May 31st, 2012 by
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 1542 UTC west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.
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May 31st, 2012 by
Preparations for the second landing of the X-37B, the U.S. Air Force’s unmanned, reusable space plane, are underway at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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May 31st, 2012 by
Boeing has been awarded an 18-month study contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate technologies for on-demand small satellite launch systems.
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May 31st, 2012 by
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (LMT) a US$68 million contract to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS III space vehicles. The first and second GPS III satellites are on schedule for launch availability in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
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