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NASA’s said its PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build spacecraft.

The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at ESA’s test facilities to replicate conditions it will experience during its intense ride into space.

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The launch of an Atlas V carrying the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office NROL-36 payload is being rescheduled. The NROL-36 mission leadership has established a new launch date of 13 September and a request for this new launch date on the range has been submitted to the 30th Space Wing.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced new milestones in the United States’ commercial space initiatives. The latest advances made by NASA’s commercial space partners pave the way for the first contracted flight of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) this autumn and mark progress toward a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years, the agency said.
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Aerojet announced that its Low Earth Orbit (LEO)-7 second stage rocket motor successfully completed a hot-fire test at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft raised the International Space Station (ISS) orbit to about 420 kilometers.
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