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Space News April 6, 2018

Virgin Galactic conducts first rocket-powered test with VSS

Space tourism firm Virgin Galactic conducted a series of glide tests but had not fired up the spaceship’s rocket-powered motor. The spaceship, dubbed VSS Unity…

Space News March 30, 2018

China says unlikely large pieces of space station will crash to earth

BEIJING (Reuters) – It is unlikely that any large parts of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab will reach the ground when it falls to Earth, and…

Space News March 19, 2018

Airbus delivers new life support system for the ISS

Airbus has delivered the ACLS (Advanced Closed Loop System), an advanced life support system to purify air and produce oxygen for the International Space Station…

Space News March 19, 2018

SpaceDataHighway starts full Copernicus service

The Airbus-operated SpaceDataHighway has begun regularly relaying data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, after the successful end of the commissioning period. This marks the start of…

Space News February 28, 2018

NASA Astronauts Return to Earth, Land Safely in Kazakhstan

Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth…

Space News February 7, 2018

SpaceX successfully launching a Tesla roadster into space

The world’s most powerful rocket blasted off on Wednesday, with Space X claiming a mostly successful test launch for its Falcon Heavy rocket. Aboard the…

Space News February 1, 2018

Lockheed Martin Begins Construction on First Orion Spaceship that will take Astronauts into Deep Space

DENVER, Feb. 1, 2018 — Construction has officially begun on the spaceship that will achieve America’s goal of returning astronauts to the Moon. Lockheed Martin technicians…

Military Aviation News, Space News January 11, 2018

USAF’s SBIRS GEO Flight-4 Missile Warning Satellite Encapsulated for Launch

Current SBIRS’ constellation continues to deliver outstanding infrared surveillance performance CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., Jan. 11, 2018 – The U.S. Air Force’s fourth Space…

Space News December 20, 2017

Airbus delivered GOCI-II instrument to the Korean space agency

Toulouse/Daejeon, 20/12/2017 – After four months at the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) test facilities in Daejeon, South Korea, during which intensive testing was performed…

Space News December 12, 2017

Adieu GRACE-FO

German-built gravity research satellites are on the way to the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California – launch is planned for spring…

Space News November 27, 2017

India and Japan are joining forces to beat China in the Asian space race

India and Japan took their deepening natural partnership into outer space when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) divulged that they may…

Space News November 16, 2017

U.S. Navy Accepts Fifth Lockheed Martin-Built MUOS Satellite

New Secure Global Military Cellular Network MUOS-5 Supports Legacy UHF Comms; Serves As Spare For New Capabilities NAVAL BASE VENTURA COUNTY, POINT MUGU, Calif., Nov. 16, 2017…

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