SES wants to reuse the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the SES-9 satellite by September for a future, discounted SpaceX launch, and is awaiting the response of SpaceX.
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NASA Hosts Rocket Week at Wallops Flight Facility
Students and educators from across the country will have the chance to be rocket scientists during Rocket Week, June 20-26 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. About 150 university […]
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University Students Win NASA/NIA Space Engineering Design Contest
Future astronauts may someday explore Mars using winning concepts from NASA’s 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. Sixteen teams competed in the contest sponsored by NASA and […]
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Senate Bill Partially Funds Next-Gen JPSS Satellites
Just over a week after the House stiffed the program entirely, Senate appropriators proposed less than half the funding requested in 2016 for the next generation of U.S. polar-orbiting weather satellites.
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NASA Conducts Test of SLS Main Stage Engine
Tests of the main-stage engine for NASA’s planned Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket continued at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as the agency fired up an RS-25 engine for the third time this year.
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OneWeb Taps Airbus To Build 900 Internet Smallsats
Airbus said it will build more than 900 satellites for the planned constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites, with the first to be launched in 2018.
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Harris, exactEarth Aim To Ride Iridium Next to Growth in AIS
The partnership between exactEarth of Canada and Harris Corp. of the United States to place maritime data-collection payloads on 58 Iridium Next low-orbiting satellites is structured so that each company benefits from the other’s commercial success, according to exactEarth.
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Iridium’s Future Riding on 7 SpaceX Launches and 1 Russian Rocket
The inaugural launch — aboard a Russian Dnepr — of mobile satellite service provider Iridium’s second-generation constellation may slip beyond October but the company is still on track to put 72 satellites into orbit by late 2017.
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NASA Weather Satellite Procurement Telegraphed Issue with Climate Sensor
NASA’s decision to halt work on a climate-monitoring sensor manifested to fly on a future U.S. weather satellite is but the latest twist in a program buffeted by uncertainty and competing priorities.
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New Images of Ceres
New images of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the cratered surface of this mysterious world in sharper detail than ever before. These are among the first […]
