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Americas Space 

ULA Delta IV Heavy Rocket Launches NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 DP Staff Writer 0 Comments Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV Heavy, Launch Vehicle/ Carrier Rocket, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, United Launch Alliance (ULA)

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket has launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731

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Americas Space 

United Launch Alliance to Launch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

August 12, 2018 DP Staff Writer 0 Comments Delta IV Heavy, Launch Vehicle/ Carrier Rocket, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, United Launch Alliance (ULA), USA

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is in final preparations to launch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe at

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Americas Space 

Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Firing of AR-22 Engine for Boeing XS-1 Phantom Express Experimental Spaceplane Concept

July 12, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Aerojet Rocketdyne, Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 Engine, Boeing, Boeing XS-1 Phantom Express, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC), Rocket engine, USA

Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully fired its AR-22 booster rocket engine an unprecedented 10 times in 240 hours at NASA Stennis Space

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Air Americas 

NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane for First Time

June 13, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, General Atomics MQ-9 Predator B, NASA, NASA Ikhana Predator B, National Airspace System (NAS) USA, Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), USA

NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission

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Americas Space 

NASA Launches InSight Mars Lander Abroad ULA Atlas V Rocket

May 5, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Atlas-V rocket, Interplanetary mission, Launch Vehicle/ Carrier Rocket, NASA, NASA InSight, United Launch Alliance (ULA), USA, Vandenberg AFB

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s InSight Mars lander lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 at

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Americas Space 

General Atomics Completes Pre-Flight Testing of Orbital Test Bed (OTB) Satellite

April 24, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Falcon Heavy, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), NASA, Orbital Test Bed (OTB) Satellite, Satellite, Space Test Program-2 (STP-2), U.S. Air Force (USAF), US DoD Space Test Program (STP), USA

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has completed full system and “ready for launch” pre-flight testing of its

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Americas Technology 

NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to Build Supersonic LBFD X-Plane

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Experimental aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin QueSST X-plane, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, NASA, NASA Low Boom Flight. Demonstration (LBFD) Project, Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST), Supersonic Transport (SST)

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin Skunk Works a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD), an

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Americas Industry 

Thales Signs Agreement with NASA for Unmanned Systems Control Technologies

March 28, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, Thales, Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), USA

Thales announces that it has reached formal agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a Space Act

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Europe Space 

High Capacity Laser Communication System to be Installed on International Space Station

March 28, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space, European Space Agency (ESA), German Aerospace Center (DLR), International Space Station (ISS), Laser Communications System, NASA

The first high capacity space-to-ground laser communication system is to be installed on the Bartolomeo platform of the International Space

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Air Americas Space 

Travis Air Force Base Delivers NASA InSight Spacecraft

March 18, 2018 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Buckley AFB, Interplanetary mission, Lockheed Martin, Military transport aircraft (MTA), NASA, NASA InSight, Travis AFB, U.S. Air Force (USAF), USA, Vandenberg AFB

Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron and the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, loaded and

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