Falls Church VA (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 - When considering that a full calendar year has 8,760 hours and a commercial airliner can be in service for about 30 years (or around 165,000 flying hours), then achieving a continuous performance mi
Kourou (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 - Europe's new Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana overnight with two satellites on board, in the latest blow to European space efforts.
Kourou (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 - Flights of the new European Vega-C rocket have been suspended pending an investigation into an overnight launch failure, French firm Arianespace said Wednesday, leaving Europe with few avenues into space.
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 - Elon Musk said Tuesday he would resign as chief executive of Twitter once he finds a replacement, in apparent response to a poll he launched that suggested users wanted him to step down.
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 - Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (Rocket Lab), a leading launch and space systems company, has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission from U.S. soil has been rescheduled to J
Moscow (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 - The head of Russian space agency Roscosmos on Tuesday praised Russia-US cooperation at the International Space Station following a major coolant leak from a Soyuz crew capsule.
Nanjing, China (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang 3, set sail on Sunday for a new round of spacecraft monitoring missions. The ship, which is a second-generation vessel and responsible for monitoring high-, med
Beijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2022 - Chen Li, who owns a restaurant in Longlou, a coastal township in China's southernmost province of Hainan, said he is grateful to the country's space industry because it has boosted business at his e
Seoul (AFP) Dec 19, 2022 - North Korea carried out an important final-stage test for the development of a spy satellite, which it will complete by April next year, state media said on Monday.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - Astronauts could be given an enhanced diet during spaceflights that includes a greater variety and quantity of fruits, vegetables, and fish to improve their health and performance compared to standa
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - GKN Aerospace has signed a contract with ArianeGroup to supply the next phase of Ariane 6 turbines and Vulcain nozzles. The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of units for the next 14 Ar
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - AstroAccess, a project dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space, announced the successful completion of its first formal research flight 'AA2' onboard Zero-G Corporation's aircraft. The
New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - NASA conducted the first test of the newly redesigned RS-25 engine for future flights of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Dec. 14, completing 209.5 seconds of a scheduled 500 second hot fire at
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 - NASA's BioSentinel has carried living organisms farther from Earth than ever before - more than one million miles. Aboard the shoebox-sized CubeSat are microorganisms, in the form of yeast - the ver
Beijing (XNA) Dec 18, 2022 - China launched a Long March 11 carrier rocket early on Friday afternoon to transport an experimental satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's lea
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2022 - The temperature on the Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station has risen but the crew are not in danger, the Russian space agency said Friday as it assesses a leak.
