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Space News August 23, 2016

Lockheed Martin’s GOES-R Weather Satellite ready to Launch

NOAA’s newest weather satellite, GOES-R, left its Colorado home where it was built and is now in Florida where it will undergo preparations for a…

Space News August 22, 2016

Proba-3, can view the sun’s corona without bothering about shadows

Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth’s surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the…

Space News August 17, 2016

Northrop Grumman’s Astro Aerospace Completes NISAR Reflector Preliminary Design Review

CARPINTERIA, Calif., Aug. 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company, has completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the…

Space News August 17, 2016

NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission

NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets…

Civilian aviation news, Space News August 12, 2016

FAA-AST Awards Virgin Galactic Operator License For SpaceShipTwo

We kicked off August with two important milestones. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) has awarded Virgin Galactic an operator…

Space News August 8, 2016

CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels

Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter….

General Aviation News, Space News August 2, 2016

ESA commits to next stage of UK revolutionary rocket engine

The Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, SABRE, is a unique engine designed to use atmospheric air in the early part of its flight to orbit before…

Space News August 1, 2016

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the…

Space News July 25, 2016

Juno arrives at Jupiter with radiation-hardened electronics

RAD750 single-board computer helped the Juno spacecraft travel 2 billion miles to study our biggest planetary neighbor. With a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than…

Space News July 6, 2016

Launch Day Arrives for Three Expedition 48-49 Crew Members

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the…

Space News July 5, 2016

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter (video)

After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that…

Space News July 4, 2016

Fastest-Ever Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter Tonight

NASA’s Juno probe will attempt to slip into orbit around Jupiter tonight (July 4), shortly after becoming the fastest object ever made by human hands. As Juno…

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