nicholson, Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground.

In 2004, another collector capsule from another spacecraft, Genesis, which collected solar wind particles crashed into the Utah desert, however, the samples did not survive.

After the capsule landed, it activated its locator beacon and helicopter recovery crews successfully located the capsule in the dark. The capsule is reportedly intact from the helicopter observations, and the unofficial touch down time was 5:10 a.m. EST. It will be transferred to a "cleanroom" and is expected to be flown to Johnson Space Center early next week where the capsule will be unlocked for the first time since it landed.

When opened, scientists will find the microscopic dust particles trapped in a porous, pale-blue smokelike material known as aerogel made up of 99.8 percent air that was used to snag the dust in space.

The dust then will be looked at under a microscope to be examined and because this comet is nearly 5 billion years old, they hope it will unlock some of the secrets to the formation of our galaxy and universe.

The capsules speed when it was going through Earth's atmosphere was a record breaking 29,000 mph, making it the fastest man-made probe to return to Earth. Its first parachute opened at nearly 100,000 feet from the ground where it was then guided to a 10-MPH landing in the desert.

The capsule also brought back with it 72 black-and-white pictures showing broad mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons with flat floors on the surface of Wild 2, which was a staggering 500 million miles from Earth at the time Stardust was launched.

Stardust was launched in 1999 and its trip lasted over 7 years. Stardust traveled about 4.5 billion kilometers (2.88 billion miles), and went around the sun 3 times. In the end, a magnificent achievement for NASA and science in general.


Kometensonde Stardust: Rückkehr mit Kometenstaub

Washington D.C. (USA), 15.01.2006 – Am Sonntag, dem 15. Januar, landete die NASA-Raumsonde „Stardust“ unbeschadet wieder auf der Erde, im Bundesstaat Utah. Die Reise dauerte sieben Jahre, der zurückgelegte Weg beträgt 4,6 Milliarden Kilometer. Dabei umkreiste die Sonde die Sonne dreimal.

Das Auffinden der Sonde sorgte zunächst jedoch noch einmal für 45 Minuten Spannung im Kontrollzentrum, bis die Suche mit Hilfe eines Hubschraubers erfolgreich war, der wegen der Dunkelheit zur Suche Infrarot einsetzen musste. An Bord des Probenbehälters, der ohne die ursprüngliche Sonde auf der Erde landete, befindet sich Kometenstaub. Noch niemals zuvor in der Weltgeschichte gelangte Kometenstaub auf die Erde. Die Staubpartikel aus dem Kometenstaub sind nach Angaben der NASA 4,5 Milliarden Jahre alt. In ihnen befindet sich Ursprungsmaterie unseres Sonnensystems.

Die Auswertung des Staubs nehmen Wissenschaftler der Universität Berkeley in Kalifornien vor. Unterstützt werden sie von vielen freiwilligen Helfern im Internet, die die winzigen Partikel mit einem so genannten „virtuellen Mikroskop“ aufspüren sollen. Der Lohn der freiwilligen Arbeit besteht in dem Recht des Finders einen Namen für so ein interstellares Staubkörnchen zu vergeben.


彗星のちりを採取したカプセルが地球に帰還―NASAの探査機スターダスト

アメリカ航空宇宙局 (NASA) の無人探査機「スターダスト」(Stardust)が切り離したカプセルが、アメリカ東部時間 (UTC-5) 15日午前5時10分（日本時間15日午後7時10分）ごろアメリカ・ユタ州の砂漠にある空軍施設の用地内に着地した。

読売新聞によればカプセルには、2004年1月にヴィルト第2彗星 (81P/Wild) の近傍を通過した際に採取した、彗星から出たちり（宇宙空間に漂っているちりも含まれる）が入っている。彗星のちりを採取して地球に持ち帰ったのは世界初。2,000粒ほどのちりが採取されたと見られており、太陽系誕生当時の様子を解明する手がかりとして期待が集まっている。CNNによれば、詳細な分析結果が判明するまで数年はかかるという。

朝日新聞によれば、カプセルが開いたパラシュートが強風で流されて、着陸地点が予定より北に7kmほどずれ、着地時間も予定より2分早かったものの問題はなく、後に陸軍施設の「クリーンルーム」に搬入された。ちりの格納容器を耐熱カプセルから取り出す作業は日本時間15日中に始まっている。開封作業はテキサス州のジョンソン宇宙センターで17日に行われる。

NASAによると、「私たちが今朝早くユタの砂漠からリターンカプセルを首尾よく拾ったとき、10年にわたる計画と7年にわたるフライトが実った」と、NASAのジェット推進委員会研究所のトム・ダックスベリー・スターダスト・プロジェクト・マネージャーは語った。


Udany powrót sondy Stardust

Stardust, kapsuła zawierająca pył zebrany z komety Wild 2, wylądowała pomyślnie na pustyni w Utah. Misja zakończyła się sukcesem, ponieważ jest to pierwsza taka udana operacja. W roku 2004 próbki cząstek wiatru słonecznego miała na Ziemię sprowadzić sonda Genesis, ale rozbiła się podczas lądowania na tej samej pustyni.

Gdy Stardust zakończyła lot, uruchomiła nadajnik, dzięki któremu załoga helikoptera ratunkowego zlokalizowała ją w ciemności. Zostanie teraz przetransportowana do odizolowanego laboratorium - ma polecieć do Johnson Space Center na początku następnego tygodnia, gdzie po raz pierwszy kapsuła zostanie otwarta.

Gdy to nastąpi, naukowcy powinni znaleźć mikroskopijne drobiny pyłu zawieszone w porowatym, podobnym do niebieskiego dymu materiału znanego jako aerożel, złożonego w 99,8 procentach z powietrza, który był użyty do wyłapania pyłu.


Стардаст се вратио на Земљу

Јута/ САД

16. јануара капсула свемирске летелице “Страдаст” која је сакупљала звездану прашину са комете удаљене 4,6 милијарди километара се вратила на Земљу слетевши у пустињу америчке државе Јута. Циљ мисије је био сакупљање честица прашине са комете Wild Two, за које се претпоставља да потиче још од настанка соларног система. Догађај је историјски јер до сада на Земљу није донет овакав материјал.

Цео процес је пратила земаљска контрола из НАСА-иног Jet Propulsion Laboratory из Пасадене, Калифорнија. Капсула је рекордном брзином 29.000 km/s улетела у Земљину атмосферу.

Пошто су комете ледена тела састављена од воде и честица прашине верује се да су честице старе колико и комете и да носе тајну настанка соларног система. Кроз неколико дана стручњаци из НАСА-иних лабараторија свемирског центра у Хјустону ће анализирати драгоцене податке и рећи више о томе.


StarOffice 8 launched

Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 8 today. StarOffice 8 is a commercial office suite that includes word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database applications.

According to Sun, StarOffice 8 “provides excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office”. This new version improves Word, Excel and PowerPoint import and export filters, improving support for password-protected Word and Excel files and presentations with complex animations, autoshapes and slide transitions. StarOffice 8 also includes a Microsoft Office macro converter allowing many Microsoft Office macros to work in StarOffice.

StarOffice 8 is also the first commercial office suite to support the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument). OpenDocument  is an XML based file format created by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Massachusetts has recently announced the plan to switch to OpenDocument format. Microsoft has said it will not support the OpenDocument format.

StarOffice 8 is based on the open source OpenOffice.org project. OpenOffice.org was founded July 2000, by Sun with the release of StarOffice code under two open source licenses.

StarOffice 8 is available as a download from Sun’s Web site for $69.95, or packaged product can be ordered for $99.95. Enterprise customers can purchase StarOffice 8 for $35 (£20) per user.  OpenOffice.org  is available for free from openoffice.org.


Se inicia distribución de Star Office 8

La empresa Sun Microsystems inició este martes 27 la distribución de StarOffice 8. StarOffice 8 es una suite de ofimática comercial que incluye procesamiento de palabras, hoja de cálculo, presentaciones, dibujos y aplicación de base de datos.

