From A B-25 To Lynx Suborbital Space Craft For Tuskegee Airman
XCOR Aerospace presented Tuskegee Airman Le Roy Gillead, of San Francisco, with a ticket for a ride to the edge of space.
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Arianespace Simultaneously Preps for Heavy, Medium and Lightweight
Much activity is taking place as Arianespace's development of its commercial launcher family gains new momentum at the Spaceport in French Guiana to support the sustained mission rate for heavy-lift Ariane 5, and to prepare for future missions of the medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega vehicles.
Read MoreHOT BIRD-10 + NSS-9 + Spirale Duo Launched Successfully By Arianespace
Arianespace has successfully launched Ariane 5, which orbited payloads for two of the world’s leading satellite communications operators — Eutelsat and SES.
Read MoreThis Dragon Provides Jobs, Saves Money and Transports Astronauts and Cargo
SpaceX has done very well in providing Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program for NASA, which was validated in 2006 when SpaceX won the NASA COTS competition to demonstrate transporting of cargo and, optionally, crew to and from the International Space Station.
Read MoreA Breeze Of A Launch For AM44 + MD1
The Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 satellites have been successfully launched into target orbit by a Proton-M rocket with Breeze-M accelerator and are now under control of the RSCC satellite mission control center.
Read MoreHeavy Lifting Involved With This Job — Ariane 5 Is a Workhorse
Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been given the go-ahead for its February 12 liftoff following completion of the mission's launch readiness review, which was held today at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read MoreHerschel, Planck, Ariane 5 Of Special Interest To Arianespace
The launch vehicle for Arianespace's second Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has begun its assembly at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the startup of preparations for a dual-satellite mission that will yield new insights into the formation of stars and the universe's creation.
Read MoreSpace Census Of Black Holes Part of NuSTAR’s Mission
NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray telescope.
Read MoreNOAA-19 Into Orbit To Examine Earth
A new NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 6th and is now circling the globe every 102 minutes, taking images and measurements to support NOAA’s efforts to forecast and monitor the environment. NOAA-19 joins NOAA-18 and one European environmental satellite already in polar orbit.
Read MoreATK Pushes NOAA-N Prime
Alliant Techsystems played a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the NOAA-N Prime satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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