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Germany based Rheinmetall Defence continues to develop its high-energy laser (HEL) technology. The company recently announced a successful test of its new 50kW high-energy weapon. The 50kW HEL weapon was able to cut through a 15mm-thick steel girder at a distance of 1,000 meters. It also successfully shot down nose-diving target drones at a range [...]

United Launch Alliance successfully launched NASAs latest scientific exploration mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at 10:23 am EST Feb. 11, 2010. This was ULAs first launch of 2010 and marked the 100th use of the commercial Atlas Centaur launch vehicle since its first launch on [...]

Ariane 5 is the European space industry’s warhorse, and continues to successfully put payloads into orbit. Soon new rockets will join a stable that already dominates the market, and increase Ariane’s competitivity. 2011 will be the year of the launchers…. www.euronews.net

Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9 test rocket was successfully launched at 2:45 pm EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex-40 on Friday, June 4. SpaceX says its Dragon spacecraft now is in orbit. A statement issued by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says the launch “gives us even more confidence that a resupply vehicle [...]

STATUS REPORTDate Released: Wednesday, December 7, 2011Source: NASA MESSENGER MESSENGER Executes Final Orbit Correction Maneuver of Primary Science Mission The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed a fifth orbit-correction maneuver today to lower MESSENGER’s periapsis altitude from 442 to 200 kilometers and decrease the orbital period from 12 hours to 11 hours and 47 minutes. MESSENGER was [...]