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Space News April 8, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Propulsion Technology to Send Humans to Moon, Mars and Beyond

CANOGA PARK, Calif., April 6, 2009 â€“Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne completed a series of successful hot-fire tests for a propulsion system that could lead to…

Space News April 7, 2009

Boeing-Built Satellite WGS-2 Sends 1st Signals From Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 06, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the second of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)…

Space News March 25, 2009

Fifth European Conference on Space Debris to address key issues

ESA PR 07-2009. The European Space Agency will host the 5th European Conference on Space Debris at ESA’s Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany,…

Space News March 24, 2009

Seventh Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Successfully Launched From Cape Canaveral

Satellite Includes Demonstration Payload for New Third Civil Signal CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla, March 24th, 2009 — A Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-built modernized Global…

Space News March 16, 2009

GOCE launch confirmed for Tuesday 17 March

16 March 2009Â Â The launch of ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been confirmed for Tuesday 17 March at 15:21 CET….

Space News March 11, 2009

ESA’s gravity satellite moves to launch pad

With liftoff just five days away, ESA’s GOCE spacecraft â€“ encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing â€“ has been transported from the…

Space News March 9, 2009

GOCE satellite launch â€“ mapping the Earthâ€™s gravity as never before

9 March 2009 ESA PR 04-2009. ESA is about to launch the most sophisticated of Earth Observation satellites to investigate the Earthâ€™s gravitational field with…

Space News March 9, 2009

Boeing Hardware to Bring International Space Station to Full Potential

TITUSVILLE, Fla., March 09, 2009 — Space Shuttle Discovery is preparing to deliver the Starboard 6 (S6) truss segment built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] —…

Space News March 5, 2009

Boeing Ships Next-Generation Weather Satellite GOES-O to Launch Site

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 04, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA announced today that the second of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)…

Space News March 3, 2009

Stars forced to relocate near the Southern Fish

3 March 2009 A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of…

Space News February 27, 2009

NASA Awards Contract for Constellation Spacesuit for the Moon

WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded an interim letter contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston to begin work on the design, development and production of…

Space News February 27, 2009

Boeing Submits Proposal for Altair Lunar Lander Study Contract

HOUSTON, Feb. 27, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its Space Exploration division, submitted a proposal to NASA today for Altair lunar lander…

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