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 Star City, Russia (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 
Canadian billionaire space tourist Guy Laliberte spoke with wonder Tuesday about his two-week voyage in space, calling his experience an amazing ride while admitting he had on occasion felt queasy. "Everything was an amazing ride and I would go back up there right now to do it again," Laliberte, the 50-year-old founder of circus show Cirque du Soleil, told a press conference at Star City ... read more
Upham NM (SPX) Oct 14, 2009New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch of a test flight vehicle for Lockheed Martin by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America on Saturday, October 10. The brief test flight was a non-public, unpublished event at the request of Lockheed Martin, who is testing proprietary advanced launch technologies. "Saturday's launch successfully lifted off at 9:45 a.m. ... more
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Launch of the vehicle is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 on a Minotaur IV rocket from Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex. The pre-shipment review was ... more  
Goleta CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Alliant Techsystems broke ground yesterday on a 25,000 square foot expansion of the company's facility in Goleta, California. The expanded operations will support NASA's human space flight program, as well as global weather satellites and possible future spacecraft missions. A number of local and state officials attended the ground breaking, including and Congresswoman Lois Capps ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 14, 2009Russia's federal space agency has started work to design a new carrier rocket to orbit manned flights from a new space center in the country's Far East, the head of the agency said on Tuesday. Roscosmos's Anatoly Perminov said priority would be given to the rocket's reliability and safety, including crew evacuation at any stage of the flight. He said the new rocket would be used as ... more |
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Dearborn MI (SPX) Oct 13, 2009Researchers have found potential for a GPS satellite to act as an early warning system that detects when a vehicle is about to lose control and communicate with the vehicle's stability control systems and other safety features to prevent a rollover or other serious accident. The research findings will be presented next week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics ... more  
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first of 18 new F-16s being produced for Pakistan in ceremonies at its Fort Worth, Texas, facility. Officials including the Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. and Pakistan Air Forces were on hand to witness the event. Air Chief Marshal Rao Quamar Suleman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force (PAF), accepted the first F-16 Block 52 aircraft on behalf of his ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Russia and the United States should work more closely on missile defence, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday, after Washington's shelving of a missile shield plan ended a major dispute with Moscow. "We would like to see Russia and the United States collaborate closely on missile defence," Clinton told reporters after talks with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. ... more |
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