Según la empresa, StarOffice 8 «provee una excelente compatibilidad con Microsoft Office». Esta nueva versión mejora el intercambio de archivos con Word, Excel y PowerPoint, mejorando el manejo de archivos Word y Excel protegidos con clave de acceso así como presentaciones com animaciones complejas, autoformas y transiciones en transparencias. StarOffice 8 también incluye un convertidor de macros de Microsoft Office lo que permite que muchas macros escritas para Microsoft Office funcionen en StarOffice.

StarOffice 8 es también la primera suite de ofimática comercial que maneja documentos en el formato Open Document Format para aplicaciones de ofimática (OpenDocument). OpenDocument es un formato de archivos basado en XML, creado por la Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. El estado de Massachusetts en Estados Unidos recientemente anunció su plan para adoptar el formato OpenDocument. Microsoft ha informado que no manejará el formato OpenDocument.

StarOffice 8 está basado en el proyecto de software libre OpenOffice.org, fundado por Sun en julio de 2000, cuando publicó bajo dos licencias de software libre el código de StarOffice.

StarOffice 8 está disponible para ser descargado del sitio web de Sun por el precio de $69.95; también se puede adquirir una versión empaquetada por $99.95. Las empresas pueden adquirir StarOffice 8 por $35 (£20) por usuario. La versión OpenOffice puede obtenerse gratuitamente en el sitio de OpenOffice.org, si bien las versiones estables corresponden a la versión 7 de StarOffice.


StarOffice 8 est sorti

Sun Microsystems a lancé StarOffice 8 lundi. StarOffice 8 est une suite bureautique commerciale qui inclut un module tableur, de traitement de texte, de présentation, de dessin et de base de données.

La compatibilité avec la suite Microsoft Office aurait, par ailleurs, été améliorée. Les documents Excel, Word ou encore Powerpoint peuvent être importés plus facilement. De plus, on pourra importer des macros.

La fonctionnalité phare de cette nouvelle version est le support OASIS, unique pour une suite commerciale. Le format, aussi appelé OpenDocument est un format libre, basé sur le XML. Microsoft a annoncé ne pas l'intégrer dans son prochain Office.

StarOffice est basé sur OpenOffice.org, un projet open source lancé en 2000. Il fournit à Sun le code de base à élargir pour créer StarOffice, qui est totalement compatible avec son cousin libre. StarOffice 8 peut être téléchargé ou acheté en ligne pour le prix de 69 $ (téléchargement) ou 99 $ (CD).


Stephen Hawking believes going to other planets is necessary for human survival

Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist known for having Lou Gehrig's Disease, believes that the survival of the human race depends on whether or not we colonize other planets.

"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet," he said during a Thursday radio interview with BBC. "Sooner or later, disasters such as an asteroid collision or nuclear war could wipe us all out. But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

The idea of 'warp drive', popularized by science fiction writers and televised in the series Star Trek, enables space ships to travel vast distances in a short time.

"Unfortunately, this would violate the scientific law which says that nothing can travel faster than light," said Hawking.

By using a yet-to-be developed 'matter/anti-matter annihilation' propulsion system, space travel velocities could approach the speed of light, according to Hawking. The closest stars could be reached in 6 years. "It wouldn't seem so long for those on board," he said.


Le physicien Stephen Hawking prône la colonisation spatiale

Stephen Hawking, le célèbre cosmologiste britannique, auteur du non moins fameux "une brève histoire du temps", a déclaré à la BBC-radio que les progrès théoriques pourraient, en permettant des déplacements bien plus rapides dans l'espace, et ainsi révolutionner les voyages spatiaux ... et la création de colonies. « L'homme doit partir coloniser d'autres planètes sur d'autres systèmes solaires, faute de quoi il est menacé d'extinction. (...) Tôt ou tard, des catastrophes comme une collision avec un astéroïde ou une guerre nucléaire sont susceptibles de nous faire disparaître.(...) Mais dès lors que nous nous disséminerons dans l'espace et créerons des colonies indépendantes, notre avenir sera assuré. » a ainsi indiqué ce professeur de Cambridge.


Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the world

Steven Fossett (60) landed safely back on US soil earlier this evening to claim the world record for flying non-stop by himself around the world. He landed at 7.49 pm UTC in Kansas after what had been a nerve racking last few hours.

Having left with over 18,100 pounds of fuel on board the futuristic single seater GlobalFlyer, it emerged that 2,600 pounds of fuel had "disappeared". This meant that had the winds gone against Fossett, he would have run out of fuel before the finish line. Luckily however, he was able to conserve fuel due to strong tail winds throughout the last few thousand miles of the journey.


Steve Fossett: W 67 godzin dookoła świata

67 godzin i jedna minuta wystarczyła amerykańskiemu "łowcy rekordów" - Steve'owi Fossettowi, na samotne okrążenie kuli ziemskiej w samolocie GlobalFlyer. Lot odbył się bez żadnych przerw na odpoczynek czy uzupełnienie paliwa, co było warunkiem uznania tego osiągnięcia.

60-letni miliarder wystartował w poniedziałek w Salinie (Kansas, Stany Zjednoczone) z pasa startowego o długości 3,6 metra. Jego trasa wynosiła 36 787 km (co stanowi długość Zwrotnika Raka) i przebiegała nad miastami półkuli północnej – m.in. Chicago, Toronto, Londynem, Paryżem, Kairem, Bahrajnem, Kalkutą, Szanghajem, Tokio, Honolulu i Los Angeles.


Steven Fossett bate recorde de vôo ao redor do mundo

Steven Fossett, de sessenta anos, pousou com segurança em solo norte-americano na tarde do dia 3 de março de 2005 reinvidicando ter estabelecido o recorde do primeiro vôo sem paradas em volta da Terra. Ele pousou às 19:49  UTC em Kansas depois de algumas horas de tensão que antecederam o pouso.

Tendo levado aproximadamente 18.100 libras (8.145 quilogramas) de combustível em seu aeroplano, o GlobalFlyer, percebeu que cerca de 2.600 libras (1.170 quilogramas) de combustível haviam "desaparecido". Isso significava que caso houvesse ventos contra, o aeroplano ficaria sem combustível antes da linha final. Por sorte ele foi capaz de conservar combustível devido a fortes ventos de cauda nos últimos milhares de quilômetros da jornada.


Steve Fossett breaks record for longest nonstop flight, lands safely

Steve Fossett, 61, has broken the record for flying the longest nonstop flight in aviation history and has landed safely in England although, Steve Ridgeway chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, the company sponsoring Fossett's record bid said, "he burst two tires on landing and the poor GlobalFlyer had to be dragged off the runway."

Fossett had to land at Bournemouth Airport in Dorset instead of his planned destination of Manston Airport in Kent, because of generator problems.

After the flight, Fossett told the press, "I was really lucky to make it here today, there was a lot going on. The tension of the final part really took it out of me, but I will be fine in the morning."

Fossett broke the previous record of 25,361 miles (40,210 km) (set by Dick Rutan flying the lightweight Voyager aircraft in 1986) when he passed over Shannon Ireland, even though he lost 750 pounds of fuel just after take-off from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday. His record has been recorded to have been broken at; 11:59am on February 11, 2006, (EST). His trip has taken about 80 hours (3 1/2 days) and covered 26,389.3 miles (42,469 km).

The plane Fossett was flying is a lightweight experimental aircraft. The GlobalFlyer is the only plane to make a non-stop circumnavigation of the earth on one tank of fuel.

Fossett has broken 110 world records.


Steve Fossetts Rekordversuch gelungen

Bournemouth (Vereinigtes Königreich), 11.02.2006 – Der 61-jährige US-Amerikaner Steve Fossett hat heute zwei Weltrekorde gebrochen: den einen für den zeitlich längsten Nonstop-Flug mit einem Motorflugzeug und den anderen für die längste Strecke, die ein Mensch ohne Unterbrechung und ohne Zwischenlandung zurücklegte. Die Strecke betrug knapp 42.000 Kilometer. Insgesamt war er knapp 80 Stunden unterwegs.

Sein Flugzeug „Global Flyer“ landete heute Abend sicher. Anstatt in Kent, wie es ursprünglich geplant war, landete er in Bournemouth im Süden Englands. Ein technisches Problem an seinem Fluggerät zwang ihn zu der Änderung. Ein Generator des „Global Flyer“ war ausgefallen.

