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Kent, Washington-based private aerospace company, Blue Origin has recently revealed more details about its New Shepherd manned capsule, a spacecraft it is developing under a Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contract with the American space agency.
The company is currently developing both suborbital and orbital sp... |
5 May 2012
06:10 GMT |
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The Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) launched a new resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, April 20. The Progress 47 robotic capsule reached orbit successfully, and is expected to dock with the orbital outpost on April 22.The spacecraft took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in t... |
21 April 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Incorporated (SpaceX) recently conducted its first NASA Crew Trial, one of two assessments meant to verify that the manned version of the company's Dragon spacecraft could be used to ferry astronauts to space.
SpaceX made no secret of ... |
19 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Officials with the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announce that the Progress M-13M resupply capsule has undocked from the International Space Station on Monday, January 23. The move was meant to make room for another Progress capsule, which launches today, January 25.
Progress M-13M spent 82 days docked to... |
25 January 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Officials at the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announce plans to augment their rocket and space capsule ranges with the world's first fully-reusable delivery system. The rocket would be able to deliver its cargo, and then return to land vertically near its launch pad.
In addition to the... |
1 October 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Now that the American space agency announced that it awarded a new series of contracts, the world finally gets a chance to learn more about Blue Origin and the spacecraft it plans to build. Despite being based at the heart of the East Coast, the company is keeping its project under wraps.
The secretive way in whi... |
22 April 2011
02:57 GMT |
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According to an announcement made on Thursday, March 17, Iran recently launched a new rocket into space, carrying on top of it a space capsule. The capsule was reportedly designed to accommodate a monkey. The launch took place on Tuesday, March 15, the release further shows. The announcement was made by the Islamic R... |
18 March 2011
04:35 GMT |
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According to the flight manifest governing all missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the next flight to launch for low-Earth orbit is that of the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, an unmanned cargo delivery spacecraft constructed by JAXA.The space probe features no automated docking controls of its ... |
7 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) announce big plans for their Dragon space capsule, which made its maiden flight on December 8.
The spacecraft is the first privately-built and owned capsule to launch to space aboard a private rocket, demonstrate orbital... |
11 December 2010
05:01 GMT |
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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
03:24 GMT |
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Scientists at Lockheed Martin announce that the efforts to construct the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle are currently progressing smoothly, and that the spacecraft will most likely be ready by 2013. At this point, the Lockheed-led engineering crew in charge of creating the Orion has begun lean assembly pathfinding op... |
22 September 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they have just cleared the second-ever Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for delivery to Kourou. This capsule is called Johannes Kepler, in honor of the great astronomer, and represents a component of ESA's contribution to the International Space Station ... |
12 May 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Three astronauts are currently undergoing final preparations in Kazakhstan, as they get ready to embark on the Soyuz TMA-18 space capsule. The mission, which will take place in the TMA-18 vehicle, is scheduled to blast of on Friday, April 2, at around 12:04 EDT (0404 UTC). The mission is bound to the International Sp... |
1 April 2010
10:57 GMT |
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A group of researchers working under the supervision of experts at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) have just demonstrated the viability of an all-composite space capsule. During early, full-scale structural tests performed over the past few months, at the American space agency's Langley Research Ce... |
26 January 2010
20:11 GMT |
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In a new International Space Station (ISS) first, the H2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) unmanned cargo freighter, belonging to the Japanese space agency JAXA, has been undocked from the station, and released over the Pacific Ocean. This spacecraft was the first of its kind, and was successful on its first launch as well. JAX... |
31 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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