Next two Galileo satellites reach Europe’s Spaceport
Europe’s ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have crossed the Atlantic, touching down in French Guiana ahead of their joint launch this September. The delicate…
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Boeing WGS-7 Satellite to Provide Military with 17 Percent More Bandwidth
Boeing’s seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite is now in orbit and will soon provide the U.S. and allied militaries with 17 percent more…
Earth-like planet discovered using NASA’s Kepler space telescope
(Reuters) – Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth. The…
Boeing’s 10th GPS IIF to Modernize Worldwide GPS System
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., July 16, 2015 – The 10th Boeing [NYSE: BA] GPS IIF satellite has reached orbit and sent its first…
NASA’s New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby
The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission…
NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about…
NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights
NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Stays the Course to Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final “all clear” as it speeds closer to its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto and the…
UK, France Order 21 Satellite Launches From Russia’s Roscosmos
Roscosmos has signed a contract with French and the UK firms on 21 commercial satellite launches on the Soyuz carrier rocket. MOSCOW (Sputnik)– Russia’s…
Boeing to Build Third All-Electric Propulsion Satellite for ABS
Boeing is on contract to build ABS-8, the third all-electric propulsion 702SP (small platform) satellite for ABS, a commercial satellite provider based in Bermuda…
Clearer Forecasts Ahead: Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly of NOAA’s Next-Generation Geostationary Weather Satellite
Critical Environmental Testing Starts on GOES-R Satellite Denver, June 4, 2015 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed assembly of NOAA’s GOES-R weather satellite and…
Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly of NASA’s InSight Mars Lander
Next Mission to Mars Starts Critical Environmental Testing Denver, May 28, 2015 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has assembled NASA’s InSight Mars spacecraft, which is…
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