Just five months into its two-year demonstration mission on the International Space Station, the first human-rated expandable habitat in low-Earth orbit is already returning valuable information about expandable technology performance […]
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Real People Behind Hidden Figures, Stars Join NASA to Mark Anniversary, Celebration of Diversity
NASA will kick off a yearlong centennial celebration for its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, with events Thursday, Dec. 1 highlighting the critical work done by the African American […]
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Vector Space Systems Receives Additional $1.25M in Seed Funding Led by Space Angels Network
Vector Space Systems, a micro satellite space launch company comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Sea Launch and VMware, today announced that […]
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US Cargo Ship Set to Depart Space Station, Live NASA TV Coverage
One month after launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station at 8:20 a.m. EST Monday, Nov. […]
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Gen. William Shelton Elected Space Foundation Vice Chairman
The Board of Directors of the Space Foundation held its annual meeting on Nov. 10, and Gen. William L. Shelton, USAF (Ret.), was elected to a one-year term as Vice […]
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First Light for Breakthrough Listen at Parkes Telescope, Australia
Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, today announced its first observations using the […]
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Close Galactic Encounter Leaves Nearly Naked Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy. This left only […]
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Vector Space Systems and ATLAS Space Operations Partner to Introduce New Satellite Ground Architecture Offering
Vector Space Systems, a micro satellite space launch company comprised of new-space industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas and Sea Launch, today finalized a strategic partnership agreement with […]
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Weather scrubs SpaceShipTwo glide flight test
Virgin Galactic called off the first planned glide flight test of its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft Nov. 1 because of high winds in the skies above its California test site.
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CYGNSS Satellite Mission Aims to Improve Hurricane Forecasting
Technology has always progressed on waves of innovation. In the business of tropical system monitoring, a new set of satellites managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, aims […]
