WASHINGTON — AirLaunch LLC expects to learn by year’s end whether the Pentagon will continue funding the development of the company’s QuickReach booster and keep the low-cost satellite launcher on track for an early 2009 test flight, a company official said.
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Twenty New Stars in the Neighborhood
Astronomers have identified 20 new stellar systems in our local solar neighborhood, including the twenty-third and twenty-fourth closest stars to the Sun. When added to eight other systems announced by […]
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Changes in Congress May Mean More Oversight, New Challenges for NASA
WASHINGTON — A s Democrats take charge of the U.S. Congress for the first time in more than a decade, NASA and its reinvigorated space exploration agenda will face new challenges.
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Only Five More Days for Your Name to Rise With the Dawn
NASA’s campaign to send the nom de plumes of people from around the world into the heart of the asteroid belt ends Sat., Nov. 4. Submitted names will be carried […]
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Challenges Ahead for Spaceport America
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — At the site of the X Prize Games, work is under way here to build what backers hope will be the first spaceport specifically designed to handle commercial passengers and payloads launched to the edge of space and evenutally into Earth orbit.
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University Students are Helping NASA with GeneSat Mission
See “A Closer Look at NASA’s GeneBox Payload” and “Bigelow Spacecraft Carries NASA ‘GeneBox’ for Tests in Orbit“ Dozens of university students are helping NASA to prepare, monitor and analyze […]
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OpEd: As NASA Thinks Big, it Should Also Think Small
NASA has accepted the greatest challenge in its history — the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). With the Ares and Orion projects, the flagships of the future exploration fleet are taking shape. What NASA should not overlook is the contributions to be made by spacecraft at the opposite end of the size scale.
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The moon’s south pole: Very high resolution, radar images find rocks abundant, but no ice sheets
ITHACA, N.Y. — Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon – images from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF’s […]
