When the Russians Came to Cape Canaveral Nov 20, 2009
In this exclusive excerpt from Apogee Books' , he recalls the cultural clash that happened when his boss came to visit from Moscow. With Shuttle-Mir cooperation imminent, RKK Energia president Yuri Semenov made the journey to Florida to witness the first of several shuttle launches. (Fox News)
Funeral in Berlin of freedom Nov 10, 2009
The apogee of Labour s success was Teresa May s claim that the Tories were the nasty party: she internalised Labour s plan perfectly. All that is left is who will best write this up, not a difficult task. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A glance at space tourists past and present Sep 30, 2009
RICHARD GARRIOTT: the sixth space tourist, a video game designer, reportedly paid $30 million for his October 2008 flight, during which he shot the first feature film in space, "Apogee of Fear." Garriott used his five crew mates as principal actors for the film, which has not yet been released. SERGEY BRIN: In line for a Soyuz flight is the Russian-born Google co-founder and billionaire. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
No such thing as a free market Sep 11, 2009
A big part of the reason for the global financial crisis - which reached its apogee almost a year ago - was the dominance of an extreme view that the market system could work well with minimal government supervision. Although we in Australia seem to have escaped the worst consequences of the crisis, we suffered the same intellectual delusion, which was manifest in other, thankfully less important areas. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
GOES-O Satellite Reaches Orbit And Renamed GOES-14 Jul 31, 2009
They completed five liquid apogee motor burns designed to raise the GOES-O orbit perigee to approximately 22,300 miles above the Earth. GOES-O became GOES-14 once it reached its geosynchronous orbit at 89. (Science Daily)
Aerojet Propulsion Supports Delta IV and GOES-O Launch Jun 30, 2009
Aerojet also provided the Boeing GOES-O spacecraft with a 100 lbf bipropellant apogee engine which will be used for circularizing the spacecraft's orbit ... team manufactured the reaction control thrusters for ULA, and the apogee engine was designed, produced and tested under contract to The Boeing Company. (PR Newswire)
Remembering 3D Realms May 8, 2009
The founding members of the latter company signed on with Apogee to publish their first game, Commander Keen, in 1990, and the partnership led to the eventual release of Wolfenstein 3-D. In the meantime, Apogee was building a brand of its own with , originally released as a 2D side-scroller. By 1994, Apogee was ready to enter the burgeoning 3D gaming market in full force, creating the development studio to handle the upcoming and a handful of other titles. (IGN PC Games)
Auroras from "Space Tornadoes" Apr 30, 2009
The five THEMIS spacecraft follow highly elliptical orbits arranged so that the spacecraft will line up at apogee (their farthest from Earth) every four days. Their apogees rotate slowly around the Earth to sample the nightside (shown here), dawnside, dayside, and duskside of Earth's magnetosphere. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
TEXT-N.Korea says it successfully launched satellite Apr 5, 2009
"The satellite is going round the earth along its elliptic orbit at the angle of inclination of 40.6 degrees at 490 km perigee and 1,426 km apogee. Its cycle is 104 minutes and 12 seconds. "Mounted on the satellite are necessary measuring devices and communications apparatuses. "The satellite is going round on its routine orbit. "It is sending to the earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans 'Song of General Kim Il-sung' and 'Song of General Kim Jong-il' and measured information at... (AlertNet)
Telescope 'cousins' meet at last Mar 7, 2009
To get them there, Europe's workhorse launcher will put Herschel and Planck on an initial, highly elliptical trajectory, running from a perigee (closest approach to Earth) of 270km to an apogee (most distant point) of 1. 2 million km.. (BBC News)
