All Space articles – Page 56
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Europe experiments with ways to cut fuel-wasting extended approaches to airports
Eurocontrol wants to eliminate fuel-wasting extended approaches to airports and an experiment being conducted at Stockholm could show how to do it
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Details of international Mars sample return mission emerge
Flight has obtained details of the international Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission architecture that is to be presented at a European Space Agency...
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Details of India's Moon rover mission emerge
More detail has emerged from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about its planned 2012 Chandrayaan-2 mission that will have a lander and rover. Chandrayaan-2's...
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NewsSPY PICTURE: Exclusive first image of Virgin Galactic's White Knight II with wing fitted
Virgin Galactic's White Knight II is under construction at Scaled Composites and Flightglobal has obtained the first image showing the wing...
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NewsOrion reusability remains elusive for NASA
NASA is not expecting to decide at its preliminary design review how reusable the Orion crew exploration vehicle will be...
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NewsSPY PICTURE: First image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo structure
This picture is believed to be the first image of the cockpit structure for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo...
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Russian space chief denies knowledge of private Soyuz agreement
Space Adventures has rejected suggestions that a statement on Russia's Federal Space Agency website undermines...
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Discovery crew install largest and penultimate ISS module
The largest payload ever delivered to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo...
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This Week: briefings
EADS 'INSIDER TRADING' CASE HEATS UP CLASS ACTION Two years on from announcement of major Airbus A380 delays that led to EADS stock prices plummeting,...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada to use White Knight II for engine research
Virgin Galactic's Scaled Composites-designed White Knight II will help Pratt & Whitney Canada obtain high-altitude performance data for its PW308A...
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Angara named as possible spacecrew transport system launcher
The Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Centre's in-development...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 on track with five Merlin 1C engines' cluster firing test
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed the latest in a series of increasingly powerful test firings of its Falcon 9 booster. The test of the...
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ESA offers astronaut training for European space tourism
To aid a European suborbital tourism industry the European Space Agency might provide astronaut training, but its first step is expected to be an annual...
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ILA Briefs
SUPERJET PREPARED FOR CERTIFICATION TRIALS FLIGHT TESTING Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) plans to ferry the prototype Superjet 100 (SSJ100) from the...
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UK government report recommends space tourism rules should help industry
Regulation of suborbital and orbital tourism should be developed in phases to facilitates the new space industry's growth, according to the UK's Science...
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Suborbital travel has low carbon footprint says ESA
Suborbital flights could have a better carbon footprint per passenger than transatlantic airline travel, a preliminary European Space Agency study has found. The...
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This Week Briefings
DISCOVERY SET TO DELIVER LARGEST EVER ISS PAYLOAD LAUNCH NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery was expected to launch at 17:02 local time on 31 May from Florida's...