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Archive for January 10th, 2012

VesselSat 2 healthy after launch

January 10th, 2012 by

Orbcomm Inc. announced the successful launch of VesselSat 2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl, an affiliate of OHB System AG.
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NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer completes mission operations

January 10th, 2012 by

After 16 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views into the extreme environments around white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
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SpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power

January 10th, 2012 by

For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will use deployable solar arrays as its primary power source for running sensors, driving heating and cooling systems, and communicating with SpaceX’s Mission Control Center and the Space Station.
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Ball Aerospace submits cryogenic propellant storage mission concept to NASA

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space.
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Do space aliens eat Russian spacecraft?

January 10th, 2012 by

“The Fobos-Grunt project was inherently risky and it was underfunded to begin with. There’s no need for conspiracy theories, and no reason to take [Roskosmos head] Popovkin’s suggestion seriously. Maybe he meant extraterrestrials?” – Alexei Sinitsky, editor of aerospace trade journal Aviatsionnoye Obozreniye, according to Christian Science Monitor.
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