Space – Page 48
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NewsPentagon seeks military role for space tourism technology
As commercial spaceflight draws closer to reality, the US Department of Defense is officially interested. The National...
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This Week briefings
As a "precautionary measure" Airbus is cutting by two aircraft a month its production rate...
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Satellite collision prompts calls for orbital traffic management
The in-orbit collision earlier this month that destroyed an Iridium communications satellite has prompted a call for a multinational space situational awareness...
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Skylon spaceplane engine technology gets European funding
A $8.5 million air-breathing rocket engine technology demonstration programme has been announced after the European Space Agency contributed €1 million...
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NewsUK government to back air-launched satellite launcher
The UK government is prepared to fully support the development of the air launched micro satellite carrying rocket proposed by Virgin Galactic
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India plans delayed scramjet flight test for 2010
India's first scramjet technology demonstrator will be flight-tested next year, four years later than planned and having failed to meet two previous targets,...
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Debris from unprecedented satellite crash a risk to low-Earth spacecraft
A collision of two satellites on 11 February was...
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NewsNASA considers Altair descent stage cargo return role
NASA is considering launching Moon rock samples into low lunar orbit using refuelled Altair lunar lander descent stages to overcome the cargo return limitations...
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AERO INDIA: India unveils manned capsule design
At Aero India 2009 the Indian Space Research Organisation unveiled its orbital vehicle concept that consists of a crew...
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US, Russian satellites collide
NASA has revealed that an Iridium communications satellite collided with a Russian Cosmos 2251 communications satellite over the South Pole at 1155h Washington DC time on Tuesday
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Could 2011 seal the Ariane rocket's fate?
The European Space Agency's lofty goals of an all-new rocket, partially or completely reusable, entering service around 2020 are falling by the wayside as...
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This Week Briefings
Europe's first low-cost air-taxi company, Bikkair, has collapsed, citing inability to secure finance....
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WhiteKnightTwo second flight with vortex generators added
WhiteKnghtTwo, the twin-fuselage carrier aircraft that will lift Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo to its 50,000ft (15,150m) launch altitude, is...
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India's space programme looks beyond the Moon
India's space programme typifies the country's emergence as a technological hub. But has it lost sight of its original aims?
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NASA sets out Altair lunar lander timetable
NASA has sketched out the development timetable for its return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme's Altair lunar lander, aiming towards a long-term target...
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Europe's past space tourism studies
Future High-Altitude Flight - an Attractive Commercial Niche? was a 12-month, €127,000 ($170,000) European Union Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project...
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NewsEurope aims for 2015 SpaceShipTwo competitor
The prospect of an all-European competitor to US suborbital tourism projects has become stronger with the €7.3 million ($9.68 million) funding of the Future...
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NewsVirgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has rocket motor test success
Virgin Galactic's Rocket Motor Two propulsion system for SpaceShipTwo has successfully completed hot firing tests...
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Griffin departs NASA predicting 2015 Chinese Moon mission
China could attempt a manned circumlunar flight in 2015, says outgoing NASA administrator Michael Griffin. Griffin, a George Bush appointee who left...
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ESA struggles with €80 million data relay project shortfall
An €80 million ($105 million) funding shortfall is threatening to reduce the capability of the European Space Agency's planned European...