Fosset flog um die ganze Erde und ein zweites Mal über den Atlantik.


Steve Fosset bate el récord de distancia de vuelo sin escalas

Steve Fossett, multimillonario estadounidense de 61 años miembro del Comité Scout Mundial, ha batido en solitario, el récord de distancia de vuelo sin escalas con 42.469,4 kilómetros (26.389,3 millas) volando durante 76 horas y 45 minutos a bordo del GlobalFlyer. Fossett aterrizó en Dorset, Inglaterra.

El anterior récord de distancia para vuelo sin escalas, estaba en 40.204 kilómetros y fue establecido en 1986 por la nave ligera Voyager, pilotada por Dick Rutan y Jeanna Yeager.

El avión que volaba Fossett es una aeronave ligera experimental. El GlobalFlyer es el único avión capaz de circumnavegar la tierra con un solo tanque de combustible.

Fossett ha roto 110 récords mundiales.


Steve Jobs denies 'location-gate'

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that iPhone technology is not being used to monitor the location of its customers. The scandal arose from concern that data collected by Apple would make it possible for anyone with access to a person's private computer to retrieve information about their movements.

Jobs acknowledged that while iPhones keep a database of Wi-Fi and cell tower hotspots these do not reveal anything about individual users' location. “That’s what people saw on the phone and mistook it for location”

In a separate statement, Apple clarified the device is merely caching data in order to improve the speed of locating users in the future.

Jobs confirmed during the interview that Apple would testify before the United States Congress. “They have asked us to come and we will honour their request, of course.”

Apple have since made plans to release software updates that will cut the size of the wireless hotspot location database stored on its iPhones.

The data scandal, coined ‘Location-gate’ has overshadowed news of Apple’s announcement for sales of the delayed white iPhone 4 which will begin shipping from Thursday.


Speicherung von Nutzerdaten: Apple gibt Softwarefehler zu

Cupertino (Vereinigte Staaten), 27.04.2011 – Sechs Tage, nachdem bekannt wurde, dass die Firma Apple Nutzerdaten in einer unverschlüsselten Datei auf dem iPhone und dem iPad speichert, reagierte jetzt das Unternehmen aus Cupertino mit einem Eingeständnis: Ein Softwarefehler sei dafür verantwortlich, dass bestimmte Daten, die bei der Nutzung des iPhones entstünden, in unverschlüsselter Form und länger als nötig gespeichert würden. Zugleich dementierte Apple, dass diese Nutzerdaten die Erstellung eines Bewegungsprofils ermöglichten. Es würden, so Apple, nicht der Standort des Benutzers, sondern lediglich Daten von WLAN-Hotspots und Funkmasten in der Nähe des benutzten Mobiltelefons gespeichert.

Redakteure von heise online bestätigten diese Darstellung von Apple im Wesentlichen. Versuche hätten ergeben, dass der Zeitstempel nur besage, wann die Daten einer bestimmten Funkzelle zuletzt aktualisiert worden seien. Dafür müsse der Anwender nicht unbedingt in der Nähe dieser Funkzelle gewesen sein, so heise online. Auch seien die Algorithmen, die dem Zeitpunkt der jeweiligen Speichervorgänge zugrunde lägen, recht undurchschaubar, so dass die Erstellung von Bewegungsprofilen zumindest sehr schwierig sei. Allerdings lasse sich die Aktualisierung der Ortungsdienste auch bei der Abschaltung dieses Features durch den Nutzer nicht vollständig unterbinden.

Die Speicherung der genannten Daten dient laut Apple den auf dem Handy vorhandenen Applikationen (Apps) dazu, den aktuellen Aufenthaltsorts des iPhones zu bestimmen, ohne auf aktuelle GPS-Daten zurückgreifen zu müssen. Apple gab zu, dass diese gespeicherten Daten in unverschlüsselter Form gespeichert würden, wodurch es anderen Benutzer theoretisch möglich sei, darauf zuzugreifen. An Apple würden die Daten jedoch nur in anonymisierter Form übertragen. Drittanbieter hätten keinen Zugriff auf die unverschlüsselten Daten.

Apple kündigte innerhalb der nächsten Wochen ein Software-Update an, das die Größe der auf dem Mobiltelefon gespeicherten Daten beschränke, so dass die entsprechenden Daten künftig nicht mehr länger als sieben Tage gespeichert würden. In der nächsten Aktualisierung des Handy-Betriebssystems iOS soll außerdem gewährleistet werden, dass die Daten künftig in verschlüsselter Form gespeichert werden. Die entsprechende Datei soll dann auch nicht mehr auf Computern gespeichert werden, mit denen das Mobiltelefon verbunden wird. Die Abschaltung der Lokalisierungsdienste durch den Nutzer soll dann auch dazu führen, dass entsprechende Daten von WLAN-Hotspots und Funkmasten nicht mehr gesammelt werden.


Stressed plants produce aspirin-like chemical

Researchers at the  National Center for Atmospheric Research have found that stressed plants produce an aspirin-like chemical,  methyl salicylate. Methyl salicylate is also known as oil of  wintergreen. This semi-volatile plant  hormone was detected in the air above the plants in the experiments conducted in a walnut grove near  Davis, California. According to the scientists the chemical may be a sort of immune response that help protect the plants.

Acetylsalicylic acid, commonly called aspirin, had originally come from the bark of Willow trees. It had never been observed to be emitted as a gas. The researchers observed spikes in methyl salicylate after nighttime temperatures dipped low, which suggested the plants were reacting to cold stress. The peaks were higher during a dry period, pointing to combined stress of cold nighttime temperatures and mild drought.

Laboratory observations have shown that numerous plants produce methyl salicylate, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been observed in nature. Previous studies have shown that plants being eaten by animals produce chemicals that can be sensed by other plants. A study conducted in 1997 found that methyl salicylate is produced by tobacco plants inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus. Emitting methyl salicylate may be a means for the plants to warn other plants about a threat.

The finding may help to more readily identify plants under stress by monitoring for the airborne distress signal.


Les plantes estressades produeixen un compost químic semblant a l'aspirina

23 de setembre del 2008, Estats Units

Investigadors del Centre Nacional de Recerca Atmosfèrica dels Estats Units han descobert que les plantes produeixen un compost químic semblant a l'aspirina, el salicilat de metil. El salicilat de metil també és conegut com a oli de gaultèria procumbent. Es tracta d'una hormona vegetal semivolàtil que fou detectada a l'aire que envoltava les plantes en els experiments duts a terme en un noguerar a prop de Davis (Califòrnia). Segons els científics, aquest compost químic podria ser una mena de resposta immunitària que contribueix a protegir les plantes.

L'àcid acetilsalicílic, denominat habitualment aspirina, provenia originalment de l'escorça dels salzes. Mai no se n'havia observat l'emissió en forma de gas. Els investigadors observaren un augment en la quantitat de salicilat de metil quan les temperatures nocturnes descendien, cosa que suggereix que les plantes reaccionaven als efectes del fred. L'augment era més marcat durant els períodes secs, indicant una pressió combinada de temperatures nocturnes baixes i una lleugera sequera.

Observacions al laboratori ja han demostrat que moltes plantes produeixen salicilat de metil, però aquest és el primer cop que s'observa el fenomen a la naturalesa. Estudis anteriors han demostrat que les plantes que són menjades per animals produeixen composts químics que les altres plantes poden detectar. Un estudi dut a terme el 1997 descobrí que les plantes del tabac infectades amb virus del mosaic del tabac produïen salicilat de metil. L'emissió d'aquest compost podria ser una manera en què les plantes poden avisar altres plantes d'una amenaça.

Aquesta troballa pot contribuir a identificar les plantes amenaçades més fàcilment per mitjà de l'anàlisi d'aquest senyal de destret.


STS-115 launch delayed

The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, on mission STS-115 has been delayed by at least 24 hours due to a short in number one of the Orbiter's three Fuel cells. NASA expects to have more information available at 1pm EDT when they will have a meeting followed by a press conference.

The delay could result in a rollback, as the problem cannot be resolved on the pad. The flight has been delayed multiple times since August 27th.

