Space – Page 39
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Australia looks to join the space age
There was a time when Australia stood proud as a pioneer of orbital spaceflight. The successful orbital flight of WRESAT made the country only the fourth...
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WRESAT details
Australia's opportunity to make orbital history came at the end of a US intercontinental ballistic missile test programme, which saw nine Redstone rockets...
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NewsAir force launches US military's first spaceplane
The successful launch to orbit from Cape Canaveral on 22 April of the US Air Force's X-37B marked the flight debut of the US military's first-ever spaceplane...
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Cryosat: a decade long journey for industry
Conceived as Europe's idea of a cheaper and faster mission, the CryoSat ice-mapping satellite became a decade-long saga.
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Comment: Obama in volte-face on space
The opponents of president Barack Obama's NASA flexible path plan won a victory last week when the head of state resurrected the cancelled Orion crew exploration vehicle - albeit a scaled-down version.
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Obama resurrects Orion as escape capsule
Ten weeks after president Barack Obama's NASA plan cancelled the agency's $4.3 billion Orion crew exploration vehicle, Congressional pressure has forced...
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NewsPICTURE: Discovery docks with ISS for penultimate mission
Space Shuttle Discovery, which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 5 April on STS-131 for its penultimate flight into space, has docked with the...
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Opinion
Comment: Is space charter worthy of a great nation?
The US space programme is in turmoil. President Obama's plans to axe the Moon-return programme, retire the Space Shuttle and privatise low-Earth orbit transport...
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Lockheed's Athena re-enters small payload market
Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have teamed up to enter the small launcher market. Services will be available from 2012 using a new version...
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShiptwo makes first captive flight
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo prototype Virgin SpaceShip Enterprise has made its first captive carry flight mated with its WhiteKnight Two carrier aircraft....
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Electric propulsion set to get even smaller
Electric propulsion systems far smaller than anything previously flown could be ready for deployment by 2012, enabling the US Air Force's very small satellites...
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NewsPICTURE & VIDEO: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in first captive carry flight
At about 07:15h Pacific Daylight Time (14:15h GMT) today Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnight Two carrier aircraft took off SpaceShipTwo attached.
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NASA’s private-sector launch champions move closer to lift-off
Successful rocket engine ground-test firings have taken Space Exploration Technologies and Orbital Sciences a step closer to filling their roles as key private-sector launch contractors to NASA.
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Japan's Planet-C probe gets May launch date
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has set the launch date of 18 May for its Venus orbiter Atasuki, or Planet-C.
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Business briefing
Orbital Sciences is to acquire the spacecraft development and manufacturing business of General Dynamics'...
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ESA studies Space Station life extension
The International Space Station's multinational partners are working on plan to keep the orbital outpost in use until 2028
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NewsNASA could buy plasma engine for station reboost services
Offering super-efficienct thrust, an electric engine concept promises to deliver a new age of rocket power
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This Week briefings
The Royal New Zealand Air Force's Red Checkers display team has been grounded following a 1 March mid-air collision...
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Opinion
Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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NewsCongress to dump Obama NASA plan
White House plans to axe NASA's return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme and ground the Space Shuttle have sparked unified opposition from Congress...