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FSRI Sponsors Microgravity Research Flights From Cape Canaveral Spaceport
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 20, 2006 Researchers and educators from Florida and as far away as Italy will participate in the first two research-focused ZERO-G aircraft missions from Kennedy Space Center's space shuttle runway on Aug. 6. The Florida Space Research Institute has chartered the flights under a partnership with ZERO-G Corp. to support research operations aboard their G-Force One aircraft. The missions will include researchers from universities, industry, NASA and a team from Italy. Their experiments will focus on technologies for astronaut crew health, aerogel production, spacecraft cooling, and other projects. Twelve science and math teachers are also scheduled to fly with educational experiments designed for classroom instruction. "In addition to flying the experiments, one of our objectives is to demonstrate our capability to process the research projects at the spaceport before and after their flights," said Sam Durrance, FSRI's executive director and a former astronaut and veteran of two shuttle science missions. "This capability is an important addition to the tourism, education, and film/television projects we have already supported at the spaceport." While NASA will provide the use of the runway, the missions also will use state-provided resources such as the Reusable Launch Vehicle Hangar, Space Life Sciences Lab and the Center for Space Education to support the preparation of experiments and pre-flight training. FSRI was established by Florida's governor and legislature in 1999 to promote collaboration among the state's academic institutions, industry, and federal agencies to support statewide aerospace-related technology development, research, education and training, research. FSRI will be dissolved Aug. 31 and its programs will be transferred to Space Florida, a new agency that will be responsible for statewide space industry development. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Florida Space Research Institute Space Technology News - Applications and Research
CNES Alcatel And Orange France Testing Hybrid Satellite System
Toulouse and Paris, France (SPX) Jul 19, 2006CNES, Orange France and Alcatel announced Tuesday they have selected Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrenees region for the first trial outside their laboratories of the main technical characteristics of a new mobile broadcasting system transmitted via a hybrid satellite and a terrestrial transmission system using the S-band. |
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