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Business - Briefs
Airbus presented details of its enhanced and expanded Power8+ cost-reduction programme to...
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UK government urged to improve national space capabilities
The UK government has been warned that the nation's capability in space systems is waning, while its military reliance on such technology is on the up ...
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SpaceX faces biggest COTS challenge yet
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is preparing for what it admits is the toughest milestone yet for NASA's commercial orbital transportation services...
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NewsSpaceX launches DragonLab for recoverable scientific payload service
Space Exploration Technologies is offering its Dragon capsule as a recoverable science cargo spacecraft with...
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Four phases of ESA architecture
The architecture's four phases start with science on the completed...
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NewsIndustry gives ESA its exploration ideas
Industry proposals for orbital complexes, Moon and Mars landers and a rocket capable of putting 50,000kg (110,000lb) into low-Earth orbit have emerged for...
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Presidential candidate nominee backs Shuttle retirement delay
Orbiter Atlantis is prepared for its STS-125 Hubble Space Telescope servicing...
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COTS rocket could launch plasma engine to International Space Station
A scale-model plasma rocket engine that is to be tested at the International Space Station could be delivered in 2012 by a NASA Commercial...
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India wins Italian and Algerian launch contracts
Italian and Algerian Earth observation satellites are to be launched by India following a deal secured by the Indian Space...
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NewsESA to begin CSTS Moon return skip-entry work
Guidance and control strategies for "anytime return" from the Moon's surface are the focus of work starting this year by the European Space Agency for its...
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Rocketry's low-cost model
SpaceX promises to revolutionise the launch market - as soon as it actually gets to orbit
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Alliant Techsystems gets NASA green light to launch
NASA has set 21 August as the first opportunity for Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to launch...
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Armadillo test fires rocket engine, Velocity XL integration
In this exclusive photograph from the Rocket Racing League (RRL), Armadillo Aerospace's liquid oxygen (LOX),...
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This Week: Briefings
Oneworld alliance members British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia claim their proposed tie-up...
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NASA requests attitude thruster for lunar LADEE spacecraft main propulsion
NASA has requested propulsion proposals for its $80 million Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer...
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NASA tackles active propellant cooling
Actively cooled cryogenic thermal shielding and related multi-layer insulation performance is the next stage of NASA Glenn Research Center and Ball Aerospace's...
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Rosetta spies Steins for 800km rendezvous
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft started using its Optical, Spectroscopic, and...
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Stage collision ends SpaceX's third Falcon flight hopes
Space Exploration Technologies' third Falcon 1 rocket flight failed on 2 August when the first-stage...
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NewsThe battle goes on for NASA's Ares rockets
NASA intended to reuse Space Shuttle systems for its Moon rockets but has the experience shaken its confidence...