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Ariane 5 Launches Skynet 5C And Turksat 3A Satellites An Ariane 5 rocket launched the Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A satellites, lifting off from the European spaceport in French Guiana,...

NASA Awards Lunar Spacesuit Contract Worth Up To $745.9 Million NASA last week gave Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston a contract worth up to $745.9 million to design, develop and...

The Army is moving to orbit small satellites on an experimental basis, Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell, commanding general of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said. He spoke before...

A new Smithsonian Institution Air and Space Museum exhibit features a model home – for moon dwellers. It also gives people a chance to participate in planning a notional voyage...

A test stand is ready for firing the launch abort system motor that will be mounted on the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the next-generation U.S. space capsule, according to NASA...

Two units of Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] will merge, the company announced. The Launch Systems and Space Systems groups are combining into a single business unit, the company stated. They...

The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite saw its spacecraft core structure mated with the payload module, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. AEHF will provide global, highly...

Unmanned vehicles this month zipped around a lunar-style landscape, but it was on Earth, where they had to fight 16 times the force of gravity that they would encounter on...

[Satellite Today – 6-13-08] Arianespace lofted the Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A satellites into orbit June 12, Arianespace’s third launch in 2008.     Skynet 5C, launched on behalf of Astrium,...

[Satellite Today – 6-13-08] Alliance Space Systems signed a contract with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to continue mission support work, Alliance parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced June...