NASA managers have extended their hold on the Space Shuttle  Atlantis launch until at least Friday, due to a problem in the shuttle's electrical power system. At a 6 p.m. briefing on Wednesday, NASA's STS-115 Mission Management Team announced that because of the fuel cell anomaly it would be prudent to spend another 24 hours to research the issue. The management team will meet again at 1 p.m. on Thursday to assess the data gathered about the fuel cell issue and decide whether the launch will take place on Friday.

Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-115 crew is set to launch Friday morning on an assembly mission to the International Space Station. The launch time for Atlantis is targeted for 11:41 a.m. EDT


Atlantis-Start zum vierten Mal verschoben

Cape Canaveral (USA), 06.09.2006 – Der Start der Raumfähre Atlantis, der von der NASA ursprünglich für den 27. August angesetzt worden war und danach mehrmals verschoben werden musste, ist erneut verschoben worden. Anstatt am Mittwoch soll Atlantis jetzt frühestens am Donnerstag zur Mission STS-115 starten, in deren Verlauf auch die Internationale Raumstation (ISS) ausgebaut werden soll.

Grund für die Verzögerung sind Probleme mit einer Kühlmittelpumpe zur Kühlung der Brennstoffzellen, die zur Elektrizitätsversorgung des Shuttles dienen.


Atlantis dzisiaj nie wystartuje

Kierownictwo NASA odwołało dzisiejszy start promu kosmicznego Atlantis. Powodem jest awaria jednego z ogniw paliwowych wytwarzających energię elektryczną na potrzeby promu. Aby prom mógł wystartować, wszystkie trzy ogniwa musza być sprawne. Przyczyny awarii dotąd nie są znane. Inżynierowie i technicy cały czas ją badają. Jeśli zajdzie potrzeba wymiany całego ogniwa, Atlantis zostanie zawrócony do hangaru, a start opóźni się o kilka tygodni. Kolejna podejście do startu zapowiedziano na razie na jutro, na godzinę 18:03 czasu polskiego.


Students find fossilised giant penguin

Children on a field trip in New Zealand have discovered what may be the finest giant penguin fossil yet found. These early penguins stood 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, weighing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds), and lived some 40 million years ago.

While the party of 22 from the Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club were looking for fossils, they did not expect to find anything this significant in their trip to Kawhia, an hour southwest of Hamilton. Group leader Chris Templer said that the sea was already beginning to erode the fossil, and if it had not been found for another 18 months, there might not have been much left. He has dreamed of making a find like this since he began hunting fossils as an eight-year-old. "I went 'Oh my God', and just about keeled over on the reef," he said.

The fossil has been carefully removed after consultation with Te Papa (the national museum) and local Māori. Experts are excited by the completeness of the Kawhia fossil. Although roughly a dozen extinct penguin species have already been discovered in New Zealand, only a few fossilised bones have been found from most of these species. Te Papa has only three bones from the largest giant penguin. According to Alan Tennyson, curator of fossils at Te Papa, the Kawhia discovery might be of international significance. "I think it's very exciting to find something like this...it's a very rare event to find such a well preserved specimen," he enthused.


Schüler finden versteinerten Riesenpinguin

Kawhia (Neuseeland), 20.02.2006 – Kinder haben auf einer Exkursion das vermutlich feinste bislang gefundene Fossil eines Riesenpinguins entdeckt. Diese frühen Pinguine waren 1,5 Meter (fünf Fuß) hoch, wogen über 100 Kilogramm (220 Pfund) und lebten vor ungefähr 40 Millionen Jahren.

Während die Gruppe von 22 Schülern des Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club nach Fossilien suchte, erwartete sie nicht, irgendetwas derart Bedeutsames auf ihrem Ausflug nach Kawhia, das eine Stunde südwestlich von Hamilton liegt, zu finden. Der Leiter der Gruppe, Chris Templer, sagte, dass das Meer schon angefangen hatte, die Versteinerung wegzufressen, und dass es hätte sein können, dass nicht mehr viel davon übrig geblieben gewesen wäre, wenn man sie nicht innerhalb der nächsten 18 Monate gefunden hätte. Er habe davon geträumt, einen solchen Fund zu machen, seit er als Elfjähriger mit der Suche nach Fossilien begann. „Ich dachte ‚Oh, Gott‘ und wäre fast das Riff hinuntergekippt“, sagte er.

Das Fossil wurde sorgfältig entfernt, nachdem sie mit Te Papa, dem Nationalmuseum, und örtlichen Māori gesprochen hatten. Experten sind davon entzückt, dass die Versteinerung aus Kawhia vollständig erhalten ist. Obwohl bereits ungefähr ein Dutzend ausgestorbener Pinguinarten in Neuseeland entdeckt wurden, hat man von fast allen Arten nur ein paar versteinerte Skelette gefunden. Te Papa besitzt nur drei Skelette von dem größten Riesenpinguin. Alan Tennyson, dem Verwalter der Fossilien bei Te Papa, zufolge könnte die Entdeckung bei Kawhia von internationalem Interesse sein. „Ich glaube, dass es sehr spannend ist, so etwas zu finden ... es kommt sehr selten vor, dass man ein so gut erhaltenes Exemplar findet“, sagte er begeistert.


Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years

In a new study announced on Monday and available in the current volume of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, an international team led by scientists from Brown University in the United States said the planet Mars once had the right water and temperatures to host simple life forms — just not on its surface.  Mars's rocky, subterranean layer once, for some hundreds of millions of years, had enough water and reductants to support some of the same kinds of microbial communities seen on Earth.

"We showed, based on basic physics and chemistry calculations, that the ancient Martian subsurface likely had enough dissolved hydrogen to power a global subsurface biosphere," reported lead author and current Brown graduate student Jesse Tarnas.  The paper does not claim life on Mars did exist but rather that conditions suitable for life are very likely to have lasted for an extended time.  This habitable zone, located beneath Mars's then-frozen surface, would have reached several kilometers into Mars's surface, potentially protected by ice above.

The study showed that, during Mars's Noachian period (4.1–3.7 billion years ago), radiolysis, the process by which radiation splits water molecules apart, produced enough hydrogen gas (H2) for microbial organisms to live on so long as they remained within the area just beneath the cryosphere, the SHZ (subcryospheric highly-fractured zone).  The concentration of hydrogen in the groundwater could have ranged from about 35 to about 55 millimoles per liter depending on whether ancient Mars was warm or cold, respectively, and higher if the subsurface medium also contained enough salt.  The researchers determined this by establishing three factors.  First, they examined data from the gamma ray spectrometer aboard NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, from which they inferred how much of various radioactive elements would have been present in Mars's crust during the Noachian, and therefore how much radiation would have been available to split water and so produce hydrogen.  They then built on existing models of water flow on Mars to determine how much groundwater would have been present. Third, they used climate and geothermal modeling to determine how much of that water would have been in liquid form and at a suitable temperature for living things.

In subterranean environments on Earth called subsurface lithotrophic microbial ecosystems, or SLiMEs, ecosystems sustain themselves not on plants that harness sunlight through photosynthesis but on microbes that harvest electrons from nearby molecules.  Molecular hydrogen is an especially good electron donor.

One of the study authors, Brown Professor John Mustard, is on the team designing the next Mars Rover mission, scheduled for 2020.  He and Tarnas recommended the Rover examine the sites of meteorite crashes, which may have excavated rocks from this possibly habitable depth that may hold traces of ancient life.


Un estudio sugiere que Marte mantuvo un hábitat capaz de sustentar vida por millones de años

En un nuevo estudio anunciado el lunes pasado y disponible en el volumen actual de Earth and Planetary Science Letters, un equipo internacional liderado por investigadores de la Universidad Brown de Estados Unidos afirmó que Marte tuvo alguna vez la cantidad adecuada de agua y la temperatura correcta para dar sustento a formas simples de vida, aunque no en su superficie. Hace tiempo, la capa subterránea y rocosa de Marte poseyó suficiente agua y agentes reductores para mantener los mismos tipos de comunidades microbianas observadas en la Tierra.

