Thursday, October 31, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Dream Chaser damaged by crash landing in California
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Date: Oct 28, 2013 4:10 PM
Subject: Dream Chaser damaged by crash landing in California
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DREAM CHASER DAMAGED BY CRASH LANDING IN CALIFORNIA
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A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base on Saturday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/
EUROPEAN CARGO FREIGHTER UNDOCKS FROM SPACE STATION
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Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle backed away from the International Space Station on Monday, firing thrusters to vacate the outpost's safety bubble and begin positioning itself for a destructive re-entry Saturday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va213/131028undocking/
SIRIUS XM RADIO SPACECRAFT LAUNCHES ON PROTON ROCKET
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A Proton rocket and a Breeze M upper stage guided a fresh satellite into orbit Friday to begin a 15-year mission broadcasting hundreds of music, news and entertainment channels to Sirius XM Radio's 25 million subscribers in North America.
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/siriusfm6/131026launch/
GROUND CREWS GAS UP MAVEN FOR MARS MISSION
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A team of technicians with specialized skills filled the propellant tank inside NASA's Mars-bound MAVEN spacecraft with 3,626 pounds of hydrazine fuel Friday to help steer the mission toward its ultimate destination in orbit around the red planet.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av038/status.html
GUIDE TO THE PLANETS FOR iPAD
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From tiny Mercury to distant Neptune and Pluto, this interactive guide to the planets from Astronomy Now magazine takes you on a tour of our Solar System and beyond.
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Telecom Ramblings: “600Mbps to the Moon” plus 1 more
From: "Telecom Ramblings" <webmaster@telecomramblings.com>
Date: Oct 26, 2013 4:09 AM
Subject: Telecom Ramblings: "600Mbps to the Moon" plus 1 more
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Telecom Ramblings: "600Mbps to the Moon" plus 1 more |  |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:45 AM PDT There's something about bandwidth in space that simultaneously evokes the responses 'Oh Cool' and 'That sounds so primitive'. That's true for me with the report on various news sources this week about an actual 622Mbps broadband connection between the Earth and the Moon, or more precisely to the Lunar and Atmospheric Dust Environment Explorer probe that is currently orbiting it. … [visit site to read more] |
| Friday Bytes: Lightower, tw telecom, GTT, Teliasonera Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:16 AM PDT |
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
India putting final touches on Mars-bound spacecraft
From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2013 10:04 AM
Subject: India putting final touches on Mars-bound spacecraft
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The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the place to be this fall! The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's 2013 Astronaut Autograph & Memorabilia Show will be touching down on the Space Coast November 9-10. More than 30 legendary astronauts and other space celebrities will gather to sign autographs, pose for pictures and share their stories. Purchase your tickets today at http://www.AstronautScholarship.org/aams!
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INDIA PUTTING FINAL TOUCHES ON MARS-BOUND SPACECRAFT
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India's first Mars probe is preparing for launch in late October on a trial run to the red planet to lay the technological foundation for future Indian deep space missions.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/07isromars/
FIFTH WGS COMMUNICATIONS CRAFT ENTERS MILITARY SERVICE
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The U.S. Air Force has taken control of its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, and a sixth high-throughput WGS spacecraft is on track to join the Defense Department's most capable fleet of communications satellites by the end of 2013, prime contractor Boeing announced last week.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/07wgs/
LADEE ARRIVES AT THE MOON FOR LUNAR SCIENCE MISSION
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NASA's LADEE spacecraft slipped into orbit around the moon Sunday, beginning a feverish four-month campaign to demonstrate a next-generation laser communications system and answer long-standing questions about the nature and origin of the tenuous lunar atmosphere.
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/ladee/131006loi/
SES 8 SATELLITE SHIPPED FOR NEXT FALCON 9 LAUNCH
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A communications satellite booked for the next launch of the Falcon 9 rocket was transported by truck from Virginia to Florida this week as SpaceX seeks to allay the worries of the payload's owner - the global commercial operator SES - and the insurance community after the Falcon 9's test flight Sunday encountered a second stage engine restart anomaly.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/131005shipment/
PROTON'S RETURN-TO-FLIGHT MISSION DELAYED BY GLITCH
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Grounded since a startling launch failure in July, Russia's Proton rocket will have to wait at least another two weeks to resume flights due to a technical problem on the booster's first stage.
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/astra2e/130913delay/
MAVEN GRANTED REPRIEVE FROM GOVERNMENT CLOSURE
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Engineers returned to work on NASA's next Mars mission at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday after receiving an emergency exception under federal law to continue launch preparations for a $671 million orbiter to probe the red planet's atmosphere.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av038/131003resumption/
GUIDE TO THE PLANETS FOR iPAD
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From tiny Mercury to distant Neptune and Pluto, this interactive guide to the planets from Astronomy Now magazine takes you on a tour of our Solar System and beyond.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/planets-astronomy-now-guide/id633956878?ls=1&mt=8
+++ SPACESHIPS SCALED TO FIT ON YOUR DESK
Beautifully crafted models of rockets and spaceships. The mighty Delta 4 Heavy now available in two sizes.
http://www.spaceflightnowstore.com/us/catalog/index.php?cPath=51
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