Space – Page 27
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NewsNorthrop Grumman will roll-out the first US Navy MQ-4C in June
Northrop Grumman will roll-out the first US Navy MQ-4C in June, company and USN officials say. The first USN test aircraft is about to enter ground...
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NewsPICTURE: Space Shuttle Discovery makes final airborne salute as hitchhiker
The Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) made its last ever flight to its final rest home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
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NewsNorth Korean satellite launch attempt fails
At 2239GMT on 12 April, North Korea launched its three stage Unha 3 rocket from its new launch site at Tongchang-ri.. The launch vehicle flew for between 60 and 90 seconds before breaking up and crashing into the Yellow Sea. A failure on the first stage is ...
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NewsNASA, US Air Force to study joint rocket engine
NASA will partner with the US Air Force (USAF) to study next-generation upper stage propulsion, formalizing the agencies joint interests in a new upper stage...
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NewsRoboglove could double grip strength to ease spacewalks, cut RSI
Technology used to build a humanoid robot that is helping with chores aboard the International Space Station has helped engineers to develop a power-assisted glove prototype that might allow astronauts to double or treble their grip strength.
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NewsGalileo passes in-orbit signal test
Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation system has reached a key milestone after the first two operational spacecraft passed performance-verification tests.
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NewsManned Moon landings need big rockets - as China finds out
While Russia's space agency Roscosmos deals with unrest over the leadership of General Vladimir Popovkin, a draft of its national space plan showing its intention to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2030 was leaked to Russian newspaper Kommersant.
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NewsEurope's Moon mission ambitions boosted by landing rocket test success
European Space Agency plans for a robotic Moon landing have been boosted by successful testing of a rocket motor which ESA engineers plan to use to control the lander's descent on the 2018 expedition.
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NewsBoeing details bid to win NASA shuttle replacement
Boeing has released crucial details of its commercial crew integrated capability (CCiCap) bid that it delivered to NASA on 23 March. The company has...
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NewsWatchdog: Manned access to space in question
NASA does not have a complete plan to assure manned access to space through 2017, say Government Accountability Office (GAO) officials. The assessment came...
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NewsNorth Korea's space plans disguise missile ambitions
North Korea has announced its intention to launch a satellite into polar orbit in mid-April as a tribute to the country's founder, Kim Il-sung.
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NewsSpaceX readies upgraded engines
SpaceX is on track to fly the first upgraded Falcon 9 in early 2013. The upgraded Falcon 9 launch vehicle will include a number of new features, chief among...
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NewsArianespace formally signs contract for launch of Newsat's Jabiru-1
Arianespace formalised its previous agreement to launch the communications Jabiru-1 when chief executive Yves Le Gall and Adrian Ballintine, founder and chief executive of NewSat Limited (NewSat), signed the launch services contract for the Jabiru-1 satellite at the Satellite 2012 conference being held in Washington, DC.
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NewsBoeing gets four-sat order for 'small platform' bus as Falcon 9 gets launches
Boeing has announced orders for a total of satellites for its new Boeing 702SP "small platform" bus design.
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NewsFaulty components caused simultaneous reboot on Phobos-Grunt
After previously suggesting that the Phobos-Grunt sample/return mission to the Martian moon Phobos had been the victim of some kind of radar jamming or interference - possibly intentional - the head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, Vladimir Popovkin, noted that charged particles from the Sun affecting imported components in the ...
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NewsSolar storm impinges on Earth and damages Venus Express
Following an X class flare on 5 March, two more powerful X-class solar flare events were imaged on 6 and 7 March by the European Space Agency’s SOHO spacecraft and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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NewsLockheed Martin rocket to launch from Kodiak
Lockheed Martin has declared Kodiak, Alaska, to be the preferred west coast launch site for the Athena III launch vehicle. The Athena III, a heavier version...
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NewsChina set to ramp up manned flights programme and space station ambitions
China's spaceflight ambitions look set to gain momentum this year with the launch this summer of the country's fourth manned flight, to test rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module.
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NewsSpaceX finishes crucial dress rehearsal before space station launch
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket due to launch the first commercial flight to the International Space Station (ISS) has passed a crucial launch simulation. Called...
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NewsESA delays Ariane 5 launch to resupply Space Station
A day after completing final assembly of the Ariane 5 rocket and its Automated Transfer Vehicle payload loaded with supplies for the International Space...