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RT Logic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. announced the availability of their next generation high-rate digital telemetry data processor, the Telemetrix 500HR (T500HR).

U.S. entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow isn’t just working on inflatable habitats for space tourists but has also been awarded a U.S. patent for an inflatable satellite bus. What sounds rather strange at first may have applications especially for military satellites in order to hide and possibly retrofit them in orbit.

The Governor of Kazakhstan’s Kzylorda Region, Ikram Adyrbekov, estimates the environmental damage caused by the crash of a Dnepr rocket in the region last July at EUR292 million/US$333 million. Roskomos in reply said it would be premature to put a figure on the damage.

SpaceDev, Inc. has been issued a United States patent for its hybrid propulsion technology.

Purdue University engineers have demonstrated that an experiment can be specifically designed to study instabilities that occur spontaneously in real liquid-fuelled rocket engines.