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Court Injunction Blocks Russian Engine Purchase by ULA for US National...
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket – powered by Russian made RD-180 engines – and Super Secret NROL-67 intelligence gathering payload poised for launch at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral...
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Moscow Delivers Double Whammy to US Space Efforts – Bans Rocket Engines for...
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket – powered by Russian made RD-180 engines – and Super Secret NROL-67 intelligence gathering payload poised for launch at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral...
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Atlas V Blasts Off with Clandestine US Spy Satellite Amidst Russian Engine...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on May 22 at 9:09 a.m. EDT. Designated NROL-33, the...
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Engineers Start Stacking Operations for Maiden Launch of NASA’s Orion Deep...
The Orion crew module for Exploration Flight Test-1 is shown in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell, positioned over the service module just prior to mating the two sections together....
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NASA’s Orion Deep Space Capsule Completes Most Complex Parachute Test Ahead...
A test version of NASA’s Orion manned spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Arizona in the agency’s most difficult test of the parachutes system’s...
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NASA Set to Launch OCO-2 Observatory on July 1 – Sniffer of Carbon Dioxide...
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) at the Launch Pad This black-and-white infrared view shows the launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting...
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NASA’s Carbon Observatory Blasts off on Workhorse Delta II to Measure Carbon...
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere, lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 2:56 a.m. Pacific Time, July...
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Risk Reduction Milestone Tests Move Commercial Dream Chaser Closer to...
Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle built by Sierra Nevada Corp docks at ISS The winged Dream Chaser mini-shuttle under development by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of...
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Airframe Structure for First Commercial Dream Chaser Spacecraft Unveiled
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser® orbital structural airframe at Lockheed Martin in Ft. Worth, Texas. Credit: Lockheed Martin The orbital airframe structure for the first commercial Dream...
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Boeing Completes All CST-100 Commercial Crew CCiCAP Milestones on Time and on...
Boeing unveiled full scale mockup of their commercial CST-100 ‘Space Taxi’ on June 9, 2014 at its intended manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The private vehicle will launch...
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Heat Protecting Back Shell Tiles Installed on NASA’s Orion EFT-1 Spacecraft...
Inside the Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians dressed in clean-room suits install a back shell tile panel onto the Orion crew module....
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Completely Clandestine CLIO Climbs through Clouds to Orbit on Mystery Mission
United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the CLIO mission for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company launched at 8:10 p.m. EDT September 16, 2014 from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape...
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Assembly Complete for NASA’s Maiden Orion Spacecraft Launching in December 2014
Technicians complete final assembly of NASA’s first Orion spacecraft with installation of the last ogive close out panels on the Launch Abort System that smoothes airflow. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett...
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NASA’s 1st Orion Complete and Ready to Roll to Launch Pad
NASA’s completed Orion spacecraft in the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ready to be rolled out to Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ahead of...
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NASA’s Pathfinding Orion Rolls to Launch Pad, Hoisted atop Rocket for Maiden...
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Orion spacecraft pauses in front of the spaceport’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building as it is transported to Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral...
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Cool Infographics Explain 8 Key Events on Orion’s EFT-1 Test Flight
Orion flight test profile for the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) launching on Dec. 4, 2014. Credit: NASA After moving out to the launch pad earlier this week, NASA’s first Orion spacecraft was...
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Video Caption: Animation details NASA’s Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission launching on Dec. 4. 2014. Credit: NASA It’s not Science Fiction! It’s Not Star Trek! No. It’s a really, really...
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T Minus 1 Day to Launch: Orion at the Pad Photos
Orion spacecraft atop Delta 4 Heavy rocket Booster at Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida one day prior to launch set for Dec. 4, 2014. Credit: Ken Kremer –...
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Busy Year of 13 Launches by ULA in 2015 Begins with Blastoffs for the Navy...
MUOS-3 communications satellite for the US Navy awaits launch atop an Atlas V rocket at pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on Jan. 20, 2015. Credit: John Studwell/AmericaSpace A busy year...
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Most Powerful Atlas V Delivers a Most Spectacular Nighttime Sky Show Launch...
Blastoff of ULA Atlas V rocket lofting MUOS-3 to orbit for the US Navy from Space Launch Complex-41 at 8:04 p.m. EST on Jan. 20, 2015. Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace See launch gallery below!...
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