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Space News July 16, 2013

U.S. Navy Poised to Launch Lockheed Martin-Built Secure Communications Satellite for Mobile Users

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., July 16, 2013 — The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE : LMT] are ready to launch the second…

Space News July 15, 2013

NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. The…

Space News July 12, 2013

NASA, Industry Test Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Injector

CLEVELAND — NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Fla., recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing….

Space News July 9, 2013

Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover

The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and…

Space News July 9, 2013

GPS System Improved as New Boeing Satellite Enters Service

GPS IIF delivers better position, navigation and timing data EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 9, 2013 – The Global Positioning System, which millions of people use…

Space News July 2, 2013

Russian rocket carrying 3 satellites explodes after liftoff

MOSCOW, July 2 A Russian rocket carrying three Glonass-M communications satellites suffered an apparent engine malfunction and exploded shortly after blasting off in Kazakhstan, the…

Space News June 27, 2013

NASA’s Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our ‘Solar Bubble’

Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to…

Space News June 27, 2013

Thales Alenia Space wins prime contract for Europe’s Euclid cosmology satellite

The European Space Agency, ESA, has chosen Thales Alenia Space to build the new Euclid cosmology satellite in a contract worth €322.5 million. Scheduled for…

Space News June 26, 2013

Shenzhou-10 mission successful

BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — Three astronauts who completed China’s longest manned space mission returned to Earth safely Wednesday morning, marking another step towards the…

Space News June 25, 2013

Shenzhou-10 to return Wednesday to Earth

Shenzhou-10 to return after fly-around, rendezvous test BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-10 with three astronauts onboard will return to the Earth around…

Space News June 21, 2013

The suborbital vehicle – SOAR S3

Dassault Aviation is pleased to contribute to the S3 (Swiss Space Systems company) project, part of a Swiss and international cooperation involving partners as competent…

General Aviation News, Space News June 13, 2013

Proba-V tracking aircraft in flight from orbit

ESA’s Proba-V has become the first satellite to pick up aircraft tracking signals, allowing aircraft across the globe to be followed in flight from space….

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