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Pegasus Rockets
Published on 12 Apr 2007 at 12:57 pm.
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In a couple of weeks, NASA plans to launch a satellite to study the highest altitude clouds of Earth. This launch will be on a Pegasus rocket. The Pegasus, produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation, was the first privately produced commercial launch vehicle for putting payloads into low Earth orbit. With the first […]
So, why Florida?
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 9:44 pm.
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Yesterday, I posted about the Soyuz launch site being built in French Guiana. So, if launching from near the equator is so preferable, why does the United States launch mostly from Florida? All manned missions have launched from Cape Canaveral, and so have most unmanned missions.
There are several reasons that the first space […]
Russians in South America
Published on 10 Mar 2007 at 12:17 pm.
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A while back, I read a news story about the Russian Federal Space Agency’s plans to build a launch site in French Guiana at the Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guiana Space Center). Construction has now started. I grew up during the Cold War, and back in those days even a hint of the […]
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One Less Spaceport in Texas
Published on 2 Mar 2007 at 3:45 pm.
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Building a spaceport isn’t easy, as Brazoria County in Texas has figured out. I saw this story at the Personal Spaceflight blog and decided to comment on it.
It is clear that space is no longer only within the reach of big government space programs. More and more private aerospace businesses are being […]
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Sea Launch Failure Today
Published on 30 Jan 2007 at 5:47 pm.
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I am a strong proponent of private space ventures. This includes the private companies springing up to launch payloads into space. One such company that I’ve watched with interest for several years is Sea Launch. They have an interesting concept. Rather than building a costly launch facility somewhere on land, and […]
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Flying your business card into space
Published on 6 Nov 2006 at 2:37 pm.
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Here’s an interesting little news bit that I saw posted over at Ed’s site. It is about Xenotech Research’s new rockets. These rockets will be small rockets designed for suborbital or low Earth orbit payloads — most likely research payloads. One thing that makes these rockets sort of unique is that instead of launching from the ground, […]
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SMART-1 (Part One)
Published on 31 Aug 2006 at 4:12 pm.
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The vast majority of space missions to the Moon have either been launched by the United States or the Soviet Union. However, in recent years, others have been getting in on the act. On September 27, 2003, the European Space Agency launched SMART-1 to the Moon. While most missions to the Moon took days to […]
