International Launch Services on Sept. 13 announced two new variants of its Proton rocket that will be sized to launch smaller geostationary satellites.
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Second SpaceShipTwo completes first test flight
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane made its first flight Sept. 8 as the company takes another step to recover from a fatal 2014 crash.
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Iridium remains fully behind SpaceX as Musk hints at difficult investigation
The commercial company with arguably the most at stake in a quick and successful return to flight of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 8 gave a ringing endorsement of the launch-service provider even as SpaceX founder Elon Musk issued statements saying the investigation will be complicated.
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Vector Space Systems Awarded $2.5M in NASA and DARPA Contracts
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 announced that NASA has selected its […]
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Op-ed | Despite SpaceX setback, future of private space exploration is bright
Critics of private space ventures and those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo are celebrating and embracing timidity.
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India’s updated GSLV rocket delivers weather satellite in first outing
An Indian Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket successfully launched a weather satellite Sept. 8.
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Challenger Center Announces Chair Elect and New Board Member
Challenger Center, a leading science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education organization, is pleased to announce the election of Virginia “Ginger” Barnes, retired Boeing Vice President, as Chair Elect and […]
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ANALYSIS | How SpaceX’s spectacular pre-flight failure fueled a jump in hasty conclusions
Few people knew that a SpaceX Falcon 9 was on the pad Sept. 1 for a static fire test of the rocket’s nine first stage engines until something went spectacularly, horribly wrong.
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NASA Searches for the Next Big Idea from Students for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft
In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its quest to reduce the cost of deep space exploration. NASA’s Game Changing Development […]
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Coming to a Solar System Near You: Rendezvous with an Asteroid
A group of University of Colorado Boulder researchers is readying for NASA’s Sept. 8 launch of a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, thought to harbor primordial material left […]
