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Even though if the American space agency has yet to decide the faith of its manned space exploration plans, Project Constellation is continuing onwards undisturbed, officials at NASA say. Even if the plan set forth by US President Barack Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden get approved, the agency will not st... |
19 August 2010
05:36 GMT |
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As part of Project Constellation efforts, NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will soon conduct a new series of test fires with an experimental motor, designed to power up components of America's new space plan.This will be the first full-sized test of a very large solid rocket motor, a device that foll... |
19 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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On Thursday, March 18, NASA contractor Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested a new escape rocket motor at one of its facilities. The device was originally developed for integration on the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which was a part of the larger Project Constellation. However, under the budget proposal that US Presid... |
20 March 2010
03:05 GMT |
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According to sources at the White House, it would appear that the American space agency will not receive the $1-billion boost it and its contractors have been anticipating. The individuals who made these claims say that the proposal President Barack Obama will submit to the Congress on February 1 will contain no addi... |
26 January 2010
02:57 GMT |
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The American space agency is currently in a very tricky spot. Funding for its newest approach on space exploration – Project Constellation – is coming under increased attack, and a panel commissioned by President Obama to analyze its activities pushes for more private involvement with space flight. As we ... |
23 January 2010
04:50 GMT |
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The way things are looking for NASA's Project Constellation, one could expect at this time to see the White House propose a cancellation of the ARES I project in the next year, analysts are saying. An investigation report that Obama required from an independent panel last year showed that the level of funding at... |
20 January 2010
04:05 GMT |
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In late October, NASA's new rocket prototype, the ARES I-X, blasted off from the renewed Launch Pad 39B, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. Aimed at testing the engines that would go on the ARES I delivery system, the flight was mainly a success, apart from a parachute glitch at the end, which saw t... |
7 December 2009
05:12 GMT |
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For a long time, policymakers have dreamed about going to the Moon, or Mars, but also to near-Earth Objects, a class of celestial bodies including asteroids and meteorites, that are large enough to handle a spacecraft landing on them. Over recent months, this plan has been getting increased support from the American ... |
24 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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After yesterday's weather around the Kennedy Space Center did not allow for the prototype ARES I-X rocket to lift off, mission managers finally got a break in the weather today. Originally planned for 8 am EDT (1200GMT), the first launch of a new NASA rocket in more than 25 years took place at 1130 EDT (1530GMT)... |
28 October 2009
12:06 GMT |
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Mission managers at the American space agency have just announced that they scrubbed the ARES I-X launch attempt that was scheduled for earlier today, on account of cloudy weather and powerful winds around the rocket. There were numerous attempts as the team tried to set the countdown clock rolling again, but there w... |
27 October 2009
11:39 GMT |
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For the first time in the history of the American space agency, the Kennedy Space Center has two completely different rockets poised for take-off at their respective launch pads. Both of the designs already carry, or will carry in the near future, astronauts to the low-Earth orbit, or other destinations closer to hom... |
27 October 2009
03:06 GMT |
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According to a statement released by NASA officials yesterday, the new prototype ARES I-X rocket may not fly on Tuesday after all, if the weather over the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, does not clear up. After a number of delays and aborted test flights, the spacecraft, the first new delivery syst... |
26 October 2009
02:52 GMT |
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With the prototype ARES I-X rocket poised to launch next week, NASA is entering a crucial step in its test phase of the new ARES I delivery system, which is scheduled to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle – the shuttle replacement – into the low-Earth orbit in 2015. A successful test on October 27 wo... |
24 October 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Yesterday, the review panel that US President Barack Obama appointed earlier this year to analyze the activity at the American space agency NASA at last released the final version of its report, a 156-page document. The main conclusions of the analysis are that the space agency is severely underfunded for Project Con... |
23 October 2009
03:00 GMT |
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For the first time in more than 27 years, NASA has opened the doors of its Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to let through a new class of rockets, the precursors of the ARES I delivery system. The ARES I-X prototype booster stands 327 feet (100 meters) tall, and... |
20 October 2009
10:53 GMT |
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According to officials at the American space agency NASA, the launch data for ISS flight STS-129 by space shuttle Atlantis was moved back four days, to November 16. The decision was made so that engineers working with the ARES I-X rocket would have more time to prepare the new delivery system for its maiden flight, s... |
20 October 2009
04:29 GMT |
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In spite of announcing earlier that the new ARES I-X prototype rocket would be rolled to its launch pad a few days earlier than first planned, NASA steps out again to inform people that the rollout will be delayed by at least a day. The reschedule is due to a fault in the prototype's steering system, and, appare... |
16 October 2009
16:01 GMT |
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In a fierce reply to the preliminary conclusions released by the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, NASA's Chief of Lunar and Martian Explorations, Jeff Hanley, said that the results the panel came to were biased, and that the experts on the board were making false claims about Project Constellation and its ... |
9 October 2009
05:52 GMT |
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For the first time in more than two decades, NASA is working on a new class of rockets, the ARES range, a part of Project Constellation. Scheduled to replace the aging shuttle fleet by 2015, the Project has been plagued with controversies ever since it was first accepted, and all of its components have been openly cr... |
29 September 2009
01:52 GMT |
