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Comtech EF Data Wins North African Contract
Read more →: Comtech EF Data Wins North African Contract[Via Satellite 07-20-2015] Comtech EF Data subsidiary Memotec received a $1 million order from a North African GSM…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk traces Falcon 9 rocket failure to busted strut
Read more →: SpaceX’s Elon Musk traces Falcon 9 rocket failure to busted strutThe unexpected breakdown of a tank strut apparently caused last month’s failure of a Falcon 9 rocket launch…
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Generation Orbit Conducts Second Flight Test
Read more →: Generation Orbit Conducts Second Flight Test[Via Satellite 07-20-2015] Generation Orbit Launch Services (GO) completed a second flight of its GO-Flight Experiments Testbed (GO-FET).…
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Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosion
Read more →: Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosionAlan Boyle We’ve been thrilled to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for…
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Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner kick off new search for E.T.
Read more →: Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner kick off new search for E.T.Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner. (Photo courtesy of Hawking Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.) Russian…
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JFCC Space Details Commercial Integration Cell Goals
Read more →: JFCC Space Details Commercial Integration Cell Goals[Via Satellite 07-20-2015] In an effort to include greater industry input in day-to-day operations, the United States Strategic…
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Preview: Enhanced rocket engine to power Delta 4 first stage Wednesday
Read more →: Preview: Enhanced rocket engine to power Delta 4 first stage WednesdayCredit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Using a new, uprated main engine for the first time on a rocket…
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Photos: Ariane 5 rocket blazes into orbit
Read more →: Photos: Ariane 5 rocket blazes into orbitA powerful Ariane 5 rocket soared into space with a European weather satellite and Brazilian telecom platform this…
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Photos: WGS 7 readied for launch
Read more →: Photos: WGS 7 readied for launchThis collection of photographs shows the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite No. 7 being encapsulated in…
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Fly over Pluto’s newly-explored surfaces
Read more →: Fly over Pluto’s newly-explored surfacesUsing three images beamed back to Earth from the New Horizons spacecraft’s long-range camera, scientists created this jaw-dropping…
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Scientists find signs of potential geysers on Pluto
Read more →: Scientists find signs of potential geysers on PlutoThis week’s New Horizons flyby of Pluto revealed unexpected terrain, such as these blocky patches of ice at…
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Arianespace Opens New Fregat Fueling Facility for Soyuz Rockets
Read more →: Arianespace Opens New Fregat Fueling Facility for Soyuz Rockets[Via Satellite 07-17-2015] Following the completion of a design and construction phase that lasted slightly more than two…