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Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
Read more →: Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocketCAPE CANAVERAL — Perspectives of Friday’s United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight were snapped from a commercial…
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Indra Creates Emulator for Laboratory Satellite Network Simulations
Read more →: Indra Creates Emulator for Laboratory Satellite Network Simulations[Via Satellite 06-27-2016] Indra has developed a platform to simulate the capabilities of satellite IP communications networks in…
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New and improved space weather observatory goes live next month
Read more →: New and improved space weather observatory goes live next monthArtist’s concept of the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NOAA NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million…
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NanoRacks Integrates First Payload on Blue Origin’s New Shepard
Read more →: NanoRacks Integrates First Payload on Blue Origin’s New Shepard[Via Satellite 06-27-2016] NanoRacks manifested and integrated the company’s first payload on Blue Origin’s most recent New Shepard…
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FAA Commercial Space Office Scrutinized in Congressional Hearing
Read more →: FAA Commercial Space Office Scrutinized in Congressional Hearing[Via Satellite 06-27-2016] Debate over the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation’s (AST) dual role of both promotion…
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Oxygen finding strengthens case that Mars was once habitable
Read more →: Oxygen finding strengthens case that Mars was once habitableThis scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks containing…
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Atlas 5 Launches Navy’s MUOS 5 Satellite, Lockheed Martin Guides to GEO
Read more →: Atlas 5 Launches Navy’s MUOS 5 Satellite, Lockheed Martin Guides to GEO[Via Satellite 06-27-2016] United Launch Alliance (ULA) delivered the U.S. Navy’s fifth and final Mobile User Objective System…
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Huge solid rocket booster to be test-fired Tuesday
Read more →: Huge solid rocket booster to be test-fired TuesdayThe qualification motor for Tuesday’s Space Launch System booster test sits at Orbital ATK’s test site in Utah.…
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China Voice: China committed to peaceful use of outer space
Read more →: China Voice: China committed to peaceful use of outer spaceChina welcomed a newcomer to its Long March carrier rocket family June 25 as the new generation Long…
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A look into China’s latest space center
Read more →: A look into China’s latest space centerChina launched its Long March-7 carrier rocket successfully on June 25 hailed as a prelude for the country’s…
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Antares rocket’s return-to-flight slips to August
Read more →: Antares rocket’s return-to-flight slips to AugustThe Antares rocket’s two RD-181 engines fired on a launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, on May 31.…
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Prototype for new Chinese human-rated spacecraft lands in desert
Read more →: Prototype for new Chinese human-rated spacecraft lands in desertThe sub-scale re-entry capsule for China’s next-generation human-rated spacecraft landed in the Inner Mongolia region at 0741 GMT…