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Boeing X-37C Crew Vehicle

By Andrea Gini on October 8, 2011

Crew carrying X-37C conceptual study (Credits: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing). As already announced by the Space Safety Magazine, Boeing is studying an... Read more →

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Tiangong-1 Is In Ready for Docking

By Andrea Gini on October 7, 2011

Artist's conception of the Tiangong-1 experimental space station module (Source: Xinhua). According to Xinhua, the first Chinese space station... Read more →

Press Releases

An NGO Report on Space Waste

By Andrea Gini on October 7, 2011

Representation of all active satellites (in green) and space waste measuring more than 10 cm (in red) on 26 August 2009 from Spacetrack, ranging... Read more →

News

Canadian Satellite Malfunction Disrupts Air Traffic

By Andrea Gini on October 7, 2011

A malfuction of the Telsat Anik F2 on October 6, 2011, left thousands of people in northern Canada without communications services, such as... Read more →

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Boeing Studies X-37B Evolved Crew Derivative

By Andrea Gini on October 6, 2011

According to Aviation Week, Boeing is studying scaled-up variants of the reusable X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV) for potential delivery of... Read more →

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Nanosail-D Tumbling in Earth Orbit

By Ralf Vandebergh on October 6, 2011

Artist's conception of Nanosail-D deployed in Earth's obit (Credits: NASA). The experimental solarsail called Nanosail-D developed by NASA... Read more →