Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently considering a new proposal for delivering satellites into space. The approach would rely on using airplanes for the job, rather than regular rockets.
The Pentagon agency is constantly on the look-out for new options on strengthening... |
8 November 2011
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Congressmen from the Senate science committee did not issue a subpoena they recently threatened NASA with this Monday, deciding to give the American space agency some leeway with preparing documents explaining how it will go about building a new heavy-lift rocket by 2016. This was one of the congressional compromises... |
1 July 2011
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Engineers at the American space agency conducted an innovative test yesterday, March 23, which saw a simulation of a rocket stage getting crushed into a pulp. Results obtained from this could in the future help delivery system builders and designers create more reliable heavy-lift rockets.Structural strength tests su... |
24 March 2011
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Under the now-defunct Project Constellation, the American space agency was to construct a new heavy-lift delivery system, the ARES V. But Congress asked for a different approach late last years, and NASA has now come through with a new proposal that significantly reduces costs.In a presentation NASA officials made la... |
14 January 2011
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On December 26, at 4:51 pm EST (2151 GMT), a Russian Proton rocket roared to the skies from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Eutelsat Communications' KA-SAT satellite to orbit.This is the eight successful commercial mission that International Launch Services (ILS) managed for 2010. The company is ... |
28 December 2010
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According to US congressmen, the American space agency would do good to follow the directions set forth in the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, as passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama.At the same time, the lawmakers said that the President is making attempts to see the agency waver from the path it ... |
2 December 2010
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Officials at the American space agency announce that it has recently selected 13 corporations to conduct negotiations with for the potential awarding of contracts concerning the creation of trade studies and system analysis for prospective heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts.Under the new NASA Authorization Bil... |
9 November 2010
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Officials at the American space agency announced Thursday, September 18, that they have selected two more companies as part of the Launch Services II contract. The Athena Launch Vehicle Family, which is developed by Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK), will become a part of NASA's plans to fill in the ... |
18 September 2010
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A four-month review of the options currently available for the American space agency has revealed that the bill proposed by Senate appears to be the best way to go. Some key tenets of the proposals US President Barack Obama made a the beginning of this year are unfeasible, the reports further states. The group that c... |
14 September 2010
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According to officials at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), preparations are already underway for modifying the Falcon 9 medium-lift delivery systems for a new spaceflight. Following the successful launch of the private rocket this June, experts at the company are now targeting an October launch date for a sec... |
8 September 2010
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Even if theoretically this should not happen, a Senate bill gives NASA precise instructions on how it should construct its next generation of heavy-lift delivery systems.Experts with various panels and committees in the US Congress have taken a deep interest in the American space agency's future, ever since US P... |
26 August 2010
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announce that they are currently targeting a June 4 launch date for their Falcon 9 rocket. The delivery system was assembled at its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) launch pad months ago, but thus far various tech... |
2 June 2010
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Under US President Barack Obama's new budget proposal, NASA is to spend the next five years searching for alternatives to the ARES V heavy-lift delivery system. The massive rocket was a part of the now-proposed-for-cancellation Project Constellation, but a review panel found it to be insufficiently advanced and ... |
13 May 2010
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Project Constellation is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious space programs ever devised. It was set up under then-President George Bush and aimed at developing new spacecrafts and delivery system to return humans to the Moon. But President Barack Obama proposed that the initiative be canceled, in favor of supporti... |
14 April 2010
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Under the 2011 budget proposal, the American space agency would need to cancel its Project Constellation approach to go back to the Moon. Instead, it would invest about $6 billion in private companies, for developing space-bound space capsules and delivery systems. The plan was heavily criticized for lack of vision, ... |
24 March 2010
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A group of researchers in Japan has recently discovered a new method of controlling the size of an advanced form of medication against cancer. When lipid-based drug carriers were first developed, they were hailed as a massive innovation in the field of medicine. They essentially work by including anticancer drugs tha... |
22 March 2010
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Scientists from a number of universities in Finland have joined forces for a common interest, the development of a silicon-based delivery system at the nanoscale. The innovation holds great promise for carrying drugs to their alloted destinations, and may also provide a new way of combating obesity and excessive appe... |
4 December 2009
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Engineers at Arianespace, the manufacturer for the heavy-lift delivery system Ariane 5, can be proud of their work. Their rocket design has once again proven itself to be one of the most efficient and reliable in the world, when it soared into the skies on October 29, carrying a new double-payload. The take-off took ... |
31 October 2009
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