All Space articles – Page 35
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Space Adventures gets more Soyuz seats
Virginia-based personal space flight provider Space Adventures has finalized a deal with the Russian space agency to offer three seats on Soyuz spacecraft...
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Lost connection sinks India's GSLV launch attempt
Faulty connectors and cables were the cause of the 25 December failure of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the second of 2010 for the Indian Space Research Organisation, a space agency panel has determined.
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Shuttle repairs continue to pile up
NASA has found 32 stringers on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank in need of modification and two that will be replaced entirely, the US space...
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Forecasts 2011: Space - Changes ahead
Commercial companies get ready for launches as US space policy comes into focus and Russia plans new launch site
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NewsAnother round of repairs for Discovery
Work began 3 January to repair four cracks in three support beams on Space Shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank. NASA is using a methodology similar...
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Business briefs
The dark arts are in the spotlight with moves by Raytheon to buy California-based signals intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems maker Applied Signal Technology in a $490 million deal
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NASA's COTS dream gets boost from Taurus II test
NASA's vision of private enterprise partners filling the cargo and crew launch gap left by the imminent retirement of its Space Shuttle fleet got a further boost from Orbital Sciences's successful 17 December long-duration test firing of its liquid-fuelled Aerojet-supplied AJ26 rocket engine.
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Discovery returns to VAB for continued testing
Space shuttle Discovery has returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) from the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to finish external...
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Virgin Galactic gets on board for CCDev
Virgin Galactic will partner with both Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Orbital Sciences Corp. in their work on commercial space vehicles, Virgin says. Both...
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Lockheed inks space station supply deal
Lockheed Martin will continue providing on-the-ground cargo services for missions to the International Space Station (ISS), the company says.
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Secret SpaceX payload revealed
"Do you have any cheese at all?" SpaceX CEO and PayPal founder Elon Musk doesn't have to worry about angering John Cleese with his answer. Musk...
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NewsSpaceX, NASA launch new era of spaceflight
SpaceX's Dragon capsule became the first successful commercial space vehicle when it lifted off aboard the California-based company's Falcon 9 on a mission co-sponsored by NASA and was recovered from its Pacific Ocean splashdown hours later.
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Proton crash set back for Russian GLONASS programme
The Russian government has formed an investigative committee to review the 5 December launch failure of a Proton rocket that ultimately destroyed three navigational...
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SpaceX-NASA launch postponed
The maiden flight of SpaceX's Dragon capsule originally planned for 7 Decemeber has been postponed due to a crack in the engine nozzle on the rocket's second...
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NewsUSAF welcomes home X-37B space plane
The U.S. Air Force is evaluating the performance and condition of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-1), the reusable space plane that lifted off in April...
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Discovery launch pushed back again, now looking to February
With NASA engineers still unable to determine the cause of cracks on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, the launch has been pushed back to 3 February...
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NewsSpaceX, NASA plan Falcon 9/Dragon launch for 7 December
Plans are in place for SpaceX to launch its Falcon 9 demonstrator in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme on 7 December from...
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NewsDiscovery launch will wait until December
The final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery will take place no earlier than 3 December. Weather permitting, the launch - originally set for...
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KLM to sell tickets for Xcor's suborbital flights
Xcor Aerospace's push to launch a commercial suborbital flight service from Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles is to get a boost from KLM. The carrier has...