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Atlas 5 team begins stacking most powerful variant for Navy launch
Read more →: Atlas 5 team begins stacking most powerful variant for Navy launchThe mission poster. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Continuing a run of military satellite deployments this summer, United…
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Mission to Phobos – The precursor to human Mars landing
Read more →: Mission to Phobos – The precursor to human Mars landingThe next great adventures for human space exploration have been touted as missions to asteroids and to the…
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NASA: Tracking CubeSats is easy, but many stay in orbit too long
Read more →: NASA: Tracking CubeSats is easy, but many stay in orbit too longTwo shoebox-sized Planet Labs satellites deploy from a dispenser aboard the International Space Station in this image from…
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ViaSat Authorizes C-COM 1.2m Ka-Band Antenna
Read more →: ViaSat Authorizes C-COM 1.2m Ka-Band Antenna[Via Satellite 07-30-2015] C-COM Satellite Systems’ iNetVu 1.2m Ka-band vehicle mount antenna system has received type approval from ViaSat for…
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Intelsat Says Future Satellites Remain on Track
Read more →: Intelsat Says Future Satellites Remain on Track[Via Satellite 07-30-2015] Intelsat, in announcing its second quarter earnings results, affirmed that the satellites it has awaiting…
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Italian veteran Paolo Nespoli to return to the ISS
Read more →: Italian veteran Paolo Nespoli to return to the ISSThe European Space Agency (ESA) has announced Paolo Nespoli is to return to the International Space Station (ISS)…
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DataPath Establishes New Aberdeen Proving Ground Office
Read more →: DataPath Establishes New Aberdeen Proving Ground Office[Via Satellite 07-30-2015] DataPath is opening a new office at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Md., to support U.S.…
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VT iDirect Sets Up R&D Subsidiary in Ireland
Read more →: VT iDirect Sets Up R&D Subsidiary in Ireland[Via Satellite 07-30-2015] VT iDirect, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering), has formed…
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Telesat Soon to Order Telstar 18 Successor, Reports Q2 Earnings
Read more →: Telesat Soon to Order Telstar 18 Successor, Reports Q2 Earnings[Via Satellite 07-30-2015] Telesat expects it will order a previously announced replacement satellite by the end of this…
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NASA mission’s leader calls B.S. on Pluto haters: Will it make a difference?
Read more →: NASA mission’s leader calls B.S. on Pluto haters: Will it make a difference?New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern’s jaw drops as he ogles the first pictures to be sent back…
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Video shows SpaceShipTwo just before fatal crash
Read more →: Video shows SpaceShipTwo just before fatal crashA video released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane drop from its carrier…
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China’s Long March 3B Launches Two BeiDou Satellites
Read more →: China’s Long March 3B Launches Two BeiDou Satellites[Via Satellite 07-29-2015] On Saturday, July 25, China launched two satellites aboard a Long March 3B/Expedition 1 rocket…