As SpaceX continues the investigation into a Sept. 1 accident that destroyed a Falcon 9 and damaged its Cape Canaveral launch pad, the company said it may use a nearby pad when it is ready to resume launches.
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Falcon 9 pad explosion highlights unique aspect of SpaceX launch campaigns
The explosion Sept. 1 that destroyed a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload took place not during a launch attempt but instead in a pre-launch test that is all but unique to SpaceX.
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ALMA Finds Unexpected Trove of Gas Around Larger Stars
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars — some Sun-like and others approximately double that size — and discovered that the larger variety have […]
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Delta 4 lifts off carrying two Air Force space surveillance satellites
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying two space surveillance satellites for the U.S. Air Force lifted off early this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Air Force sent GSSAP satellite to check on stalled MUOS-5
The U.S. Air Force said Aug. 18 it sent one of its high-orbiting space surveillance satellites to check on a Navy communications satellite that ran into propulsion problems about halfway to geosynchronous orbit.
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NASA Launches Student Experiments from Wallops
NASA successfully launched the RockSat-X education payload on a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket at 7:33:30 a.m. EDT Aug. 17 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Participants included students […]
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Vector Space Launches New Software Platform and Satellite Design Division to Enable Space Entrepreneurs
Vector Space Systems, a space systems company focused on micro launches and micro space platforms and comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas […]
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Katherine Johnson to Receive ASP’s New Arthur B.C. Walker II Award
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician who calculated and verified the trajectories that took the first Americans into space and to the Moon, will be the inaugural recipient of the Astronomical Society […]
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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Robotic Design Milestone
Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission’s robotic segment. ARM is a […]
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Ixion Initiative Team wins NASA award to study conversion of rocket upper stages into habitats for use in LEO and beyond
NASA has selected the Ixion Initiative Team, comprised of NanoRacks, LLC (“NanoRacks”), Space Systems Loral (“SSL”), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, and United Launch Alliance (“ULA”), […]
