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    New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff (2010-01-08)
    ROCKET SCIENCE New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff Hypersonic vehicle in the upper atmosphere travelling at Mach 8, indicating heating in the leading edges and ... [Read More]

    Dr. Jeff Taylor's Rocket Flies To 72,000 Ft. At The Ball's Rocket Launch (2010-09-28)
    Industry News by Planet News Tuesday, September 28, 2010 The Proteus 6.5 rocket was launched from the Black Rock dry lake bed in northwest Nevada on 9/25/2010. Photo: Scott Kormeier. BLACK ROCK ... [Read More]

    X-37B Secret Space Plane Had 7 Collisions With Debris While In Space. (2010-12-07)
    According to Defense Department spokesman Richard McKinney. There were multiple collisions with space debris during the X-37's 244 days in space. The only physical damage seen so far has been seven ... [Read More]

    Jacques Valier Advanved Rocketry At The Cost Of His Life (2011-03-21)
    Alamogordo Daily News By Michael Shinabery, New Mexico Museum of Space History Newspapers worldwide announced Jacques Valier's May 17, 1930, death, although details varied and were mostly wrong, ... [Read More]

    Second X-51A hypersonic flight ends prematurely, As Scramjet Engine Fails To Ignite (2011-06-16)
    by 95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs 6/15/2011 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A second test of the X-51A Waverider flew Monday in the Point Mugu Naval Air Test Range over the Pacific Ocean, ... [Read More]

    The N.R.L. Is Set To Launch A Miotaur IV Sept. 27, 2011 From Kodiak Launch Complex (2011-08-23)
    Published: August 22, 2011. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON--The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's ... [Read More]

    X-37B Will Remain In Orbit Longer Then 270 Days (2011-12-01)
    The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, launched on March 5, 2011, was designed to fly for 270 days. Day 270 came yesterday, but the military branch has decided to prolong its ... [Read More]

    The New ESA "Vega" Rocket Will Launch An Experimental Earth Return Vehicle (2011-12-16)
    Europe’s ambition for a spacecraft to return autonomously from low orbit is a cornerstone for a wide range of space applications, including space transportation, exploration and robotic ... [Read More]

    ESA Prepares For The Launch Of ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" (2012-02-29)
    The third ATV, to be launched to the ISS in early 2012, is named after famous Italian physicist and spaceflight pioneer Edoardo Amaldi. The Italian space agency, ASI, proposed naming ATV-3 after the ... [Read More]