US may outsource lightweight satellite launches to India, India Strategic “Lockheed Martin’s India Chief Executive Roger Rose told India Strategic that as the US was moving towards longer distance and […]
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Virgin's VSS Enterprise Makes First Manned Glide Flight
VSS Enterprise Completes First Manned Glide Flight “10th October 2010, Mojave, CA. Virgin Galactic, the US company developing the world’s first commercial manned space flight system and tourism business, is […]
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Latest SpaceX Update (with photos)
SpaceX Update: COTS Demonstration Flight 1 (with photos) “On September 15th we completed a successful wet dress rehearsal (WDR) which involved rolling the rocket out to the pad, loading it […]
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JAXA Wants (but can't attract) More Private Sector Funds
Price too high on space module for hire, Daily Yomiuri “The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has received few requests from private corporations wanting to lease space in the research module […]
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Commercial Crew Development Round 2
NASA Solicitation: Commercial Crew Development Round 2 “As a continuation of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiatives begun in 2009 to stimulate efforts within the private sector to develop and […]
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Awards: NASA Launch Services II
“The NLS II contracts are multiple award, IDIQ contracts with an ordering period through June 2020. These contracts will provide a broad range of launch services for NASA planetary, earth-observing, […]
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Another Commercial Space Station Emerges
Orbital Technologies and RSC Energia to Launch World’s First Commercial Space Station “Orbital Technologies and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energria) announced today their intentions to build, launch, and […]
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An Inside Look at Dragon
SpaceX targets Nov. 8 launch for Falcon 9 and Dragon, Ken Kremer (with photos) “SpaceX Corporation is retargeting the liftoff of the firm’s next Falcon 9 rocket to early November. […]
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SpaceX In The News
SpaceX CEO Musk comes to Washington to lobby for Obama’s NASA strategy, Washington Post “Our influence is a tiny fraction of any one of the giant contractors,” he said. “We […]
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More NASA Changes in Crew Cargo
NASA Solicitation: Human Rating Support for the Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office – Recovery.gov “JSC intends to reduce task order scope along with associated funding and value in the […]