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Flightglobal Achievement Awards 09: Innovator of the year - Sir Richard Branson - Virgin visionary
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson has been having big, bold business ideas since he was a teenager. But it is for his latest Virgin Galactic space tourism venture that the British billionaire has been named Innovator of the Year
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Flightglobal Achievement Awards: PhD students scoop Boeing engineering awards
This year's Boeing Engineering Student of the Year award has been split between two PhD students, a space systems specialist and an expert in nitride optoelectronic devices
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NewsDubai 09: Flightglobal Achievement Awards - The winners
Hudson hero Capt Chesley Sullenberger, Virgin's Sir Richard Branson and Bob Mitchell, father of the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle, were last night named...
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Comment: Are old habits working against new vision?
NASA's commercial crew and cargo programmes are about changing the way it does...
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NASA COTS companies benefit from stimulus aid
Orbital Sciences and Space Exploration Technologies are to benefit from millions of dollars more than originally agreed...
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European Union plans €3 billion a year human exploration roadmap
Ambitious visions for the next decade call for human space exploration and a sample return mission to the red planet
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India's $3 billion manned capsule awaits approval
The Indian Space Research Organisation expects by the end of the year to have government approval for a $3 billion manned...
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JAXA aims for 2014 suborbital demonstrator
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency wants to air launch a suborbital demonstrator by 2014 to test technologies for its planned two-stage to orbit advanced...
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Water could be answer to hot wings says DLR
The water cooling of a conceptual hypersonic transport system's wing leading edges is being investigated for the European Union's €7.3 million ($10.93 million)...
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Commission cuts Galileo satellites by six
Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system could be forced to operate with fewer satellites...
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NBAA 09: In brief
SimCom Training Centers has added Dassault Falcon 20 and Israel Aerospace Industries Westwind training programmes to its portfolio...
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NewsPICTURES: WhiteKnight Two's spoilers get holes
Scaled Composites has added holes to the inboard spoilers of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnight Two mothership prototype...
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WhiteKnightTwo could air drop Dream Chaser prototype
Sierra Nevada Corporation could air drop its Dream Chaser...
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Roscosmos says no private Soyuz flight till 2014
Space Adventures goal of a private Energia Soyuz TMA spacecraft flight in 2013 cannot be achieved, according to the Russian federal space agency's head of...
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ESA proposes common space transport policy
The European Space Agency is proposing a far-reaching common space transport policy for low Earth orbit that could help overcome potential logistics problems...
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Comment: The final frontier: open to all?
A new vision for NASA, where crew and cargo transport to the International Space Station is privatised, emerged last week after remarks by the agency's administrator...
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This Week briefing
Delivery of Qantas's fifth and sixth Airbus A380 have been delayed to December owing to a flight...
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NewsPICTURE EXCLUSIVE: China starts manned Moon mission planning
Concept studies for a Chinese manned Moon mission are under way and a three-crew space station concept that would operate from 2020...
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2010 to see European Union human spaceflight decision
European space exploration efforts could get a substantial financial boost if the European Union formally supports human and robotic spaceflight following...