Upham, NM – New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced today a successful launch over the weekend of an advanced sounding rocket designed and built by Armadillo Aerospace. The launch […]
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SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array Targeting New Planets
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candidates […]
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Spotlight | Whittinghill Aerospace LLC
In May 2011, when NASA began looking for commercial suborbital launch vehicles to carry research payloads, George Whittinghill already was working under a NASA small business contract to design rockets capable of sending small satellites into low Earth orbit. After reading the solicitation, Whittinghill, the president and chief technical officer of Whittinghill Aerospace, realized that one of the modules that made up the first stage of his proposed four-stage orbital vehicle would meet the space agency’s requirement for a reusable rocket capable of providing a few minutes in microgravity for science and technology experiments.
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Now Owner of Shuttle, N.Y. Museum Plans Temporary Display on Carrier
NASA’s Space Shuttle Enterprise will land next summer on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The World War II aircraft carrier turned museum took over ownership of the prototype winged orbiter Nov. 22 in preparation for Enterprise’s delivery in 2012.
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Public Invited to Celebrate NASA Mars Launch at VA. Air & Space Ctr.
NASA Langley Research Center’s official visitors center is offering an out- of-this-world alternative to shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Virginia Air & Space Center (VASC) in downtown Hampton […]
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NASA Tests Aerojet AJ26 Engine at Stennis Space Center
A team of engineers at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center conducted a test firing on an Aerojet AJ26 flight engine Nov. 17, providing continued support to Orbital Sciences Corporation […]
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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Unveils New Exhibit Featuring Greg Olsen’s Soyuz TMA-6 Descent Capsule
Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, is pleased to announce that a new exhibit has opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air […]
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Sierra Nevada Space Systems Completes Simulator and Avionics Laboratory Milestones for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems announces the completion of additional Dream Chaser Space System Milestones under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Phase 2 (CCDev2) Program. SNC is leading a team […]
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Phobos LIFE Sending Millions of Passengers To Mars’ Moon Phobos
Can living organisms survive a terribly harsh, years-long trek to Mars’ moon Phobos and then back to Earth? That’s the question asked by the Planetary Society’s Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment […]
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Khaki Mckee, Program Manager, XCOR Aerospace Inc.
Approximately one year from now, XCOR Aerospace plans to begin conducting test flights of the Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where the company is based. The Lynx, powered by four liquid oxygen and kerosene-fueled engines, is designed to take off and land horizontally as it carries tourists and research payloads to the edge of space.
