WALLOPS ISLAND, VA — A NASA rocket mission to test technology for gathering science data during future projects is scheduled for launch between 5:30 – 6:50 p.m. EST, January 29, […]
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Ball Aerospace Integrates Final Payload for STPSat-3
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully integrated the fifth and final payload to fly aboard the STPSat-3 spacecraft when it launches from Wallops Island, Virginia, in mid-2013. The Joint […]
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Ex-Im Approves $87.1 Million Guarantee to Finance Export of American-made Satellite to Spain
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized an $87.1 million guarantee of a loan extended by Credit Agricole and other European lenders to Hispasat Canarias S.L.U., […]
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ORBCOMM Completes $45 Million Term Loan Financing with AIG for Growth Capital
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), a global satellite data communications company specializing in two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that it completed a debt financing in the form of a five-year […]
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Galaxy’s Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far From Its Black Hole
In 2011, a months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion years ago swept past Earth. Using a combination of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray […]
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Astronomers Identify Stellar Patrons of the Milky Way’s Bar
Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) have announced the discovery of hundreds of stars rapidly moving together in long, looping orbits around the center of our galaxy. […]
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NASA Kennedy Space Center 2012 Review, Look Ahead
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In 2012, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center celebrated its 50th year and continued transitioning from a historically government-only launch facility to an affordable and sustainable multiuser spaceport […]
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Arianespace’s year-ending Ariane 5 flight is cleared for its December 19 liftoff
Arianespace’s seventh and final Ariane 5 launch of 2012 has received its “green light” for liftoff with today’s successful launch readiness review performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana. The […]
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SpaceNews 2012 | The Year in Review: May
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully delivers the first cargo ever to be launched to the space station aboard a privately operated spacecraft. Imaging satellite operator GeoEye makes a bid […]
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SpaceNews 2012 | The Year in Review: August
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, dies of complications arising from cardiac bypass surgery at age 82. NASA’s Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of the agency’s $2.5 […]
