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Unique Insurance Products For NASA Commercial Crew Initiative DevelopedBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2010 Space Partnership International ("SPI") has announced that it is offering a suite of space insurance products to support NASA's Commercial Crew Development ("CCDev") Initiative, the initiative, which includes manned vehicles for space transportation to and from the International Space Station ("ISS") is designed to usher in a new era of commercial services in low earth orbit. NASA has recommended in its CCDev solicitation of October 25th that participants in the Initiative obtain appropriate comme ... read more |
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  China Announces Success Of Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Mission Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday unveiled an image of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, photographed by Chang'e-2, marking the success of China's second lunar probe mission. Premie ... more | .. |
  Getting To Know The Sun Advances Fusion Research Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at ... more | .. |
  Full Week Of Driving Past Set Of Craters It has been a week of driving for Opportunity. She drove on five of the last seven sols and covered over 400 meters (1,312 feet). As the rover makes her way toward Endeavour crater, she is taking a ... more | .. |
  The GEO Graveyard May Not Be Permanent Since the 1970s, a number of geostationary satellites have been placed in the so called "graveyard orbit," an orbit just above the GEO altitude, roughly 100 to 300 km. The sole purpose of this "buri ... more |
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 Tiangong Space Lab Spurs China Space PR Blitz In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, its first space laboratory. The flight of Tiangong has been openly discussed for years, and we have even seen video of the actual spacecraft being assembled. ... more | .. |
  Space Travel Is Bad On The Bones Long-duration spaceflight may have a long-term negative impact on bone health, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta. ... more | .. |
  Tank leak delays Discovery launch until end November A hydrogen leak forced NASA to announce its fifth delay Friday to the space shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, this time until the end of November. ... more | .. |
  SpaceShipTwo designer Rutan retiring Aerospace designer Burt Rutan, the man behind the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft destined to take tourists to space, has announced his retirement in California. ... more |
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  Vega P80 First Stage Is Rolled Out To The Spaceport's Vega Launch Facility A representative P80 first stage for Vega is now on the launch pad in French Guiana, marking a milestone in preparations for next year's introduction of this lightweight vehicle, which will be opera ... more | .. |
 Saudi Arabia, Ukraine To Hold Joint Space Explorations Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to cooperate in peaceful space exploration, the website of the Space Agency of Ukraine said on Saturday. The agreement was signed between Pres ... more | .. |
 Taming Thermonuclear Plasma With A Snowflake Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion rese ... more | .. |
 Boeing Launches Fourth Earth-Observation Satellite For Italy Boeing on Nov. 5 successfully launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO). A Delta II ... more |
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 Arianespace To Launch Azerbaijan's First Satellite The International Relations and Accounting Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan has chosen Arianespace to launch the country's first co ... more | .. |
 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Engine Helps Boost 350th Launch Of A Delta Vehicle In conjunction with the 50th year of powering the Delta-family of rockets, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne celebrated the 350th launch of a Delta rocket by successfully helping to boost the fourth COSM ... more | .. |
 Function Analysis Drives The Development Of A Concept Mars Rover Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the ... more | .. |
 China launching spacecraft at record rate China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said. ... more |
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  Virtual Flight On A Robotic Arm Only Andreas Knoblach's legs hang out from under the cover of the 'cockpit'. They are dangling five metres above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality 'capsule ... more | .. |
  Work On ISS Could Continue Until 2020 The International Space Station (ISS) could remain operational until 2020 if experts agree on the program of future on-board scientific experiments, a Russian cosmonaut said on Tuesday. The se ... more | .. |
  NASA working to re-set Cassini spacecraft Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are working to understand what caused NASA's Cassini spacecraft to put itself into "safe mode," ... more | .. |
 Netherlands stops Shell's CO2 storage project The Dutch government said Thursday it will not allow oil giant Shell to store millions of tonnes of arbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir under a small town, upholding the fears of townspeople. ... more |
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 India Plans Two Rocket Launches Next Month India is planning two rocket launches next month that would carry on board home-made communication and remote sensing satellites, along with a Russian payload and a Singaporean micro spacecraft. ... more | .. |
 Azerbaijan signs deal with Arianespace to launch satellite Azerbaijan has signed a deal with European aerospace giant Arianespace to launch the ex-Soviet republic's first satellite into space, the communications ministry said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Acceptance Testing On Second R-4D Development Engine Completed Aerojet, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA ... more | .. |
 Astronaut Ernst Messerschmid Returns To Spacelab Drops of orange juice that transform into cubes, astronauts sliding back and forth on a sled in zero gravity, repeated glimpses of the blue globe below. The images that reached Earth from the D1 Spa ... more |
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