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SpaceX to launch NASA's Europa Clipper on Falcon Heavy rocket in 2024
Jul 23, 2021 (UPI)
The mission is expected to depart October 2024 on the private aerospace company's Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "Europa Clipper ...
SpaceX to launch more Starlink satellites after delays
Jul 22, 2021 (UPI)
The company is now targeting 10:56 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida, according to a news...
NASA conducts 5th test in RS-25 series
Jul 22, 2021 (SPX)
Operators fired the engine for more than eight minutes (500 seconds) on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, providing da...
SpaceX breaks its annual record with 32nd successful launch in 2022
Jul 22, 2021 (UPI)
The company launched 46 Starlink satellites to orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket around 10:39 a.m. from the Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Bas...
ESA advances Vega rocket evolution beyond 2025
Jul 22, 2021 (ESA)
Vega operates from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to launch light satellites to one or multiple orbits in a single launch. This contract takes Vega a step ...
'I pump but don't dump' bitcoin, says Musk
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
In a wide-ranging online panel discussion that included Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, Musk said he believes in cryptocurrencies as a way to "increase ...
Roscosmos says US greenlit import of Russia's RD-181M rocket engines
Jul 21, 2021 (Sputnik)
"The US government has approved the contract between NPO Energomash [Roscosmos subsidiary] and US Orbital Sciences LLC company. This means that there will be ne...
SpaceX delays 32nd launch of year, putting off attempt at record for one more day
Jul 21, 2021 (UPI)
The countdown to launch was aborted seconds ahead of the Falcon 9 rocket's planned launch of 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from the from the Vandenb...
Amazon magnate Bezos ready to ride his own rocket to space
Jul 20, 2021 (AFP)
Blue Origin has planned its first crewed mission, an 11-minute hop from west Texas to beyond the Karman line and back again, to coincide with the 52nd anniversa...
Watch live: Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos, 3 crewmates to head into space
Jul 20, 2021 (UPI)
Liftoff of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket is planned at 9 a.m. EDT from the company's Corn Ranch launch site 160 miles east of El Paso, although we...
Umbra awarded $950M IDIQ contract following Space-X launch
Jul 20, 2021 (SPX)
This contract is part of a multi-award, multi-level security effort to provide development and operation of systems as a unified force across all domains - air,...
China's experimental space plane aces test flight
Jul 20, 2021 (XNA)
"It will be able to do many different things: space tourism, transporting astronauts, satellite deployment, cargo transportation and emergency rescues," said Wa...
Long March 2C rocket carrying four satellites launched
Jul 20, 2021 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 8:19 am and deployed three Yaogan 30-series remote-sensing satellites as well as a micro communication satellite into their orbits, sa...
China's suborbital aerospace plane makes maiden flight
Jul 19, 2021 (XNA)
The unnamed prototype was lifted by a carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and flew for a certain period of time before making a conventional l...
Thruster research to help propel spacecraft
Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)
Led by the ANU Research School of Physics, the joint research program will explore how electrothermal plasmas can help advance space propulsion technology. ANU ...
Environmental concerns grow as space tourism lifts off
Jul 18, 2021 (AFP)
With Jeff Bezos set to launch on a Blue Origin rocket on July 20, and Elon Musk's SpaceX planning an all-civilian orbital mission in September, the nascent spac...
SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites to orbit after Dragon docks with ISS
Jul 17, 2021 (UPI)
The Starlink satellites were launched to orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket at the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:20 a...
Billionaires in space: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin touts rocket safety
Jul 16, 2021 (UPI)
The New Shepard suborbital rocket is scheduled for liftoff at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday from the company's Corn Ranch launch site 160 miles east of El Paso, Texas -- p...
Musk's Starship launch tower in Texas might be demolished
Jul 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
"The company is building the tower at its own risk", a FAA official told CNBC. The source in the agency also noted that the review might recommend demolishing t...
India's ISRO tests high-powered rocket engine for country's first manned mission
Jul 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted its third long-duration hot test of the liquid-propellant Vikas engine for the Gaganyaa...
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