"Con base en cálculos químicos y de física básica, demostramos que la antigua subsuperficie marciana probablemente tuvo suficiente hidrógeno disuelto para proporcionar una biósfera global en el subsuelo", reportó Jesse Tarnas, autor principal y estudiante de posgrado en Brown. El artículo no afirma que existió vida en Marte, sino que es muy probable que las condiciones adecuadas para la vida hayan perdurado por un tiempo prolongado. Esta zona habitable, localizada por debajo de la entonces congelada superficie marciana, habría alcanzado varios kilómetros dentro de la superficie, potencialmente protegida por el hielo.

El estudio mostró que, durante el periodo Noachiano (entre 4100 y 3700 millones de años atrás), la radiólisis, proceso por el que la radiación rompe las moléculas del agua, produjo suficiente dihidrógeno (H2) para permitir la vida de organismos microbianos mientras permanecieran dentro del área justo debajo de la criósfera. La concentración de hidrógeno en el agua subterránea podría haber variado entre aproximadamente 35 y 55 milimoles por litro, dependiendo de si el agua del antiguo Marte era caliente o fría, respectivamente. Incluso podría haber sido mayor si el medio de la subsuperficie contuvo suficiente sal. Los investigadores llegaron a este cálculo al establecer tres factores.

Primero, revisaron los datos obtenidos por el espectrómetro de rayos gamma abordo de la nave Odyssey de la NASA. A partir de ellos dedujeron la cantidad de elementos radioactivos que habrían estado presentes en la corteza de Marte durante el periodo Noachiano y, por tanto, cuánta radiación habría estado disponible para separar las moléculas de agua y producir hidrógeno. Posteriormente, con base en los modelos existentes de flujo hídrico en Marte, determinaron cuánta agua subterránea habría existido. En tercer lugar, emplearon modelos climáticos y geotérmicos para precisar la cantidad de agua en estado líquido y a una temperatura adecuada para los seres vivos.

En ambientes subterráneos de la Tierra, los ecosistemas microbianos litoacutotróficos del subsuelo (SLiMEs, por sus siglas en inglés), los ecosistemas se sustentan en microbios que obtienen electrones de moléculas circundantes y no de plantas que aprovechan la luz solar por medio de la fotosíntesis. El hidrógeno molecular es un donante de electrones especialmente bueno. John Mustard, profesor en la Universidad Brown y uno de los autores del artículo, pertenece a un equipo que diseña la próxima misión del Mars rover, programada para 2020. Mustard y Tarnas recomiendan que el rover estudie los sitios de colisión de meteoros, que podrían contener rocas excavadas de esta posible profundidad probablemente habitable y que podrían contener rastros de vida antigua.


Successful launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched this morning after 4 years of inactivity. Liftoff, from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center occurred at 15:14:55 GMT, with the spacecraft reaching orbit about 8 1/2 minutes later. Television coverage included a live camera on the external fuel tank that remained on after separation.

Early indications suggest that there was no serious damage caused by foam debris, which was responsible for the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia in February 2003.

The mission marks the resumption of the International Space Station assembly program, which began in 1998, but was halted after the Columbia disaster. The Shuttle, which is crewed  by six astronauts, will install a truss section and solar panels at the space station.


La navette Atlantis lancée avec succès

La navette Atlantis a été lancée hier avec succès à 15:14:55 GMT, depuis la base de Cap Canaveral en Floride après 4 ans d'inactivité.
Les premières informations indiquent que la navette n'a pas subi de sérieux domages dus aux débris.

La mission consiste à ajouter une poutre à la Station spatiale internationale et des panneaux solaires.

L'équipe est composée du pilote Chris Ferguson et des spécialistes Joseph Tanner, Daniel Burbank, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper et Steven MacLean de l'Agence Spatiale Canadienne.


スペースシャトル「アトランティス」打ち上げ、国際宇宙ステーション建設が3年半ぶりに再開

アメリカ航空宇宙局 (NASA) は現地時間9日午前11時14分55秒(UTC-4、日本時間10日午前0時14分)、フロリダ州のケネディ宇宙センターからスペースシャトル「アトランティス」を打ち上げた。以後約12日間で国際宇宙ステーション (ISS) の建設などを行い、20日午前5時に帰還する予定。国際宇宙ステーションの建設は「コロンビア」の事故以来約3年半ぶりの再開となる。

ロイターによると、打ち上げはトラブルなく成功し、350km上空の周回軌道にシャトルが投入された。

NASAや朝日新聞によると、今回アトランティスに搭乗したのは初搭乗2人とカナダ航空宇宙局の宇宙飛行士1人を含む6人。ミッション名は "STS-115" で、11日に国際宇宙ステーションにドッキングし、シャトルの断熱材の点検を行った後、同ステーションでは2つ目となる太陽電池パネルを設置するなどの作業を行う予定。ロイターによると、18日までにシャトルはステーションを離れる予定。これは、ロシアが2人のステーション滞在員と1人の旅行者（女性初の宇宙旅行者となる予定）をソユーズで輸送するまでに間隔を空けるためだという。

打ち上げは8月27日となっていたが、ハリケーン「アーネスト」などによる悪天候の影響のほか、燃料系統の不具合やトラブルなどで数回延期され、今回の打ち上げに至った。

ロイターはNASA関係者の話として、コロンビアの事故の原因になったとみられている泡や氷の破片などが、今回もシャトルの上昇時に外部燃料タンクに衝突した恐れがあるものの、損傷を示すものは何も見つからなかったと伝えた。


Atlantis szczęśliwie poleciał w kosmos

O godzinie 15:14:55 GMT, po czterech latach nieaktywności, wystartował w kosmos Atlantis. Start odbył się w Centrum Lotów Kosmicznych imienia Johna F. Kennedy'ego.

Misją Atlantisa jest kontynuowanie programu budowy Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej, rozpoczętego w 1998, ale wstrzymanego po katastrofie Columbii. Sześcioosobowa załoga ma za zadanie zamontować strukturę kratownicową i panele słoneczne.


Sun retires the Sun Industry Standards Source License

Yesterday, September 2, Sun Microsystems announced the retirement of the Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL) scheme. The Open Source Initiative had been discussing ways of reducing the quantity of Open Source licenses to make it easier for developers and companies to chose a license. Dropping the SISSL takes them one step closer to this goal. Sun's decision to drop the SISSL comes a few months after Intel's similar decision to drop its Open Source License in March.

Simon Phipps, the director of Sun's Open Source Office, said in his blog that he will ask the OSI to put the SISSL on the "not recommended" list. He also said “I'd encourage any project that's currently using it to make other plans at the time of their next major release”.

No future Sun open-source projects will use the SISSL, and current Sun projects using a dual-license scheme will drop the SISSL “as soon as the development cycle allows”. One of Sun's most popular open-source projects, OpenOffice.org, is licensed under both the LGPL and SISSL. As of September 2, all OpenOffice.org 2.0 code is now licensed exclusively under the LGPL.

Sun prefers the Community Development and Distribution License, a variant of the Mozilla Public License. Sun released OpenSolaris and the Glassfish Java server under the Community Development and Distribution License.


Sun reorganiza sus licencias de software libre

4 de septiembre de 2005Palo Alto, California — El 2 de septiembre Sun Microsystems anunció el retiro de su esquema de licencias de software libre Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL). La Open Source Initiative (OSI) ha estado discutiendo cómo reducir la cantidad de diferentes licencias de software libre para facilitar la selección de una licencia a desarrolladores y empresas. Al retirar la SISSL, Sun avanza hacia ese objetivo. Su decisión sigue a la de Intel de marzo pasado que también decidió retirar sus licencias de software libre.

Simon Phipps, el director de la oficina de software libre de Sun, informó en su blog que pedirá a la OSI que clasifique la SISSL como licencia no recomendada. También informó que se está invitando a los proyectos que actualmente la utilizan para que planifiquen la migración de licencia en sus próximas distribuciones.

Los futuros proyectos de software libre de Sun ya no utilizarán la SISSL, y los que en este momento utilizan un esquema de doble licencia abandonaran la SISSL “tan pronto como lo permita el ciclo de desarrollo”. OpenOffice.org, uno de los proyectos de software libre más populares de Sun tenía la doble licencia LGPL y SISSL, pero a partir del 2 de septiembre todo el código de OpenOffice.org 2.0 tendrá únicamente la licencia LGPL.

