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X-51 Waverider ‘Scramjet’ Test Flight Fails

August 15, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A highly anticipated test flight of the X-51A Waverider scramjet ended abruptly after the experimental aircraft suffered a control failure and broke apart during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound. The test flight took place off [...]

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DARPA Moving Ahead with Building Zombie Frankensatellites

July 26, 2012

Caption: Phoenix satellite concept. Credit: DARPA “Alien” meets “Bride of Frankenstein” and “Night of the Living Dead?” Straight from a possible sci-fi/horror movie mashup, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to harvest components from dead, non-working “zombie” satellites to build new ones in space, all done remotely via a grasping, mechanical arm. The [...]

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Top Secret Air Force Mini Shuttle lands after Record-Setting Stay in Space

June 17, 2012

Image Caption: 2nd X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight by landing at Vandernberg AFB, Calif., on June 16, 2012. The record setting mission lasted 469 days in earth orbit. Designed to be launched like a satellite and land like an airplane, the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, built by Boeing for the United [...]

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100 Year Starship Project Has a New Leader

January 11, 2012

You may have heard by now about the 100 Year Starship project, a new research initiative to develop the technology required to send a manned mission to another star. The project is jointly sponsored by NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It will take that long just to make such a trip [...]

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Orbital Express

January 6, 2012

The Orbital Express was a space mission launched for the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by NASA. The intended goal of the mission was to develop ”a safe and cost-effective approach to autonomously service satellites in orbit.” The mission launched from Cape Canaveral on March 8, 2007, aboard an Atlas V launch [...]

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