Contract award for Jupiter probe
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The US space agency awards military and space contractor Northrop Grumman with a $400m contract to co-design its Jimo space probe to Jupiter.
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Description: NASA is considering an unprecedented robotic mission to save the Hubble Space telescope. But a final report from the National Academy of Sciences says the robotic mission probably won&#39;t be ready on time to save the telescope.
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While a pair of  NASA&nbsp;rovers explore Mars and&nbsp;the Cassini-Huygens mission peers close  at Saturn, two research teams&nbsp;are targeting a more distant planetary  quarry, the ice giant Neptune.
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SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) has been awarded a $330,000 Phase I study contract from Benson Space Company to further the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) spaceship program.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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Scientists hope to build a giant âpinhole cameraâ in space to spot planets orbiting distant stars. The New Worlds Imager would be the size of a football field with a 30ft wide hole in the centre.
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By Anonymous  Plum Brook research station in Sandusky has received a $63 million federal contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a $400m contract to co-design the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) space probe - slated for a rendevouz with Jovian moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede some time after 2012.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station (ISS) project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured an alignment of three of Jupiter&#39;s largest moons: Io, Ganymede, and Callisto.
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The Huygens probe, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is bolted to Cassini and fed electrical power through an umbilical cable.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland   Security said on Wednesday it awarded $1.35 billion in   contracts to three companies to develop a system to screen for   radioactive matter that might be hidden in cargo.
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PASADENA - Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost.
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NASA has given the go-ahead to a Canadian firm to work on a possible robot-salvage mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The contract is valued at &#36;154 million and builds on the space robotics work of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd through its MD Robotics group in Brampton, Ontario.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N's   Space & Mission Systems business unit is being awarded a U.S.   Navy technical services contract worth up to $686.1 million to   support the U.S. Joint Forces Command's warfighting center, the   Defense Department said on Friday.