The head of Air Force Space Command said he believes U.S. launch companies should be able to buy rocket motors from decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missiles to power commercial launches, but at a price that would not put the rest of the commercial small launch industry at a disadvantage.
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Airbus mulls options if massive U.K. Skynet 5 military satcom contract is not renewed
Airbus Defence and Space is preparing a Plan B strategy in the event the British Defence Ministry elects not to renew its $5-billion, 19-year Skynet 5 contract outsourcing all of Britain’s military satellite telecommunications, a scenario that now seems likely.
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United Launch Alliance plans to eliminate 375 jobs
Monday’s briefing begins with ULA’s plan to cut 375 jobsr as part of the company’s transformation to be more competitive.
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News from the 32nd Space Symposium
The 32nd Space Symposium takes place April 11-14 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. SpaceNews wil be covering all four jam-packed days of the premier civil, military, commercial and newspace conference.
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NASA Invests in Two-Dimensional Spacecraft, Reprogrammable Microorganisms
NASA has selected 13 proposals through NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that invests in transformative architectures through the development of pioneering technologies. Among the selected are: a concept […]
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Space Weather Satellite ICON on Course for Summer 2017 Launch
NASA’s newest space weather research satellite, the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, is on course for a summer 2017 launch after UC Berkeley scientists and their colleagues shipped its four instruments to […]
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NASA Awards Sounding Rocket Operations Contract
NASA has awarded the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract III to Orbital ATK, Inc., in Greenbelt, Maryland, to support the agency’s Sounding Rockets Program. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, with a technical […]
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SpaceX conducts static fire test ahead of Dragon launch
Wednesday’s briefing begins with SpaceX conducting a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of a Dragon cargo run to the ISS.
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Spaceport America and EXOS Aerospace Systems & Technologies Announce Five-Year Launch Partnership
Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport, and EXOS Aerospace Systems & Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of suborbital reusable space launch vehicles based in Caddo Mills, Texas, announce […]
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Gravitational Wave Search Provides Insights into Galaxy Mergers
The recent LIGO detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes with tens of solar masses has confirmed that distortions in the fabric of space-time can be observed and measured […]
