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Inmarsat-6 F2 marks 12th SpaceX launch of 2023
Feb 19, 2023 (SPX)
Inmarsat-6 F2 is the second in the London-based satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat's I-6 fleet. The 12,000-pound (5,500-kilogram) satellite is based ...
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, part of Inmarsat program
Feb 18, 2023 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:59 p.m. EST. Earlier Friday, the company completed a Fa...
NASA, Boeing target April for manned Starliner test flight
Feb 17, 2023 (UPI)
The long-awaited Starliner, described as the "next generation" spacecraft has been highly anticipated to add a needed transportation option to the orbiting labo...
Japan's new rocket fails to blast off
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
The H3 rocket -- the successor to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s H-IIA model, which debuted in 2001 -- was meant to launch mid-morning from Tan...
Japan aborts launch of new flagship rocket
Feb 17, 2023 (UPI)
Moments later, the translator provided an announcement that informed the SRB-3, the Solid Fuel Rocket Booster, did not ignite. Video from the broadcast showed s...
Japan's H3 rocket fails to leave the launch pad
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
It was supposed to launch Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3 (ALOS-3), also known as Daichi-3 into a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). ALOS-3 is an advanced, Earth ...
SpaceX halts plans to convert oil rigs into floating offshore launch pads
Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)
"We bought them. We sold them. They were not the right platform," she said. SpaceX acquired two former deepwater oil drilling rigs in 2020 for $7 million to be ...
The roar and crackle of Artemis 1
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
In JASA Express Letters, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, researchers from Brigham Young University and Rollins Colle...
Russian Progress cargo craft docks at space station suffers loss of coolant
Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)
Shortly after docking, Russia's space agency Roscosmos in Moscow announced via Telegram that mission control detected a "depressurization" in the Progress MS-21...
SpaceX test fires Starship Super Heavy Booster's 31 Engines
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
When the Super Heavy and Starship are combined, it stands at nearly 400 feet tall, the tallest rocket ever built and taller than the Statue of Liberty. Super He...
NASA conducts first 2023 test of redesigned SLS rocket engine
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
The series of testing supports production of new RS-25 engines by lead SLS engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne. The new engines will help power future Artemis ...
Vulcan: Rocket stacked for inaugural launch
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
ULA technicians successfully stacked the all-American rocket atop the Vulcan Launch Platform (VLP) in the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Cape Canaveral ...
Launches of Busek Thrusters push OneWeb constellation towards completion
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
The Busek-built engines are now propelling the satellites, built by Airbus OneWeb Satellites, in operational orbits. The latest launches bring a total of 542 sa...
SpaceX launches Hispasat's Amazonas Nexus communication satellite
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket using Booster B0173 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 8:32...
Poland's SatRev signs on for future Virgin Orbit flights
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
This new agreement provides SatRev with the flexibility to launch 500 kg over multiple launches to a variety of different orbital planes from the Mojave Air and...
First step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systems
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used data from low-pressure chamber experiments and large-scale computations to develop a model to be...
SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellites
Feb 02, 2023 (UPI)
The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket with the stack of satellites mounted on top lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at 2:58 a.m. EST, after its launch time had been pu...
Lockheed Martin team up with DARPA and AFRL for hypersonics
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
Launching from a B-52, the HAWC system's first stage boosted it to the targeted engine ignition envelope, where the Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet engine fired and...
Columbia disaster that scuttled the space shuttle
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
Its space programme suffered a catastrophic setback when all seven astronauts were killed when the shuttle broke up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere 20 yea...
NASA validates revolutionary propulsion design for deep space missions
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
The RDRE differs from a traditional rocket engine by generating thrust using a supersonic combustion phenomenon known as a detonation. This design produces more...
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