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Space News April 19, 2017

EarthCARE: Japanese Cloud Radar meets its spacecraft

EarthCARE, the Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Mission of European Space Agency (ESA), met its Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), the Japanese payload for the mission, for…

Space News April 18, 2017

Launch Orbital ATK Resupply Mission for Space Station

The International Space Station will be capable of dozens of new scientific investigations from NASA and around the world when Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft delivers…

Space News April 4, 2017

Deep Space Concepts for Moon and Mars Exploration unveiled by Boeing

Deep space gateway, transport critical to future human space activities Boeing today unveiled concepts for the deep space gateway and transport systems that could help…

Space News March 22, 2017

Lockheed Martin-Built SBIRS Satellite Successfully Transmitting Images

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — From its final orbit location 22,000 miles above the equator, the third Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Space Based Infrared…

Space News March 16, 2017

Airbus ships first high-power all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite to Kourou

Toulouse, 16/03/2017 – EUTELSAT 172B, the first high power all-electric telecommunications satellite, is now ready for shipment on 20 March from the Airbus satellite assembly…

Space News March 14, 2017

Zero 2 Infinity, a company specialized in Space transportation systems, successfully launched its first rocket from the Edge of Space on March 1st

This milestone opens the door for safer and more efficient Space access for small satellites Part of the Zero 2 Infinity team sailed a few…

Space News February 28, 2017

SpaceX to send first paying tourists around moon in 2018

SpaceX plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and…

Space News February 24, 2017

Sentinel-2B satellite ready for launch from Kourou

Multi Spectral Instruments provide unique image quality Data to be transmitted via Airbus’s laser-based SpaceDataHighway (EDRS) Sentinel-2B, Europe´s next Copernicus satellite is being readied by…

Space News February 23, 2017

SpaceX cargo ship reached the International Space Station

A SpaceX cargo ship delivering science experiments, food and supplies to astronauts a day later than planned due to a GPS data glitch. A NASA…

Space News February 20, 2017

Government set out powers for first launch of space satellites from UK

Britain will set out powers this week which would allow the launch of space satellites from the country for the first time, the government said…

Space News February 20, 2017

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 for cargo mission to International Space Station

At 9:39:00 am ET on February 19, 2017, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from Launch Complex 39A to deliver nearly…

Space News February 17, 2017

Juno Mission remains in current orbit

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit…