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Space News January 5, 2017

Lockheed Martin to Build NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft, a Mission to Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s Newest Discovery Mission to Study Asteroids Orbiting with Jupiter DENVER, Jan. 5, 2017 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected to design, build and…

Space News January 4, 2017

NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System

NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar…

Space News January 4, 2017

NASA Selects Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries

NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme…

General Aviation News, Space News January 2, 2017

VSS Unity makes first free flight

The new spaceship, VSS Unity, has successfully completed its first free flight! Today’s important test flight marks the first time that a vehicle built by…

Space News December 21, 2016

Bon voyage, MetOp-C!

Airbus Defence and Space sends payload module of Europe’s next weather satellite on its first journey Comprehensive test campaign begins in January at ESA/ESTEC Launch…

Space News December 20, 2016

Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly of NOAA’s GOES-S Weather Satellite

Lockheed Martin has completed assembly of NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite and is now beginning critical mechanical and environmental testing of the spacecraft. GOES-S is the…

Space News December 15, 2016

Telespazio, through the joint venture Spaceopal, will manage the Galileo system

The contract, awarded by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), has a value of up to 1.5 billion euro Galileo is the European satellite navigation system,…

General Aviation News, Space News December 9, 2016

First American in Space, John Glenn dies at 95

“Today, the first American to orbit the Earth, NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, passed away. We mourn this tremendous loss for our nation…

Space News December 7, 2016

Musk’s SpaceX says rockets to remain grounded until January

(Reuters) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been forced to delay the return of its rockets to flight until January as…

Space News December 6, 2016

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imaged Phobos

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has imaged the martian moon Phobos as part of a second set of test science measurements made since it arrived…

Space News December 5, 2016

Arianespace Vega rocket launched Turkish Earth observation satellite

Arianespace today launched a Vega rocket on a commercial mission to deliver a Turkish Earth observation satellite into orbit. Liftoff of Vega’s eighth flawless mission…

Space News December 1, 2016

Russian space cargo ship destroyed after launch

(Reuters) An unmanned cargo ship headed to the International Space Station was destroyed about six minutes after liftoff from Kazakhstan on Thursday, the Russian space…

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