NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact….
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Virgin aims for first space launch within 12 months
British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel….
NASA Announces Design For New Deep Space Exploration System
New Heavy-lift Rocket Will Take Humans Far Beyond Earth NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency’s…
Astrium Galileo satellites accepted by ESA
Kourou, 12 September 2011 First and second Astrium-built Galileo satellites successfully pass ESA’s technical acceptance review Two IOV satellites set to be launched on…
NASA Launches Mission To Study Moon From Crust To Core
NASA’s twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT Saturday…
Virgin Galactic Appoints Former NASA, White House Executive as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, has appointed Steven J. Isakowitz as Executive…
Lockheed Martin Completes Environmental Testing of New Military Communications Satellite
SUNNYVALE, Calif, September 6th, 2011 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System…
André Kuipers makes a PromISSe
All the pieces are coming together for the next long mission by a European astronaut. Now it has a name and logo. ESA today revealed…
Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab
Denver, September 2nd, 2011 — Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE:LMT] state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data…
Take off for Captain Dave Mackay
Future Spaceship Pilot takes his Inaugural Flight at the controls of VMS Eve To date, all test flights of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo have been piloted…
China delays Tiangong-1 launch
BEIJING – Chinese scientists have decided to reschedule the launch of the Tiangong-1, an unmanned space module, due to the failed launch of an experimental…
Astronauts might have to abandon space station
Astronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week’s Russian launch accident prevents new crews from…
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