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Space News August 26, 2014

NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Encounters Last Major Traversing En Route to Final Destination

NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has crossed the orbit of Neptune, the last major traversing on its way to distant dwarf planet, the Agency’s press…

Space News August 25, 2014

Rosetta: Landing site search narrows

Using detailed information collected by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, five locations have been identified as candidate sites to…

Space News August 22, 2014

NASA to Stop Using Soyuz Spacecraft, Invest in Domestic Private Space Industry

MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) – NASA is expected to sign a multibillion-dollar deal with a private company to launch US astronauts from the United…

Space News August 21, 2014

Launch Date For Lockheed Martin-Built CLIO Satellite Set For September 16

DENVER, Aug. 21, 2014 – The launch date for the U.S. government’s CLIO satellite, built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has been set for Sept….

Space News August 20, 2014

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…

Space News August 19, 2014

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…

Space News August 14, 2014

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….

Space News August 6, 2014

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…

Space News August 4, 2014

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…

General Aviation News, Space News August 4, 2014

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…

Space News July 30, 2014

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,…

Space News July 30, 2014

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)…

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