September 30th, 2016 by
The U.S. Air Force released a Request for Proposal for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Launch Service supporting the Space Test Program (STP) 3 mission scheduled to launch in June 2019.
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September 30th, 2016 by
Surrey Space Centre and NanoRacks announced the RemoveDebris mission will be deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) using the NanoRacks Kaber Satellite Deployment System (Kaber).
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September 30th, 2016 by
ESA’s Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years. Confirmation of the end of the mission arrived at ESA’s control centre in Darmstadt, Germany at 11:19 UTC with the loss of Rosetta’s signal upon impact.
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September 30th, 2016 by
Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 4 October following a launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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September 29th, 2016 by
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin US$395 million in contract options for the production of the ninth and tenth Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite.
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September 29th, 2016 by
Airbus Defence and Space and Neumann Space, an Australian Space technology company, have signed the very first agreement for a hosted payload aboard the new Bartolomeo platform of the International Space Station (ISS).
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September 28th, 2016 by
The Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s eighth mission of 2016 is now fully assembled following this week’s integration of its two satellite passengers at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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September 28th, 2016 by
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to begin the certification process for the company’s new Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle.
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