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Space News April 18, 2012

United Arab Emirates’ second communications satellite ready to launch

Y1B, the second communications satellite for Yahsat, will be orbited by a Proton launcher from Baikonur on 24 April 2012 Y1B will complete the UAE’s…

Space News April 16, 2012

Designing the interplanetary web

Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in…

Space News April 12, 2012

Lockheed Martin Delivers Two Commercial Communications Satellites For Upcoming Historic Launch

Lockheed Martin has delivered its 100th and 101stcommercial geostationary communications satellites in preparation for the first dual launch of satellites built by Lockheed Martin aboard…

Military Aviation News, Space News April 12, 2012

4th Boeing-built WGS Satellite Accepted by US Air Force

Boeing announced today that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the fourth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on April 11, after the…

Space News April 10, 2012

Astrium awarded European Space Agency (ESA) contract to continue development of the Ariane 5 ME

Worth €112 million, this contract will enable the design of the Ariane 5 ME’s new sub-systems Ariane 5 ME will decrease by 20% costs per…

Space News April 3, 2012

Boeing Successfully Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft

Boeing successfully completed a parachute drop test of the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft today at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev….

Military Aviation News, Space News April 2, 2012

U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin Complete Final System Tests For Critical Missile Warning Satellite

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed a major milestone for the U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite (GEO-2). The…

Space News March 29, 2012

Europe’s third cargo vehicle docks with the Space Station

ESA’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi has completed the first stage of its docking with the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station. The docking occurred…

Space News March 26, 2012

Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth

Meteor-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the…

Space News March 26, 2012

1st Boeing 702 Medium Power Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space

Intelsat 22 launched from Kazakhstan; ready to begin orbit raising followed by on-orbit testing Commercial satellite contains military hosted payload EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 26,…

Space News March 23, 2012

European rocket blasts off with cargo craft to resupply ISS

An Ariane rocket blasted off Friday from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, lifting up a cargo craft toward the International Space Station (ISS). The…

Space News March 21, 2012

ATV Edoardo Amaldi set for liftoff

ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch to the International Space Station. ESA’s formal Launch Readiness Review on Monday revealed no…

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