Press Releases

SpaceX Launch Abort System Approved

By Tereza Pultarova on October 26, 2011

Artist's conception of Dragon escape system firing (Credits: SpaceX). SpaceX announced the completion of the preliminary design review of the... Read more →

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ROSAT reentered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal

By Andrea Gini on October 26, 2011

Accordint to German space agency DLR and its partners, including NASA, the Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) reentered the atmosphere over the Bay of... Read more →

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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Phase 1 Drop Test

By Andrea Gini on October 26, 2011

Source NASA: Engineers conducted the first test as part of Phase 1 of the Orion MPCV boilerplate test article at NASA's Langley Research Center, on... Read more →

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Living on Tiangong

By Morris Jones on October 26, 2011

Tiangong-1 during integration. With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that... Read more →

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SpaceX is Fixing Software Development Procedures

By Andrea Gini on October 25, 2011

According to Space News, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is fixing its software development procedures, in order to address... Read more →

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Commercial Crew Development Progress Report

By Andrea Gini on October 25, 2011

CCDev milestone progress as of Oct. 21, 2011 - (Credits: NASA). Source NASA: Over the last two months, NASA’s industrypartners demonstrated... Read more →