Space – Page 68
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NASA: 2008 will decide if new rockets can deliver space station cargo
NASA expects progress, or the lack of it, next year for the agency's Commercial...
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Aeronautics to offer unmanned helicopter
Aeronautics Defense Systems expects to conduct the first flight of a new...
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NewsVirgin Galactic pushes test dates back
Virgin Galactic's leadership has pushed back the flight test and in-service dates for the space tourism company's...
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European reusable rocket engine details emerge
Details of a candidate reusable launch vehicle (RLV) rocket engine design for the European...
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NASA studies Soviet lunar lander design for Moon return
NASA's Lunar Lander project office has studied a Soviet lunar lander design that has a two-stage powered descent system. The Soviet...
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NASA considers larger Ares V launch vehicle fairings
NASA has been evaluating larger 10m (33ft) and 12m fairings for its Constellation programme's Ares V cargo launch vehicle that will carry the Earth departure...
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UK must end launcher opt-out say lawmakers
The UK government should consider offering seed-corn funding or a prize to encourage launcher development, according to a UK...
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NASA drops Ares I upper stage engine
NASA has stopped developing the 274,000lb-thrust (1,220kN) J-2XD engine version of its Ares...
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NASA lunar lander design plans revealed
Flight can reveal NASA's draft plans for its Constellation programme's Lunar...
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NASA needs Apollo's lobbyists
NASA needs a real Apollo budget NASA administrator Michael Griffin has called his return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme "Apollo on steroids" and...
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Technology briefing
Israel helps India with scramjet demonstrator HYPERSONIC Israel Aerospace Industries is co-operating with http://www.drdo.org/ India's Defence Research...
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NASA to launch ISS GNC testbed in 2010
On one of the last Space Shuttle missions NASA intends to launch to the...
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NewsPratt & Whitney Canada selected for White Knight II engines
Pratt & Whitney Canada's PW308 turbofan engine is to power Virgin...
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USA explores alternative global strike concept
The USA is exploring an alternative global strike architecture that would provide high resolution surveillance and reconnaissance imagery of potential targets...
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Israel helps India develop scramjet demonstrator
Israel Aerospace Industries is cooperating with http://www.drdo.org/ India's...
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ESA study finds in-flight oxidiser collection possible
In-flight oxidiser collection possible, says ESA study A European Space Agency-funded study ...
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India outlines suborbital flight test
The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has given details of ongoing work for its 2009 reusable launch vehicle demonstrator...
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Soyuz with electric thrust could rival Proton
Existing plasma thruster technology could more than double the Soyuz 2-1b's payload capacity to geostationary...