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Arianegroup tests innovative technology for next generation upper stage rocket engine
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
The Expander-cycle Technology Integrated Demonstrator, ETID, will help to prove innovative technologies, materials and manufacturing techniques. It is tested in...
S7 space mulls restoring production of heavy rocket engines in Russia
Jun 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
"We would like to buy from the state the well-known engines NK-33 and NK-43, produced earlier by the Samara-based Kuznetsov plant, as well as the documentation,...
Russia to deliver US new rocket engines
Jun 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
The engines are used for delivering heavy payloads to space aboard the Atlas V launch vehicle - which will now presumptively fall under US Space Force, a sixth ...
Re-generatively cooled RL10 Thrust Chamber Assembly test validates 3D printing process
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
"This recent series of hot-fire tests conducted under our RL10C-X development program demonstrated the large-scale additive manufacturing capability we are matu...
ESA Council commits to Ariane 6 and transition from Ariane 5
Jun 18, 2018 (ESA)
In view of the progress made in the Ariane 6 programme, Participating States have decided on the completion of the development up to full operational capability...
Sample Return Technology Successfully Tested on Xodiac Rocket
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
"The opportunity to test a technology on Earth before it is destined for another planet allows researchers and mission planners to have confidence that once the...
Japan successfully tests H-IIA launch vehicle with new research satellite
Jun 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
The launch vehicle took off from the space center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 1 p.m. local time (4:00 GMT). The launch vehicle is taking the IGS-Radar 6 satellit...
Girls' Rocketry Challenge team wins three awards at national model rocketry competition
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
The team from Iwase Nihon University High School topped the parachute category of the competition, and was also named the best female team of the competition, w...
US Senate introduces measure to upgrade defense against hypersonic threats
Jun 11, 2018 (Sputnik)
"US Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced S. 2980, the Integrated Missile Defense Act of 2018," the release said on Thursday. ...
Lockheed Martin Wins Potential $928 Million Contract to Develop New Hypersonic Missile for the Air Force
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Lockheed Martin will develop the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW), a new air-launched we...
Russian Reusable Space Rocket Tests Scheduled for 2022
Jun 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The flight tests ... are scheduled for 2022," Satovsky said noting that the avant-project had already been completed by the FPI, Roscosmos state space corporat...
First Engine Assembled for DARPA and Boeing Reusable Experimental Spaceplane
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR-22 engine, derived from the Space Shuttle Main Engine that was designed from the outset for reusability, is the main propulsion for Phan...
Watch live: SpaceX to launch SES-12 communications satellite
Jun 03, 2018 (UPI)
The company's Falcon 9 rocket, with a used first stage, is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a four-hour widow starting...
Arianespace and ISIS to launch small satellites on the Vega SSMS POC flight
Jun 01, 2018 (SPX)
ISIS' small satellites will be orbited on Vega from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The contract was signed with ISL - Inn...
Commercial satellite launch service market to grow strongly through 2024
Jun 01, 2018 (SPX)
Increasing usage of communication data-based services and GPS systems is driving the commercial satellite launch service market size over the forecast period. T...
Gilmour Space prepares for suborbital hybrid rocket launch
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
"This was a 12-second static fire of what will be our first-stage orbital rocket engine. It demonstrated stable thrust, and peaked at 75 kilonewtons (or 16,900 ...
What really happened to that melted NASA Camera?
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls has been shooting for the agency for 30 years. His creativity and efforts to get unique images are well known within the agency a...
Russia to Create Rocket Production Holding on Basis of Roscosmos
May 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"There are plans to create a holding on the basis of Roscosmos state corporation, which will include a number of other directions related to rocket production, ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusters Help Deliver Cygnus to International Space Station
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
Each Cygnus is equipped with 32 Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-106M hydrazine thrusters, 20 on the service module and 12 on the pressurized cargo module. These thrusters...
Aerojet Rocketdyne demonstrates low-cost, high thrust space engine
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
ISE-100 is the latest in-space engine developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne, adding to our portfolio of mission-proven thrusters that have propelled spacecraft to eve...
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