The FAA office that licenses U.S. commercial space launches is set to eliminate a paperwork obstacle SpaceX had to negotiate in order to tote a couple dozen tag-along student experiments on a 2012 cargo run to the International Space Station.
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Mystery Still Surrounds Iridium Debris Incidents
Two unexplained debris-producing events in 2014 involving active Iridium mobile communications satellites produced 14 pieces of identifiable debris whose source remains unknown.
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Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres
As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December. […]
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SpaceX To Build 4,000 Broadband Satellites in Seattle
Elon Musk says SpaceX has filed paperwork for a global satellite Internet project to eventually include some 4,000 satellites and initial service within 5 years.
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OneWeb Announces Plans to Launch a New Satellite Constellation to Bring High-Speed Internet to Underserved Areas Around the World
WorldVu Satellites Limited, operating as OneWeb, Ltd, today announced plans to build, launch and operate a low-earth-orbit satellite constellation to help bring high-speed Internet and telephony to billions of people […]
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Special Report | 2014 Commercial Launch & Satellite Contracts
SpaceNews Paris Bureau Chief Peter B. de Selding reviews the commercial launch and satellite contracts awarded in 2014 and assesses the competitive playing field for 2015.
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New U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance Satellites Require Great Precision
Two high-orbiting U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellites that launched in July must show “unprecedented” maneuvering accuracy given their potential to cause damage in a heavily used belt of Earth orbit.
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NASA Completes Investigation of July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute Sounding Rocket Failure
An investigation team has determined that the failure of a July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was linked to the installation […]
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ILS Looks To Rebound from Tough 2014
International Launch Services, forced into a bystander’s role in 2014 as rivals Arianespace and SpaceX swept up almost all the commercial satellite launch contracts, expects to be back in the mix in 2015.
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Improved Position of Saturn Aids Interplanetary Navigation
Scientists have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to […]
