Moon Express
Moon Express Unveils Breakthrough "MX-1" Commercial Lunar Lander 
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Moon Express, Inc., a privately funded lunar resources company, unveiled its "MX-1" lunar lander spacecraft today as a breakthrough robotic space vehicle capable of a multitude of applications including delivering scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches.
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ESA
Space Technology Contributes to New Artificial Heart 
An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person, having now been approved for human trials in France.
SpaceX
SpaceX Launches SES-8
SpaceX launched the SES-8 satellite this evening on a Falcon 9.1 rocket. Launch occured as the window opened at 5:41 pm ET. Second stage reignition and burn was a success. The SES-8 spacecraft is now in a nominal GEO transfer orbit. So far it seems that the flight was completely nominal.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin Debuts the American-made BE-3 Liquid Hydrogen Rocket Engine
Blue Origin reached a key milestone in the development of the liquid-fueled BE-3 engine successfully demonstrating deep throttle, full power, long-duration and reliable restart all in a single-test sequence.
SpaceX
SES 8 Launch Scrubbed After Two Attempts
The launch of SES 8 by SpaceX was called off after two attempts to launch tonight. Both countdowns got down to within seconds of a launch.
United Launch Alliance
50th Anniversary of the Launch of Centaur
United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of the Centaur upper stage during the Ohio Aerospace Institute event on Nov. 22. Centaur was recognized as the hallmark of innovative design and engineering excellence.
Moon Express
Moon Express Software Successfully Flies NASA Mighty Eagle Robotic Lunar Lander
Moon Express, a commercial lunar enterprise, announces a successful free flight test of its lunar lander software on NASA's "Mighty Eagle" prototype robotic lander.
UrtheCast
UrtheCast Cameras Launched On Progress Mission to the International Space Station
UrtheCast Corp. is extremely pleased to announce that the Progress 53P cargo ship carrying UrtheCast's cameras has now reached orbit, following a successful launch from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Planet Labs
Planet Labs Launches Two More Satellites - Delivers Largest Imaging Fleet to Launch Pad
Planet Labs announced today that it successfully launched its most recent satellites, Dove 3 and Dove 4, into orbit on a Dnepr vehicle.
Communication Satellites
High Throughput Satellites Expanding into New Markets to Reach $ 5.6 Billion by 2022
According to Euroconsult's new research report on High Throughput Satellites, 33 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems will be launched between 2014 and 2016, a record high compared to the total 31 HTS systems that were launched over the last decade. The growing popularity of HTS systems will bring the total cumulative investment to over $12 billion.
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Orbital Sciences
Orbital Completes COTS Demonstration Mission to International Space Station
Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB), one of the world's leading space technology companies, today confirmed that its Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand at approximately 2:15 p.m. (EDT).
SpaceX
SpaceX Launches SES-8
SpaceX launched the SES-8 satellite this evening on a Falcon 9.1 rocket. Launch occured as the window opened at 5:41 pm ET. Second stage reignition and burn was a success. The SES-8 spacecraft is now in a nominal GEO transfer orbit. So far it seems that the flight was completely nominal.
NASA
NASA Launches Technology Transfer 'Super Tool'
Businesses and individuals interested in using NASA research to develop new technologies and products now have access to an online tool to make the process of licensing easier.
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
CASIS Reviews NASA Experiments for Commercialization Potential
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization managing research on the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, has organized a group of world-class scientists to review experiments flown in space by NASA over the last 10 years. The goal is to identify findings or areas of further study that could lead to breakthrough technologies and products for people on earth.
ATK
ATK Delivers Backbone of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
ATK has shipped the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Marshall Space Flight Center, completing an important milestone for the most powerful space telescope ever to be built.
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Request for Grant Proposals for the Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching Grants Program
SUMMARY: This notice solicits Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 grant proposals to continue the development of a Commercial Space Transportation infrastructure system that supports the National Space Policy and Congressional intent. Begun in 2010, the program supports the Commercial Space Transportation industry by identification, prioritization, and funding for Commercial Space Transportation infrastructure projects. This program has been previously referred to as the Commercial Space Transportation Grants Program.
Boeing
First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Satellite on Track for 2013 Launch
The first of three Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress (GX) satellites being built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed a key system life test, paving the way for it to launch later this year. The satellite performed as expected during the spacecraft thermal vacuum test, which simulated the cold, airless vacuum of space.
United Launch Alliance
50th Anniversary of the Launch of Centaur
United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of the Centaur upper stage during the Ohio Aerospace Institute event on Nov. 22. Centaur was recognized as the hallmark of innovative design and engineering excellence.
Ball Aerospace
Ball Aerospace Delivers Cryogenic Electronics for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. cryogenic flight electronic boxes recently shipped to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems for the James Webb Space Telescope are unlike any previously designed and manufactured.
NanoRacks
SpaceX-2 Carries Multiple NanoRacks' Payloads
It's been a difficult but worthwhile week for Mike Johnson and the NanoRacks team working payloads.
Blue Origin
Photos and Video: Blue Origin Suborbital Crew Capsule Escape System Test
Blue Origin conducted a successful Pad Escape test last week at its West Texas launch site, firing its pusher escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital Crew Capsule from a launch vehicle simulator. The Crew Capsule traveled to an altitude of 2,307 feet under active thrust vector control before descending safely by parachute to a soft landing 1,630 feet downrange.
Arianespace
Arianespace Gaia Flight Update 10 October 2013
Payload preparations for Arianespace's next Soyuz launch are progressing well at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the Gaia billion-star surveyor is receiving its sunshield for in-orbit telescope protection as well as power generation.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic Celebrates 600th Customer
Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group and Virgin Galactic, today announced that the company's 600th future astronaut is Marsha Waters, the owner of an accounting services company based in Blackpool, United Kingdom.