Continent-wide telescope extends cosmic ‘yardstick’ three times farther into universe Using the super-sharp radio “vision” of astronomy’s most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured “yardstick” three times farther into […]
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NASA Launching Colorado Solar Experiment February 23
NASA will launch a University of Colorado experiment to image the sun on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket February 23, from the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The Extreme Ultraviolet […]
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20 Cubesats Selected for NASA Piggyback Launches
NASA on Feb. 8 announced the selection of 20 small satellites, known as cubesats, that will fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets slated to launch in 2011 and 2012.
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Orion Structure Shipped to Denver for Ground Tests
NASA’s first Orion crew module spacecraft structure shipped out Feb. 10 from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems’ Denver facilities, where it will begin a grueling round of ground and water tests.
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ATK, Astrium Join Forces on Rocket To Pursue CCDev-2 Award
PARIS and WASHINGTON — The prime contractors for Europe’s Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket and the U.S. space shuttle’s solid-rocket boosters have agreed to design a rocket to carry crew and cargo into orbit in a bid to win a contract under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement, the two companies announced Feb. 8.
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SpaceX To Grow Operations with Northern Va. Office
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said Jan. 31 it plans to expand operations in the Washington region with new offices in Chantilly, Va., near key government and commercial clients.
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Media Invited To Engine Test And Meeting With Nasa Administrator
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Members of the news media are invited to visit NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center on Monday, Feb. 7, to view a flight acceptance test […]
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Futron Rates Isle of Man Space Industry As ‘Punching Above Its Weight’ In Competitive Report on the ‘SpaceIsle’
US market research firm, the Futron Corporation of Bethesda, Maryland, today published a benchmarking assessment study on the Isle of Man space industry with surprising results. The report highlights the […]
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Students Excited by Stellar Discovery
Alexander Snider and Hannah Mabry in GBT Control Room, Casey Thompson on-screen, during confirmation observation. CREDIT: NRAO/AUI/NSF In the constellation of Ophiuchus, above the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy, […]
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NASA Launching VA. Tech Atmospheric Experiment in Alaska
NASA will launch a Virginia Tech University experiment to measure nitric oxide in the upper atmosphere this winter from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The Polar Night Nitric […]
