Poor weather postponed the Atlas 5 launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft Dec. 3, delaying for at least a day the resumption of deliveries of essential supplies and experiments to the International Space Station by U.S. companies.
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Washington Weighs an FAA Role in Managing Space Traffic
The White House and members of U.S. Congress are in early discussions about how to give the FAA a greater role in monitoring the space environment and heading off collisions between commercial satellites, sources tell SpaceNews.
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Cygnus Poised for Atlas Launch to ISS
An Atlas 5 is ready to launch a Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station, resuming what NASA hopes is a regular series of cargo missions providing essential supplies and experiments to the station after two previous failures.
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The Space Between Perfect and Good Enough
TIP Technologies founder and CEO Michael Miller is fond of saying that his quality assurance firm operates in the space between perfect and good enough. If everything had to be absolutely perfect, he says, nothing would ever fly.
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Op-ed | Extraterrestrial Patent Infringement
Given the rapid advances in space technology — and a growing number of players in the field — the uncertainty surrounding unauthorized use of patented inventions in outer space will soon need to be addressed.
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DARPA Scraps Plan To Launch Small Sats from F-15 Fighter Jet
DARPA has scrapped plans to launch small satellites from a modified F-15 fighter jet after two tests of a new rocket fuel ended in explosions this year.
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NASA Plans Twin sounding Rocket Launches Over Norway This Winter
This winter, two sounding rockets will launch through the aurora borealis over Norway to study how particles move in a region near the North Pole where Earth’s magnetic field is […]
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Cygnus Prepared for Atlas Launch to Space Station
Preparations for the first launch of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft in more than a year, and the first on an Atlas launch vehicle, have gone smoothly despite some changes in timing of loading cargo on the spacecraft, an Orbital ATK executive says.
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Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed anything that could be counted, I did.” […]
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MUSIC Flying Skyward with Dec. 4 Launch from NASA Wallops
A rocket launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Dec. 4 will be MUSIC to the ears of aspiring and early career engineers testing new space technology on a suborbital […]
