All Space articles – Page 33
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PARIS: Astrium Space in missile defence push
EADS's Astrium Space Transport hopes by 2016 to test a ballistic missile interceptor that could form the basis of a European missile defence system.
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PARIS: ESA chief confident in Galileo launches
European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has expressed growing confidence in achieving the planned 20 October launch of the first two of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites.
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Opinion
Comment: To Mars and back – or a bust-up?
Five hundred days locked in a windowless container outside Moscow sounds like some sort of Soviet-era re-education scheme. It would certainly be enough to...
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NewsUK firm engineers in-orbit manufacturing
The ability to assemble large structures in orbit gets around the difficulty, or impossibility, of having to launch them whole, with the International Space Station being the best example.
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NewsEurope outlines future in space
Europe's space policy aims to ensure the continent's independence, create highly skilled jobs, boost competitiveness and improve the safety and daily lives of its citizens
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NewsMars500 crew looks like they will make it home
When George Bush declared in 2004 that US astronauts would resume Moon missions by 2015 and set off for Mars by the mid-2020s, the then-US president set NASA two tremendous challenges
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NewsSkylon concept could be next spaceplane
A new spaceplane conceived by Reaction Engines could slash the cost of putting small payloads into orbit
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NewsGalileo launch campaign set to start - at last
Galileo, Europe's answer to the US GPS satellite navigation system, is finally set to get off the ground, with the first two operational spacecraft set for launch on 20 October from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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NewsNASA seeks commercial suborbital flights
NASA has released a draft request for proposal (RFP) seeking bids for providers of suborbital flights. The RFP, released on 26 May, will award an indefinite-quantity,...
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NewsNASA retools Orion capsule as MPCV
NASA has announced its intent to move forward with the multi-purpose crew vehicle (MPCV) as a project based off and almost identical to the Orion capsule....
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NewsCEO Whitesides: 425 customers for Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic, the suborbital space tourism company, has sold 425 tickets for its suborbital flights. Each flight will include six minutes of free-floating...
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NewsEndeavour on penultimate shuttle mission
Space shuttle Endeavour launched on 16 May on STS-134, its final mission before retirement and penultimate before the shuttle programme ends.
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NewsSpace Adventures gears up for private Moon mission in 2015
Space Adventures, the only company offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial flights around the Moon.
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NewsSpaceShipTwo makes 'feathered' descent
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first flight in 'feathered' configuration, the planned standard configuration for the vehicle's atmospheric re-entry.
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NASA funding crucial to commercial spaceflight
NASA's role as the provider of pump priming funding for the commercial spaceflight industry is set to come under further scrutiny despite the recent award of the latest Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contracts
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NewsShuttle Endeavour launch no earlier than 10 May
Space Shuttle Endeavour's final launch - and the next-to-last in the 30-year Shuttle programme - will come no earlier than 10 May; STS-134 had been set to launch to the International Space Station on 29 April, but lift-off was scrubbed with 4h to go owing problems with an auxiliary power ...
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NewsNASA awards second round commercial spaceflight contracts
NASA has awarded $280 million to four companies for development of manned commercial space systems. The second round of Commercial Crew Development...
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Business bad week
RUSSIA Fifty years after putting Yuri Gagarin in orbit, the country's rocket industry is under fire. Facing harsh criticism for a delayed Soyuz launch to...
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Space junk raises alarm
In January 2007, China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile, destroying one of its redundant spacecraft orbiting about 800km (1,290 miles) above...
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NASTAR Center simulates spaceflight in Philadelphia
The USA's National Aerospace Training and Research Center is putting aspiring suborbital fliers through the strains of spaceflight