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First Space-Bound Orion Comes Alive With First WeldMichoud LA (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans started welding together the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. "This marks the beginning of NASA's next step to send humans far beyond Earth orbit," said Orion program manager Mark Geyer. "The Orion team has maintained a steady focus on progress, and we now are beginni ... read more |
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 ATK Conducts Third Test of Next-Gen Solid Rocket Motor ATK has conducted a third successful ground test of the next-generation solid rocket motor. The successful test, known as Development Motor (DM-3), is an important milestone in further validating th ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT ... more | .. |
  NASA Sits Tight as Unmanned Space Station Considered The failure of a Russian Soyuz cargo rocket several minutes after launch last month, and Russia's decision to suspend all Soyuz launches while it investigates the cause, has created some problems fo ... more | .. |
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 Production on major part of China jumbo rocket completed, maiden voyage by 2015 Production on a major part of China's Long March-5 large-thrust carrier rocket has been completed and its maiden voyage is expected to take place during the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (201 ... more | .. |
  Top Scientists Head To Perth For Talkabout SKA Top astronomers and engineers from nine countries will meet in Perth this week to plan for pre-construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) at The Path to SKA-low workshop. Hosted by the I ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's first two months in orbit around Mercury have been released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all of N ... more | .. |
 Soyuz-U carrier rocket crash - causes announced, questions remain On August 24, the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, which was to bring Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft to the ISS, failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch. The intergovernme ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
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  GIS Finds its Way to The Cloud Setting up a GIS system just got simpler thanks to cloud computing. Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities - commonly maintained off-premise that are delivered on demand as a service v ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace To Develop Cryogenic Storage and Transfer Concepts for NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to ... more | .. |
  Falling satellite could scatter debris A decommissioned NASA satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere within the next few weeks and may scatter debris across a 500-mile stretch of land. ... more | .. |
 NASA launches twin spacecraft to study Moon's core NASA on Saturday launched a pair of unmanned spacecraft on a journey to study the core of the Moon and hopefully reveal how it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The twin GRAIL satellites, sho ... more |
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  European satellite in French Guiana launch A European satellite has arrived in French Guiana for a launch on a Soyuz rocket, the first Soyuz launch to be held in South America, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors. ... more | .. |
  NASA spacecraft carrying CU-Boulder instruments observes new characteristics of solar flares NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy f ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch Amazonas-3 for Hispasat Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite. Petra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairwoman of Hispasat, Carlos Espinos, CEO of Hispasat, and Jean-Y ... more |
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  Asia Broadcast Satellite Awards Optimal Satcom Multi-Year Deal For Enterprise Capacity Management Optimal Satcom has been awarded a multi-year contract by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to provide its industry leading, enterprise satellite capacity system to help manage ABS' growing commercial s ... more | .. |
  Automated Tool Points Way to Safe Separation of Aircraft on Final Approach Air traffic controllers at the Minneapolis Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) are using an innovative next generation tool developed by Lockheed Martin and the Federal Aviation Administration ... more | .. |
 Aitech Appoints Vice President for Growing Space Business Sector Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military embedded and mission critical computing technologies and an independent manufacturer of open architecture boards and subsystem products for en ... more | .. |
  Planetary Congress meeting in Moscow The Association of Space Explores (ASE) Planetary Congress has started in Moscow and will run from the 5th to the 9th of September. The ASE and its participants are cosmonauts and astronauts and the ... more |
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  Orbiter Resumes Use of Camera Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks. The High Resolution Imaging ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos to enhance control of Soyuz rocket engines' production A special commission investigating the causes of the August 24 failed launch of Russia's Soyuz carrier rocket has recommended enhancing the control of the production of engines for Soyuz rockets, Ru ... more | .. |
  Invisible World Discovered Usually, running five minutes late is a bad thing since you might lose your dinner reservation or miss out on tickets to the latest show. But when a planet runs five minutes late, astronomers get ex ... more | .. |
 SES and Gazprom to provide additional satellite capacity to Russian market Global satellite operator SES S.A. and Russian fixed satellite service operator Gazprom Space System (GSS) announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide additional satelli ... more |
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  Young Stars Take a Turn in the Spotlight ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) has captured a striking image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ... more | .. |
 Satellites improve disaster monitoring efficiency in China Two small disaster monitoring satellites, launched in 2008, have allowed China to more rapidly monitor natural disasters with greater range, said the National Commission for Disaster Reduction Tuesd ... more | .. |
 US Congress sends Obama major patent overhaul The US Senate Thursday passed legislation to drag the web of US patent laws into the Internet age and spur high-tech innovation, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law. ... more | .. |
 Sealed-in British scientist relies on plants to breathe A British geologist has volunteered to spend 48 hours in an airtight chamber relying on the oxygen produced by plants to survive. ... more |
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  Japan test fires Venus probe engine Japan on Thursday said it had successfully test-fired the engine of its "Akatsuki" space probe in preparation for a renewed attempt to get it into orbit around Venus in 2015. ... more | .. |
 NASA Needs to Preserve Skilled Astronaut Corps In Post-Shuttle Era NASA should take steps to ensure that it maintains a highly trained astronaut corps to meet International Space Station (ISS) crew requirements while accounting for unexpected attrition or demands o ... more | .. |
MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more | .. |
 US astronaut shortage poses risks: study The United States does not have enough astronauts to meet the changing needs of human spaceflight in the coming years, warned a report Wednesday by a non-profit group that advises on science policy. ... more |
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