MOJAVE, Calif. The Spaceship Company (TSC), the joint venture of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, today received a $290,206 incentive check for completing the Savings By Design […]
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NASA Wallops Facility Rocket Launches Scheduled For March 15
NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 15 from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper […]
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NASA, Bermuda Ink Pact for Temporary Tracking Station
NASA and the government of Bermuda signed an agreement March 7 to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on the British overseas territory’s Cooper’s Island to support launches from the U.S. space agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, including upcoming launches of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Taurus 2 rocket carrying cargo-laded Cygnus tugs to the international space station.
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NASA Rocket Barrage To Study High-altitude Winds
NASA is gearing up to launch a fusillade of five rockets in five minutes on a mission to probe fast-moving winds near the edge of space.
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SpaceShipTwo Builder Qualifies 3 Suppliers
The Spaceship Company, the Mojave, Calif.-based joint production venture of Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, said March 5 that it has qualified three suppliers to fabricate structural composite components for the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo suborbital space tourism vehicles.
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NASA Signs Agreement With Bermuda For Tracking Station
NASA and the government of Bermuda signed an agreement today to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper’s Island to support launches from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in […]
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NASA Invites Media To Shuttle Photo Opportunity March 9
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Media are invited to a photo opportunity of two space shuttles moving to different locations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 9. […]
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NASA Seeking University Participants for Summer Rocket Workshop
University faculty and students are invited to join a weeklong workshop June 16-21 to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment to space. Registration is open through May […]
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Spaceport Chief Seeks Help to Keep Industry in California
PALO ALTO, California (February 27, 2012) The man who manages the nation’s first commercial spaceport called on state lawmakers Monday to help him keep the emerging commercial space industry in […]
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A little luck and a lot of hard work can really light up the sky
Taking advantage of a little-known feature of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a team of astronomers led by Carles Badenes of the University of Pittsburgh has helped to clarify the […]
