Can you hear me now? TerreStar 1 to fill in cell phone ‘dead zones’ Europe's Ariane 5 rocket rises from its launch pad in French Guiana on Wednesday, carrying the TerreStar telecommunications satellite into space. A new space race June 29: Guest host Alison Stewart reports on NASA soliciting two private American companies to send astronauts into space. Add these headlines to your news reader See moonshadows on Saturn's rings, volcanoes on Earth and Mars and other out-of-this-world imagery from June 2009. The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America. The satellite, owned by TerreStar Corp. of Reston, Va., blasted off from Kourou in the South American territory of French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket shortly before... [read full story]
