Read more satellite stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5692/satellite.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72946/nasa-mission-monitors-polar-ice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNASA has begun a mission much closer to home than usual. The agency is flying a DC-8 over Antarctica to track melting glaciers and any subsequent rise in sea levels. Operation Ice Bridge is designed to buttress the work of a fading satellite, ICESat, which is just about spent after...http://www.newser.com/story/72946/nasa-mission-monitors-polar-ice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 13:02:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72962/well-ride-nuke-to-mars-russia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Russians are planning to ride a $600 million nuclear-powered spaceship to Mars, and they say they may begin construction by 2012. “It’s a very serious project, and we need to find the money,” president Dmitry Medvedev says. Small nuclear reactors and batteries have long powered satellites, but their adaptation...http://www.newser.com/story/72962/well-ride-nuke-to-mars-russia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71209/nasa-to-smash-rocket-into-moon-tomorrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf there's ice under the moon's surface, NASA aims to find it tomorrow. A rocket will smash into a crater near the moon's south pole, kicking up hundreds of thousands of pounds of lunar dirt. The dirt will be analyzed for traces of ice or water by a satellite following...http://www.newser.com/story/71209/nasa-to-smash-rocket-into-moon-tomorrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 4:52:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67705/south-korea-launches-space-rocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSouth Korea's first rocket blasted off into space today following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. A problem quickly surfaced, however, when the satellite the rocket was carrying apparently failed to enter its intended orbit. South...http://www.newser.com/story/67705/south-korea-launches-space-rocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 6:44:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67237/south-korea-scrubs-satellite-launch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSouth Korea scrubbed a planned satellite launch minutes before liftoff today, citing an unspecified technical error, reports the BBC. Seoul has been itching to join the Asian space race and has already produced 10 satellites for other countries' rockets. But the event had threatened to strain recently improved relations with...http://www.newser.com/story/67237/south-korea-scrubs-satellite-launch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 5:16:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64988/colossal-chinese-dustball-circles-earth-in-13-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA dust cloud weighing nearly a million tons kicked into the atmosphere by a massive storm in China's Taklamakan desert circled the world almost intact in 13 days, the Telegraph reports. Scientists, who used NASA satellites to track the path of the dustball until it fell apart over the Pacific...http://www.newser.com/story/64988/colossal-chinese-dustball-circles-earth-in-13-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 3:54:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56159/calif-utility-aims-to-buy-power-from-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia’s Pacific Gas and Electric is seeking approval for its commitment to buy electricity from an innovative source, the San Francisco Chronicle reports: an orbiting solar power array that would beam electricity back to Earth. Solaren Corp. plans to deploy the satellite sometime before 2016; PG&E has signaled it would...http://www.newser.com/story/56159/calif-utility-aims-to-buy-power-from-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Apr 2009 14:48:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55509/anti-nuke-group-releases-photos-of-korean-rocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn institution devoted to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons has released images believed to be of North Korea's rocket in flight on Sunday, reports CNN. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security says the images, taken from satellite, clearly show the exhaust plume from the rocket's burning propellant...http://www.newser.com/story/55509/anti-nuke-group-releases-photos-of-korean-rocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Apr 2009 7:44:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55405/korea-launch-signals-troubling-progress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNorth Korea's weekend rocket launch failed in the third stage, and its payload—be it friendly satellite or naked nuclear ambition—lies at the bottom of the Pacific, but the test shows alarming progress, experts tell the Los Angeles Times . Analysts dismiss North Korea's claims that a satellite made it...http://www.newser.com/story/55405/korea-launch-signals-troubling-progress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Apr 2009 6:28:15 CDT