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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program completed a combined System Requirements Review and System Definition Review, which set requirements of the overall launch vehicle system. SLS now moves ahead to its preliminary design phase.
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ESA has begun investigating the feasibility of a new approach for European access to space, aimed at making Europe’s launch services fully self-sufficient over the long haul.
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Astrotech Corporation, (ASTC) and its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary (ASO) announced that NASA has awarded Astrotech a US$2.0 million task order to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the scheduled 2013 launch of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L).
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity rover.
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Boeing recently shipped the third of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites for the U.S. Air Force from the company’s Satellite Development Center in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has completed work on the instrument it designed and built for the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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ATK has been selected as a key participant to support the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technologies Office (TTO) Phoenix Technologies Program.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine how small satellites can be carried to geostationary orbit (GEO) as hosted payloads on commercial satellites.
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