All Space articles – Page 56
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Russian space chief denies knowledge of private Soyuz agreement
Space Adventures has rejected suggestions that a statement on Russia's Federal Space Agency website undermines...
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Discovery crew install largest and penultimate ISS module
The largest payload ever delivered to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo...
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This Week: briefings
EADS 'INSIDER TRADING' CASE HEATS UP CLASS ACTION Two years on from announcement of major Airbus A380 delays that led to EADS stock prices plummeting,...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada to use White Knight II for engine research
Virgin Galactic's Scaled Composites-designed White Knight II will help Pratt & Whitney Canada obtain high-altitude performance data for its PW308A...
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Angara named as possible spacecrew transport system launcher
The Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Centre's in-development...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 on track with five Merlin 1C engines' cluster firing test
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed the latest in a series of increasingly powerful test firings of its Falcon 9 booster. The test of the...
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ESA offers astronaut training for European space tourism
To aid a European suborbital tourism industry the European Space Agency might provide astronaut training, but its first step is expected to be an annual...
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ILA Briefs
SUPERJET PREPARED FOR CERTIFICATION TRIALS FLIGHT TESTING Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) plans to ferry the prototype Superjet 100 (SSJ100) from the...
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UK government report recommends space tourism rules should help industry
Regulation of suborbital and orbital tourism should be developed in phases to facilitates the new space industry's growth, according to the UK's Science...
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Suborbital travel has low carbon footprint says ESA
Suborbital flights could have a better carbon footprint per passenger than transatlantic airline travel, a preliminary European Space Agency study has found. The...
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This Week Briefings
DISCOVERY SET TO DELIVER LARGEST EVER ISS PAYLOAD LAUNCH NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery was expected to launch at 17:02 local time on 31 May from Florida's...
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Moon base infrastructure reports expected by December
MOON MISSION ROB COPPINGER LONDON Agencies tune in to lunar communications challenge High-definition television is key to scientific and public...
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Space agencies plan robotic lunar exporation agreement
This year could see the signing by the world's major space agencies of a charter for the joint robotic exploration of the Moon, with landers reaching the...