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Space News May 11, 2016

Orion Exploration Mission-1 Crew Module Pressure Tested

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 11, 2016 – The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NASA Orion team has successfully proof-pressure tested the Orion spacecraft’s Exploration Mission-1…

Space News May 10, 2016

NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of…

Space News April 28, 2016

SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches

(Reuters) The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday awarded billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX an $83 million contract to launch a GPS satellite, breaking the monopoly that…

Space News April 20, 2016

Sentinel-1B_in_position_for_liftoff

With just two days to liftoff, the next Sentinel for Europe’s environmental monitoring programme in now poised high in the launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport…

Space News April 12, 2016

Boeing Completes Satellite for NASA TDRS Constellation Ahead of Contract Schedule

Spacecraft enables continuous communication with International Space Station, Hubble Telescope El Segundo, Calif., April 12, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has completed, and delivered to…

Space News March 28, 2016

Lockheed Martin Opens Space Fence Test Facility

The smaller version of the world’s largest digital phased array radar will confirm performance and support training MOORESTOWN, N.J., March 28, 2016 – Objects in…

Space News March 17, 2016

On its way to the ISS: the E-nose gets a trunk

Electronic artificial nose will ‘flexibly’ search for bacterial contamination on board the International Space Station The E-nose, an electronic device for detecting microbiological contamination due…

Space News March 15, 2016

Exomars on its way to solve the red planets mysteries

The first of two joint ESA-Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of…

Space News March 9, 2016

Ariane 5 launcher racks up 71st success in a row for Airbus Defence and Space

Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 71st time in a row, confirming the reliability and sophistication of the European…

Space News March 2, 2016

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Safely Back on Earth after One-Year Mission

NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the…

Space News February 29, 2016

Two more Galileo satellites poised for launch in May

Another pair of Galileo navigation satellites is scheduled for launch by Soyuz rocket in May, ahead of a quartet on an Ariane 5 in the…

Space News February 19, 2016

Branson’s Virgin Galactic moves to return to space race

(Reuters) Richard Branson said on Thursday his Virgin Galactic venture is eager to rejoin the race among rival billionaire entrepreneurs to send passengers and satellites…

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