In early August, NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Barry “Butch” Wilmore departs Houston for a mission of gratitude and honor. Wilmore along with fellow astronaut Rick Mastracchio will visit […]
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NOAA Digs In on Polar Follow-on Plan Despite Cloudy Funding Outlook
NOAA does not intend to rework its plan for developing and deploying the three polar-orbiting weather satellites Congress is refusing to fund at the level the White House requested for 2016, the agency’s top satellite official said here July 28.
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Stars in Our Galaxy Move Far from Home
When it comes to our galaxy, home is where the star is. Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a new map of the Milky Way and […]
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Hubble, Keck Find Distant Uranus-size Planet Through Microlensing
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through […]
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Iridium Delay Allows Glimpse of Complex SpaceX Launch Insurance Policy
In a July 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Iridium said it was having trouble assembling the insurance package that its creditors require as a condition of their loan.
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New Names on Ceres
Colorful new maps of Ceres, based on data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, showcase a diverse topography, with height differences between crater bottoms and mountain peaks as great as 9 miles […]
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NTSB Blames Pilot Error, Lack of Planning for SpaceShipTwo Accident
The accident that destroyed the SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle and killed one its pilots last year was caused by the co-pilot’s premature unlocking of the vehicle’s feathering system and inability of its developer, Scaled Composites, to foresee such an event and take measures to prevent it, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded July 28.
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NTSB Concludes Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo Flight Test Accident Investigation
Mojave, Calif. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded the investigation of the October 31, 2014 Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo flight test accident. The NTSB is finalizing the final recommendations […]
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NTSB: Commercial Space Launch Accident – SpaceShipTwo, Opening Statement
Good morning and welcome to the Boardroom of the National Transportation Safety Board. I am Christopher Hart, and it is my privilege to serve as Chairman of the NTSB. Joining […]
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Q&A with Mohammed al-Ahbabi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency
The centerpiece to the UAE’s space strategy, and the one the agency hopes will lure young Emiratis into the space technology business, is the Hope mission to Mars, which the government plans to launch in 2020.
