Space – Page 47
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Space tourism: Tourism starts here
The state of New Mexico has a $225 million ambition to turn a remote location into the natural home of personal spaceflight
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NewsAres and Altair design contracts to be awarded
Design contracts for NASA's Ares V cargo launch vehicle (CaLV) and its Altair lunar lander payload are to be awarded in the next few days and weeks. Both...
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NewsAstrium: we are committed to space jet
EADS Astrium's suborbital space jet has the company's long term commitment and its technological development will be sustained according to the company's...
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NewsVIDEO: China's new rocket to carry astronauts says Chinese spaceflight chief
China's new Long March 5 rocket could one day launch astronauts according to the country's manned space programme head...
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This Week briefings
ILFC, the airliner leasing giant and one of Airbus's and Boeing's biggest customers, may be unable...
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NewsPICTURE: Virgin Galactic makes WhiteKnight Two structural changes
To solve handling and stability problems Virgin Galactic has made structural modifications to the vertical stabiliser fins of its WhiteKnight Two...
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NewsVIDEO: Virgin Galactic releases flight test footage
VIDEO: Virgin Galactic releases flight test footage
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Six-month delay for first Ares I five-segment rocket test
NASA's first firing test of the five-segment solid rocket motor, DM-1, for the Ares I crew launch vehicle , has been...
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NewsInternational Moon mission study to examine crew rescue
Earth and lunar orbit crew rescue using a common docking system will be studied by the world's major space agencies
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This Week briefings
Emirates is withdrawing its Airbus A380s from the Dubai-New York Kennedy route to shift the 489-seater to Toronto...
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Aerospace primes show suborbital military transport interest
Potential military applications for suborbital spaceflight are being studied by some of the biggest players in the US defence industry. Northrop Grumman,...
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This Week Briefings
FAA CONFIRMS GILLIGAN IN TOP SAFETY POST Pegg Gilligan is the new US Federal...
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Ares I-X booster segments take the rails to launch site
Alliant Techsystems has shipped four solid rocket motor segments to KSC, the last remaining major hardware elements needed to build up the first suborbital test vehicle for NASA’s next generation Ares I booster system.
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NewsNASA's Orion heat shield decision expected this month
One of the greatest engineering challenges in spaceflight is to protect a spacecraft from the searing heat of re-entry, as the fate of the Space Shuttle...
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Opinion
Comment: An open mind, but feet on the ground
Aerospace engineers occasionally come up with solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges. This year's 40th anniversaries of the Moon landing and the...
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This Week briefings
US air taxi company Linear Air is rallying fellow Eclipse 500 owners in a bid to keep their very...
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Opinion
Comment: retro-rockets ahead
The success of Surrey Satellite Technology and Virgin Galactic suggests the UK could have a thriving launcher industry. So why not revive 1980s ambitions and create a high-technology base?
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Aeronautics' unmanned helicopter first flight imminent
Aeronautics Defense Systems is planning an imminent first flight of its new unmanned rotorcraft that is based...
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NewsVirgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership to make public debut this July
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) mothership WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is to fly...
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NewsSecret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane
As the first UK-funded launcher technology programme in 22 years begins, Flightglobal.com can reveal secret US government interest in British Aerospace's 1980s' HOTOL spaceplane