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British Astronaut To Spend Six Months on Station

May. 21, 2013 | Civil Space

Senior Senate Aide Bingham To Retire

May. 21, 2013 | Civil Space

Globalstar Reaches Deal with Bond Holders; Broader Debt-restructuring Deal in the Works

May. 21, 2013 | Financial Report

SES Government Division Shrugs off U.S. Budget Sequestration

May. 20, 2013 | Financial Report

NASA’s Asteroid Absurdity

May. 20, 2013 | Opinion

The Prisoner’s Dilemma in Space

May. 20, 2013 | Opinion

Editorial | Stay on Top of the James Webb Space Telescope

May. 20, 2013 | Opinion

Profile | Michael Gazarik Associate Administrator, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate

May. 20, 2013 | Features

Europe Readies First Alphasat Telecom Platform for Launch

May. 17, 2013 | Satellite Telecom

Commercial Space Advocates Want Bigger Role in Exploration as NASA Budget Shrinks

May. 17, 2013 | Civil Space

DARPA Cancels Formation-flying Satellite Demo

May. 17, 2013 | Military Space

In a Surprise, Boeing Lands ViaSat-2 Contract

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Ergen Said to Bid $2 Billion for LightSquared Radio Frequencies (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Launch of Military Satellite from Cape Delayed a Day (Florida Today)

Scientists Respond to Planet Hunter's Plight with Pointers – and Poetry (NBC News)

NASA Shops Historic Launch Pad 39A for Commercial Use (Florida Today)

Mice, Gerbils Perish in Russia Spaceflight (AFP via Cosmos Magazine)

U.S. Sees China Launch as Test of Anti-satellite Muscle (Reuters)

The Secret Laser-toting Soviet Satellite that almost Was (Ars Technica)

Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Space Station Music Video Is a First (Washington Post)

Jeff Bingham To Leave Senate Commerce Committee (SpacePolicyOnline)

U.S. Automatic Cuts Send Pentagon Contract Awards Down 52 Percent (Washington Post)

78K People Have Signed Up for a One-way Trip to Mars (VentureBeat)

SpaceX Bill Blocked in Texas Senate (Houston Chronicle)

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ViaSat-2's 'First of its Kind' Design Will Enable Broad Geographic Reach

Boeing-built ViaSat-2 will employ a design that has never been seen before
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SpaceX To Refly Columbia Plant Growth Experiment

A plant growth experiment lost in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident
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Lockheed Martin Tapped for 2 More GOES Satellites

NOAA picked up options with Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver to build
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With First Galileo Satellite Finally Shipped for Testing, OHB’s 2013 Outlook Improves

OHB AG shipped the first of its Galileo navigation satellites to a European
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In Switch, Astrium’s Hardware Business Outshines Services

EADS said double-digit increases in revenue in its Astrium Satellites and
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U.S. Air Force Weighs Faster Move from GPS 3 to New Generation

As it prepares to launch its fourth GPS 2F satellite the U.S. Air Force has
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SpaceX Leases Pad in New Mexico for Next Grasshopper Tests

The next phase of SpaceX experimental Grasshopper program, a key part of the
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U.S. Air Force’s X-51A Waverider Notches Longest Scramjet Flight

The U.S. Air Force flew a Boeing-built experimental hypersonic vehicle for

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