GOES-14 Activated to Replace Failed GOES-13

GOES-14 Activated to Replace Failed GOES-13

The NOAA Satellite and Information Service posted a notice on its Facebook page this morning announcing that the GOES-14 satellite is now online to replace GOES-13, which failed on Tuesday.  …

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Little Love for Asteroid Retrieval Mission; Squyres Deeply Worried about SLS Launch Rate

Little Love for Asteroid Retrieval Mission; Squyres Deeply Worried about SLS Launch Rate

Only one of four witnesses at a congressional hearing Tuesday expressed enthusiasm for the Obama Administration’s new Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM).  No consensus emerged on an alternative, but ARM clearly …

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Obama Administration Releases Draft Rules to Ease Satellite Export Controls – update

Obama Administration Releases Draft Rules to Ease Satellite Export Controls – update

UPDATE, May 24:  Links to the proposed rules as published in the Federal Register have been added. ORIGINAL STORY, May 23: The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announced the news this afternoon …

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Hale: Logistics Key To Deep Space Human Exploration, and Commercial Space Is The Answer

Hale: Logistics Key To Deep Space Human Exploration, and Commercial Space Is The Answer

Former NASA space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space Thursday that it is difficult for his generation to change its “mental model” …

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White House, NASA Honor Sally Ride

White House, NASA Honor Sally Ride

NASA announced today that President Obama will posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride, the first American woman to make a spaceflight.  Ride died on July 23, 2012 …

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Requiem for Many of the Rodents on Bion-M1

Requiem for Many of the Rodents on Bion-M1

All of the gerbils and half the mice reportedly did not survive their spaceflight aboard Russia’s Bion-M1 capsule, which returned to Earth last night after a month in space.. Anatoly …

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