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Space News August 28, 2015

Counting Down: U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin Ready to Launch MUOS-4 Secure Communications Satellite August 31

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., August 28, 2015 – The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) are ready to launch the fourth Mobile…

Space News August 25, 2015

Lockheed Martin Makes Tiny Satellite Cooling System Three Times More Powerful

Palo Alto, Calif, Aug. 25, 2015 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) scientists are packing three times the power density into a key satellite cooling system…

Space News August 12, 2015

First Sunshield Layer Completed for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug.12, 2015 – The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…

Space News August 5, 2015

Lockheed Martin Awarded Commercial Atlas Launch Contract for EchoStar XIX Communications Satellite

Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), has been selected by EchoStar Corporation to provide…

Space News July 27, 2015

Next two Galileo satellites reach Europe’s Spaceport

Europe’s ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have crossed the Atlantic, touching down in French Guiana ahead of their joint launch this September. The delicate…

Military Aviation News, Space News July 25, 2015

Boeing WGS-7 Satellite to Provide Military with 17 Percent More Bandwidth

Boeing’s seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite is now in orbit and will soon provide the U.S. and allied militaries with 17 percent more…

Space News July 23, 2015

Earth-like planet discovered using NASA’s Kepler space telescope

(Reuters) – Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth. The…

Space News July 16, 2015

Boeing’s 10th GPS IIF to Modernize Worldwide GPS System

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., July 16, 2015 – The 10th Boeing [NYSE: BA] GPS IIF satellite has reached orbit and sent its first…

Space News July 15, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby

The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission…

Space News July 14, 2015

NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about…

Space News July 9, 2015

NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights

NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth…

Space News July 2, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Stays the Course to Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final “all clear” as it speeds closer to its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto and the…

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