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Multi-Use Technology Testbed
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NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre soon will have a new dog in the yard, and it's a real MUTT. That's short for the Multi-Use Technology Testbed, a small unmanned aircraft being developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test technologies that will be needed for new kinds of lightweigh...
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Vega 2 lander
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The Vega 2 lander touched down at 03:00:50 UT on 15 June 1985 at around 7°08S 177°40E / 7.14°S 177.67°E / -7.14; 177.67, in the northern region of Aphrodite Terra, Venus. Read more
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Meteosats
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Decision delayed on Meteosat team The choice of an industrial team to build the next generation of weather satellites - or Meteosats - for Europe has been delayed by three months. Read more
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Japan is to launch a radar spy satellite (IGS) on 15 February next year aboard a H-2A rocket from the Tanegashima launch site, Japan, that will complete its four-satellite system for intelligence gathering with full global coverage.
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NASA Assigns Crew for Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission NASA has assigned the crew for the last scheduled space shuttle mission, targeted to launch in September 2010. The flight to the International Space Station will carry a pressurised logistics module to the station. Veteran shuttle comm...
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ESA’s Vega small satellite launch vehicle has made a new step toward its maiden flight, late next year, with the success of the first firing test on its second stage motor, the Zefiro 23.
The static firing was performed today, 26 June, at the Italian Ministry of Defence test centre in Salto di Quir...
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Launched:Titan 4B
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A Lockheed Martin Titan 4B rocket, known as B-30, launched a classified payload (a LACROSSE 5 radar-imaging satellite) for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket was expected to launch sometime between...
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Ranger 8 spacecraft
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Ranger 8 was a spacecraft designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. Ranger 8 reached the Moon on February 20, 1965. The first image was taken at 9:34:32 UT at an altitude of 2510 km. T...
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Xombie rocket
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Xombie rocket goes the distance Masten Space Systems' Xombie rocket has prevailed in its second attempt to qualify for a $150,000 rocket prize from NASA. The first attempt, back on Sept. 16, ended at the halfway point of the required round trip due to an engine leak, but this time around the engine wen...
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NASA's budget
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NASA's budget request for fiscal year 2007 includes postponement or abandonment of several key space-exploration programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope, which is intended as a partial replacement for the aging Hubble, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, the giant telescope expect...
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A commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a Russian satellite or satellite fragment, Tuesday, creating a cloud of wreckage in low-Earth orbit, officials said Wednesday. The international space station is not threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whethe...
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Ulysses
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On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission will reach another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole.
Launched in 1990, the European-built spacecraft is engaged in the exploration of the heliosphere, the bub...
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SuperDraco engine
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SpaceX Testing - SuperDraco Engine Firing SpaceX successfully test fires SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in efforts to change the future of human spaceflight. These engines will power a revolut...
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Canadian Balloon
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Teens send Lego man 80,000 feet into space Two Canadian 17-year-olds, Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad, send a Lego man 80,000 feet into space.
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Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament
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Robot competition in zero-gravity School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. Student teams could send a single piece of instruction software to c...
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