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June 27, 2014

Orion Parachute Test Hits No Snags
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2014
NASA completed the most complex and flight-like test of the parachute system for the agency's Orion spacecraft on Wednesday. A test version of Orion touched down safely in the Arizona desert after being pulled out of a C-17 aircraft, 35,000 feet above the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground. It was the first time some parachutes in the system had been tested at such a high altitude. Engineers also put additional stresses on the parachutes by allowing the test version of Orion to free fall for 10 ... read more

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				Scientists say decaying dark matter might be responsible for x-ray emission Dark matter is everywhere. According to astronomers, it makes up some 80 percent of all matter in the universe. But since it doesn't absorb or emit light, scientists have never seen dark matter. They don't even know what it is exactly. ... more		SSTL announces the successful launch of KazEOSat-2 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has announced the successful launch of KazEOSat-2, a medium resolution Earth observation satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The spacecraft was launched ... more

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ADS unveils multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station for GeoNorth Airbus Defense and Space and its client GeoNorth have inaugurated the first commercially available multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station (DRS) in the world, set to give a host of new markets quic ... more		Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either a small a ... more		Trump to U.N.: 'Your countries are going to hell' Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China		Lockheed Martin To Build Next Two SBIRS Missile Defense Satellites The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.86 billion fixed-price contract to complete the production of the fifth and sixth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, known as GEO-5 and GEO- ... more
				NASA to Launch Carbon Observatory In the lexicon of climate change, one word appears more often than any other: "carbon." Carbon credits, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration.... These terms are on everyone's lips. The reason is c ... more		O3b Networks cluster takes form for Arianespace Soyuz launch Payload integration is underway for the four O3b Networks connectivity satellites to be orbited by Arianespace on its next Soyuz mission, scheduled for liftoff on July 10 from the Spaceport in Frenc ... more

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High-tech hot air balloon floats to 120,000 feet Forget rockets or airplanes, World View Enterprises wants to take tourists to the edge of space and back via balloon - and they just may do so sooner rather than later. The company tested an early unmanned prototype last week, successfully floating a high-tech hot air balloon to 120,000 feet. ... more		Spaceflight Deploys Dove Constellation From Dnepr Launcher Spaceflight Inc., the company reinventing the model for launching small satellites into space, has successfully deployed 11 Planet Labs Dove earth-imaging spacecraft from an International Space Comp ... more		What If Voyager Had Explored Pluto? As I mentioned in my previous PI Perspective, New Horizons crosses the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet explored by the Voyager mission, late this August. Voyager's flyby of Neptune was in Aug ... more		NASA has a Problem with Unauthorized Access to it's Technologies A few days ago the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings related to unauthorized access to NASA's technologies by foreign entities. Auditors found weaknesses in NASA's ex ... more

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