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Within preparation activities for its test firing, Angara’s first stage has been transported from Moscow-based manufacturing facilities of Khrunichev Space Center (KhSC) to the Chemical Machine building Research & Scientific Institute located in Peresvet city near Moscow, for test fitting on a stand.
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NASA has selected Ivey’s Construction Inc. of Merritt Island, Florida/USA, to build a new lightning protection system for Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.
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An explosion yesterday killed three workers and critically injured three others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by Scaled Composites, the builder of SpaceShipOne and the planned SpaceShipTwo.
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The launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS) will go ahead as scheduled on 7 August and will not be delayed owing to a sabotage incident reported earlier.
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NASA managers have set 7 August 2007 as the official launch date for space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-118 mission to the International Space Station. Lift-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 2302 UTC.
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Astrium has won a contract from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne to investigate concepts for a new upper stage for the European launcher Vega. The project is named “Venus” (Vega New Upper Stage).
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Sea Launch’s prime contractor for launch system ground support, the Design Bureau for Transport Machinery (DBTM) of Moscow, Russia, has completed fabrication of a new gas deflector for the Zenit-3SL launch system.
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Alliant Techsystems has been selected by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of the Orion prime contractor team, led by Lockheed Martin , to provide the attitude control motor (ACM) for NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle launch abort system (LAS).
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