An experimental sounding rocket carrying two cubesats developed by university students in Kentucky and California was launched March 27 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore. NASA said data were received from both student cubesats, which were ejected a little over a minute into the suborbital flight at an altitude of approximately 124 kilometers.
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Teal Worldwide Mission Model Estimates 2,229 Space Payloads
Teal Group Corp. announced today it has revised upward its Worldwide Mission Model of future space payloads. According to the Teal survey, there are 2,229 space payloads proposed for launch […]
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SpaceShipTwo Completes Captive-carry Flight Test
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft completed a nearly three-hour captive-carry flight test March 22 over California’s Mojave desert.
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Lockheed Martin, ATK Bringing Back Athena Rocket Line
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) are focusing on the U.S. government market for low-cost, quick reaction missions with their plan to reintroduce the dormant Athena family of small launchers, according to a Lockheed Martin official.
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GeoEye Selects Lockheed Martin to Begin Engineering and Manufacturing of GeoEye-2, the Company’s Next Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite
GeoEye, Inc. , a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today it selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of Lockheed […]
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Students Testing Building Blocks for Spacecraft on NASA Rocket Flight
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., — Not much bigger than a child’s toy block, two spacecraft designed and built by university students in Kentucky and California will fly in space for a […]
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Commercial Spaceflight Federation Commends New Mexico for Passage of Key Liability Legislation
On Saturday, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law the “New Mexico Space Flight Informed Consent Act,” following similar legislation already passed in Virginia and Florida. The legislation marks […]
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SpaceX’s New Rocket at Launch Pad for Final Tests
Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket was hoisted into vertical launch position Feb. 20 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Feb. 19 in preparation for its maiden test flight later this year. The company is one of two firms contracted by NASA to provide unmanned cargo shipments to the international space station on commercially built spaceships.
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Burt Rutan Issues Clarification on Wall Street Journal Remarks
Burt Rutan has released a statement saying the Wall Street Journal “chose to cherry-pick and misquote my comments to Cong. Wolf.” “To my friends in the Press… Since the WSJ […]
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House Appropriators Grill Obama’s Science Adviser on NASA Plan
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2011 NASA budget request was greeted by skeptical and at times angry House appropriators during a hearing Feb. 24 in which at least one member vowed to obstruct the White House plan to scrap NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program.
