All Space articles – Page 48
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Aerospace primes show suborbital military transport interest
Potential military applications for suborbital spaceflight are being studied by some of the biggest players in the US defence industry. Northrop Grumman,...
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This Week Briefings
FAA CONFIRMS GILLIGAN IN TOP SAFETY POST Pegg Gilligan is the new US Federal...
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Ares I-X booster segments take the rails to launch site
Alliant Techsystems has shipped four solid rocket motor segments to KSC, the last remaining major hardware elements needed to build up the first suborbital test vehicle for NASA’s next generation Ares I booster system.
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NewsNASA's Orion heat shield decision expected this month
One of the greatest engineering challenges in spaceflight is to protect a spacecraft from the searing heat of re-entry, as the fate of the Space Shuttle...
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Opinion
Comment: An open mind, but feet on the ground
Aerospace engineers occasionally come up with solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges. This year's 40th anniversaries of the Moon landing and the...
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This Week briefings
US air taxi company Linear Air is rallying fellow Eclipse 500 owners in a bid to keep their very...
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Opinion
Comment: retro-rockets ahead
The success of Surrey Satellite Technology and Virgin Galactic suggests the UK could have a thriving launcher industry. So why not revive 1980s ambitions and create a high-technology base?
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Aeronautics' unmanned helicopter first flight imminent
Aeronautics Defense Systems is planning an imminent first flight of its new unmanned rotorcraft that is based...
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NewsVirgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership to make public debut this July
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) mothership WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is to fly...
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NewsSecret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane
As the first UK-funded launcher technology programme in 22 years begins, Flightglobal.com can reveal secret US government interest in British Aerospace's 1980s' HOTOL spaceplane
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NewsPentagon seeks military role for space tourism technology
As commercial spaceflight draws closer to reality, the US Department of Defense is officially interested. The National...
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This Week briefings
As a "precautionary measure" Airbus is cutting by two aircraft a month its production rate...
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Satellite collision prompts calls for orbital traffic management
The in-orbit collision earlier this month that destroyed an Iridium communications satellite has prompted a call for a multinational space situational awareness...
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Skylon spaceplane engine technology gets European funding
A $8.5 million air-breathing rocket engine technology demonstration programme has been announced after the European Space Agency contributed €1 million...
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NewsUK government to back air-launched satellite launcher
The UK government is prepared to fully support the development of the air launched micro satellite carrying rocket proposed by Virgin Galactic
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India plans delayed scramjet flight test for 2010
India's first scramjet technology demonstrator will be flight-tested next year, four years later than planned and having failed to meet two previous targets,...
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Debris from unprecedented satellite crash a risk to low-Earth spacecraft
A collision of two satellites on 11 February was...
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NewsNASA considers Altair descent stage cargo return role
NASA is considering launching Moon rock samples into low lunar orbit using refuelled Altair lunar lander descent stages to overcome the cargo return limitations...
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AERO INDIA: India unveils manned capsule design
At Aero India 2009 the Indian Space Research Organisation unveiled its orbital vehicle concept that consists of a crew...
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US, Russian satellites collide
NASA has revealed that an Iridium communications satellite collided with a Russian Cosmos 2251 communications satellite over the South Pole at 1155h Washington DC time on Tuesday