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News briefs: June 28
Posted: Sat, Jun 29, 2002, 12:25 PM ET (1625 GMT)
- The inaugural launch of the Alas 5 has been delayed at least a week to permit more testing. The Atlas 5 was scheduled to launch on July 29, but that flight has been delayed until no earlier than August 6 to permit more testing of an umbilical retraction system, according to Spaceflight Now. The Atlas 5 will take the launch slot at Cape Canaveral previously assigned to a Titan 4 flight that has been delayed until the end of the year because of payload problems.
- NASA has released the first images from Aqua, the Earth-observing spacecraft launched in early May. The images include data from a radiometer instrument that had experienced problems in the weeks after launch; NASA officials said earlier this week that those problems have been corrected.
- The orbital module of China's Shenzhou 3 spacecraft is operating well after three months in orbit, SpaceDaily reported Friday. The module carries a number of experiments designed to operate for several months after the descent module of Shenzhou 3, a prototype of a future Chinese human spacecraft, returned to Earth in early April. The module is expected to continue to operate for three to six more months.
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