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(Commercial Space Watch) Sierra Nevada Corporation Delivers the Dream Chaser First Flight Test Vehicle Structure
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems announces the completion of a major Dream Chaser(R) milestone under NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program.
(Commercial Space Watch) Space Frontier Foundation and NASA Announce $110,000 in NewSpace Business Plan Competition Prizes
Space Frontier Foundation and NASA Announce $110,000 in NewSpace Business Plan Competition Prizes
(Commercial Space Watch) NASA Langley Awards Logistics Support Services Contract
NASA Langley Awards Logistics Support Services Contract
(Discovery News) Iran Launches Another Satellite
The Navid observation satellite is expected to stay in orbit for 18-months, heightening tensions with western countries.
(ScienceDaily) Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home.
(ScienceDaily) Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600-million-year drought, say scientists
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analyzing individual particles of Martian soil.
(Space Fellowship) Armadillo Aerospace launches their third "STIG-A" rocket from Spaceport America
UPHAM, NM – New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced today a launch of a “STIG-A” rocket designed and built by Armadillo Aerospace. The launch took place from Spaceport America's vertical launch complex on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The research and development test flight was a non-public, unpublished event at the request of Armadillo Aerospace, as the company is testing proprietary advanced launch technologies. Saturday’s Armadillo launch successfully lifted [...]
(Space Politics) Space hasn’t completely faded from the presidential campaign
The conventional wisdom was that, after the Florida primary earlier this week, space policy would fade from the presidential campaign at least though the rest of the GOP primary race. By and large, that’s been the case: as the candidates have moved on to Nevada and other states, they’ve focused their attention on other issues, [...]
(euronews) Ti my shoes
This tannery in Silla, Spain, has made its leather production greener and safer with a new technology developed as part of an EU-funded research…
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(Space Fellowship) Iran Launches Observation Satellite
Iran has successfully launched an observation satellite, Iranian news network Press TV reported on Friday. The domestically-built Navid (Harbinger) satellite is designed to take pictures of the Earth at low altitudes of 250 to 370 kilometers. Press TV hailed it as the “first satellite to be completely designed and built by Iranian experts.” The head of Iran’s Space Agency, Hamid Fazeli, earlier announced plans to establish a “national satellite launch base” in the Islamic repu [...]