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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) launched their Falcon 1 Flight 3 mission on Saturday, August 2nd. Unfortunately, the rocket failed after several minutes into the flight, the third such failure by SpaceX to launch this rocket. The anomaly that caused the failure has not yet been identified.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) launched their Falcon 1 Flight 3 mission on Saturday, August 2nd. Unfortunately, the rocket failed after several minutes into the flight, the third such failure by SpaceX to launch this rocket. The anomaly that caused the failure has not yet been identified.
Read MoreNASA is planning to fly two nanosatellites as secondary payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket in either August or September of this year. Spaceflight engineers and project managers at NASA's Ames Research Center, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, teamed together to arrange a fast-paced, low-cost mission.
Read MoreEver the showman, Richard Branson, along with his Virgin Galactic team and designer Burt Rutan, in a dramatic early morning Mojave Desert setting revealed WhiteKnightTwo, the twin-fuselaged mother plane of the futuristic SpaceShipTwo.
Read MoreIt's already been done, twice before, and next month the Proton Breeze M launch vehicle will, hopefully, complete the worldwide constellation of Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellites, thereby providing global broadband coverage.
Read MoreNASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket.
Read MoreThe second of two satellites for Ariane 5’s next flight has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport.
Read MoreThe Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site in the Equatorial Pacific over the weekend and initiated a 72-hour countdown, in preparation for the launch of the EchoStar XI satellite on Tuesday, July 15.
Read MoreThere was something new on NASA's most recent space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the form of a new external fuel tank, ET-128.
Read MorePart one — mission accomplished. This is what GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ: GEOY], a provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, may have said when their satellite GeoEye-1 arrived safely at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
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