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Archive for March, 2013

Dragon returns to Earth

March 26th, 2013 by

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company’s second cargo flight to the International Space Station on 26 March with a 1736 UTC splashdown in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred kilometers west of Baja California, Mexico.

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XCOR Aerospace announces propulsion milestone on Lynx vehicle

March 26th, 2013 by

XCOR Aerospace announced the firing of a full piston pump-powered rocket engine. The company said this breakthrough is the foundation for fully reusable spacecraft that can fly multiple times per day, every day.

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Curiosity resumes science investigations

March 26th, 2013 by

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on 28 February.

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Dragon spacecraft ready to return to Earth

March 22nd, 2013 by

More than three weeks after arriving at the…Read more

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Mitsubishi Electric completes expansion of satellite production facility

March 22nd, 2013 by

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it…Read more

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China building terrestrial differential BeiDou system

March 22nd, 2013 by

A ground system aimed at enhancing the navigation…Read more

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JSC Global Contact Consulting of Georgia selects Eutelsat 36B for TV platform

March 22nd, 2013 by

JSC Global Contact Consulting, a Georgian media…Read more

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SSL selected by Hughes to build high capacity Ka-band broadband satellite

March 21st, 2013 by

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has been selected by Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation to build what will be the world’s highest capacity broadband satellite–Jupiter 2/EchoStar XIX.

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