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First SLS Core Stage flight hardware complete, ready for joining
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
The backbone of the world's most powerful rocket, the 212-foot-tall core stage, will contain the SLS rocket's four RS-25 rocket engines, propellant tanks, fligh...
NASA Selects US Firms to Provide Commercial Suborbital Flight Services
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
The selection is part of NASA's continuing effort to foster a viable market for American commercial reusable suborbital platforms that allow testing of new spac...
Space-X forced to push back test launch dates
Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)
Earlier this year, NASA said the two companies would conduct unmanned tests flight in August. Now, SpaceX is targeting November for its inaugural Crew Dragon te...
NASA certifies Russia's RD-180 rocket engines for manned flights
Jul 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Yes, as of today, RD-180 is certified by NASA to perform manned flights," Arbuzov said. He explained that a commission comprised of NASA and US Air Force repre...
SpaceX launches, lands rocket in challenging conditions
Jul 25, 2018 (UPI)
"All 10 satellites have deployed into an on-target orbit," Spaceflight Now's Stephen Clark reported at 8:53 a.m. ET. As usual, SpaceX safely landed the rocket's...
Russia's Khrunichev Center Develops Concept of Reusable Rocket
Jul 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The materials on reusable subjects were sent to TsNIIMash. They should study them and provide their expert opinion," a spokesperson for the space center said. ...
Hot firing proves solid rocket motor for Ariane 6 and Vega-C
Jul 23, 2018 (ESA)
This marks an important milestone in the development schedule of Europe's new-generation launchers, designed to boost our autonomy in the space arena, and maint...
Arianespace's Ariane 5 launch for the Galileo constellation and Europe
Jul 23, 2018 (ESA)
For the third time, an Ariane 5 ES version will be used to orbit satellites in Europe's own satellite navigation system; with all Galileo spacecraft having been...
Latest Blue Origin Launch Tests Technologies of Interest to Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
The flight helped researchers collect critical data to help them confirm theories, refine previous results and fine-tune experiments for future testing. Selecte...
2018 end to be busy for ISRO with several rocket launches
Jul 23, 2018 (IANS)
The GSAT-11 satellite, which had been recalled from Arianespace's rocket port in French Guiana for further tests, is also expected to be put into orbit by Arian...
Roscosmos' Research Center's Staff Suspected of Leaking Data Abroad
Jul 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Most searches are carried out at the TsNIIMash. A number of employees of the enterprise and their offices are being searched by investigators and security agen...
Sustained hypersonic flight-enabling technology patent granted to Advanced Rockets Corporation
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Othniel Mbamalu, President of Advanced Rockets Corporation, has stated, "the implications of this achievement are enormous across all of aerospace, enabling pre...
Pentagon Requests Funds for First Offensive Hypersonic Weapons
Jul 18, 2018 (Sputnik)
As part of a process known as an omnibus reprogramming request, the Pentagon requested that Congress allocate precisely $20 million for an air-launched hyperson...
Lockheed Martin to help UK Space Agency build first commercial spaceport
Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)
"The countdown to the first orbital rocket launch from UK soil has officially begun," said Patrick Wood, Lockheed Martin's UK Country Executive for Space. "The ...
Focus on the future of space transportation: ESA's call for ideas
Jul 17, 2018 (ESA)
"The changing world we live in requires a space agency to anticipate. Now is the time for ESA to reach out to our citizens in the Member States and listen to th...
Indian space agency IRSO tests new engine to launch bigger payloads
Jul 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
"This ground test has validated the performance adequacy of the Vikas Engine for its use in the upcoming second developmental flight of GSLV Mk-III. This engine...
Scotland chosen as site for first British space port
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
Business Secretary Greg Clark will today (Monday 16 July) launch the start of a Great British Space Age that will see vertically-launched space rockets and sate...
Space Launch Complex 17 demolition
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
The demolition of the towers marks the first phase of a contract, which was awarded in September 2016 and involved demolition of the Delta II towers, associated...
Multiple Launches in Two Weeks: Maximizing Vehicle Payload
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
"Today, there is a backlog of payloads to be put into orbit. This RFI is a call for potential payloads that will provide a mutually beneficial arrangement for b...
Boeing, SpaceX unlikely to make manned flights to ISS in 2019
Jul 12, 2018 (AFP)
The two companies were engaged by the US space agency NASA in 2014 to develop rockets that could transport astronauts to the space station when the current cont...
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