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Space News September 24, 2013

Manufacturing Rockets and Spacecraft in the 21st Century

As the only operational vehicle capable of taking significant amounts of cargo both to and from the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is already…

Space News September 23, 2013

Soyuz Launch Causes New Delay to US Cargo Ship Docking with Space Station

WASHINGTON, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – For the second time in 24 hours, NASA and private commercial US rocket company Orbital Sciences on Monday pushed…

Space News September 23, 2013

Private Cygnus cargo ship delays rendezvous with ISS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 U.S. space company Orbital Sciences Corp. said Sunday that the rendezvous of its Cygnus cargo ship with the International Space Station (ISS)…

Space News September 19, 2013

Software update keeps B-52 at forefront of bomber fleet

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (AFNS) — The B-52 Stratofortress will soon receive a software upgrade that will keep the aircraft at the forefront…

Military Aviation News, Space News September 18, 2013

Boeing Sends Protected Government Signal through Commercial Satellite

Boeing has transmitted a government-developed, frequency-hopping signal through a commercial satellite, demonstrating the potential for the military to access more communications pathways at a lower…

Space News September 18, 2013

Arianespace and Astrium sign an agreement to begin production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers

Arianespace and Astrium signed an initial agreement on 17 September to begin the production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers. As part of this…

Space News September 18, 2013

New U.S. private spacecraft launched to ISS

A new privately owned U.S. spaceship carrying food, clothing and other cargo blasted off Wednesday on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS)….

Space News September 17, 2013

1st Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Satellite on Track for 2013 Launch

High-data-rate communications satellite passes key environmental test The first of three Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress (GX) satellites being built by Boeing has successfully completed a key…

Military Aviation News, Space News September 17, 2013

Next Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral for Launch

Boeing workers lift the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite onto a transporter following its Aug. 1 arrival at the Navstar Processing Facility on Cape…

Space News September 13, 2013

Voyager 1 becomes first man-made object to leave solar system

U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that its Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first human- made object to venture into interstellar space. New and…

Space News September 11, 2013

Underwater astronaut on the Moon

ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and ESA astronaut instructor Hervé Stevenin slipped into the roles of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin last week for an underwater…

Space News September 8, 2013

Virgin Galactic second rocket powered test fligt

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