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| News: X-34 Reusable Rocketplane |
| Orbital Sciences Corp.
One of the space industry's major challenges is to lower launch costs.
Today, satellites are launched aboard "expendable" (or one-use)
rockets, making access to space prohibitive to all but well-funded
companies, governments and military organizations. We are therefore
working with NASA on the X-34 rocketplane to explore ways of reusing
the same launch vehicle for multiple missions. See story |
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| News: Sea Launch |
| A Zenit booster lifted off Saturday evening, March 27,
1999, on the inaugural flight of a new multinational commercial
project to launch payloads from the open ocean. Despite a failed
recent attempt, the ocean-based launch services company returned
to flight operations today with a perfect launch of the PAS-9 satellite.
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| News: Sun
watching satellite catches flashy solar show |
| (CNN) -- With seasonal solar activity on the
rise, the sun is beginning to put on quite a show for scientists.
The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory sun captured images of a
"huge eruptive prominence" shooting out of the fireball
this month. The prominence at one point was about 100 times wider
than Earth. See story |
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