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Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year breakMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 26, 2011 International consortium Sea Launch resumed its operations on Saturday with a launch of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a European telecoms satellite, the company said. The rocket put the Atlantic Bird 7 satellite into a high-perigee transfer orbit at 21:25 GMT. The 4.6-ton satellite was built by Astrium for Eutelsat Communications to provide digital broadcasting services for Eutelsat's customers in the Middle East and North Africa. Its scheduled in-orbit lifetime exceeds 15 ye ... read more |
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  NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona NASA this week completed the first in a series of flight-like parachute tests for the agency's Orion spacecraft. The drop tests at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona support the design ... more | .. |
 NASA Posts Global Exploration Roadmap NASA is releasing the initial version of a Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) developed by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. This roadmap is the culmination of work by 12 s ... more | .. |
 Students Participate in Plant Investigation With Space Station Crew An investigation is stemming out of this world, planting an interest in students in more than a hundred schools across the nation. In the Plants in Space proj ... more | .. |
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  New packaging for old US rocket According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, the U.S. will develop a new heavy-lift launch vehicle to send astronauts to an asteroid and to Mars. However, there is nothing revolutionary in the ne ... more | .. |
  ECIT researchers use liquid crystals to replace space motors Researchers at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) and the Northern Ireland Semiconductor Research Centre (NISRC) at Queen's University Belfast have devise ... more | .. |
 NASA searches for burned up satellite debris NASA officials scrambled Saturday to locate any remains of a bus-sized satellite - the biggest piece of US space junk to plummet to earth in 30 years - that disintegrated upon on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. ... more | .. |
  US satellite TV network launches Netflix challenge US satellite television provider DISH Network has teamed with Blockbuster to stream films in a challenge to online video rental giant Netflix. ... more |
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  Russian space agency needs reforms - Roscosmos head The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that recent failed launches were a reflection of the agency's management problems. "We have found the causes [of the failures] a ... more | .. |
 External Tank Was Backbone Of Shuttle Launches It is a riveting sight - the External Fuel Tank attached to a space shuttle, with twin Solid Rocket Boosters on either side, as they emerge from the Vehicle Assembly Building perched atop the mobile ... more | .. |
  Chang'e-2 sends data back from L2 China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 has sent back the first batch of data while orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2) about 1.7 million km away from Earth. The orbiter is scheduled to trav ... more | .. |
 PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network PlusComms Pty Limited based in Sydney, Australia has announced that it is building a Global Space Network (GSN) subject to financing. The project involves 3 x 30m dishes in key locations around the ... more |
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 Mythbusting for Tiangong As the launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory draws closer, media attention is intensifying. Unfortunately, there's been another flourish of bad reporting about the mission. It's time to put ... more | .. |
 NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans ... more | .. |
 NASA to fund 'space taxis' NASA says it will fund the development of at least two space taxi proposals that could send astronauts into orbit aboard U.S. vehicles by late 2016. ... more | .. |
NASA refines satellite crash course, a bit NASA on Thursday refined the crash course of a six-ton defunct satellite, saying it is likely to miss North America, though its exact landing spot remains unknown. ... more |
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 Neil Armstrong says US space program 'embarrassing' Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state. ... more | .. |
 Backpack technology gains traction with astronauts After years of chaffing, bruising, and discomfort in some astronauts, running in space just got easier. Whether it's a two-mile jog or a half-marathon, many astronauts on the International Space Sta ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 marks fifth launch for 2011 This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Arabsat-5C and SES-2, into their planned transfer or ... more | .. |
 Florida is Base for US National Lab The Space Life Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the new home to the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station that is operated as a ... more |
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  Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes First Flight Test Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) report they have completed the missile's first flight test earlier this ... more | .. |
  Cradle of Aviation Welcome Home X-29 Aircraft After spending the last 25 years on exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the only full-scale mockup of the famed Grumman-built X-29 aircraft has come home to ... more | .. |
  Block 10 Global Hawks Complete Air Force Service Ahead Of New Mission Deployment A U.S. Air Force Block 10 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, built by Northrop Grumman, completed its last mission in late May. The last Block 10 to fly as an Air Force aircraft was the one with t ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Receives Production Contract for Marine Corps Targeting System Lockheed Martin has received a $49.9 million follow-on production contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center for the Target Sight System (TSS), the fire control system for the U.S. Marine Corps' ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Receives Systems Engineering Contract for MDA Precision Tracking Space System Northrop Grumman has received a contract from the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a division of The Johns Hopkins University, to perform manufacturing and production readiness systems engineering ... more | .. |
 Boeing-led Team Delivers First Peace Eye AEW and C Aircraft to ROKAF A team led by Boeing has delivered the first Peace Eye 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) aircraft to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). The aircraft was delivered during ... more | .. |
  Proton-M puts military purpose spacecraft into orbit Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket successfully put a military satellite into orbit, Russian Defense Ministry Space Forces spokesman said. "The launch on Wednesday, September 21, at 02.47 GMT fr ... more |
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 Boeing, US Army Mark 130 Million Dollar Investment in CH-47 Chinook Production Facility Boeing and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook's first flight. "B ... more | .. |
Thai army opts for Selex sight systems Selex Galileo will provide its Thermal Sight System and its targeting control solution to the Thai army for its Scorpion light tank upgrade program. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers 400th HIMARS Launcher to US Army The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin marked the delivery of the 400th High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) during ceremonies at the company's Camden, Ark., manufacturing facility. The A ... more |
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