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NASA, SpaceX Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

The focus of the agreement is on conjunction avoidance and launch collision avoidance between NASA spacecraft and the large constellation of SpaceX Starlink sat...

SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites after weather delays

Mar 19, 2021 (UPI)

The launch, which came days after the company celebrated its 20th anniversary, was pushed back to 12:42 a.m. EDT when stormy weather near Complex 40 at Cape Can...

Arianespace signs with Avio for 10 additional Vega C launchers

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

This agreement kicks off the procurement of long lead-time items and the initial activities for the production of 10 new launchers, to be delivered from 2023. A...

First use of the ENPULSION MICRO R3 thruster in the GMS-T mission

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Its partner OHB Sweden said in a statement: "We are keen to report on GMS-T that the in-orbit commissioning and first uses of the ENPULSION MICRO Thruster have ...

SpaceX puts another 53 Starlinks in orbit with midnight launch

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

The company was scheduled to launch the spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket at 11:23 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. However, the la...

FAA approves renewal of Orbital Sciences launch operator licenses

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

The licenses are valid for five years and authorize the company to conduct flights of its Pegasus launch vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia an...

Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) is recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. Goddard dream...

SpaceX aims for late night Starlink launch

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

The company aims to launch the spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket at 11:23 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff time is instanta...

Peraton awarded US Army hypersonic testing and evaluation contract

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

This award builds upon Peraton's more than 10 years of experience supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center and its ...

Launch Vehicle and Missile Ascent Trajectories

Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)

The actual shape of a path to orbit is influenced by a number of factors, including winds and the desired payload injection parameters. However, the ideal traje...

Rocket Lab claims 'mission success' after deploying 2 commercial satellites into orbit

Mar 16, 2021 (UPI)

The mission "Stronger Together" carried two Synthetic Aperture Radar commercial satellites from U.S. manufacturer Capella Space into orbit on Thursday evening. ...

Astra launches three satellites in successful mission from Alaska

Mar 15, 2021 (UPI)

The rocket, LV0009, lifted off from Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island as planned at 9:22 a.m. PDT. "We have great news to report," Astra CEO Chris Kemp...

Soyuz rocket gets new paint job for first time in over 50 years

Mar 15, 2021 (Sputnik)

Russia's Soyuz-2 rocket has been given a new colour scheme, with the traditional grey-white-orange replaced with a fresh "corporate blue" and white look. Roscos...

SpaceX launches 22nd cluster of Starlink satellites

Mar 14, 2021 (UPI)

Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket came at 6:01 a.m. EDT, just hours after clocks move ahead for Daylight Saving Time, from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Aft...

NASA prepares to roll out giant Artemis moon rocket

Mar 14, 2021 (UPI)

The rollout will be the first time a NASA rocket so large -- 322 feet tall -- has moved to a launch pad since Apollo 17's Saturn V rocket did so before launchin...

Astra Space scrubs first launch since rocket failure because of lightning

Mar 14, 2021 (UPI)

The attempt was its first return to a launchpad since the company's stock plunged after it suffered a rocket failure during launch of a NASA mission from Florid...

Four Long March 11 launches by sea planned

Mar 12, 2021 (XNA)

Bao Weimin, the company's director of science and technology and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said five flights have been scheduled this y...

Pentagon awards SpaceX over $159 Million in 'Competitive' Space Launch Contract

Mar 12, 2021 (Sputnik)

Under the US' National Security Phase 2 contract, Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, was awarded exactly $159,721,445 for two individu...

China's Long March 7A rocket puts satellite in orbit

Mar 12, 2021 (XNA)

The 60.1-meter colossal rocket blasted off from a launch pad in the coastal launch center at 1:51 am, and soon deployed the New Technology Demonstrator 9 experi...

NASA Targets March 18 for SLS Hot Fire Test

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

After performing tests to demonstrate that a recently repaired liquid oxygen pre-valve was working, the team has continued to prepare the core stage, its four R...