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According to experts at the American space agency, the test flight of ARES I-X, the prototype of NASA's new Moon rocket, has been targeted for October 27, a full four days earlier than the original date, of October 31st. Officials made the announcement on Tuesday, and said that the demonstration booster for the ... |
23 September 2009
03:02 GMT |
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After being postponed a couple of weeks ago on account of a minor glitch on a secondary system, the first full-scale burn of DM-1, the motor that will power up ARES I's five-segment first stage, took place yesterday. The event, which was witnessed by many onlookers, took place at a Promontory, Utah-based facilit... |
11 September 2009
01:51 GMT |
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Having recently completed the first functional, full-scale prototype of the new DM-1 engine that will power up the ARES I delivery system, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted a test firing on August 27th. They failed because of a minor glitch in a fuel... |
2 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the segment of Project Constellation that is planned to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the Moon starting 2015, has recently passed its preliminary design review test. Even though this is good news, its faith is still unclear, considering the fact that the future of the ARES... |
2 September 2009
03:04 GMT |
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As we were reporting yesterday, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted to test-fire the newly finished ARES I rocket motor for the first time. However, a minor glitch caused the test to be postponed until Tuesday, officials at the space agency and the con... |
28 August 2009
08:01 GMT |
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In spite of the recent controversies surrounding Project Constellation – NASA's new plan of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 – the American space agency is pushing ahead with its scheduled tests. The newly completed rocket will undergo its first, full-scale engine test today, at a facility ow... |
27 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA is proud to inform that it has successfully finished building the first fully functional rocket of its new ARES I series, known as ARES I-X. The spacecraft is part of the agency's Project Constellation, and is designed to become a replacement for the aging space shuttles, which are... |
15 August 2009
02:19 GMT |
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According to a new independent report, released by NASA just one day before the presidential investigation committee is scheduled to present its own conclusions to Barack Obama, the American space agency has a chance to save between $3 and $6 billion if it renounces its Ares I rocket, a part of Project Constellation.... |
13 August 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The ARES delivery systems I, IV and V are all part of NASA's Project Constellation, which was designed as a replacement for the Shuttle Program. With the current fleet scheduled to be withdrawn from active duty by the end of 2010, the pressure is high on the space agency to come up with the new spacecraft as soo... |
23 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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The American space agency will complete this week two historic milestones in its strife to have the ARES I-X test vehicle ready to launch by later this summer. With the preparations at Launch Pad 39B now underway, after the facility was transferred from the shuttle program to Project Constellation, NASA is working ha... |
12 June 2009
03:54 GMT |
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NASA's ARES I rocket will be a two-stage launch vehicle, designed to carry the future Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth's orbit. But its engineers envisioned the spacecraft as having a reusable first-stage motor, which means that it would have to somehow be recovered after each launch. Experts agree t... |
21 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The Constellation Project is one meant to thoroughly redefine the way in which NASA looks at manned space travel in the solar system. The new class of vehicles will include two types of ARES delivery systems, namely the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, as well as the Altair lunar lander. Still, the goal of seeing thes... |
16 April 2009
01:55 GMT |
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The American space agency's new delivery system, the ARES I, seems to be faced with a lot of problems. The most recent is one that doesn't come to many people's minds when thinking about going to orbit, and that's bubbles. Indeed, it would appear that engineers at NASA are currently working out ne... |
13 April 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The most recent parachute test that NASA conducted in the Arizona desert, near Yuma, was meant to test the parachute system on a 50,000-pound booster. Although the payload was a dummy, the heft it carried was not, and officials at the space agency and the US Air Force were anxious to see whether the lifting devices w... |
14 March 2009
04:27 GMT |
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There haven't been too many pieces of good news related to the Constellation project, and especially to the Ares I rocket as of late. At some point, even its ability to fly or to be completed on schedule was questioned and some NASA internal turmoil linked to the subject ended up with some resignations and skept... |
8 December 2008
03:03 GMT |
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According to a report released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), squeezing a new space mission among the ones to be conducted before the scheduled retirement of the shuttles could prevent this retirement process from happening in due time – by 2010, as hoped. The chance for this to still take... |
5 November 2008
03:37 GMT |
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The crew of seven astronauts that will make the trip to the International Space Station in two weeks' time went aboard the US space shuttle Endeavour two days ago, on October 29th, for their first practice run. The series of training sessions they have started is aimed at preparing them for the flight and for th... |
31 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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NASA's latest version of moon craft, the very one who put its original designer, Michael Griffin, in the position of NASA administrator 3 years ago, has encountered new glitches. This would mean millions of dollars over the budget and a considerable lag in terms of deadline, but NASA is prepared to do anything ... |
29 October 2008
04:09 GMT |
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The US space shuttles are supposed to retire in 2010 in order to give way to the Ares I rocket. However, it hasn't been a secret for awhile that NASA's new rocket design is fatally flawed and may shake itself to pieces during liftoff. NASA engineers believe they have found a solution to their problem, in th... |
7 April 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The next generation of rockets that are currently being designed by NASA, to launch vehicles into space during future manned lunar and Martian missions, are looking kind of shaky. Literally! They shake so violently in the launch process that the rocket will probably disintegrate long before getting into the Earth�... |
22 January 2008
02:32 GMT |
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