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NASA's TEMPO spacecraft hitched a ride with Intelsat's 40e satellite on a SpaceX rocket
Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)
Intelsat 40e will be positioned at 91 degrees west longitude in geostationary orbit (GEO) more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers), providing Ku-band a...
SpaceX prepares for rehearsal, test flight of Starship rocket
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
SpaceX published photos of the massive Starship, which is designed to eventually send astronauts to the Moon and beyond, on its launchpad at the company's base ...
Privately built, liquid-fuel rocket first in world to reach orbit in debut flight
Apr 04, 2023 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 4:48 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. Shortly after, it placed a remote-sensing satellite in a sun-s...
ISRO conducts the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission
Apr 04, 2023 (SPX)
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km (above MSL). Once the prede...
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
The California-based company said last week it was laying off 85 percent of its employees -- around 675 people -- to reduce expenses due to its inability to sec...
Japan postpones H2A rocket launch after H3 failure
Apr 04, 2023 (XBA)
The decision was made as the rocket shares components in second-stage engines with its successor H3 rocket, which was forced to self-destruct shortly after take...
Momentus' pioneering propulsion system completes initial tests in space
Apr 03, 2023 (SPX)
The MET is the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle's (OSV) primary propulsion method that produces thrust by expelling extremely hot gases through a rocket nozzle....
The Long March 2D carrier rocket successfully launched a four-star rocket
Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)
The Long March 2D carrier rocket used in this launch mission is a normal-temperature liquid secondary carrier rocket developed by the General Manager of the Eig...
Virgin Orbit to lay off 85 percent of its employees
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
The California-based company will lay off around 675 people to reduce expenses, "in light of (its) inability to secure meaningful funding", it said in a filing ...
Space X sets Saturday launch date for Space Force satellites after second delay
Mar 31, 2023 (UPI)
The company tweeted that it was now targeting a launch from California's Vandenberg Spae Force Base on Saturday "to allow more time for vehicle preparations." T...
Boeing pushes Starliner test flight to July
Mar 30, 2023 (UPI)
Boeing and NASA said Wednesday that additional time was needed to "close out verification and validation work prior to the systems first flight with crew on boa...
NASA rocket engines re-engineered as production restarts
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
A series of hot fire certification tests is in progress at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for a redesigned RS-25 engine to support...
Certified and Ready for Rocket-Powered Flight
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
Aside from being a key technology demonstrator, the Mk-II holds significant commercial promise as a suborbital vehicle, spanning a wide range of applications su...
Firefly Aerospace completes risk reduction testing for critical Miranda engine
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
"We are making significant progress in the development of our Miranda engines that started less than a year ago," said Bill Weber, CEO of Firefly Aerospace. "By...
Leaky Russian space capsule lands safely in Kazakhstan
Mar 28, 2023 (UPI)
The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 7:46 a.m. EDT on Tuesday after leaving the docking port of the Russian-built Rassvet module of the Internatio...
Rocket Lab launches 35th Electron 7 days after previous launch
Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)
The mission, named "The Beat Goes On," lifted off at 09:14 UTC, 24 March 2023 from Pad B at Launch Complex 1, Rocket Lab's private launch site on New Zealand's ...
Blue Origin hopes to resume space flights 'soon' after 2022 accident
Mar 24, 2023 (AFP)
The company's New Shepard suborbital rockets, which are intended for space tourism among other purposes, have been grounded following the September 2022 acciden...
SpaceX launches its 20th mission of the year with launch of 56 Starlink satellites
Mar 24, 2023 (SPX)
The mission, named Starlink Group 5-5, lifted off at 11:43 AM EDT (15:43 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force St...
First 3D-printed rocket lifts off but fails to reach orbit
Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)
Billed as less costly to produce and fly, the unmanned Terran 1 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:25 pm (0325 GMT Thursday) but suffered an "an...
Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbit
Mar 23, 2023 (SPX)
The launch had been scheduled for March 8 and March 11, but both were aborted due to a corner case in the state separation automation and low fuel pressure for ...
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