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  NASA's TDRS-K Heads for Geosynchronous Orbit Atop Atlas V

  Posted by Mark Carreau 10:09 PM on Jan 30, 2013

  Designed for 15 years of operations, NASA's TDRS-K climbs through darkened Florida skies toward geosynchronous orbit atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401. Image Credit: NASA... Read More >>

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  Turkey To Begin Launch System, Gokturk-3 Negotiations

  Posted by Amy Svitak 12:31 PM on Jan 22, 2013

  Ankara is planning development of a national satellite launch system capable of delivering military and civil spacecraft to orbit, according to Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilma... Read More >>

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  U. S. Commercial Space Looks for a Few Well Groomed Men

  Posted by Mark Carreau 8:51 PM on Jan 15, 2013

  Can the drama of a group stroll along the Fiscal Cliff compare with the passion for space travel that reverberated through the 1960s? Unilever, a U. K. based global retailer of ... Read More >>

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  Jesco von Puttkamer Dead at 79

  Posted by Sean Meade 4:16 PM on Jan 14, 2013

  Jesco von Puttkamer, a protégé of Wernher von Braun whose NASA career ranged from the Apollo manned lunar landing project to the International Space Station, died Dec... Read More >>

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  DigitalGlobe-GeoEye Merger Clears Antitrust Hurdle

  Posted by Amy Svitak 3:08 AM on Jan 10, 2013

  The U.S. Department of Justice has granted antitrust clearance to the merger of commercial satellite imagery providers GeoEye and Digital Globe, a transaction that will make the co... Read More >>

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