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Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments and Virgin Group have announced they have agreed to enter into a strategic partnership, which will see Aabar take an equity stake in the world's first commercial spaceline — Virgin Galactic.
Read MoreAvanti Communications Group plc, has selected Arianespace to launch the HYLAS telecommunications satellite.
Read MoreSouth Korea has once again postponed the launch of its first space rocket due to technical reasons, a spokesman for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute has stated.
Read MoreSpace shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew launched at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crew member to the International Space Station.
Read MoreSouth Korea will this month launch a satellite using its own rocket as part of a drive to join Asia's space race, officials said on Tuesday.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies' Falcon 1 rocket lifted off from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific at 11:35 p.m. EDT/0335 GMT on Tuesday carrying the 400-pound (180-kg) RazakSAT satellite, designed and built by ATSB of Malaysia.
Read MoreSanswire-TAO Corp. has successfully completed testing of the FuelGas powered propulsion system that will be used on the STS-111 commercial airship, designed to operate at an altitude of 15,000 ft. and providing a surveillance cone of approximately 120 miles.
Read MoreWay to go — Indonesia successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space on Thursday as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials said.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, July 1st, for its third mission of the year, Arianespace successfully launched into geostationary transfer orbit the largest commercial satellite ever launched, TerreStar-1, for North American operator TerreStar Networks Inc., via a rare, afternoon liftoff.
Read MoreILS International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton launch vehicle.
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