The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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William Atkins
Sunday, 25 May 2008 07:47
Before Soyuz TMA-12 returns to Earth, Soyuz TMA-13 is scheduled to be launched on October 12, 2008, with Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke onboard, along with Garriott.
Fincke and Sharipov will become the Expedition 18 commander and flight engineer, respectively, at the International Space Station. [names reversed (corrected) per comment from reader]
The two men will replace Volkov and Kononendo, who are current Expedition 17 members (commander and flight engineer, respectively) aboard the space station.
This article is based on the Friday, May 23, 2008 Reuters’ article “Space station crew may face another bumpy re-entry.”
Additional information about the Soyuz TMA-11 mission and its problem with re-entry can be found on the SpaceFlightNow.com website “Possible Soyuz separation problem under scrutiny,” by William Harwood, and the NASASpaceflight.com website “The Real Soyuz Problem - Looking Past the Smoke and Flames,” by James Oberg.
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