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![]() Hawthorne, CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in Asia, has announced an agreement to launch two AsiaSat communications satellites using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in 2014. "SpaceX is proud to be the choice of AsiaSat, a pioneer in advancing satellite communications in Asia," said Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and Chief Technology Officer. "We are produci ... read more |
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![]() NASA PIT Crews Essential to Commercial Space Endeavor Just as every race car driver has a pit crew to keep them on track on the way to a victory quickly and safely, the seven aerospace companies that have teamed up with NASA's Commercial Crew Program h ... more | .. |
![]() Birthday Cake for X-37B It's almost time to light a candle for one of the world's most intriguing spacecraft. No, I don't mean ignite the rocket for launch. The second mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is approaching t ... more | .. |
![]() Jacob Bleacher Gives Free RATS Talk at Library of Congress The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, wi ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Augmented reality promises astronauts instant medical knowhow A new augmented reality unit developed by ESA can provide just-in-time medical expertise to astronauts. All they need to do is put on a head-mounted display for 3D guidance in diagnosing problems or ... more | .. |
![]() Sierra Nevada Delivers Flight Test Vehicle Structure One of NASA's industry partners, Sierra Nevada(SNC), recently delivered the primary structure of its first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company's facility in Louisville, Colo., where it w ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a c ... more | .. |
![]() Astronauts seen and heard Seeing ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on the International Space Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing fro ... more |
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![]() China publishes high-resolution full moon map China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma ... more | .. |
![]() China's new rockets expected to debut within five years China's new generations of the Long March rocket family, Long March-5, -6 and -7 are expected to make their maiden flights in the next five years, a rocket scientist has said. Yu Menglun, also ... more | .. |
![]() Redu Space Services To Build EDRS Mission Operation Centre Redu Space Services (RSS) has announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre (MOC) in the framework of the Europea ... more | .. |
![]() Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously iden ... more |
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![]() High Planetary Tilt Lowers Odds for Life? If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher. However, the advent of milder seasons did more than ... more | .. |
![]() Mobile Launcher Tests Confirm Designs The 355-foot-tall Mobile Launcher, or ML, behaved as expected during its move to Launch Pad 39B in November 2011, an analysis of multiple sensors showed. The top of the tower swayed less than an inc ... more | .. |
![]() Mars radar finds possible ocean sediments The MARSIS radar instrument on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter has discovered a subsurface blanket of low density material around the north polar cap, supporting theories that the northern lowlands ... more | .. |
![]() Iran to launch new generation of satellites Iran is planning to send a new generation of satellites into orbit to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic republic's establishment, Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has said. ... more |
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![]() ULA Completes Critical Milestones Toward Certifying Atlas V for Human Spaceflight United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the completion of two key milestones leading toward the certification of the Atlas V launch vehicle for human spaceflight. ULA has successfully compl ... more | .. |
![]() China announces new launch rockets China says it will debut a new generation of Long March launch rockets within the next five years to join its rocket fleet of satellite launchers. ... more | .. |
![]() Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said o ... more | .. |
![]() Unraveling a Butterfly's Aerial Antics Could Help Builders of Bug-Size Flying Robots To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butt ... more |
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![]() Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the spa ... more | .. |
![]() Project NEOShield: Asteroid defence systems It is not entirely clear when exactly the last major asteroid impact on Earth occurred. But there are plenty of examples of impact craters, such as the Nordlinger Ries in Bavaria. That there will be ... more | .. |
![]() Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ta ... more | .. |
![]() Roscosmos Aims to Make Sea Launch Profitable Russian space agency Roscosmos and rocket and space-station hardware builder RSC Energia are working to restore commercial viability to the Sea Launch floating platform project, Roscosmos head Vladi ... more |
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![]() Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations SciBox has proven critical to the success of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. With completion of the design of all primary-mission observations - including more than 70,000 images and millions of s ... more | .. |
![]() Asteroids: The New 'It Mission' for Space Exploration The Japanese are heading back into space on a second attempt to collect samples from a nearby asteroid. The asteroid selected, 1999 JU3 is a perfect specimen, said Humberto Campins, a University of ... more | .. |
![]() New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, ... more | .. |
![]() Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020 A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. "Today sc ... more |
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![]() Elements of ExoPlanets Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find. Stars are made nearly entirely from hydrogen and h ... more | .. |
![]() Program Glitch Led to Russian Mars Probe Failure A government commission has blamed Russian programmers for the recent failure of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday citing a space industry source. The comm ... more | .. |
![]() Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on ... more | .. |
![]() Precision space maneuvers Spacecraft must operate with utmost precision when conducting landing maneuvers on other planets, or docking to a space station. To ensure they do not drift off course, imaging sensors collect a flo ... more |
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