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Space News September 6, 2011

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. Navyâ€™s first Mobile User Objective System…

Space News September 5, 2011

AndrÃ© 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…

Space News September 2, 2011

Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab

Denver, September 2nd, 2011 — Lockheed Martinâ€™s [NYSE:LMT] state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data…

Space News September 1, 2011

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…

Space News September 1, 2011

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…

Space News August 30, 2011

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…

Space News August 22, 2011

2nd Boeing-built GPS IIF Satellite Enters Service with US Air Force

Boeing today announced that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force has achieved operational acceptance and…

Space News August 19, 2011

Space Station Commercial Cargo Carrier Arriving At NASA Wallops

WASHINGTON — NASA’s partnership with industry to develop transportation to the International Space Station reaches another milestone on Wednesday, Aug. 24. The cargo module for…

Space News August 19, 2011

Chinese orbiter fails to enter orbit

China’s experimental satellite, which was launched by the Long March II-C rocket Thursday, failed to enter the designated orbit due to a rocket malfunction. The…

Space News August 16, 2011

F9/DRAGON: PREPARING FOR ISS

Over the last several months, SpaceX has been hard at work preparing for our next flight â€“ a mission designed to demonstrate that a privately-developed…

Space News August 16, 2011

China successfully launches maritime satellite

China successfully launched a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday Beijing Time. The orbiter, Haiyang-2,…

Space News August 11, 2011

Astrium ships ATV â€œEdoardo Amaldiâ€

Third ATV en route to Kourou â€œEdoardo Amaldiâ€ scheduled to fly to the ISS in the spring of 2012 ATV plays an indispensable role in…