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Space News July 22, 2011

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Bids Farewell to the Space Shuttle Program, Encourages Plan for Future Human Spaceflight

Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at NASA Kennedy Space Center, officially bringing an end to the nationâ€™s space shuttle program and a 30-year legacy of…

Space News July 21, 2011

Atlantis Completes Final Space Shuttle Program Landing at 5:57 a.m. EDT

At 5:57 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASAâ€™s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey…

Space News July 19, 2011

Space shuttle leaves space station for last time

A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that…

Space News July 18, 2011

2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space

Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air…

Space News July 15, 2011

SPACEX BREAKS GROUND ON LAUNCH SITE FOR FALCON HEAVY

The Worldâ€™s Most Powerful Rocket Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.â€“ SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) today took another major step toward the first launch of the…

Space News July 15, 2011

2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Ready for Launch from Cape Canaveral

Boeing announced today that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed prelaunch testing. GPS…

Space News July 8, 2011

Atlantis Lifts Off On Last Shuttle Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from…

Space News July 6, 2011

Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way

The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting â€œbillion-pixel arrayâ€ will…

Space News July 6, 2011

Boeing Prepares Space Shuttle Atlantis for Final Mission

Dedicated workforce has supported shuttle program since 1972 Mission STS-135 will deliver critical supplies to International Space Station Boeing engineers and technicians are preparing Space…

Space News July 5, 2011

NASA’S Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one…

Space News July 1, 2011

Progress M-11M space freighter brings ISS to higher level

Russia’s Progress M-11M space freighter on Friday readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station by 3.5 km, a spokesman for Russia’s Mission Control said….

Space News June 29, 2011

Lockheed Martin-Built Communications Satellite Ready For Launch For Japanese Customers

The BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R broadcasting and telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT…

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