WASHINGTON — Space industry officials agree that the next generation of engineers and scientists need hands-on opportunities to build and test small satellites. The challenge is getting those student-built satellites launched.
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AFRL Anticipates TacSat-5 Contract Award in Mid-2009
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Air Force readies its experimental TacSat-3 satellite for a scheduled launch in October, it is preparing to transfer technology to industry to develop a new satellite platform for the TacSat-5 mission, tentatively slated for liftoff around 2011 aboard a Minotaur-4 rocket.
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Obama Would Extend Shuttle To Close Constellation Gap
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. BarackObama (D-Ill.), the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, sought to reassure Florida’s Space Coast voters that the challenges facing NASA as it prepares to retire the space shuttle are squarely on his radar.
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Rocket Racing League Plane Makes Debut Flight at Oshkosh
NEW YORK
— The Rocket Racing League debuted its premier flight vehicle July 29 when veteran pilot and former NASA astronaut Rick Searfoss maneuvered the liquid oxygen- and kerosene-fueled rocket through a straightforward pattern during a flight that lasted approximately 10 minutes from takeoff to landing.
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Election Could Usher in Big Changes for NASA…or Not
— Will the election of a new president in November mark the beginning of the end for NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, or merely the end of the beginning? That core question was put to a panel of space policy experts at the opening session of the Space Frontier Foundation’s New Space 2008 conference held here July 17-20.
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In Unique Stellar Laboratory, Einstein’s Theory Passes Strict, New Test
Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense […]
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NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions In Next Year
GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, has the lead on many exciting space missions launching in the next year. These missions include a final […]
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Spaceliner Carrier Plane Prepped for Unveiling
WASHINGTON —
Designers and engineers at Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif.,
are busily working on the large WhiteKnightTwo jet aircraft to get it ready for a special rollout ceremony now targeted for July 28 at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The massive plane is a key
piece of the two-stage system that is intended to launch paying tourists into suborbital space
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NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions in Next Year
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, has the lead on many exciting space missions launching in the next year. These missions include a final repair trip to […]
