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How an LWO and his team guided a Minotaur IV rocket out of the labyrinth
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
The preparation, problem-solving and teamwork, which led to the launch on Aug. 26, 2017 of Orbital Alliant Techsystems's Minotaur IV rocket, was an effort harne...
India readies baby rockets to tap small satellites' market
Aug 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
The small satellite launch vehicles (SSLV) will not require a mission control center to launch satellites into orbit; a personal computer would be more than eno...
Aerojet Rocketdyne demonstrates advanced electric propulsion capabilities
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
Under the AEPS contract, Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop and qualify a 13-kilowatt Hall thruster string for NASA, bolstering future exploration missions, as wel...
Commercial Spaceports 2018
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
This represents a great deal of investment and ongoing expense for an industry still in its infancy. One reason for all this excitement among several states and...
Space launch training cooperation
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
The main focus of the Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral Air Force Base collaboration was to discuss ways to synergize and standardize training for both coasts as we...
Chinese private space company to launch first carrier rocket
Aug 24, 2018 (XNA)
The ZQ-1 rocket was developed by Landspace, a Beijing-based rocket-maker. Its technicians are former state-owned aerospace industry workers. Carrying a small sa...
GEOStar-3 mission success enabled by Aerojet Rocketdyne XR-5 Hall Thruster System
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne's XR-5 Hall Thruster system operated for more than 600 hours (over 25 days of firing) to propel the spacecraft to the intended orbit, which a...
Stratolaunch announces new launch vehicles
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
The company's unique air-launch system will use the world's largest aircraft as a mobile launch platform, capable of deploying launch vehicles that will carry s...
RS-25 Engine Tests Modernization Upgrades
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
The occasion was a hot-fire test of an RS-25 development engine where its main combustion chamber (MCC), the very heart of the engine, was fabricated using a bo...
Aerojet Rocketdyne Expands Solid Rocket Motor Center of Excellence at Arkansas Facility
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne's currently envisioned expansion plans include investing in new infrastructure and creating more than 140 new jobs over the next three years....
Stennis Begins 5th Series of RS-25 Engine Tests
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
Operators conducted a successful test of RS-25 developmental engine No. 0525 - complete with a new flight controller unit - on the A-1 Test Stand as Bridenstine...
NASA Administrator Views Progress Building SLS and Orion Hardware
Aug 16, 2018 (SPX)
"What we're doing here is something that's never been done before," said Bridenstine. "We're launching the biggest rocket carrying the heaviest payload capacity...
Student Experiments Soar with Early Morning Launch from Wallops
Aug 15, 2018 (SPX)
The Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launched as the sun was rising over the horizon and carried the student projects to an altitude of 98.5 miles. Aft...
US Working Hard to Cease Reliance on Russian Rocket Engines - NASA
Aug 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
Earlier in August, the US administration announced new sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow's alleged use of chemical weapons against Russian ex-intel...
SpaceX vows manned flight to space station is on track
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Gwynne Shotwell, the aerospace manufacturer's president, told journalists in Los Angeles an unmanned flight to the International Space Station in November would...
NASA Reveals How It Would Stay Afloat Without Delivery of Russian Rocket Engines
Aug 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
NASA has declined to comment on how exactly it would react to a possible halt in the supply of Russian rocket engines to the United States in response to Washin...
PLD SPACE signs a 25-year concession for rocket engine testing at Teruel Airport
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
The Governing Council of the Teruel Airport Consortium approved in its session of December the 20th 2017 the bidding of the concession for aerospace application...
Aerojet Rocketdyne boosters complete simulated air-launch tests
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"Aerojet Rocketdyne has been the leading supplier of missile technology for decades and pioneered the development of liquid-fueled hypersonic propulsion systems...
India Working on Augmenting Power of Electric Propulsion for Heavier Satellites
Aug 03, 2018 (Sputnik)
Unlike chemical propulsion, electric propulsion is not limited in energy and can send a spacecraft further out at a low-level thrust with very little mass. "ISR...
China's newest micro-rocket has fast production cycle
Aug 03, 2018 (XNA)
The rocket, the first in the Lightning Dragon series, could have a carrying capacity of no less than 150 kilograms and operate on the sun-synchronous orbit, sai...
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