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Feb 11, 2022 (XNA)

Chen Xiaofei, from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing, said on Wednesday that if the launch mission succeeds, it will set a record for th...

Rocket Lab brings forward launch for earth imaging company Synspective

Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)

'The Owl's Night Continues' is the first of three dedicated Electron missions for Synspective, with two scheduled to launch in 2022 and a third in 2023. Each mi...

Musk 'confident' of Starship orbital launch this year

Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)

Addressing an audience at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica, south Texas, the tycoon merely said: "I feel at this point highly confident that we'l...

ESA's Vega rocket marks ten years with countdown to more powerful successor

Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)

Placing medium-sized satellites into the low Earth polar orbits that are ideal for scientific and Earth observation missions - about 1430 kg to 700 km - is Vega...

ESA selects payloads for Ariane 6 first flight

Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)

This selection follows ESA's announcement of opportunity in November 2021, which offered a launch to low Earth orbit for experiments up to a total mass of 80 kg...

Dozens of SpaceX internet satellites lost to geomagnetic storm

Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)

Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth's upper atmosphere and increased drag on objec...

Increasing production is important for Hypersonics, Defense official says

Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)

"I would say that everything we're doing in terms of the interceptors, the strike weapons isn't going to make a difference unless we have sufficient quantities,...

NASA Prepares to Join Two Major Parts for Artemis II Core Stage

Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)

The forward assembly comprised of the joined forward skirt, intertank, and liquid oxygen tank completed construction and was transported to the final assembly a...

Gilmour Space, SENER Aeroespacial to develop Autonomous Flight Termination System for Eris rocket

Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)

The AFTS is a smart Hardware/Software unit with autonomous decision-making capacity responsible for aborting a flight if any anomalies are identified. This syst...

UCF lands new project to study effect of rain on hypersonic travel

Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)

Hypersonic speeds are those at Mach 5 and higher, or five times greater than the speed of sound. The U.S. is currently working on developing hypersonic systems ...

UCF lands DOD award for advance hypersonic propulsion research

Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)

The race, which includes competition from Russia and China, recently intensified when it was reported that China may have tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic mi...

Astra's planned first launch in Florida scrubbed

Feb 05, 2022 (UPI)

"Unfortunately, due to a range asset that has gone out of service today, we are going to stand down from today's launch attempt of the ELaNa 41 Mission," said C...

Arianespace to serve OneWeb's ambitions, will orbit 34 additional satellites with Soyuz

Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)

Scheduled for February 10 at 03:09 p.m. local time (06:09 p.m. UTC), Arianespace's Soyuz Flight VS27 will mark the European launch service provider's first flig...

Search is on for young space entrepreneurs ahead of first UK rocket launches

Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)

The competition is now in its fifth year, with previous winning ideas including drones carrying medical supplies, a pin badge to monitor air pollution and an ap...

NASA, Space Station Partners Approve First Axiom Mission Astronauts

Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)

Axiom Space astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe are prime crew members of the Ax-1 mission. Lopez-Alegria, who was born...

Rocket Lab to expand Colorado dootprint with new Space Systems Complex

Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)

The new complex expands on Rocket Lab's existing footprint in Colorado, which was established in October 2021 with the acquisition of Advanced Solutions, Inc. (...

SpaceX sucessfully launches Italian Earth-observation satellite

Feb 01, 2022 (SPX)

A Falcon 9 rocket mounted with the spacecraft lifted off at 6:11 p.m. EST from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX scrubbed the launch thre...

SpaceX scrubs Italian satellite launch third day in row

Jan 29, 2022 (UPI)

"Due to weather in Florida affecting pre-launch operations, now targeting Sunday, January 30 at 6:11 p.m. EST for launch of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 f...

SpaceX again scrubs launch of Italian satellite

Jan 29, 2022 (UPI)

The aerospace company ran into weather problems for a second day in a row. "Standing down from today's launch of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 due to poor ...

Rocket Lab to provide Venture Class Launch Services for NASA

Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)

Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck says the Rocket Lab team is proud to be selected by NASA once again to provide launch services for the nation's science a...