Space – Page 32
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NewsAtlantis touched down on schedule at Kennedy Space Center
Atlantis touched down on schedule at Kennedy Space Center, brining to a close mission STS-135 and the Space Shuttle programme.
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NewsWhat comes after Atlantis?
As NASA prepares to bring the Space Shuttle home for the last time this week, the flagship International Space Station programme loses its principle supply-and-service vehicle and the US space programme returns to its uncomfortable late-1970s status of being unable to launch an astronaut to orbit
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NewsNASA, ULA sign agreement to develop human-rating Atlas V rocket
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA have announced the signing of an unfunded space act agreement (SAA) to develop human-rating the Atlas V rocket.
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Launch site readied for world's most powerful rocket
SpaceX yesterday broke ground on a launch site at Vandenberg AFB's Space Launch Complex 4 East for its Falcon Heavy rocket.
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NewsXcor to fly telescope
XCOR and the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fly a scientific payload aboard Xcor's Lynx suborbital...
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NewsViaSat assures Ka connectivity is coming to JetBlue, United-Continental next year
ViaSat is hitting back at claims that superfast Ka-band satellite-based in-flight connectivity - the likes of which is to be offered across JetBlue Airways'...
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NewsESA focusses on re-entry technology
The European Space Agency's focus on re-entry from low-Earth orbit goes beyond its flagship IXV project.
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NewsESA in re-entry vehicle push to 2013
European Space Agency follows 'bottom up' approach to development of multi-purpose orbit-and-back vehicles
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Aurora wins NASA 'scalable' vehicle grant
Aurora wins 'scalable' vehicle grant Aurora Flight Systems was awarded a US government grant to study 'cluster' spacecraft systems, including developing...
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ESA's material science laboratory
The European Space Agency's materials science laboratory is housed in a NASA research rack aboard the International Space Station. It consists of a stainless...
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NewsESA kicks off 'human genome project' of alloys
European Space Agency-patented process promises to deliver treasure trove of possible metal combinations.
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ISS astronauts shelter from debris
ISS astronauts shelter from debris Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were briefly sent to their Soyuz lifeboats on 28 June for...
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PARIS: ESA to fire up next-gen launcher
The European Space Agency, whose director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has described 2011 as ESA's "year of launchers", pushed that vision into the future by signing the Astrium-Avio-Snecma propulsion team to extend to a firing demonstration its work on a high-thrust cryogenic engine that could form the basis of ESA's next-generation ...
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PARIS: Cost savings boost Galileo
Europe's much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system has received a huge boost in the form of €500 million ($715 million)-worth of cost savings enabling the purchase and launch of enough satellites to provide near-global coverage by the end of 2014.
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PARIS: Space nations must unite on transport policy: ESA
Europe's drive for technological non-dependence in space will not extend to manned spaceflight capabilities, says European Space Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain.
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NewsPARIS: Europe moves to space and defence co-operation
Further evidence of Europe marshalling its resources for a push to technological non-dependence on outside powers came yesterday in the form of a co-operation...
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PARIS: ESA signs IXV construction contract
The European Space Agency and Thales Alenia have signed a contract to build the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), an unmanned testbed for atmospheric re-entry technologies.
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NewsPARIS: Ariane 5 ES for Galileo programme poised for approval
Europe is almost certain to push the "go" button by the end of the year for Astrium Space Transport to develop an ES version of its Ariane 5 heavylift rocket, which would allow one launch to orbit four Galileo navigation satellites.
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PARIS: EADS Astrium looking for funds to launch Spaceplane
EADS Astrium's Spaceplane concept - designed to take four passengers 100km into sub-orbit - is edging closer to reality following the signing up of Singapore as a partner.