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Galileo is go – contracts signed
Europe formally put its Galileo satellite navigation project on track to provide a functional service during 2014 and near-global coverage in 2015 with the signing of contracts to build and launch eight more satellites. The €215 million package, signed today in London...
Counterfeits in Space?
The preliminary report on Phobos-Grunt, the Russian Mars probe that crashed into the Pacific Ocean, has been released. The report's findings are that the main flight control computer reset before engine firing due to heavy charged particle interaction with the...
Vega: all bolted together, waiting for the go sign
X-37 Spying on Tiangong? Maybe, but not yet
WILL X-37B MINISHUTTLE SPY ON CHINA'S TIANGONG 1 STATION? MAYBE - BUT NOT YET Analysis by David Todd The U.S. Air Force mini-shuttle mission X-37B/OTV 2 (Flight 1), which was launched in March 2011, had its 9 month mission unexpectedly extended at the end of 2011....
Vega launch could slip into February
Pics of Energomash test stand
The general public, especially reporters, are not generally allowed anywhere near sensitive Russian facilities. Fortunately, a blogger snuck into an Energomash facility and took extensive pictures of where rocket engines are tested.
NASA’s CCDev returns to SAAs
NASA is returning the commercial crew development programme(CCDev) to its original contracting mechanism, the Space Act Agreement (SAA),after indicating otherwise for several months. In a 15 December announcement, NASA deputy administratorWilliam...
Armadillo’s Stig-A gets closer to space
After firing from Spaceport America in New Mexico, Armadillo's Stig-A successfully flew to 137,000 ft. Stig-A is now nearly halfway to the Karman Line, the arbitrary line that marks the official transition from atmosphere to space. Of course, there is a video...
Europe to boldly go, despite budget trials
Brusselssignalled its intention to overcome budget crises and realise Europe's goal ofan independent, civilian-controlled satellite navigation service with aproposal to earmark €7 billion to guarantee completion of the Galileoconstellation and its auxiliary EGNOS...
Sci-fi movie ‘curse’ may have doomed American Airlines
SCI FI MOVIE 'CURSE' MAY HAVE KILLED OFF AMERICAN AIRLINES' FUTURE By David Todd As American Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it may well be suffering from the "sci-fi movie curse of the airlines". As science fiction film makers have found,...
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