The Space Hardware Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville captured second place honors nationally with its construction of CanSat, a “satellite” that has the dimensions of a soft-drink […]
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Six New ORBCOMM Satellites Successfully Launched
OHB-System AG responsible for building the satellite buses and integrating and launching the satellites Six new communications satellites have been successfully launched on board a Cosmos 3M carrier, which lifted […]
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Space Adventures to Start Two-Person Tourist Spaceflights
NEW YORK
— Space tourism leaped into a whole new business category June 11 when
Virginia-
based Space Adventures announced it had bought the first dedicated, private Soyuz mission to the international space station. Unlike its usual arrangement of buying a seat on a Soyuz for wealthy individuals to ride along with cosmonauts and astronauts, Space Adventures this time is purchasing two of the three seats on a 2011 Soyuz flight where space tourism will be its main mission.�
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University Faculty and Students to ‘RockOn!’ With NASA
University faculty and students from across the country will RockOn! with NASA during a workshop June 22 – 27 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia. During […]
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2008 International Space Development Conference Demonstrates Spirit of Cooperation in Face of Imminent Change
Announcements on New Programs, Market Studies, and Space Research Mark the ‘New Pace of Space’ Washington D.C. – (June 4, 2008) – The National Space Society’s (NSS) 27th Annual International […]
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Two of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms Go Missing
St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and […]
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Development Work Drives Personal Spaceflight Industry Growth
WASHINGTON
�-
U.S. companies
vying
�to open up space to
ordinary citizens
�saw total collective revenue
�surpass a quarter of a billion dollars
�in 2007, a 50 percent increase over the previous year, according to a new report commissioned by the Personal Spaceflight Federation.
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ILS Close To Return to Flight As Khrunichev Takes Control
PARIS –
The builder of the Proton-M
launch vehicle has begun tests of a newly designed gas duct to replace the model that failed March 15 and will announce a return to flight date and an updated manifest by the end of June, according to the president of the company that sells
Proton launch services worldwide.
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Khrunichev Purchases Majority Interest in International Launch Services
McLEAN, Va., May 29, 2008 — ILS International Launch Services Inc., a world leader in launch services for commercial satellites, announced today that Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center […]