Sun prefiere la licencia Community Development and Distribution License, que es una variante de la licencia Mozilla Public License y utilizan esa licencia en las distribuciones de OpenSolaris y del servidor Java Glassfish.


Sun to acquire MySQL AB

Sun Microsystems, the company behind the UNIX-based Solaris Operating System, the Java platform as well as OpenOffice.org, has announced that it is acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind the open source database application MySQL, for a reported US$1 billion: $800 million to purchase MySQL's stock, and $200 million worth of options.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said in his blog Wednesday that in addition to this acquisition, Sun will provide global support offerings for the popular database platform. Sun already provides support for another database platform, PostgreSQL.

MySQL is used by many web sites, such as Facebook, LiveJournal, Google, as well as the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and the MediaWiki software that powers it.


Sun va acheter MySQL AB

Publié le 16 janvier 2008  Sun Microsystems, la société responsable du système d'exploitation Solaris, de la plateforme de développement Java ainsi que de la suite bureautique OpenOffice.org, a annoncé son intention d'acquérir MySQL AB, la société propriétaire de l'application open source de base de données MySQL pour un total d'un milliard de dollars, soit 800 millions d'actions MySQL et 200 millions d'options.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO de Sun, a déclaré sur son blog que la société va également proposer des offres de support mondial pour le système de base de données, tout comme elle le fait déjà pour son propre système appelé PostgreSQL.

MySQL est utilisé par de nombreux sites internet, tels que Facebook, Google ou encore les différents projets de la Fondation Wikimedia, comme Wikinews.


Taipei Computer Association - a key player at IT industry and exhibition in Taiwan

From October 22 to 25, Taipei Computer Association (TCA) promoted three organized or sponsored expositions including "2007 WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase & Conference", "Exhibition of the First 5-year Period of the National Science & Technology Program of e-Learning", and "2007 IP Comm Asia" showing great determination on improving the IT industry in Taiwan. With Computex Taipei 2008 will add Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall (TWTC Nangang) area, how TCA transform their ways and goals with operating their IT shows? It will be affected on the notibility of domestic or trade shows. For the three expos status and TWTC Nangang topics, Wikinews Reporter Brock interviewed TCA Secretary General Enoch Du for some important questions that should be respected by organizers and governments.

Brock: We saw three expos continuously appeared this week and witnessed the determination from TCA. But before the three expos, with the 2008 Computex Taipei Local Exhibitors' Coordination by TAITRA last month for the exhibition hall usage, what should TCA face on the twin halls (TWTC Hall 1 and TWTC Nangang) problem? How to solve the problem with TWTC Nangang? Because more than ten years before, when Computex Taipei exhibited at Sungshan and TWTC halls, the show didn't have a good work, and I've asked Commissioner of Department of Transportation in Taipei City Hsiao-hsien Lou for the traffic issue with TWTC Nangang, he looked it as a pessimistic way.

Enoch: We still contact with TAITRA currently for the twin halls issue, The advantage for TWTC Nangang is exhibition spaces, but to the opposite way, traffic is surely a great headache for governments, organizers, and exhibitors. We still try to solve problems with this. Even though Computex Taipei will be located at TWTC Exhibition Hall and TWTC Nangang same time with the plan of TAITRA, but without solving problems, Computex Taipei will still be in a trouble even though we want to challenge the World's 1st scale against CeBIT.

Brock: It's apparently that lots of organizations care about the traffic near TWTC Nangang. By the way, for the 1st time TCA holding 2007 IP Comm Asia, why should it be transformed from a long-historical trade show - Taipei Telecom by TAITRA, suspended from this year?

Enoch: TCA explained some reasons for the transformation in the starting of 2007. In fact, lots of famous local participants (exhibitors) usually promoted their products with show-girls (models) so the quality of Taipei Telecom went from bad to worse in past 2 to 5 years. This is surely a damn bad demonstration in Taiwan's society. With suspending Taipei Telecom and promoting IP telecommunication industry in Taiwan, TCA finally decided to hold this professional trade show and named "IP Comm Asia" for the global market opportunity this year.

Brock: Continued with "IP Comm Asia", how this show connect with "2007 WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase & Conference"?

Enoch: Communication and networking (including WiMAX) industries should be complementaries. In Taiwan, IP telecommunication infrastructure shouldn't be looked down, with the trendy change of telecommunication industry, even though traditional telecommunication (fax and phone) industry is currently in a prior position, but IP telecommunication will be a new industry besides of communication and networking with computing technology. If consumers can communicate via Internet including Wi-Fi, its development will take advantage. Currently, some of telecommunication companies tried to change the quality of VoIP and experiment related applications for the market preparation, if the wireless network contained broadly and WiMAX infrastructure improved rapidly in Taiwan, I think that IP telecommunications will be the main stream in the future.

Brock: Something interesting. Some of electronic trade shows held by TAITRA had a great transformation with combinations and changes such as a 3-in-1 show (TaiwanRFID, TAITRONICS, PV Taiwan) held past 2 weeks. Recently, TAITRA set "Broadband Communications Pavilion" at 2007 TAITRONICS Autumn to promote "Broadband Taiwan 2008" at TWTC Nangang and recruit companies with Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association. How the TCA think about this idea?

Enoch: With trendy changes of electronic industry in Taiwan, several (electronic) trade shows suspended or transformed to other industry shows. As of TAITRA, they should fill up vacancies with some specified trade shows by some grown up industries. With their idea, they successfully transformed a simple electronic show to a grand combination with multiple industries' show. As you talked about the pavilion at TAITRONICS, this was a great chance for TAITRA to reposition and restart. Every show organizer always hopes their (international) show can keep good images for international buyers. Hope TWTC Nangang can bring a bright future and have a good start, and TAITRA can complete solutions for TWTC Nangang to keep TWTC Exhibition Hall in a steady position.

Brock: Nice thanks. Hope I can visit some good shows by TCA.

TCA surely worked hard with promoting IT industry by executing governmental plans and holding trade shows at TWTC or outside of Taiwan. That's why the IT industry in Taiwan can market to the world. TCA usually reposition some IT trade shows from quantity (factor) to quality with holding shows. Exhibition organizers in Taiwan should respect quality of exhibitions and conventions so that Taiwan can be visible world-wide in the future. With Du's words, if Computex Taipei should use twin halls, then TAITRA should solve the main issue of Nangang's traffic as Commissioner Luo said to keep them in a steady position, origins and quality.


台北市電腦公會 資訊展覽推手的關鍵角色

從昨（22）日起一連四天，台北市電腦公會一連推出了三項自辦與協辦的展會，包括2007年WiMAX論壇展覽暨會議、數位學習國家科技成果展（國科會指導）、IP電信暨視訊傳播展等，看得出台北市電腦公會協助資訊產業發展的決心，而隨著未來，南港館將要讓世界第二大電腦展─台北國際電腦展進駐的影響下，相較於電腦公會，他們如何在展覽營運上進行轉型？都是影響公會在國內展覽名氣的重要因素，因此，針對近期話題與本週三會展進行的狀況，特別請教台北市電腦公會杜全昌總幹事（以下簡稱「杜」），讓杜總幹事為展覽參觀者指點迷津。

Brock（以下簡稱「B」）：看到這周有電腦公會的三項展會陸續進行，也顯見公會協助資訊業界發展的決心，不過在此之前，鑒於小弟之前聽過貿協曾在（台北）世貿中心，邀請明年台北國際電腦展廠商聽取說明會，了解展館的分配狀況，以解決疑慮，就共同主辦的電腦公會而言，雙展館的問題是？南港館問題如何解決？因為往年，松山館與世貿館同時進行時，就有成效不彰的問題，而之前請教過台北市交通局羅局長時，他也對於南港館問題表示不樂觀。

杜：其實電腦公會就一直與貿協聯繫，希望能解決這項雙展館的問題，南港館有場地容量的優勢，但是交通問題是所有單位的痛，我們一直要解決這項問題，雖然貿協預估明年採用「雙展館」的展覽模式，但只要交通問題無法解決，世界第二大展，仍然有很大的問題，即使我們仍想讓這展覽成為世界第一。

