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May 02, 2013

The Well-Built Italian
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 02, 2013
The name "VEGA" is an acronym for Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, which translates to "Advanced Generation European Carrier Rocket." VEGA is a new, expendable space launch vehicle now in use by Arianespace and launched from the Guiana Space Centre located in Kourou, French Guiana. This vehicle is an Italian creation that was jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency (ISA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Although the concept began as a pure Italian venture, serious development sta ... read more

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The Well-Built Italian

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	DARPA Announces Winner of the First FANG Challenge The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1 million prize to "Ground Systems", a 3-person team with members in Ohio, Texas and California, as the winner of the Fast Adapta ... more		SpaceShipTwo Breaks Sound Barrier In First Rocket-Powered Flight Virgin Galactic has completed the first rocket-powered flight of its space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2). The test, conducted by teams from Scaled Composites (Scaled) and Virgin Galactic, officially m ... more		Stress to rest On Sunday, ESA's bedrest volunteers began lying down for their second three-week session with their heads angled below the horizontal to help research the effects of weightlessness on the human body ... more		Against-the-clock rehearsal for Station immunology test Simply getting anything into space is tough, but doing so against a strict deadline can be really stressful. Researchers in an ESA laboratory nervously checked the clock as they extracted immune cel ... more

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