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Space News August 10, 2011

NASA selects Virgin Galactic for Suborbital Flights

US Space Agency will fly technology payloads to space onboard Virgin Galacticâ€™s spacecraft. Virgin Galactic, the worldâ€™s first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Bransonâ€™s…

Space News August 9, 2011

1st Boeing 702MP Satellite on Track for 2012 Launch Following Key Test

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 9, 2011 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Space & Intelligence Systems division has completed a key compatibility test…

Space News August 8, 2011

Ariane 5â€™s fourth launch of 2011

Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europeâ€™s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Astra-1N and…

Space News August 5, 2011

NASA’S Juno Spacecraft Launches To Jupiter

Â NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT Friday to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno’s…

Space News August 4, 2011

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing On Mars

Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us…

Space News August 4, 2011

Boeing Selects Atlas V Rocket for Initial Commercial Crew Launches

The Boeing Company today announced it has selected the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to launch the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft…

Space News August 3, 2011

Russian cosmonauts launch defective satellite from ISS

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 Two Russian cosmonauts manually launched a mini satellite from the International Space Station ( ISS) during a six-hour spacewalk Wednesday, said the…

General Aviation News, Space News August 1, 2011

Virgin Galactic appoints its first Chief Financial Officer

Virgin Galactic, the worldâ€™s first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Bransonâ€™s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, has appointed Kenneth H. Sunshine as its…

Space News July 29, 2011

Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times…

Space News July 29, 2011

Eutelsat orders new Eutelsat 3B satellite from Astrium

Based on Astriumâ€™s Eurostar E3000 platform, the satellite will operate across three frequency bands 20th satellite order by Eutelsat from Astrium Eutelsat has selected Astrium,…

Space News July 27, 2011

New uses for Space Station

For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role…

Space News July 26, 2011

Enceladus rains water onto Saturn

ESAâ€™s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves…

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