Space

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Large-Scale 3-D Printing

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/large-scale-3-d-printing




Aerojet Rocketdyne plans to demonstrate fabrication of large-scale metal
rocket-engine parts using laser-melting additive manufacturing (AM) under a
cost-shared Technology Investment Agreement with Wright-Patterson AFB under
Title III of the Defense Production Act, worth $11,750,886.




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ESA Investigating Power Anomalies On Testbed Spacecraft

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/esa-in...bed-spacecraft









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SpaceX Alum Goes After Falcon 1 Market

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/spacex...alcon-1-market








Aerospike revival, advances in composite structures are shaping
design of low-cost smallsat launch vehicle



As entrepreneurial "New Space" grows up, veterans of its early days are
finding innovative ways to tackle old problems and enter emerging markets
that did not exist when their industry was an infant-a decade ago.




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Northrop Unveils Design For Darpa Spaceplane

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/northr...rpa-spaceplane




Northrop Grumman has unveiled a vertical-launch, horizontal-landing
reusable booster design for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agencys
XS-1 experimental spaceplane. Teamed with Scaled Composites and Virgin
Galactic, the company is working under a 13-month, $3.9 million Phase 1
preliminary design contract awarded in July. Contracts also went to Boeing,
with Blue Origin, and Masten Space Systems, with XCOR Aerospace.




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Russian Spacewalk

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/russian-spacewalk




Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev deployed a Peruvian
cubesat and worked with materials-space-exposure experiments during a 5-hr.
extra-vehicular excursion at the International Space Station Aug. 18.
Unlike cubesat deployments from the Japanese Kibo modules robotic arm,
which use a mechanical dispenser, Artemyev deployed the small satellite
with a toss of the hand in the direction opposite the stations travel to
avoid a future collision.




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Cygnus Reenters

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/cygnus-reenters




The third Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo carrier to reach
the International Space Station reentered the atmosphere Aug. 17 for a
splashdown in the Pacific east of New Zealand, wrapping up the second of
eight resupply missions for the company under its $1.9 billion commercial
resupply services contract with NASA. Carried to orbit July 13 on an
Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle from Wallops Island, Virginia, the
pressurized capsule carried 3,550 lb. of garbage for its destructive return
to Earth. It took 3,669 lb.




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40 Under Forty

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 01:28 PM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/blog/40-under-forty

Wonder how some of our talented 40 Under Forty stars got started in the
aviation industry?


Things With Wings

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