Engineers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) moved the NASA Juno spacecraft to its designated takeoff site yesterday, July 27. The maneuver was then followed by the mating of the probe with its Atlas 5 delivery system, that will take it to Jupiter.At this point, Juno is scheduled to launch on Friday, Aug... |
28 July 2011
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NASA and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) have recently signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement, under which the private enterprise will analyze the possibility of converting its renowned Atlas 5 delivery system into a platform for launching astronauts into space.
ULA is a joint venture between the Boeing Company ... |
19 July 2011
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Yesterday night, on April 14, the night sky above California was lit up by a new rocket launch. The delivery system carried a classified spacecraft into Earth's orbit. At this point, the mission the new satellite has is unknown, but the safest bet would be to say that it's a spy vehicle. The flight was orde... |
15 April 2011
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that the American space agency plans to send a new orbiter spacecraft to Mars by the end of 2013. In a recent announcement, NASA informed that it has selected the delivery system that will get the spacecraft to the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) o... |
27 October 2010
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Officials at Bigelow Aerospace announce that the company has just signed six individual memorandums of understanding with different countries, for the construction of space habitats. Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Australia and the United Kingdom are all interested in establishing presences in space, insi... |
20 October 2010
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After much rumor on the issue, it would appear that the American space agency NASA, and its European counterpart, ESA, will soon reach a conclusive agreement of collaboration for the ExoMars exploration mission, currently scheduled to take off sometime in 2016. The rover, which is about the same size as the American ... |
24 June 2009
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Plans for destroying the USA-193 spy satellite started pouring in as soon as January 4th and, on February 12th, the president of the US, George Walter Bush, approved the plan at a cost of an excess of 40 million dollars. On Thursday, February 14th, the plan to destroy the spy satellite was put into action with the la... |
29 February 2008
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