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Russian Space Agency says will change 2020 launch schedule due to COVID-19 outbreak

Mar 27, 2020 (Sputnik)

"[Roscosmos Director General] Dmitry Rogozin today and tomorrow will hold several work meetings via video conference. One of them will be devoted to the develop...

AEHF-6 launch marks 500th flight of Aerojet Rocketdyne's Rl10 engine

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

The RL10, which powers the ULA Atlas V Centaur upper stage, is one of several Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion products supporting the mission. Aerojet Rocketdyne ...

US Space Force launches first mission despite coronavirus

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The Lockheed Martin Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 4:18 pm (2018 GMT) aboard an Atlas V551 ro...

SpaceX parachute test aborted weeks before planned manned launch - report

Mar 26, 2020 (Sputnik)

A SpaceX test of parachute systems for its new Crew Dragon manned capsule was aborted Tuesday, with a helicopter dropping the test article from an unknown heigh...

Atlas 5 launches final AEFH military communication satellite

Mar 25, 2020 (UPI)

The rocket lofted the sixth in a series of next-generation satellites known as Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF. The satellites have an upgraded anti-...

NASA, SpaceX plan return to human spaceflight from U.S. soil in mid-May

Mar 20, 2020 (UPI)

The announcement late Wednesday was expected, as the first flight with astronauts of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. The spacecraft would carry Bob Behnken and Do...

Pentagon tests hypersonic glide body in Hawaii

Mar 20, 2020 (UPI)

According to the Pentagon, the MDA monitored and gathered tracking data from the flight experiment that will inform its ongoing development of systems designed ...

NASA suspends work on Moon rocket due to virus

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

The space agency is shutting down its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the Space Launch System rocket is being built, and the nearby Stennis Spac...

SpaceX plans first manned flight to space station in May

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it loo...

Jacobs selected by AFRL for Rocket Propulsion Lab support

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

The $225 million, cost-plus-fixed-fee award has an eight-year, 10-month period of performance that commences April 1, 2020, with a 24-month base period, and inc...

Powerful thruster is prepared for demonstration mission to asteroid

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

In the past few months, the thruster, developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and designed and built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, was put through vibra...

China develops new system to quickly find fallen rocket debris

Mar 19, 2020 (XNA)

The system has proved efficient in seeking out fallen rocket pieces after the center launched the 54th BeiDou satellite into space on March 9. The satellite was...

Spacex Falcon 9 launches sixth batch of Starlink satellites

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

Launched was on at 8:16 am EDT, 12:16 UTC from LC-39A in Florida". All 60 satellites were successfully deployed and will now slowly migrate to their operating o...

Sea Launch command ship arrives in Russia from US

Mar 18, 2020 (Sputnik)

The ship left the port of Long Beach near Los Angeles on 28 February. The Sea Launch Commander is a mobile maritime spaceport, designed to launch commercial pay...

Guiana Space Center suspends launch campaigns

Mar 17, 2020 (ESA)

These launch preparations will resume as soon as allowed by health conditions. This exceptional measure is designed to protect the health of employees and the l...

Rocket Lab's next mission to launch satellites for NASA, NRO and Australian university

Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)

The launch will take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, with a 14-day launch window scheduled to commence from 27 March 20...

NASA's mobile moon rocket tower 44% over budget, IG says

Mar 17, 2020 (UPI)

The space agency has built one massive rolling platform to move its moon rockets, with another on the way. Crews are adapting the first launcher to be mated wit...

Student Launch adjusts competition structure to remove need for travel

Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)

NASA has been carefully monitoring the health concerns related to the COVID-19 virus, particularly the risk of large gatherings and travel. NASA has determined ...

Iodine as alternative propellant for electric propulsion

Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)

iFACT aims to further develop iodine as alternative propellant for electric propulsion by creating a European ground test infrastructure, further development of...

SpaceX aborts Sunday launch from Florida at last moment

Mar 15, 2020 (UPI)

Liftoff was planned for 9:22 a.m. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the company's Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The mission will boost the number of Starl...