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Space News February 18, 2016

NASA Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the Universe

After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe — the Wide Field…

Space News February 15, 2016

All dressed up with somewhere to go

Yesterday, a ‘team of teams’ working at ESA’s control centre conducted a final rehearsal for tomorrow’s launch of Sentinel-3A. The rehearsal was the culmination of…

Space News February 5, 2016

Boeing, U.S. Air Force Complete GPS IIF Constellation

Satellite system clocks in equivalent of more than 540 years of operation Boeing and the U.S. Air Force today completed the GPS IIF constellation with…

Space News February 3, 2016

New and Improved Orion Crew Module Arrives at Kennedy Space Center

The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NASA Orion team has secured the 2,700 lb. Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) Orion crew module into its structural assembly tool,…

Space News January 28, 2016

Successful launch of Ariane 5

Ariane 5’s first flight of 2016 from Kourou puts Intelsat telecommunications into orbit 70th successful flight in a row underlines maturity of Europe’s Ariane 5…

Space News January 15, 2016

NASA Awards International Space Station Cargo Transport Contracts

NASA has awarded three cargo contracts to ensure the critical science, research and technology demonstrations that are informing the agency’s journey to Mars are delivered…

Space News January 15, 2016

Launch of the first satellite in the “SpaceDataHighway” programme

SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communication in space of extremely high volumes of data transfer, up to 50 terabytes per day EDRS-A, the first…

Space News January 14, 2016

Virgin Galactic And Y-3 Announce Exclusive Space-Apparel Partnership

Spaceport America in New Mexico provided the backdrop for the launch of a new partnership for Virgin Galactic which will see Y-3 take on the…

Space News January 12, 2016

Lockheed Martin Team Delivers Second Lightning Tracker for NOAA Weather Satellite

PALO ALTO, California, Jan. 12, 2016 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the second Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will provide earlier alerts of…

Space News January 7, 2016

NASA Astronauts Get Advance Look at CST-100 Starliner Trainers

Systems will prepare crews for Boeing’s first-ever commercial spaceflights to International Space Station Two of the four NASA astronauts training to fly Boeing’s [NYSE: BA]…

Space News January 5, 2016

Tim Peak set for SpaceWalk

ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra will exit the International Space Station next week to repair a power unit on the outside….

Space News December 24, 2015

Brazilian geostationary satellite enters the integration and testing phase

Cannes, France, December 22, 2015 – Visiona Tecnologia Espacial, responsible for the integration of the SGDC system (Geostationary Satellite of Defense and Strategic Communications) in…

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