All Space articles – Page 60
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SpaceX blames workload for Falcon 9 rocket delay
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is blaming the overwhelming amount of work involved in developing its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule for a six-month...
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NASA employs video game company for Constellation programme
Maryland based-computer game company Vision Videogames is working on a 3D visualisation software package for NASA's...
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NASA adds power and height to Ares V rocket
NASA's Ares V cargo launch vehicle (CLV) , named after its five first-stage...
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New Orion CEV requirements force contract renegotiation
NASA and its Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV) prime contractor Lockheed Martin are restructuring the design,...
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NewsSpaceX Falcon 9 maiden flight delayed by six months to late Q1 2009
Space Exploration Technologies is blaming the overwhelming amount of work related to the development of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule for a maiden flight delay of six months...
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Ten teams enter Google Lunar X Prize Moon landing competition
Ten teams have registered for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon. They are: the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics...
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Business in brief
business briefs AAR eyes expansion of composites work Components Aviation aftermarket supplier AAR is planning a four-fold expansion of its composites...
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Comment - Space wars
The US Navy's shootdown of a failed spy satellite provided the USA with the chance to demonstrate its missile defence capabilities. But it could also herald a new Cold War
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News in brief
CHC Helicopter in C$3.7bn private equity buyout rotorcraft Private equity firm First Reserve is to buy CHC Helicopter, the world's largest helicopter...
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NASA picks Orbital for ISS cargo services
Facing retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010, NASA has made a second attempt to ensure that competitive commercial providers are available to transport...
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UK space strategy enters the unknown
Soaring rhetoric and grand ambitions are the order of the day at the UK's British National Space Centre (BNSC). Indeed, its new "2008 to 2012 and beyond"...
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ESA plans data relay constellation
The European Space Agency is to propose to its member states a European data relay satellite system (EDRSS) that could...
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Columbus lab opens for science research
The European Space Agency last week took a step - literally - into its future as a full partner in...
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UK considers joint NASA robotic Moon mission after 2012
A joint report by NASA and the British National Space Centre has recommended that the UK and USA collaborate on a robotic lunar mission that would be launched...
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Endeavour orbiter set for vehicle assembly
On 11 February NASA's Orbiter Vehicle (OV)-105 Endeavour was rolled from its Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center into the Vehicle Assembly...
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Bigelow finalises Lockheed deal for crew and cargo delivery
Commercial orbital complex developer Bigelow Aerospace is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Lockheed...
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Briefing 12 February 2008
US carrier mergers 'an imperative', says United consolidation United Airlines chief executive Glen Tilton told an audience at the carrier's annual...
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NewsNASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launches carrying ESA's Columbus laboratory
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis had a smooth start to mission STS-122 carrying ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station, after a two-month delay following the cancellation of its December launch