All Space articles – Page 33

  • Masten
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    NASA seeks commercial suborbital flights

    2011-05-26T21:18:00Z

    NASA has released a draft request for proposal (RFP) seeking bids for providers of suborbital flights. The RFP, released on 26 May, will award an indefinite-quantity,...

  • NasaMPCV
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    NASA retools Orion capsule as MPCV

    2011-05-24T23:05:00Z

    NASA has announced its intent to move forward with the multi-purpose crew vehicle (MPCV) as a project based off and almost identical to the Orion capsule....

  • FIN P46 VSS-Enterprise-captive-carry-flight SpaceS
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    CEO Whitesides: 425 customers for Virgin Galactic

    2011-05-23T23:35:00Z

    Virgin Galactic, the suborbital space tourism company, has sold 425 tickets for its suborbital flights. Each flight will include six minutes of free-floating...

  • Endeavor
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    Endeavour on penultimate shuttle mission

    2011-05-17T12:30:00Z

    Space shuttle Endeavour launched on 16 May on STS-134, its final mission before retirement and penultimate before the shuttle programme ends.

  • Soyuz capsule
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    Space Adventures gears up for private Moon mission in 2015

    2011-05-06T11:30:00Z

    Space Adventures, the only company offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial flights around the Moon.

  • SpaceShipTwoFeathered
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    SpaceShipTwo makes 'feathered' descent

    2011-05-04T20:59:00Z

    Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first flight in 'feathered' configuration, the planned standard configuration for the vehicle's atmospheric re-entry.

  • News

    NASA funding crucial to commercial spaceflight

    2011-05-04T11:10:00Z

    NASA's role as the provider of pump priming funding for the commercial spaceflight industry is set to come under further scrutiny despite the recent award of the latest Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contracts

  • Space Shuttle Endeavour
    News

    Shuttle Endeavour launch no earlier than 10 May

    2011-05-03T14:30:00Z

    Space Shuttle Endeavour's final launch - and the next-to-last in the 30-year Shuttle programme - will come no earlier than 10 May; STS-134 had been set to launch to the International Space Station on 29 April, but lift-off was scrubbed with 4h to go owing problems with an auxiliary power ...

  • Dragon capsule
    News

    NASA awards second round commercial spaceflight contracts

    2011-04-19T22:05:00Z

    NASA has awarded $280 million to four companies for development of manned commercial space systems. The second round of Commercial Crew Development...

  • News

    Business bad week

    2011-04-19T00:00:00Z

    RUSSIA Fifty years after putting Yuri Gagarin in orbit, the country's rocket industry is under fire. Facing harsh criticism for a delayed Soyuz launch to...

  • News

    Space junk raises alarm

    2011-04-13T18:23:00Z

    In January 2007, China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile, destroying one of its redundant spacecraft orbiting about 800km (1,290 miles) above...

  • News

    NASTAR Center simulates spaceflight in Philadelphia

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    The USA's National Aerospace Training and Research Center is putting aspiring suborbital fliers through the strains of spaceflight

  • News

    Business people

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    PEOPLE moves Aerojet, Flydubai, HKAC, ILFC, Jade Cargo, Raytheon Holcroft: Cambridge airport Islamic financier Mukesh Sodani is to join...

  • News

    SpaceX plans world's largest commercial rocket

    2011-04-11T15:28:00Z

    SpaceX is to develop the world's largest commercial rocket that, if successful, could transform the market for heavy spacecraft. The Falcon 9 Heavy,...

  • News

    Europe to target space hazards

    2011-04-07T16:45:00Z

    Europe must, as a matter of priority, establish a space situational awareness system to monitor orbiting debris, solar radiation and asteroids, according...

  • News

    Goodrich to provide sensor upgrade for U-2

    2011-03-31T16:00:00Z

    Goodrich is providing Syers sensor upgrades for the USAF's U-2 and E-8C surveillance aircraft fleets ...

  • News

    India's opts for caution on return to launch pad

    2011-03-31T01:00:00Z

    After two failures of its heavy lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle in April and December last year, India is taking a cautious approach to resuming...

  • Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 engine
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    Xcor, ULA team up for upper-stage booster

    2011-03-30T12:00:00Z

    Commercial spaceflight start-up Xcor Aerospace has teamed with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) to develop a low-cost challenger to the 52-year-old Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 engine.

  • News

    Surrey Satellite takes the small route to the high ground

    2011-03-07T07:00:00Z

    Micro-satellites specialist Surrey Satellite Technology hopes soon to be preparing for launch of a new synthetic aperture radar payload that could bring a dramatic new capability to its Earth observation customers.

  • OTV2 payload
    News

    Second X-37B mission reaches orbit

    2011-03-06T09:56:00Z

    The second Boeing X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV-2) launched into space on 5 March, riding atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from space launch...