Vector Completes Successful Flight Test of Vector-R Launch Vehicle, SpaceRef “This successful flight test represents Vector’s next technical milestone of the Vector-R launch vehicle. The flight test, which took place […]
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Cool Video of UP Aerospace SL-10 Launch
Video: UP Aerospace SL-10 NASA Flight Opportunities Mission “On November 6, 2015 UP Aerospace successfully executed a mission for NASA to deploy the Maraia Earth Return Capsule. The mission reached […]
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Billionaire Space Nerds Duke It Out On Twitter
The rarest of beasts – a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, can look easy. Check out video: https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3 — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 24, 2015 Jeff […]
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NASA Is Buying Commercial Suborbital Flights
NASA SpaceTech-REDDI-2015 Appendix F1: NASA Flight Opportunities Now Open “The purpose of this Appendix is to provide funding for the testing or demonstration of crosscutting space technologies in relevant environments […]
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Blue Origin Completes Acceptance Testing of BE-3 Engine
Blue Origin Completes Acceptance Testing of BE-3 Engine for New Shephard Suborbital Flight “Blue Origin recently completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine, the first new hydrogen engine to […]
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Commercial Microgravity Flight Services RFI Released
NASA Request for Information: Commercial Microgravity Flight Services “This notice issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC), Edwards, CA is a […]
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NASA Picks Suborbital Providers
NASA Selects U.S. Firms to Provide Commercial Suborbital Flight Services “NASA has selected four companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near […]
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SpaceShipTwo Goes Supersonic for Third Time
Virgin Galactic Reaches New Heights in Third Supersonic Test Flight “Today, Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, which is owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s […]
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Iranian Monkey Makes Suborbital Flight (Update)
Iran hails voyage of Fargam the space monkey, Telegraph “Iran said on Saturday that it had safely returned a monkey to Earth after blasting it into space in the second […]
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NASA Seeks Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles
NASA Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (sRLV) Flight and Payload Integration Services “NASA/DFRC plans to issue a Competitive Request for Proposal (RFP)/Solicitation for the following Commercial item/services: … The anticipated release […]