All Space articles – Page 41
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Glitter leads to grindstone
Hard work of testing follows celebrity launch for Virgin Galactic's suborbital ambitions
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Virgin Galactic reveals VSS Enterprise
Nascent suborbital space ride company Virgin Galactic unveiled its six-passenger prototype, the VSS Enterprise, at a star-studded roll-out ceremony at the...
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NewsVIDEO: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic has released images and video of its completed SpaceShipTwo prototype vehicle attached to its WhiteKnight Two carrier aricraft hours before...
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NewsSoyuz to go west in 2010
Next year sees Russia's most successful rocket launch from the Americas, but competition may emerge in the Far East
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DARPA re-thinks aircraft acquisition and operations with Vulture
An aircraft that stays airborne for five years - that is the plan for the US defence research department, and one that could change operational outlooks forever
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Magnetic heat shield test could use Russian launcher
European researchers developing a magnetic heat shield that could augment or replace the traditional ablative materials hope to make a test flight in the...
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HiFire partners plot hypersonic course
March 2010 could see the second suborbital ballistic flight to test materials survivability, sensors and avionics for the Hypersonic International Flight...
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Working Week: Fast track on the dream path
Pam Melroy was a USAF pilot and instructor and Space Shuttle commander who helped investigate the Columbia disaster. Since August, she has been deputy space programme manager at Lockheed Martin
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Russia's Poisk arrives at International Space Station
Russia's fourth International Space Station module, Mini-Research Module 2, also known as Poisk, docked with the ISS's Zvezda zenith docking port on 12 November...
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Picture: Shuttle Atlantis begins penultimate mission
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis emerges through the clouds over launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center seconds after its lift-off at 14:28 local time...
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Emcore wins Cygnus solar cell contract
Orbital Sciences' Cygnus International Space Station resupply spacecraft is to use solar cells from New Mexico company Emcore. The solar cell manufacturer...
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Flightglobal Achievement Awards: PhD students scoop Boeing engineering awards
This year's Boeing Engineering Student of the Year award has been split between two PhD students, a space systems specialist and an expert in nitride optoelectronic devices
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Flightglobal Achievement Awards 09: Innovator of the year - Sir Richard Branson - Virgin visionary
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson has been having big, bold business ideas since he was a teenager. But it is for his latest Virgin Galactic space tourism venture that the British billionaire has been named Innovator of the Year
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NewsDubai 09: Flightglobal Achievement Awards - The winners
Hudson hero Capt Chesley Sullenberger, Virgin's Sir Richard Branson and Bob Mitchell, father of the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle, were last night named...
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Comment: Are old habits working against new vision?
NASA's commercial crew and cargo programmes are about changing the way it does...
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NASA COTS companies benefit from stimulus aid
Orbital Sciences and Space Exploration Technologies are to benefit from millions of dollars more than originally agreed...
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European Union plans €3 billion a year human exploration roadmap
Ambitious visions for the next decade call for human space exploration and a sample return mission to the red planet
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India's $3 billion manned capsule awaits approval
The Indian Space Research Organisation expects by the end of the year to have government approval for a $3 billion manned...
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JAXA aims for 2014 suborbital demonstrator
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency wants to air launch a suborbital demonstrator by 2014 to test technologies for its planned two-stage to orbit advanced...