Space (Aviation Week) for Wednesday 6 August 2014

Space

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Europes Rosetta Mission First To Rendezvous With Comet

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:51 AM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/awin-only/eu...ndezvous-comet



Rosetta is now ready to swivel into an elliptical orbit around
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will spend the next two months
searching for a landing site for the mission’s small Philae robotic probe.




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Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Looks For Disruption Before Investing

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:24 AM PDT
http://aviationweek.com/space/silico...tion-investing



SpaceX founder Elon Musk was an attractive bet, Silicon Valley venture
capitalist Steve Jurvetson says, because he’d already invested $100 million
of his own dot-com money in the Falcon 1.




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