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Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)

The process begins with requirements definition, hardware/software qualification, independent multi-discipline engineering analysis and operational support. Sat...

Musk, Maezawa say moon mission is on track for 2023

Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)

"It will be safe enough for human transport by 2023 -- it's looking very promising," Musk said in a video announcement with Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa....

India launches PSLV-C51 carrying Brazil's Amazonia-1 and 18 Satellites

Mar 02, 2021 (Sputnik)

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully launched the Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1 along with 18 other co-passenger satellites via the P...

SpaceX Axiom crew nears final training for first all-private mission to ISS

Feb 28, 2021 (UPI)

But don't call the crew -- three billionaires paying $55 million each -- space tourists, Michael Lopez-Alegria, former astronaut and Ax-1 mission commander, sai...

SpaceX CEO Reacts to Rumors SEC Will Investigate Him Over Dogecoin Tweets

Feb 26, 2021 (Sputnik)

On Thursday, rumors alleging that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would open a probe into tech billionaire Elon Musk's tweets that affected the ...

New rocket, Firefly's Alpha, may be ready to launch by April

Feb 26, 2021 (UPI)

The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher or...

Virgin Galactic posts revenue loss of $238m in Q4

Feb 26, 2021 (Sputnik)

Virgin Galactic nosedived 93 percent to $238m, down from $3.7bn the year before, the company said in its fourth quarter reports. Year-on-year losses were $273m ...

Long March 6A maiden flight due this year, report says

Feb 26, 2021 (XNA)

The State-owned conglomerate said in an annual report on its space activities that the medium-lift Long March 6A will consist of a 50-meter, liquid-propelled co...

Greener way to get satellites moving

Feb 25, 2021 (ESA)

Today hydrazine is the most common propellant employed by thrusters aboard satellites: it is highly energetic in nature but also toxic and corrosive, as well as...

ENPULSION to provide microthrusters for MethaneSAT Mission

Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)

ENPULSION will provide its ENPULSION MICRO R3 thruster, a scaled version of their technology, which targets small and medium sized spacecrafts. "The increased d...

AFRL rocket propulsion division hosts virtual AIAA meeting

Feb 25, 2021 (AFRL)

Dr. Suren Singhal, deputy manager, Office of the Chief Engineer, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, and Dr. Ernest Wu, CEO of ERC, Inc., helped organize the ga...

Blue Origin delays heavy-lift New Glenn rocket launch to 2022

Feb 25, 2021 (UPI)

The company had planned to launch by this year, but lost billions of dollars in U.S. Space Force business to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance in an August deci...

NASA plans mid-March test for SLS moon rocket's first flight

Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)

NASA plans the full "wet-dress rehearsal" of the SLS moon rocket on the pad at 6 p.m. ET on March 17. The first such mission to the moon, although uncrewed, may...

NASA welds Confidence Article for next evolution of SLS

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

The Exploration Upper Stage will be used on the second configuration of the SLS rocket, known as Block 1B, and will provide in-space propulsion to send astronau...

Benchmark Space Systems and Orbit Fab Breaking Ground on Mobile Refueling Stations in Space

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

As part of the teaming, Orbit Fab will bundle its RAFTI fluid transfer interface with Benchmark's Halcyon thruster system to offer an integrated refillable, non...

NASA delays new test-firing of moon rocket

Feb 23, 2021 (UPI)

When it happens, the test will ignite four powerful engines on the 212-foot-tall core stage of the Space Launch System rocket for four to eight minutes at the J...

SpaceX successfully launches 46 Starlink satellites from Florida

Feb 21, 2021 (UPI)

The mission, Starlink 4-8, was the first since the company lost about 40 of the Starlink satellites on Feb. 4 during a solar storm that thickened the air and ca...

DLR ready to test first upper stage for Ariane 6

Feb 16, 2021 (SPX)

After being manufactured at the ArianeGroup factory in Bremen, on 29 January 2021 the upper stage was dispatched in a specially designed container. With the upp...

Russia plans at least 10 launches from Baikonur in 2021

Feb 16, 2021 (Sputnik)

"Twelve launches will be carried out from this site [in 2021]. These are federal launches, and commercial launches [in the interests of UK communications compan...

Kremlin 'interested' in Elon Musk-Putin conversation

Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)

Musk, one of the world's richest people, on Sunday tagged the Kremlin's account on Twitter along with the invitation. In a separate tweet in Russian, he added: ...