B：看得出來，南港館的交通問題仍是廠商、政府關切的重點。另外針對本週的展覽有點問題要指教，首先是電腦公會自本年起自辦的IP電信暨視訊傳播展，考慮把一個歷史悠久的「台北國際電信展」停辦，並轉型專屬IP電信業者的展覽，原因是？

杜：這問題其實在年初，就有說明，其實，往年與貿協合辦的電信展，知名的廠商為了名氣，找來Show Girl作為宣傳手法的方式，已經把原本的國際展覽形象給大打折扣，這是非常要不得的，而且會帶來負面的社會風氣。於是，在宣布停辦時，我們為了考量IP電信業者的發展，因此希望讓台灣的IP電信產業有個拓銷的空間，進而決定舉辦名為「IP電信暨視訊傳播展」的展覽，並轉型成為真正的國際性專業展。

B：承接IP電信展的問題，這項展覽如何與昨日開幕的「WiMAX論壇展覽暨會議」作出結合？

杜：通訊產業與網路（包含WiMAX）產業應當相輔相成，不要小看IP電信的發展，通訊方式的轉變非常迅速，傳統電信仍舊有一定的地位，但是，在電腦資訊的發展下，IP電信是通信產業與網路產業的新星，如果使用者可以透過網路（包含WiFi等）進行通訊，這將是一項利多，而目前，各電信業者正積極改善網路電話的通訊品質與推展相關的應用，因此只要台灣的無線網路涵蓋率大幅提升，加上WiMAX建設的崛起，我相信網路電信將會成為未來的主流。

B：有個有趣的現象，在2006年，貿協的電子展覽有著很大的轉型，許多展覽作出了轉變，當然也包含兩週前的三合一展覽，他們為了幫明年在南港館，與秋季電子展同步進行的「寬頻通信產業展」暖身，也在電子展區設置「寬頻通信主題館」，並和電電公會（台灣區電機電子工業同業公會）進行明年展覽的招商，對此，公會的看法？

杜：貿協的電子展有個問題，就是隨著產業的轉變，主體的展示有著些微的萎縮，其他的產業因而崛起，導致貿協必須以相關產業的展覽進行輔助與結合，來填補空缺的問題，但是，他們的做法也確實成為一股轉機，反而幫助其他相關產業的拓展，而至於您所提出今年電子展的「寬頻通信產業主題館」，對於貿協而言，這確實是一個重新出發的機會，畢竟，不管哪個辦展單位，總是希望給外國人呈現一個優質展覽的形象，當然希望未來，南港館能夠有成功的開始，也希望場地的主人貿協，能完善配套的解決方案，讓世貿中心不至於萎縮。

B：感謝！希望未來有機會，能看到公會其他不錯的展覽。

電腦公會其實在資訊產業的推展，是不遺餘力的，透過展覽、政府單位相關計畫的進行，台灣的資訊產業得以走向國際市場，也看得出電腦公會希望重新定位資訊展覽，由「量」轉為「質」的走向，讓世界看見台灣的未來，這些都是展覽業需要努力的目標。而世界第二大的台北國際電腦展，確實如杜總幹事所言，如果雙展館模式確實付諸實行，那麼，首要解決的問題，就如台北市交通局羅局長所說的「展館週邊交通」，才能確保世貿館與南港館不至於向下沉淪，而失去應有的本質。


Taiwan's "Doritos Coolpedia" website announces top "Internet Quote"

"Among men, La-La; among horses, Red Hare" (In Chinese: 馬中赤兔，人中拉拉) was recently elected as the "Best Internet Cool Quote".

Laa-Laa refers to the yellow character from the Teletubbies television series, and Red Hare refers to military general Lü Bu's horse during China's Three Kingdoms period.

The quote was given its title after a two-week voting period, that started on October 14 until PepsiCo Taiwan & Doritos announced "Top 10 Internet Cool Quote" on October 31. Voting was on the Doritos Coolpedia website, which started on September 28.

Voting attracted more than 10,000 Internet users from 64 countries participating and electing.

Coolpedia is a portal for teens and young adults to share and contribute their creations, and interact.

At the announcement event was the famous Taiwanese band "MACHI Brothers" (MACHI). Described by Pepsico as a symbol of younger people in the presence of the e-Century in Taiwan, MACHI serves as spokespeople for the website. Members of band dressed in different "Cool Quote T-Shirts" to symbolize the "unlimited creation" of Coolpedia.

On November 1, Coolpedia launched a website for a "Cool Video Award" contest, with the slogan "No pictures, no truth!". PepsiCo Taiwan has suggested that the site will be a major Web 2.0 site.


酷文話百科公佈十大網絡金句 並展開次期目標


Taiwanese consumer laptop market faces change following ASUStek winning sustainability award

ASUS Eee PC, earlier launched world-wide for cost-saving and functionality factors, became a hot topic in 2007 Taipei IT Month. But the consumer market on laptop computer will be radically varied and changed after ASUS was awarded in the 2007 Taiwan Sustainable Award by Executive Yuan of the Republic of China.

Chairman of ASUS Jonney Shih said: "With this award, we [ASUS] are progressively approved by consumers with our quality and service," and stressed: "We'll have a great opportunity to look on bright factor on the Ratio of Sale on Eee PC world-wide including Taiwan."

Recently in fact, several laptop manufacturers launched multiple laptops not only low-price laptops but also others with Intel Centrino Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 inside for different consuming population. And those manufacturers battled also on the high-definition AV market with theirs launch. No matter what their market battle will transform, the consumer will be the survivor and winner at this battle.


華碩拿下永續發展獎 資訊月筆記型電腦消費市場將首當其衝

先前，華碩電腦曾對外發表以價格與功能導向為主的Eee PC，成為資訊月注目的話題之一，而在華碩電腦於昨（3）日獲得行政院「國家永續發展獎」後，將為筆記型電腦消費市場，投下極大變數。

華碩董事長施崇棠在獲獎後表示：「華碩這次的獲獎，代表品質與服務都獲得了消費者的肯定。」甚至，他還信誓旦旦地強調：「我們（指華碩）的Eee PC銷售率，將有機會持續地向上修正。」

近期，筆記型電腦廠商，針對不同的消費族群，推出了相關的產品，除了低價電腦系列外，就連內含Intel Centrino Duo或是AMD Atholon 64x2的筆記型電腦，都相繼問世，並打入高畫質市場，展開另一場品質與消費的戰爭，但無論廠商之間的競爭如何發展，消費者將會在這次的戰場中，成為最大受益者。


Technology giants battle for USB 3.0 standards

Even though the USB 3.0 standard, with transmission speeds nearing 5Gbit/s (600MB/s), has not yet matured and is not expected until 2009 or 2010, technology leaders Intel, AMD, and nVidia are battling to take the lead on the USB 3.0 specifications.

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) was founded in 1995 by Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC, and NXP Semiconductors. These companies are also promoting the new standard of USB 3.0.

But AMD, nVidia, and VIA Technologies have jointly made an attempt to develop another "USB 3.0" standard to compete with Intel. The opportunity arose because Intel has yet to release their standard for USB 3.0.

"If the USB 3.0 have two different standards in the future, the consumer will be the greatest loser in this 'standard' battle. As of this issue, we [the Federal Trade Commission] decided to investigate Intel on monopolizing the specification of USB 3.0 and hope this conflict can be smoothly solved." said the Federal Trade Commission in a statement.

Nick Knupffer, a spokesperson for Intel, claimed that Intel will release related technical specifications on USB 3.0 for the Information Technology industry to prevent unnecessary conflicts on standards and specifications.


