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The Heat Is On To Reach the $30 Million Lunar XPRIZE Finish Line
Posted in Science on 8th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
Israeli team SpaceIL has already booked a ride to the moon with SpaceX, and now the American team Moon Express has reserved its own rocket. The private moon race is on.
Orbital heads back to International Space Station on cargo run
Posted in Science on 7th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The upgraded capsule, due to arrive on Wednesday, is loaded with more than 3,500 kg of food, clothing, computer gear, spacewalk equipment and science experiments.
SpaceX will attempt next rocket landing at cape canaveral instead of on an ocean platform
Posted in Hardware on 3rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
SpaceX's previous booster landing attempts were made on giant floating platforms in the ocean (which just missed).
Lisa Pathfinder launches to test space 'ripples' technology
Posted in Science on 3rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The satellite will test the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves, the warping of space-time produced by cataclysmic events in the cosmos.
Darpa abandons plan to launch satellites from fighter jets
Posted in Hardware on 2nd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The scheme was launching small satellites from the belly of fighter jets already high in the atmosphere. And after a second explosion, that plan is no more.