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SpinLaunch Breaks Ground for New Test Facility at Spaceport America
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
Attending the groundbreaking ceremony was Dan Hicks, CEO, Spaceport America, Alicia Keyes, Cabinet Secretary for Economic Development for the State of New Mexic...
Rocket Crafters Chooses RUAG Space as Preferred Supplier
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
Rocket Crafters will collaborate with RUAG on the design, development and procurement of a sounding rocket guidance and navigation system, nose cone and aeroshe...
Liquid oxygen-methane engine assembled in east China
May 08, 2019 (XNA)
The TQ-12 engine, independently developed by private rocket-maker LandSpace over the past two years, is a new generation power system for carrier rockets. Its m...
Apollo Fusion, Inc. Lands NASA JPL License and Manufacturing Contract
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
MaSMi has demonstrated class-leading performance with a peak total efficiency of 54%, a peak total specific impulse of 1940 s, and an estimated throughput capab...
SpaceX's Dragon Cargo capsule docks with Space Station
May 07, 2019 (UPI)
It was the 17th such mission for the space company's Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Video of the docking sequence on NASA Live showed the stat...
Ariane 6 series production begins with first batch of 14 launchers
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
These 14 launchers, scheduled to fly between 2021 and 2023, will be built in ArianeGroup plants in France and Germany, as well as in those of its European indus...
Rocket Lab launches three research satellites for US Air Force
May 05, 2019 (SPX)
The mission is Rocket Lab's second for 2019 and took the total number of satellites deployed to orbit by the company to 28. The DoD Space Test Program, under Ai...
Japanese First Private Rocket MOMO Launched
May 05, 2019 (Sputnik)
The previous two launches, in July 2017 and in June 2018, failed. The rocket safely reached an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles), which was the aim of the l...
Air Force releases proposal request for the Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement Contract
May 05, 2019 (AFNS)
This solicitation strategy is a full and open competition allowing companies to compete for procurement contracts regardless of whether they have a current Laun...
SpaceX Dragon Heads to Space Station After Successful Launch
May 04, 2019 (SPX)
Kenny Todd, International Space Station Operations and Integration manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, explained during the postlaunch press conf...
China plans to launch carrier rocket at sea
May 03, 2019 (XNA)
The rocket has been named "CZ-11 WEY" under an agreement between the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China Space Foundation and a Chinese automobile...
SLS Forward Join Set for Horizontal Assembly to Liquid Hydrogen Tank
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
In a change from the previous core stage assembly plan, technicians and engineers will mate the forward join with the liquid hydrogen tank horizontally rather t...
SpaceX acknowledges capsule destroyed
May 02, 2019 (UPI)
"It is too early to confirm any cause," Vice President Hans Koenigsmann during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This will make us a bette...
NASA Says It Lost $700 Million in Failed Rocket Launches Due to Fraud Scheme
May 02, 2019 (Sputnik)
Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI), an aluminium manufacturer based in Oregon and one of NASA's suppliers in 2009 and 2011, pleaded guilty to fraud, the agency said in a...
SpaceX Dragon cargo launch no earlier than May 3
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
On April 29, the space station team identified an issue with one of the station's Main Bus Switching Units that distributes power to two of the eight power chan...
NASA investigation finds cause of two science mission launch failures
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
LSP's technical investigation led to the involvement of NASA's Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ's efforts, recently...
SpaceX capsule was destroyed in 'anomaly': lawmaker
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
"The most recent SpaceX anomaly caused the complete loss of the (crew) capsule," Senator Richard Shelby, chairman of a Senate committee that manages NASA's budg...
Firefly Aerospace advances toward late 2019 launch
Apr 29, 2019 (UPI)
The company called the test a "milestone" in its quest for flight qualification of the launch vehicle. The company is building a rocket plant near Kennedy Space...
SpaceX, NASA tight-lipped on cause of crew capsule incident
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had occurred during Saturday's ground tests at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A photo on the Florida Today website showed large amount...
Controlling instabilities gives closer look at chemistry from hypersonic vehicles
Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)
"We reduced the pressure by a factor of eight, which is something experimentalists couldn't do," said Deborah Levin, researcher in the Department of Aerospace E...
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