All articles by Gayle Putrich – Page 8
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Progress supply ship docks with ISS on second attempt
After an aborted first attempt on 2 July, the Russian cargo ship Progress 38 successfully docked with the International Space Station on a second pass, say...
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Space station docking attempt aborted
The Russian resupply vehicle carrying food, fuel and new crew members failed to dock with the International Space Station on 2 July after a loss of communications...
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NASA pushes back final Space Shuttle launches
NASA's Space Shuttle programme will extend into 2011, the US space agency says. After several weeks of hinting there might be changes to the schedule,...
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Northrop, DARPA to demonstrate autonomous UAV refuelling
Northrop Grumman dropped out of the US Air Force tanker race nearly four months ago, but a new contract award revealed shows they remain in the aerial refuelling...
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Global Hawk to Demonstrate Autonomous Aerial Refueling
Northrop Grumman will work to demonstrate unmanned air vehicle to unmanned air vehicle refuelling with two RQ-4 Global Hawks under a $33 million deal with...
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New US space policy looks to international co-operation
The White House released the US national space policy on 28 June, laying out President Barack Obama's vision for continued space exploration, including the expansion of international partnerships in space and sending a crew of Americans to an asteroid by 2025.
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Arianespace, Russia expand Soyuz agreement
With a new Soyuz launch site under construction at the Centre Spatial Guyanais outside Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace and Russian space agency Roscosmos...
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Unmanned vehicles move on civil airspace, one step at a time
Having been firmly entrenched in modern military concepts of operations, unmanned air vehicles are slowly finding their way into civil airspace
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Russians deny fault in South Korean launch failure
The cause of the 10 June explosion that ended South Korea's second attempt to launch a satellite has yet to be determined - but the failure was not caused by the Russian-built first stage of the rocket, says the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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SpaceX seals biggest-ever commercial launch deal
Fresh off the launch pad from the successful 4 June test of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX has landed the largest-ever commercial space launch deal
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Pentagon, Northrop Grumman square off over Global Hawk
A media war of words has broken out between the US Air Force's top acquisition authority and Northrop Grumman over the performance of the airframer's Global...
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Soyuz launch marks 100th trip to Space Station
In a scene Cold War space race veterans could have scarcely imagined, three new crew members for the International Space Station - two American, one Russian - aboard the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft were launched on 15 June from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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FAA, Insitu start 2-yr study on UAS in civil airspace
The FAA and UAS maker Boeing Insitu have drawn up an agreement to study drones in civil airspace for the next two years ...
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US Air Force formalises UAS pilot training
The US Air Force has formalised remotely piloting aircraft as a career field, after testing a new curriculum on five "beta" classes ...
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VIDEOS: Armadillo's Mod completes in-flight restart test
A collection of YouTube videos dated 7 June show Armadillo Aerospace has had a successful in-flight restart test flight with its vertical take-off/vertical...
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Prioria, Evergreen partner on Maveric services
Prioria Robotics is partnering with Evergreen Unmanned Systems to offer UAS training services ...