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ATK successfully completed the last Liberty space transportation system milestone under the company’s unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev-2).
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NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on 13 July. The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space Launch System, or SLS. The SLS will launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft and other payloads.
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NASA Space Technology Program researchers will launch and deploy a large inflatable heat shield aboard a rocket travelling at hypersonic speeds this weekend during a technology demonstration test from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
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The Russian manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M has docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft approached ISS after two days of free flight in low Earth orbit. Flight operations during the final phase of the spacecraft rendezvous with the space station were performed normally, in automatic mode.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has completed on-orbit testing of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, designated MUOS-1, paving the way for the U.S. Navy’s multi-service operational test and evaluation phase in preparation for the start of operations in August 2012.
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The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. STPSat-3 spacecraft built for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) will host five payloads and a de-orbit module when it launches in 2013.
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GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a follow-on order by Orbital Sciences Corporation to deliver batteries to be used aboard the Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft supporting NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) programme for the International Space Station.
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Significant strides forward have been made since the announcement at IBC in September 2011 of the introduction of Carrier ID in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games in order to assure quality DVB satellite transmissions of the event, three major satellite operators said.
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