FALCON 9 VERTICAL AT THE CAPE
 Taking the rocket vertical was the most recent milestone in a series of key launch prep activities at the Cape in recent weeks. Prior…
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High-performance ESA receiver brings satnav indoors
Satellite navigation is having an enormous impact on our daily lives. In practical terms it means the only place left to get lost is indoors,…
Space shuttle Endeavour is home after two weeks in space
Endeavour Completes Mission, Lands at KSC Space shuttle Endeavour is home after two weeks in space, having delivered the final U.S. module and a “room…
Endeavours Crew Prepares to Depart Orbital Outpost Today; Landing Sunday
Endeavour and Station Crews Say Goodbye The hatches between space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station were closed at 3:08 a.m. EST Friday. During…
Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Fires Engines To Delay Arrival At Comet
Lockheed Martin-Built Spacecraft One Year Away From Encounter with Tempel 1 DENVER, February 18th, 2010 — NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its…
Boeing Ships 1st Next-Generation GPS Satellite to Cape Canaveral
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2010 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] on Feb. 11 shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company’s…
CryoSat to observe Earth’s ice cover
ESA PR 03-2010. The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated satellite ever to investigate the Earth’s ice fields and map ice…
Last Night Launch Space Shuttle Begins a Complex Mission
“What a beautiful launch we had this morning… the orbiter performed extremely well,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, during the STS-130 postlaunch…
Endeavour Launch Rescheduled
Managers officially have scheduled space shuttle Endeavour’s next launch attempt for Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:14 a.m. EST. The Mission Management Team will meet at…
NASA Managers Say "Super Shuttle" Sunday Launch a "Go"
Officials meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida reviewed space shuttle Endeavour’s readiness for flight at the L-2 prelaunch meeting. They unanimously decided to…
Boeing Prepares Last Major Piece of Hardware for International Space Station
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Feb. 5, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] provided engineering and cargo processing services for the Tranquility module, which will…
Pluto's White, Dark-Orange and Charcoal-Black Terrain Captured by NASA's Hubble
WASHINGTON — NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA’s Hubble Space…
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