Northrop Grumman Developing XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Design for DARPA
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 19, 2014 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight…
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Russian Cosmonauts Conclude Science-Oriented Spacewalk One Hour Ahead of Schedule
MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev successfully concluded a spacewalk, where they conducted science experiments using equipment on…
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Successfully Launches WorldView-3 Satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., August 14, 2014 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) has successfully launched the WorldView-3 commercial remote sensing spacecraft….
Rosetta arrives at comet destination
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in…
Rosetta takes comet’s temperature
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has made its first temperature measurements of its target comet, finding that it is too hot to be covered in ice and…
7th Boeing GPS IIF Delivered to Orbit and Operational
A Boeing Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, launched late yesterday, has sent the signals to controllers that confirm it is currently operating properly within…
Last ATV lifts off to supply the Space Station
The fifth and final mission of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle got off to a flying start today with its launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…
NASA’s Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers)…
ATV-5: loaded and locked
ESA’s fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle is now scheduled for launch to the International Space Station at 23:44 GMT on 29 July (01:44 CEST 30 July)…
Boeing to Build Intelsat 35e EpicNG Satellite
Boeing will build the Intelsat 35e Epic Next Generation satellite for Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of global satellite services and Boeing’s largest commercial satellite…
Airbus Defence and Space completes production of heat shields for 2016 ExoMars mission
Shields will protect the Schiaparelli capsule during descent through Martian atmosphere Airbus Defence and Space is also responsible for developing the Mars rover vehicle for…
Launch of SPOT 7 completes Airbus Defence and Space observation satellite constellation
30 June 2014 The SPOT 7 Earth-observation satellite, designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space, was launched successfully from the space centre in India…
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