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Hopes Rekindled for Low-Cost Launches
The Falcon 1 rocket developed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of El Segundo, Calif., is the first of what industry and government officials hope will be a host of new vehicles and systems providing low-cost flight opportunities for experiments and other small payloads.
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NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision
Images 4 July 2005—Scientists using the Swift satellite witnessed a tale of fire and ice today, as NASA’s Deep Impact probe slammed into the frozen comet Tempel 1. The collision […]
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Purchases ISM’s Predictive Tool Suite; Predictive Tools Will Be Used for Mission-Critical Software
Integrated Software Metrics, Inc. (ISM) has announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) recently purchased ISM’s Predictive (TM) tool suite for use in their Software Assurance Technology Center. […]
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Data From NASA’s Aura Spacecraft Data Poses, Helps Resolve Arctic Ozone Riddle
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House Committee Approves $16.5 Billion NASA Budget
The House Appropriations Committee approved June 7 a $16.5 billion budget for NASA for 2006 that boosts funding for aeronautics at the expense of some human space flight and exploration programs.
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New Horizons – The PI’s Perspective: A Nation’s Expedition to the Edge of the Solar System
Alan Stern June 2005 Most people think of New Horizons as being from Maryland, since the spacecraft was designed, assembled and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab […]
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Fourteen mile high billboard
On May 21st, a high altitude balloon platform was flown to the edge of space. This mission, named Away 26, was flown by JP Aerospace of Rancho Cordova, California. In […]
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Analyst Challenges Comstac Satellite Projections
The purchase of the companies that operate global fixed satellite services (FSS) by private-equity firms likely will limit worldwide demand for new commercial, geostationary satellites to just 14 or 15 annually for the next several years, said Hoyt Davidson, chief executive officer of New Canaan, Conn.-based Near Earth LLC, a boutique investment banking firm that focuses on space and satellite companies.
