Blue Origin continues to have the upper hand in a competition with Aerojet Rocketdyne to build a new engine for United Launch Alliance’s next-generation rocket, ULA chief executive Tory Bruno said.
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Small Bodies Dominate NASA’s Latest Discovery Competition
Over half of the 28 proposals NASA received for a $450 million robotic solar-system mission launching around 2021 seek to explore small bodies such as comets, asteroids or tiny moons.
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NASA Testing Space Technologies with Wallops Rocket Launch July 7
The NASA sounding rocket payload carrying two space technology development projects goes through GPS checks at the Wallops Flight Facility by technicians Tom Malaby (left) and Darren Ryan. Credits: NASA/Berit […]
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Ex-Im is Closed to New Business; Will the U.S. Space Industry Suffer?
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, as expected, closed its doors to new business July 1 following the U.S. Congress’s inability to renew bank authorization, but said all existing loans and guarantees will be maintained and carried to their maturity.
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SpaceX Failure Leaves Long List of Customers in the Lurch
The June 28 failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is almost certain to deal a blow to the revenue projections of numerous SpaceX commercial customers that had been basing their results on being in orbit this year or early in 2016.
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UPDATED | SpaceX Falcon 9 Fails During ISS Cargo Launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffered a failure about two minutes after liftoff June 28 on a mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
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70th Anniversary of the first launch from Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility
WHEREAS, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, is an integral part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center and home to the Commonwealth’s […]
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OneWeb’s Powerful Partners in Their Own Words
OneWeb announced $500 million in equity coming from Indian and Mexican telecommunications providers, ground segment builders, the satellite prime contractor and even from an ostensible competitor in satellite fleet operator Intelsat. Intelsat will now be a OneWeb partner, with the two companies sharing customers and spectrum.
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Lawmaker Wants U.S. Air Force to Focus on New Engine, Period
The chairman the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee wants the U.S. Air Force and launch industry to focus narrowly on replacing the Russian-made main engine on United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas 5 rocket, as opposed to investing in various launch vehicle technologies.
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NOAA Cubesat Caught in Crossfire Between Congress, White House
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s plan to launch an experimental weather cubesat in 2016 is in doubt because the agency staked funding for the effort to a program that fared poorly in recent budget bills.
