Space – Page 31
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NewsRussian Progress capsule crashes
A Russian Progress spacecraft has crashed in eastern Russia. A Russian Soyuz-U rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan successfully...
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AUVSI: Green Hills launches open software platform
Green Hills Software's Integrity Security Services (ISS) business unit has launched at the show an open software platform aimed at enabling developers to more easily program applications for the control and management of autonomous vehicles.
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Boeing maps out near-term 787 ramp up goals
As it holds to its 787 ramp up plans of achieving 10 aircraft per month by the end of 2013, Boeing has outlined its near-term goals of moving the rate from...
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NewsSpaceX eyes Mars
SpaceX has had a good year to date. It has unveiled a new version of its Falcon 9 rocket - which will launch twice the payload of the nearest competitor, at half the cost - and has already begun construction of the specialised pad required to launch it.
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NewsNASA selects seven suborbital companies
NASA has awarded contracts to seven companies for payload integration and suborbital flight. The two-year contracts, worth $10m altogether, include...
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NewsBoeing selects Atlas V as manned spaceflight launcher
Boeing has selected the Atlas V to launch the manned CST-100 capsule into orbit. The Atlas V, built by United Launch Alliance (ULA), was chosen by...
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India ready for new GSLV attempt in March 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation hopes to be ready to return its heavy-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) to flight by March 2012.
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NewsISS set for science surge
With the wheels barely cool after the final touchdown of the Space Shuttle programme, member space agencies of the International Space Station's Multilateral Coordination Board met to discuss the future of the orbiting laboratory - which could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious manned or ...
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NewsShuttle dream jobs fading
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down today some 3,200 workers at NASA contractors waved goodbye to an icon of American technology, and to their jobs.
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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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Xcor 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...