All Space articles – Page 34

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    X-37B ready for second test flight

    2011-02-22T21:15:00Z

    The US Air Force plans to launch the second test flight for the X-37B space plane on 4 March, the service says ...

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    This Week briefing

    2011-02-20T10:00:00Z

    Bombardier delivered 58 fewer aircraft during its 2010-11 fiscal year compared with the year before, but remains confident its fundamentals are strong in the long term for both the business and commercial aircraft markets

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    Kepler launch marks 42nd straight Ariane 5 success

    2011-02-18T14:15:00Z

    Ariane 5 underscored its reputation as the workhorse of heavylift launchers with its 42nd consecutive successful launch, and heaviest in its history, to send the 20.1t Johannes Kepler, the European Space Agency's second Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic supply ship, to the International Space Station.

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    Budget proposal would provide $18.7b for NASA

    2011-02-14T23:17:00Z

    The Obama Administration has unveiled a budget and future plan for NASA that would maintain the US space agency's funding at 2010 levels through 2012 - and...

  • Space Shuttle Discovery
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    NASA considers plan to preserve shuttle for future flights

    2011-02-04T20:35:00Z

    NASA's space shuttle orbiters may not be destined for a museum in five months, after all. Agency officials are conducting a "what-if budget exercise"...

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    Russians at work on military spaceplane

    2011-02-02T12:38:00Z

    Russian Space Forces researchers are working on an unmanned reusable spacecraft similar to the US Air Force's Boeing X-37 orbital test vehicle, the head of the armed forces unit dedicated to military space operations has revealed.

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    SpaceX growing, getting Virginia offices

    2011-02-02T10:46:00Z

    Following the company's successful flight of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft under a new NASA programme in December, California-based SpaceX plans to open a new office near Washington, DC, the company says.

  • Discovery at night on launch pad
    News

    Discovery heads back to launch pad

    2011-02-02T10:46:00Z

    Space shuttle Discovery is returning to the launch pad now that repairs to its external fuel tank are complete.

  • India's Polar Satellite Lauch Vehicle
    News

    India's space sector shifts to new frontiers

    2011-02-01T12:00:00Z

    Space has joined military and commercial aviation as an arena in which India is asserting its growing power

  • Challenger Crew
    News

    NASA remembers Challenger 25 years later

    2011-01-28T22:59:00Z

    NASA marked 25 years since the Challenger disaster with a 45-minute ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 28 January, while across the US and...

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    India looks to get back on track with PSLV launch

    2011-01-26T07:00:00Z

    The Indian Space Research Organisation hopes to put itself back on a winning trajectory with its first launch since the spectacular failure of its first two attempts to fly its GSLV rocket in April and December 2010.

  • Space Shuttle Discovery
    News

    Discovery on the mend at long last, looking to late February launch

    2011-01-13T16:00:00Z

    NASA programme managers have finally found the cause of the cracks on Space Shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank - and a fix - setting a possible launch date of 24 February, the US space agency says.

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    Space Adventures gets more Soyuz seats

    2011-01-12T22:55:00Z

    Virginia-based personal space flight provider Space Adventures has finalized a deal with the Russian space agency to offer three seats on Soyuz spacecraft...

  • News

    Lost connection sinks India's GSLV launch attempt

    2011-01-10T06:00:00Z

    Faulty connectors and cables were the cause of the 25 December failure of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the second of 2010 for the Indian Space Research Organisation, a space agency panel has determined.

  • News

    Shuttle repairs continue to pile up

    2011-01-05T20:35:00Z

    NASA has found 32 stringers on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank in need of modification and two that will be replaced entirely, the US space...

  • News

    Forecasts 2011: Space - Changes ahead

    2011-01-04T15:00:00Z

    Commercial companies get ready for launches as US space policy comes into focus and Russia plans new launch site

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    Briefings

    2011-01-04T10:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin has paid a $10.28 million settlement to resolve a dispute over allegedly inflated overhead costs related to the C-27J airlifter.

  • Discovery repairs in VAB
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    Another round of repairs for Discovery

    2011-01-03T22:47:00Z

    Work began 3 January to repair four cracks in three support beams on Space Shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank. NASA is using a methodology similar...

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    Business briefs

    2010-12-29T10:00:00Z

    The dark arts are in the spotlight with moves by Raytheon to buy California-based signals intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems maker Applied Signal Technology in a $490 million deal

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    NASA's COTS dream gets boost from Taurus II test

    2010-12-23T16:00:00Z

    NASA's vision of private enterprise partners filling the cargo and crew launch gap left by the imminent retirement of its Space Shuttle fleet got a further boost from Orbital Sciences's successful 17 December long-duration test firing of its liquid-fuelled Aerojet-supplied AJ26 rocket engine.