USB 3.0 規格未確定 大廠爭相搶主導權

具備5GB/s傳輸規格的USB 3.0，技術上雖然未成熟，但已經引發晶片大廠英特爾、超微、nVidia的規格主導權爭奪戰。

1995年，英特爾聯合微軟、惠普、德州儀器、NEC和恩智浦半導體等業者，聯手推動USB設計學會，並且，在產業間積極推動USB 3.0的新規格，但卻有資深專家透露，英特爾拒絕提供相關技術資訊，而這也使得超微、威盛、nVidia等業者，意圖要推動專屬的USB 3.0規格，與英特爾打規格戰。

英特爾拒絕透漏相關規格，據傳與技術程度問題有關，但美國聯邦貿易委員會已聲明：「如果到最後出現兩種規格，消費者絕對是最大輸家，因此，將針對英特爾是否壟斷此一規格，進行必要的調查，並希望這場規格戰，能順利地解決。」

英特爾的發言人Nick Knupffer，也為了避免最終帶來的傷害，決定將這項規格開放給其他廠商進行研發，以避免不必要的規格相衝。


Technology innovations unveiled on Research at Intel Day 2008

The "2008 Research @ Intel Day" showcased conceptual innovations in the fields of visual computing, wireless, health care, environment, and life sciences.

Last Wednesday, Intel said it is investing some of its $6 billion research budget in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Technology related to mobile computing, green technology, WiMAX and wireless networking, solutions for healthcare with SHIMMER and BioMOBIUS technology, an intelligent identification robot named "BarKeep", and Platform Power Management, were showcased there.

In the keynote address, Justin Rattner, Intel Senior Fellow and Corporate Vice President and director of Intel's Corporate Technology Group, introduced the history of microprocessors and said: "Parallel Computing will be a critical factor on programming for the best experience to users."


2008英特爾研發日 展現未來運算趨勢

2008年英特爾開發日（Research @ Intel Day），美國時間11日在加州芒廷维尤的電腦歷史博物館，展示70多項未來與概念計畫，包含環保、醫療、視覺運算及無線移動等領域，展現英特爾每年投資60億美元進行研發的部分成果。

研發日中，除了行動運算、綠色科技、WiMAX，是延續台北國際電腦展中的重點議題，這次在芒廷维尤，也特別展示了醫療照護的解決方案，以及智能機器人BarKeep。

值得一提的是，在開幕的專題演講中，英特爾企業技術群總監Justin Rattner，除了藉由日前Atom處理器的問世，向與會來賓介紹微處理器的發展史，他也表示：「平行運算也將成為未來在程式開發上，讓使用者獲得最佳影音經驗的重要關鍵。」


TGV makes 574.8 km/h on rails

A French Train à Grande Vitesse (High-Speed Train or TGV) has smashed the world record for a train on conventional rails by a big margin, reaching 574.8km/h (356mph) The TGV travelled over 59.8 km/h (36 mph) faster than its previous record of 515 km/h (320 mph)

The record attempt by a modified TGV took place on a track between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg. However, this is not the fastest train speed. A Japanese Maglev (Magnetive Levitation Train) reached a top speed of 581km/h (361mph) in 2003. The TGV made history at 13:14 CEST (11:14 UTC). The TGV had been modfied and was called V150 - a TGV with larger wheels than usual and two engines driving three double-decker cars. The vehicle's horsepower was 25,000.

Reporters said the three train drivers were seen grinning on French TV after they realised they had broken the record. The TGV travelled almost as fast as a World War II Spitfire fighter at top speed. Even the electrical tension in the overhead cable was increased 6000 volts from 25,000 volts to 31,000 for the record attempt.

"We saw the countryside go by a little faster than we did during the tests," engineer Eric Pieczac said.

"Everything went very well. There are about 10,000 engineers who would want to be in my place," Mr Pieczac said. "It makes me very happy, a mixed feeling of pride and honour to be able to reach this speed." Since their introduction in 1981, TGVs generally travel at about 300km/h (187.5 mph) however, on the recently opened Paris-Strasbourg LGV (Ligne à Grande Vitesse or High-Speed line) trains will travel at 320 km/h (200 mph)

SNCF and Alstom - the TGV's manufacturer - have said that the record test was performed to see how a TGV would react in extreme conditions - conditions that cannot be performed in a laboratory.

After the record was broken, French President Jacques Chirac conveyed his congratulations on "this new proof of the excellence of the French rail industry." The President also said that "Economically efficient and respectful of the environment, the TGV is a major asset in efforts to ensure sustainable development in transport

"What is important for us today is to prove that the TGV technology which was invented in France 30 years ago is a technology for the future," said Guillaume Pepy

Alstom plans to increase TGV sales abroad, where it is competing with high-speed trains such as the Japanese Shinkansen and the German ICE.  Currently, nations of the Far East such as China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are the "top" customers for high-speed trains. Agence France-Presse said that a high-speed rail link in between Los Angeles and San Francisco, California was being looked into.


France : record du monde battu pour le TGV

Ce n'est pas encore le record du monde de vitesse atteint par un train[1], mais il se rapproche doucement. La rame V150[2] du TGV du constructeur français Alstom a franchi en début d'après-midi, à 13h16 heure française, la barre des 570 km/h en atteignant la vitesse de 574,8 km/h, homologuée par deux huissiers présent à bord. Le précédent record établi en 1990 était « seulement » de 515 km/h. Cette performance technologique, qui a eu lieu sur la ligne à grande vitesse Est-européenne dans le sens région-Paris, au niveau de la commune de Le Chemin, constitue le record du monde de vitesse sur rail.

Il est à noter que cette rame de série (duplex, c'est-à-dire à deux niveaux) différait des rames habituelles par la seule adjonction de moteurs supplémentaires, de roues plus larges afin d'éviter une surchauffe lorsque le régime des grandes vitesses est atteint, et de renforts lui ayant permis de développer les quelques 25 000 chevaux de puissance requis. La caténaire fournissant l'électricité avait également été renforcée.
Cette démonstration produite conjointement par la SNCF, Réseau ferré de France et Alstom permet à la technologie ferroviaire française de démontrer ses ambitions face aux concurrences allemande et japonaise, en particulier sur les marchés d'Amérique du Sud, des États-Unis d'Amérique ou du sud-est asiatique.

« La France confirme ainsi la très grande qualité de sa technologie et sa position de leader mondial dans ce domaine » a indiqué le Ministre français des transports, Dominique Perben, dans un communiqué, alors que le Président Jacques Chirac a considéré que ce record constituait « une magnifique démonstration des formidables capacités de la France en matière de recherche et d'innovation et une nouvelle preuve de l'excellence de l'industrie ferroviaire française ».


Francuski pociąg TGV pobił rekord prędkości

Francuski pociąg TGV (fr. Train à Grande Vitesse / Pociąg Wielkiej Prędkości) ustanowił nowy rekord szybkości pojazdu poruszającego się po torach. Na wyremontowanej trasie z Paryża do Strasbourga osiągnął prędkość 574,8 km/h.

Prędkość ustanowiona przez V150 jest bliska rekordu japońskiego pociągu poruszającego się na poduszce magnetycznej, który od 2003 r. wynosi 581 km/h.

Poprzedni rekord szybkości pociągu na torach, 515,3 km/h, został ustanowiony w maju 1990 r. i należał również do TGV (pociąg Atlantique). Normalnie kursujące pociągi TGV we Francji osiągają prędkość do 320 km/h.


Thai government reportedly planning Internet censorship

According to a report in the Bangkok Post, the Thai government's Public Relations Department is considering blocking the website of Manager Online as a possible instigator of "social chaos".

The report claims that a document was submitted to the Communications Authority of Thailand urging a block be issued against the site as the current calls for participation in anti-government rallies by outspoken government critic Sondhi Limthongkul may be a threat to social order.

Other reports claim that CAT Telecom cut off a live satellite broadcast by Sondi on the ASTV satellite network on Tuesday evening during a discussion related to a planned anti-government rally on February 4.


Jornal diz que Governo da Tailândia planeja censurar website

Segundo uma reportagem do Bangkok Post, o Departamento de Relações Públicas do governo Tailandês  está considerando o bloqueio do   website da Manager Online, acusando-o de possível  instigador possível  de caos social.

A reportagem diz que um documento foi submetido à Autoridade de Comunicações da Tailândia pedindo com urgência o bloqueio do site e afirmando que as chamadas feitas por Sondhi Limthongkul para protestos contra o Governo podem ser uma ameaça para a ordem social.