Robert Farquhar, a visionary and expert in planetary exploration, spacecraft design, and celestial navigation at NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel Maryland, and KinetX, Inc., in […]
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Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website
NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera […]
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Russian Luch Satellite Relocates — Next to Another Intelsat Craft
A mysterious Russian satellite that spent five months parked between two Intelsat satellites left that location in late September and has now cozied up to a third Intelsat satellite.
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Israel Aerospace Industries Sharpens its Satellite Export Focus
Israel Aerospace Industries, in its first satellite export contract, has sold a high-resolution optical imaging spacecraft to an unnamed government and is also introducing an all-electric version of its Amos telecommunications satellite line.
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FIRST UP | Your Thursday Briefing
Embattled planet hunter resigns — NASA buys 3 dedicated cubesat launches —SpaceShipTwo bounces back to rubber — Northrop reorg
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NASA Awards Venture Class Launch Services Contracts for CubeSat Satellites
NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) contracts to provide small satellites (SmallSats) — also called CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites — access to low-Earth […]
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NASA Awards Contracts for Dedicated Cubesat Launches
NASA announced Oct. 14 that is awarding more than $17 million in contracts for dedicated launches of cubesats to three companies, none of whom have yet to place a single satellite into orbit.
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MDA to Provide Additional Units for Robotic Capture and berthing of Spacecraft to the ISS
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has received a contract amendment from Orbital ATK for additional […]
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NASA Awards $5.5M Venture Class Launch Services Contract to Firefly
Firefly Space Systems, Inc., a New Space leader in the development of dedicated small satellite launch vehicles, has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct […]
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SpaceShipTwo Bounces Back to Rubber Fuel
Virgin Galactic is planning to return to a rubber-like fuel when it resumes powered test flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle based on the results of an ongoing series of tests of the spacecraft’s hybrid rocket motor.
