All Space news – Page 65
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NewsSPUTNIK 50: UK science minister green lights British astronaut missions study
A study into UK astronaut missions in the next decade is expecetd to be given the go-head by the UK government’s minister for science today
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Docking vehicle software compatible with ISS
The compatibility of the European Space Agency's final flight software version for its first Automatic Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has been successfully...
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Comment - Only tourism can open up space travel
Only tourism can open the final frontier Space tourism is the only hope for the economic exploitation of space in the next 50 years. Half a century...
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Angara core booster prepared for 2008 test firing
Preparations for test firing the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's Angara rocket's common core booster (CCB) first stage...
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Russian space industry rises again
The Bear shines on ROB COPPINGER / LONDON Fifty years ago this week, Russia launched the first satellite spacecraft and began the space...
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India focuses on low-cost access to space
Development of low-cost access to space and "end-uses" such as communications navigation are to be the focus of a five-year, 60-mission programme planned...
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ULA Atlas V to form part of COTS challenge
United Launch Alliance's Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket could form part of a bid for funds from NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)...
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Airbus A330-200 freighter could air launch space tourists says study
Three air launch concepts for suborbital vehicle systems could gain European Union funding, as a similar project ending this October proposes a costed
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SpaceX passes key design and safety reviews
Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon...
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Industry fears no-decision delay for Galileo
The European space industry fears for the future of the Galileo satellite...
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French Guiana cannot launch latest Soyuz
European launch provider Arianespace is only able to offer the Samara Space Center-built Soyuz...
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to build and fly small cubesat-type satellite by 2009
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) intends to build and fly a very small cubesat-type...
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Headlines briefing
US advances stricter private aircraft security rules passengers US Department of Homeland Security officials last...
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Spacedev to develop lunar telescope lander prototype
Space systems company Spacedev has been awarded a contract to develop a prototype lunar lander vehicle for the International...
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Moon mission exploration vehicle control panel revealed
This four-screen configuration is the latest Orion crew exploration vehicle command module display and controls console flight deck design from the designated...
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French Guiana Soyuz-ST launch to loft first of Globalstar's second-generation birds
The launch by mid-2009 of the first six 700kg (1,540lb) second-generation Globalstar satellites will be...